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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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...
The Week in Which We Uncover Who Dunnit
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Everyone loves a good mystery. Murder. Theft. Scaring locals away from a real estate scheme. Using a story, smarts, and skills of observation to solve a puzzle is something that excites many of us.
But WRITING a good myster...
The Week in Which the Words Went Wild
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For a while now, I’ve been sketching out and starting and stopping and reimaging and talking-about-but-not-doing a specific book project. It’s a tricky one. Other projects, ones that I have clearer ideas about, have taken ove...
The Week in Which He Was On Point
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At this point in my creative endeavors, I’ve pretty much found myself using the same kinds of writing/drawing tools every day (typically an Paper Mate “Ink Joy” gel pen or a Uni-Ball Vision Elite). But sometimes, when I’m in...
The Week in Which We Tried and Tried Again
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On Wednesday, my daughter (6 years old) sat against the dining room wall. She was sobbing. She had just written a poem and decided that it was “the most terrible, stupid poem ever written.” I asked if I could see it. She told...
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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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