It’s January 1982, the sawmill is still closed for winter, and the boys are on vacation. I stay busy making art, and I create Louie’s cat Barfield (a play on the popular syndicated cartoon cat’s name), an alley cat who’s half drifter and half standup comedian. Immediately, I begin sketching February’s strip. I spend a … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 6
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Love, Loss, and Remembering
I drew and painted a lot of whitetail deer art during the 1980s. Even when I became a college art student, much to the vexation of one of my professors who was stuck in Abstract Expressionism Art mode. I loved watching deer outside my windows, and I became a student of capturing every aspect of … Continue reading Love, Loss, and Remembering
Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 5
The sawmill is closed for winter and December is promising lots of snow and cold temperatures. Christmas 1981 and my wife’s twentieth birthday are approaching fast. So is the deadline for the month’s Louie and Bruce strip. A friend asks me why there are no women in the strip, so I consider giving one of … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 5
Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 4
It’s November 1981 and the sawmill is shutting down for the winter. Out of work, I clear off my drawing desk and start a new Louie and Bruce strip. My evenings are spent bowling, and the weekends have me at the gym and shooting hoops and playing basketball with my friends. All this gives me … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 4
Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 3
For this third installment of Recalling Louie and Bruce, we’re looking at some of my favorite high school comic strips and characters I drew way back when dinosaurs still roamed the planet. The first character was Howard Klutz who was prone to all sorts of mishaps in a strip I called The Klutz. Poor Howard … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 3
Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 2
The first panel below shows Leroy with his physician, Dr. Igor, MSE (Mad Scientist Extraordinaire). I used to have a sketchbook with more Leroy and Dr. Igor sketches and comics but it vanished years ago. Maybe some of Igor’s magic potions were the cause. The next three panels show Bruce selling lumber to a customer, … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 2
Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 1
I used to draw comic strips for fun. It was a hobby, nothing more. I loaded sketchbooks with my ideas, jokes (mine and others), and actual finished projects, which I shared with my friends. One of them, a newspaper publisher, published them in a local newspaper she owned. But that happened years after I stopped … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 1
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