Impossible thoughts and complicated feelings, illustrated. With bonus musings on how to live a creative life.
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Hope
This comic appears in The Art of Living: Reflections on Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life.
Also on the theme of hope: my new novel, The Year I Stopped Drawing, is the story of a young artist finding his way amid family struggles...
The Surrealist’s Way
I drew this comic as a young man. It was published in my first book, THE SHAPE OF IDEAS.
Now I am decidedly not a young man. But the sentiment still feels true.
As we grow older, are the sharp edges of our personalities rounded d...
My Favorite Things
I’m thrilled that my hometown university, Wichita State, will use THE SHAPE OF IDEAS (where this comic was first published) to spark discussion and creativity in freshman seminars. Thanks to professors Darren Defrain, Carolyn Shaw, a...
Day Planner
From my book THE ART OF LIVING, part of your complete Incidental Comics bookshelf:
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The Shape of Ideas
My book THE SHAPE OF IDEAS was selected as the 2026 Common Read for Wichita State University. Here’s the title comic from the book:
This week I cleaned my studio for the first time in a long time. It was interesting to see the beginnings o...
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