We recently had lunch with a friend who seems to attract odd happenstance. Some of his stories suggested comics to me. Here's one about laundry.



( big comic under the cut )

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...and that's the end! Goodbye, Cat and Ghost. May you have many exciting adventures.

It hasn't all been slap chopping and History Channel around here. Back in art school, one of the exercises we used to do was a page-a-day (or panel-a-day) comic. I recently purchased an extremely small Moleskine notebook, and it seemed like the perfect vehicle for one of these comics.

Part of the fun of these comics is not knowing how they end ahead of time. So! Tiny comics:




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This morning I went to the Birmingham Museum of Art to see an exhibition of DaVinci drawings. It was absolutely fantastic. The detail of the drawings is amazing, and the confidence of the lines as well as the subtlety of the shading - which is mostly rendered by hatching alone - blew me away. The museum provides magnifying glasses, which I really appreciated. Along with the drawings, they're exhibiting a codex on flight, and they've put together a dvd of the pages, with some of the bird drawings and machine schematics animated. What I saw of it was very well done.

I found it humbling to stand in the presence of these sketches, which are nearly six hundred years old, and still relevant and beautiful to the modern eye. The exhibit will be there until November 9, and is well worth a visit.