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

Free eBook Reminder

In celebration of my birthday today, I’m giving away my ebook Night of the Hell Hounds and Other Stories from the Ridgewood Chronicles all day long. If you like stories about ghosts, witches, mysterious creatures, and magic, check out my book. There are 24 short stories in it, and they include both teenager and adult … Continue reading Free eBook Reminder

Free eBook, February 10

In celebration of my birthday on Monday, February 10, I’m giving away my ebook Night of the Hell Hounds and Other Stories from the Ridgewood Chronicles all day long on that day. If you like stories about ghosts, witches, mysterious creatures, and magic, check out my book. There are 24 short stories in it, and … Continue reading Free eBook, February 10

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

Remembering, Poem 2025-0104

There has been A LOT of snowfall where I live, so I’ve been snowed in during the past few days. While taking down some of my Christmas decorations, this time of isolation has given me a chance to go through boxes of stuff I have saved over the years. One of them contained some of … Continue reading Remembering, Poem 2025-0104