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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| Issues | 160 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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Balderdash! Presents...Wine Stain Wednesdays
"The Wine Stain" - An Illustrated Poem (Originally Published Oct. 2024)
[Before Watercolor Wednesdays, your friends at Balderdash! had a bit of a drinking problem. We would turn the week’s inevitably wine-stained sketchbook pages into a mi...
The Week in Which We Started a Haunting Hobby
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[Spooky Season is upon us! Here’s a haunting memory from the Balderdash! archives.]
Parenthood is stressful. Some days can be more stressful than others. When the kids have a bunch of energy—jumping off the furniture, scream...
Balderdash! Presents...Watercolor Wednesdays!
No Smoke Without Fire
On Monday morning, the kids and I were leaving the house for the day. All at once, we noticed, "Ugh. What a terrible smell." It was that chemically, roasted-peanut smell of garbage burning...or electrical wiring getti...
The Week in Which We Got Our Game Faces On
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My kids have really gotten into Animal Crossing. As far as video games go, it’s perhaps one of sweetest ones to become obsessed with. Charming characters in a supportive community with a gentle relationship to commerce. It’s...
Balderdash! Presents...Watercolor Wednesdays!
Watercolor “What-Ifs...?”
For my job as a book reviewer, I read a bunch of science fiction and dystopian novels. Lots of trippy speculative stuff. A horrific side-effect of this is that my head generally ends up spinning with more “What-If...
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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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