Balderdash! - A Weekly Sketchbook
Stephen Dudas, PhDDoodles, doggerel, musings, and more from the madcap scribblings of Stephen Dudas. New nonsense every Sunday!
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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Balderdash! presents...Watercolor Wednesdays!
or Meditations on an Old Sketchbook
Hello! And thank you for joining the revival of Watercolor Wednesdays! The folks here at Balderdash! are very excited to get this going again. The premise is pretty simple: on Wednesdays, I’m going to sh...
The Week in Which We Dropped Further Eaves
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As I’ve mentioned before, I live in a very silly place. This town is full of weirdos of every description. Listening to their conversations at the park, library, grocery store, post office, goat-fighting arena, and ice cream...
The Week in Which We (But Actually, My Much Smarter Wife) Built a Website
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We did it! We launched a website. You can check it out…HERE!
This is something that I was supposed to do in graduate school about a decade ago. In my Creative Writing Masters program, we were all encouraged to make an author...
The Week In Which We Were Busy Working On Something Big
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Balderdash! will return next week!
…maybe not Randy, though.
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The Week In Which We Went Back in Time
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As a 30-something-year-old man with his own home, I am increasingly under pressure to remove my childhood crap from my parents’ house. This week, I brought home several boxes of my old papers…including much of my early artwor...
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Parent. Poet-cartoonist. PhD in Literature. Author of Sketches of a Modern Square (Ope! Publishing, 2025) and An August Nightmare (Prolific Press, 2018)
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