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Pedicure

From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.

Sketched this many years ago in New York City, the scene through the front window of a Korean nail salon. This incredibly fat dude in a Knicks jacket was getting a pedicure while talking on his cell phone.

Click to embiggen.

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Obama Feeding the Multitude

From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.

This cartoon was set to run last September, but I never finished it for whatever reason. This raw scan gives you a glimpse into the way my process works sometimes — I’ll often draw elements of the image separately and assemble them in Photoshop. This one was meant to recall religious iconography.

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More Family Reunion Beer (and Wine) Labels

Earlier this month, I posted some labels to bring to my family reunion this summer. Here’s a few more:


Click any image to launch the gallery view.

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Ten summers ago, I drew a little comic alongside Sidwood called OmniCo. It was a workplace strip set in the near future, where countless mergers and acquisitions have led to every industry on earth being dominated by a single conglomerate:

The label on the bourbon in this strip is one of my all-time favorite details I’ve ever added to a cartoon.

Check them all out in the archive.

—MR

OmniCo Strips Posted to Archive

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New in the Store: Pittsburgh Belt System Tees

Show your Pittsburgh pride and represent your neck of the woods with these stylish tees, featuring the road signage for the Allegheny County Belt System. Available in Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple!

There’s also some new products available in the Pittsburgh for Obama collection, including stickers and a canvas tote bag, and a new print.

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.

I apologize profusely for the cliché in the title, but finding this cartoon comparison of my 2002 and 2008 selves on an old computer forces my hand:

This baby is a GIF, so you’ll absolutely want to click to embiggen.

I’ll have to update this again for 2012, I think. I have entirely different hipster glasses but I’ve been known to still wear the Lincoln beard from time to time.