Balderdash! - A Weekly Sketchbook
Stephen Dudas, PhDDoodles, doggerel, musings, and more from the madcap scribblings of Stephen Dudas. New nonsense every Sunday!
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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...
The Week in Which We Revisited the 90s
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Y’know, we Millennials really did have one of the best eras for childhood. That window from 1990-2000 was bliss. We didn’t have all of those pre-technology and uphill-both-ways problems that previous generations were too stup...
Balderdash! Presents...Watercolor Wednesdays!
Return of the Sad Plops
When they were little, my kids and I would paint together. We still do art every day. But they’re marker people these days (it’s fine, whatever). I would typically make splotches of color and then draw arms and legs...
The Week in Which It Was September or Whatever
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This week, I found myself doing a lot of absent-minded scribbling about the season. Historically, I don’t really like September. I spent over 30 years of my life in school. Student, teacher, tutor. September was always like a...
Balderdash! presents...Watercolor Wednesdays!
THIS WEEK: Watercolor Kaiju
Happy Wednesday! I’ve been thinking a lot about kaiju lately. Since I was a little kid, I’ve been a fan of those big, beautiful metropolis-pummeling monsters.
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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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