tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102416272024-03-07T15:08:48.337-08:00TroubletownAll the same prattle as the other blogs, <br>only better because it's Troubletown.Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.comBlogger529125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-83247121085789298852012-02-16T14:26:00.000-08:002012-04-16T19:26:35.695-07:00You’ve arrived at TroubletownThis is the former blog of the former comic strip, Troubletown. Thanks for your interest. This blog is now inactive but as the one Swiss fan recently put it, “Troubletown can never die.” True dat. It will exist forever here on the internet. So take your time and enjoy the five-hundred plus posts––each more enjoyable than the last––from the last seven years that the comic strip was in existence. And don’t forget to try your luck at Offendo!<br />
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Meanwhile, if you want to see more of my humorous personal bloggings go here: <a href="http://lloyddangle.blogspot.com/">http://lloyddangle.blogspot.com</a>. If you want to see my professional website for illustration and graphic recording go here: <a href="http://lloyddangle.com/">http://lloyddangle.com</a>.Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-72515082725760670042012-02-16T14:11:00.000-08:002012-02-16T20:31:19.062-08:00The Last Dose of Dangle (Here Anyway)Life goes on here at the Dangle ranch. The tankless water heater is not working properly. The dishwasher is shot. We have a leak under our sink and the cheap-ass IKEA cabinet is bloated and splitting at the edges. There’s a wire hanging down from above in our front yard. There’s some kind of unexplained phenomena in the bathroom (maybe a ghost) that makes it always smell like pee. The front of the house badly needs a face lift including a replacement for a 1950’s aluminum window unit that leaks all winter. In short, we have about a hundred thousand dollars of repairs to do around here in order to get things up to a reasonable level of repair. Sometimes I wish we rented one of those characterless loft spaces where everything was poured concrete and brushed steel.<br />
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Up and down the block, one after another, houses are getting broken into during the day. Whenever I go out for coffee, there are police cars parked up and down the street. Our next door neighbors got hit last week by a guy dressed as a workman. I’m always here in my studio behind the house when all this stuff is going on but I’m unaware. I took that old sign that Bay Alarm gave us and pounded it into the middle of the front yard. Very prominently. The other day I heard the gate rattle while I was working in my studio. I sprang forth to see who was trying to break in but it was just my friend Penn Phillips coming to give me some of his family-grown mushrooms. He told me his a special recipe for Portabellas. Olive oil, balsamic vinegar, dijon mustard, slather that all over them, then apply a a slice of mozzarella cheese and grill ‘em. Delicious.<br />
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Also in the neighborhood, the old ramshackle bar in the neighborhood called the Kingfish Pub is up for landmark status. It was slated for demolition before the real estate market took a dive and put all the condos on hold. My friend Karthik wrote a<a href="http://mtkarthik.wordpress.com/tag/karthik/"> fascinating essay</a> about it.<br />
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Thanks to all of you who sent me exercise tips. They were all very sensible ideas but I, you should know by now, am an unsensible person. Instead I signed up with a young and attractive hardbody named Bambi to be my personal trainer. Bambi has me doing every kind of squat and lunge possible as well as rowing and other back exercises. I’ve also been walking ten-thousand steps a day and occasionally I go on a boy scout hike with my son. I am a fantastic physical specimen after three short weeks.<br />
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My pal Geoffie is in Mississippi, undoubtably fighting poverty and racism or scouting locations for one of his movie ideas. Hasn’t called me for months. I thought he was pissed at me. My dad is doing fine, mired in anxiety and Fox News as always, but exercising, going to bed early, and keeping his spirits up. My sister has been very involved in the recall Scott Walker campaign in Wisconsin. <br />
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Oscar turned ten and Hae, in addition to making the cupcakes for his class at school, made him a cake designed to look straight out of Oscar’s favorite video game, Minecraft. It was awesome. Hae was completely stressed out over it but it all came together. I helped a little, I ran out to Safeway for frosting in the middle of the night. Then Hae took on a project making the fourth grade’s submission for the school’s fundraising auction, a tile mosaic of sorts, another endeavor that, because of her intense perfectionism, left her overwrought and panicked.<br />
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I’m under some stress too, a small amount, but enough to keep me up in cold sweats. It has to do with all those proposals I was writing. Five of them came through at once so now I am in the midst of a storm of activity. Just keeping all the storyboards sorted out becomes tricky. It’s all top secret corporate cartooning work. Fearing corporate espionage they require me to lawyer up and sign dense legal documents. I’m not allowed to talk about where I travel. I must pass naked through the scanners when I leave the “campus” so that I am not smuggling out any secrets or sketches from inside of the powerdome. I have to guard my iPad at all times and carry a million dollars worth of insurance. The price of well-paid corporate hackery.<br />
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<b>Somber Ending</b><br />
This post will be my last update to Troubletown.com (sob). Thank you to all of you die-hard Troubletown fans, especially ones who continue to follow the strip even nine months after it’s been dead. Like you, I’ve found it difficult to ween myself, but now it’s time. You can continue to follow me at my new blog: <a href="http://lloyddangle.blogspot.com/">http://lloyddangle.blogspot.com</a> and my slick website (about to get much slicker) is still: <a href="http://lloyddangle.com/">http://lloyddangle.com</a>.Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-91344576295570798122012-01-29T11:47:00.000-08:002012-01-30T15:44:13.508-08:00This Week's Dose of Dangle<a href="http://troubletown.com/blog/clive_maniac.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 642px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/clive_maniac.jpg" border="0" alt="" />
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<br />Hae went to Miami with her friend Jennifer for a girl’s weekend that somehow turned into a week. She went to South Beach and partied with the fashion mavens and then went to the Everglades and communed with the alligators. Was I jealous? Of course, even though I've been to Florida on drunken spring vacations in college and don't really need to go back.<span class="fullpost">
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<br />Oscar and I are hanging out. He has a how-to book on making mini weapons out of popsicle sticks, pens, binder clips and rubber bands. He’s raided my office for the materials. The weapons are catapults and different types of slingshots and he’s doing a good job of following the directions and getting them to work without my help. I tried shooting one and sent a ballpoint pen flying across the room where it stuck into the wall. We’ll keep that a secret from mama. Now he's playing Minecraft with his friend, Clara. He's been asking me all day long what time she was coming over--every fifteen minutes or so. Kids will drive you crazy.
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<br />There was not much work in January but this week five projects came through. Three of them with <a href="http://www.alphachimp.com/">Alphachimp</a>, who are awesome to work with, another with <a href="http://imagineeringsf.com/">Imagineering Company</a>, my favorite gals, and one on my own. Whiteboard and iPad animations, a real animated cartoon, and an infographic. Fun! I love the stress and excitement. Plus I'm going to have a kick ass video reel. I hope that the ones I'm working on now aren't so top secret that they won't let me display them.
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<br />Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-23169325609838661372012-01-13T16:23:00.001-08:002012-01-13T16:24:24.191-08:00New me<div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyddangle/6692302515/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6692302515_b7bc63c41e.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyddangle/6692302515/">New me</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyddangle/">Lloyd Dangle</a>.</span></div><p>I drew this on the iPad, saved it to my photos, emailed it to Flickr, then shared it to blogger. Easy. It took longer to post than it did to draw.<br /></p>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-19097762136762689302012-01-13T10:56:00.000-08:002012-01-14T08:27:16.743-08:00First 2012 Dose of Dangle<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6GSk23hM3CZ8g9abyuxZVokIUdit27k4ELh7xeK6Ceslwh_h2OnYVFIUwOmCk81jCKNtDve4WQ2Piw8yzxw4Q4n9S4RdA_WMidsQO5BfZ-JKa2d1JTlfYe3C2b0fCVj-qm3SYQ/s1600/restofme.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 369px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6GSk23hM3CZ8g9abyuxZVokIUdit27k4ELh7xeK6Ceslwh_h2OnYVFIUwOmCk81jCKNtDve4WQ2Piw8yzxw4Q4n9S4RdA_WMidsQO5BfZ-JKa2d1JTlfYe3C2b0fCVj-qm3SYQ/s400/restofme.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697197652432652178" /></a><br /><br />Happy New Year! Well shit, it’s been a while since I wrote a Dose. I deleted a few starts. Ever since the end of the Troubletown comic strip I’ve been having a crisis of identity. 2011 was a year of tremendous change for me. <span style="font-style:italic;">Who the hell am I now?</span> I always used to blog and tweet and Face to promote Troubletown. Being a cartoonist is like throwing bombs while hiding behind a wall. Just being Lloyd Dangle the Cartoonist is a bit unsettling. Maybe I should save it for my therapist.<span class="fullpost"><br /><br />It’s the middle of January already and I haven’t shared any of my recent exploits, my fabulous holidays, or anything. Well, let me get caught up. November and December were so chock full of work I barely came up for air. Down in Silicon Valley filming those whiteboard animations that everybody loves for the top secret internal use of big corporations. I’m not even allowed to mention their names. Confidentiality is very important, which makes it hard to build my portfolio. I can’t show anything! Potential clients just have to go by my stellar reputation. All the work took a toll on my writing, I just finally did a little work on the novel this week. The internal critic is enjoying great power over me at the moment. I have to beat him into submission before I can get back to work. Next week work should bury me again. I’ve overbooked myself, so if everything comes through I’ll be juggling like a maniac. <br /><br />Over the holidays we went up to Lake Tahoe where there was no snow. Thank God I was relieved of having to ski. My body isn’t wracked with pain and the family saved a fortune on lift tickets. December 24 we went to the beach and put out a blanket in the sand. Strange. Last year at the same time there was ten feet of snow.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiybR_SLHwwhd9FcMjs2fKpUVy-2Pc-Fp46tQ568IVSeE48bP12BQrlwW7OaYo-JERxZzCXc6sayex2kCMdQA9ZLNgWGWzZdF-FBBeC5TSZoejK2Imw4mGwNkRCF2JS05mJUCY8TQ/s1600/IMG_0244.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiybR_SLHwwhd9FcMjs2fKpUVy-2Pc-Fp46tQ568IVSeE48bP12BQrlwW7OaYo-JERxZzCXc6sayex2kCMdQA9ZLNgWGWzZdF-FBBeC5TSZoejK2Imw4mGwNkRCF2JS05mJUCY8TQ/s400/IMG_0244.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697202730388586610" /></a><br /><br />My good friend Simms Taback died. He was a wonderful children’s book illustrator and one of the sweetest and most decent guys I’ve ever met. He was one of the Graphic Artist Guild’s founders and the driving force behind the <span style="font-style:italic;">Guild’s Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines</span>––that’s how I met him. When I was president of the Guild it was a rough time for the organization and the people on my executive committee were bailing and resigning left and right. Everything had fallen apart, we were out of money and we’d lost our latest executive director to a brain tumor. I hired a lawyer to come in as a short term executive director to tear the place apart and figure out what had been going on––and help get us either out of debt or into bankruptcy. I had to go to the office in New York on my own dime in the middle of the winter to help sort things out and Simms drove down from his home near Woodstock to help. He taught me the yiddish word “fakakta” to describe our situation, crazy and fucked up. We drove uptown in a freezing rain and had dinner at a place near Gramercy Park. The guy was warm and funny and, well, supportive at a time when I really needed it. He was so generous he even wrote me a check to help cover my costs, which I’m embarrassed to say, I took. So long Simms, it was a joy and privilege to know you!<br /><br />My other buddy, Lee, suffered a stroke at the end of November, at the tender age of 44. Now he’s up in Vallejo at the Kaiser rehab center. I’ve been up to see him. It’s lonely and boring to be in the hospital, but Lee’s making great progress. Another friend, Kim, had a stroke earlier in the year. She’s doing well too for someone who had a stroke. All of this makes me worry about my own health. I’m on an aspirin regimen now because I know my arteries are full of cholesteral and the fat from all the ice cream and bacon I've consumed. I have a wife and kid to think about you know.<br /><br />I hate new years resolutions. I don’t partake. But way before new years I resolved to get into better shape. Twenty plus years of inactivity hunched over a drawing board has taken its toll on me. My body is misshapen. Now that I have the physically demanding job of standing up and drawing for hours on end I have to improve my physique. Iggy Pop is my inspiration––always has been––but Karthik and I saw him play with the faux Stooges in December and he’s in pretty good shape for 64––to say the least. He still jumps around like a muscle on a stick. My dad is 92 and still stage diving so I figure I’ve got a few years to go. The only problem is that, unlike the Stooge, who traded drugs for weightlifting, I hate to exercise.</span>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-34470081643701438242011-12-16T12:04:00.001-08:002011-12-16T12:07:51.922-08:00On the Fly<div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyddangle/6522264425/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6522264425_d7e7bdd90b.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyddangle/6522264425/">Untitled #244</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyddangle/">Lloyd Dangle</a>.</span></div>< Doodling on my iPad while I wait for a flight. No need for paper!</p>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-24535938354066314852011-11-29T14:41:00.000-08:002011-12-06T12:50:18.777-08:00Relax They're Just Hippies<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u41QgpvDIOs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><!-- Lockerz Share BEGIN --><br /><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_171_16.png" width="171" height="16" border="0" alt="Share"/></a><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.addtoany.com/menu/page.js"></script><br /><!-- Lockerz Share END -->Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-61657749342905530712011-11-26T11:16:00.001-08:002011-11-26T12:15:40.300-08:00Silly Short with Das Racist<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KEqVE6PyRTc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_171_16.png" width="171" height="16" border="0" alt="Share/Save/Bookmark"/></a><script type="text/javascript">a2a_linkname=document.title;a2a_linkurl=location.href;</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.addtoany.com/menu/page.js"></script>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-85533884205640251462011-11-26T09:10:00.000-08:002011-11-26T09:20:52.367-08:00Thanksgiving Dose of DangleIt's Thanksgiving school break of course and that means that Spongebob has been on non-stop around here when Oscar isn't playing Minecraft. At least Hae and I took him to the Berkeley Art Museum to see the Kurt Schwitters show. He thought it was dumb that the guy just glued stuff down but he enjoyed playing on the giant undulating sculpture installation. Climbing was allowed. <span class="fullpost"><br /><br />I talked to my dad. He's doing well, my Aunt Eileen not so well. She's been moved to the assisted living section of the retirement village where she lives. Last stop before heaven. My sister must've showed dad the picture of me in the little tent village at Occupy Oakland that Hae put on her Facebook page and he was shocked. He's a heavy viewer of financial news shows and the kind of media that has been deeply rattled by the protests. I told him that I completely agree with the Occupy movement. <br /><br />The violence by our increasingly militarized police is frightening. Mayor Quan in Oakland said that the Department of Homeland Security helped coordinate the police crackdown here. It's federal. Hae says when they crack down on people peacefully congregating we might as well be living in China.<br /><br />Full disclosure: I'm too much of a coward to go there when the pepper spray is flying. I'm a YouTube protestor. And I work for The Man now and help prop up the one percent with my doodling. <br /><br />As you know, I have a new career, drawing for people on paper and whiteboards with markers, and my latest freelance feast continues. I've been taking on jobs three deep. Having become used the declining publishing industry sucking me down into the abyss for so long I can't believe I'm doing something now that's actually growing and gaining popularity. People in business have discovered that pictures are the way to innovation. Scribes like me are in demand at the biggest corporations. In my little niche the economy is picking up.<br /><br />I've been on a media cleanse since April but now I'm beginning to ease back in. When you watch the media constantly you fail to see how strange, surreal, and propagandistic it is. Unplugging makes you feel doltish at times but generally saner and less troubled. Watching MSNBC or anything now is like taking a shot of grain alcohol after being on a diet of soup. I've been reading Wonkette for news. Taking the reentry very slowly.<br /><br />My book is dead in the water again. I've been too busy to focus on it and now when I look at my pages I feel disgusted. There's a whole missing dimension to the novel that corresponds to an empty part in my soul. I've been skipping out on my writing workshops and everything. Terrible! I snuck out of the house the other night for a beer with Karthik at McNally's and he gave me a lecture about how you have to stop everything to write a novel and do nothing but immerse yourself. Otherwise you're a fool. </span>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-72167291510303688412011-11-23T12:47:00.001-08:002011-11-23T12:48:26.240-08:00My Contribution to the Davis Cop Art Trove<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/davis.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 571px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/davis.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-90773209035835383072011-11-21T10:33:00.000-08:002011-11-21T10:37:54.783-08:00Too Perfect<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxYpvbVHUYAwQJPNCGuxluq-JtMQ-JlUhlP5KjSrSb4HjCPxoLFF2-gQ2xp-NTJZCWLr1RDfReVSgZO_eO5OXcy1XRpJfHH-LO_avFs-2OATd43r6nF1LZ72iy7hkXX0CtRMc_g/s1600/serving.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxYpvbVHUYAwQJPNCGuxluq-JtMQ-JlUhlP5KjSrSb4HjCPxoLFF2-gQ2xp-NTJZCWLr1RDfReVSgZO_eO5OXcy1XRpJfHH-LO_avFs-2OATd43r6nF1LZ72iy7hkXX0CtRMc_g/s400/serving.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677519040700415810" /></a><br /><br />Photo: <a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/ocmsrzr1/6356317575/in/photostream">Ian Carmany</a>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-52734480913010987132011-11-16T15:14:00.000-08:002011-11-17T08:10:51.271-08:00My Favorite Occupy PostersAs you know, I am totally down with the Occupy movement. Even though I'm a corporate hack, I still want to crush the overlords and plutocrats. I've been to Occupy Oakland but in the middle of the afternoon, not at night when the cops do their ass-kicking. I have good reasons to avoid being beaten, shot, and teargassed. I'm an old guy, my body doesn't heal fast anymore, and I'm a coward. <br /><br />I'm enjoying all the posters that people are making. Designers are foregoing the latest AIGA competitions to crush the corporate elite. I'm all for it. Here are my favorites. Follow the artists' links and buy some of their stuff. I love the two Soviet style ones, they're signed with a groovy little logo, but in searching and searching I couldn't find anyone taking credit for them. If anybody knows tell me so that I can provide a credit and a link.<br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/occupy-oakland-poster-chris-shaw.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 399px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/occupy-oakland-poster-chris-shaw.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://chrisshawstudio.com/">Chris Shaw</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/poster1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 464px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/poster1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/Occupy-Oakland-Poster-Nov.-2-2011-305x471.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 305px; height: 471px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/Occupy-Oakland-Poster-Nov.-2-2011-305x471.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://rblack.org/">Rich Black</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/occupy-see-jermaine.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 521px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/occupy-see-jermaine.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.jermainerogers.com/">Jermaine Rogers</a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/poster2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 398px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/poster2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/OccupytheStreets.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/OccupytheStreets.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.drooker.com/">Eric Drooker</a>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-9761447650283596702011-11-12T08:49:00.000-08:002011-11-12T08:57:12.111-08:00Dose of DangleIt's been insane around the Dangle compound. I've hit the feast part of the freelancer cycle. Juggling three projects. Three live ones. All top secret. And I have a couple others in suspended animation. Turned one down. Hae is busy too, and now a bunch of no-school days are coming up! We’re in trouble.<br /><br />I have three Apple products now. Hae and I got iPhones. Now I stare at Apple products all day long.<span class="fullpost"> My computer that I'm on from dawn to dusk, the iPad that I've been drawing and making videos on, and now the newest device. Nobody ever calls me on my cell phone unless I’m driving. Then it always rings. <br /><br />Apple products are my constant companions. At first the new ones were counter intuitive, but little by little they trained me to act the way they want me to. Then the devices become friendly and operating them is second nature. I've been using Apple computers since 1988, but Steve Jobs reached more deeply into my psyche with the phone and its sleek counterparts. Most people have been pinching and squeezing and getting their fried-chicken fingers on the Apple screens for a long time now, but it's new to me.<br /><br />As much as I hated it at first I couldn't live without my iPad now. If you have one, get the apps Brushes and Flip Boom. Brushes records every stroke you make in a drawing and lets you save it as a good quality video. Flip Boom is an animation app for kids but you can do fun stuff with it and save your work as video. The quality of the video is just, eh.<br /><br />Now <span style="font-style:italic;">there</span> was some useful information.<br /><br />I've been to Honolulu since my last post. My pal Jesse took me on his motorcycle without a helmet, which was a little out of my comfort zone. I was at the <a href="http://IFVP.org">IFVP</a> conference. It was 90% women and there was a lot of powerful sisterly bonding going on. It was great for the men too. Ironically, every time I walked out on the street in Waikiki I was propositioned by one two or three hookers. I fit the customer profile, I guess, 50-year-old white guy in a Hawaiian shirt at a conference. It reminded me of Chester Brown's book, <span style="font-style:italic;">Paying For It</span>, which is a must-read. <br /><br />Geoffie’s been on me about collaborating again. He wants to buy up some real estate in Michigan and create a media empire, I’m not sure exactly how they’re related. He says that the tax credits are there for people to make movies in the mitten state. He can find investors. When he calls he free associates about the things he’s interested in and asks me to take notes. He never records any of his ideas because it would slow him down. He can’t understand why I don’t drop everything and start working on our collaboration. Am I really happy in what I’m doing, he asks. I did a comic strip for so many years that was so negative. Isn’t it time for me to do something positive?<br /><br />We've been having lots of little earthquakes out here in northern California. Kinda scary. It motivated Hae to buy some designer survival backpacks with pouches of water and brick-like ready-to-eat meals. I'm happy she did it because it's something I've been meaning to do for nineteen years. Now we have security.</span>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-76734168202417515392011-11-11T14:37:00.000-08:002011-11-11T14:41:01.541-08:0040-Second Autobiography<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CwBfIS8Mkgw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Actually I'm doing an online course with <a href="http://www.alphachimp.com/weblog/2011/10/27/that-creative-space-an-intermediate-course-for-graphic-facil.html">Alphachimp University</a> and this was our first assignment.Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-46410579566563791492011-10-28T15:47:00.000-07:002011-10-28T15:50:43.153-07:00That's My Town<iframe width="450" height="259" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Uzkdqdgw35k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-60044428597306888162011-10-28T15:21:00.000-07:002011-10-28T15:31:56.507-07:00Happy Halloween<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5IEOXdvicXA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <br /><br />This was a movie I made with the buggy iPad app Flip Boom.Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-69309448353550437592011-10-16T14:54:00.000-07:002011-10-16T15:19:27.642-07:00Sitcom<object style="height: 252px; width: 450px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GGnmW9KKE3c?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GGnmW9KKE3c?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="450" height="252"></object>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-30415087552500485392011-10-11T08:20:00.000-07:002011-10-16T15:28:05.439-07:00Angry Ed<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G69K-dQyNo0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />My first video drawn on the Ipad.Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-59110682349175844342011-10-10T13:19:00.000-07:002011-10-10T13:24:31.990-07:00Today's Sketch: Big Ass Scout<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/bigassscout.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 573px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/bigassscout.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Yesterday we went to Oscar's boy scout Rocket Jamboree where the kids blast their homemade rockets up into the sky. It was more awesome than the Blue Angels. I saw one boy scout who was huge.Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-21409253508208571902011-10-06T11:46:00.000-07:002011-10-06T11:50:26.939-07:00Your Occasional Dose of DangleIt’s been pretty crazy around here since my last dose. Hae, Oscar and I went to Chicago and Wisconsin to see family. Her parents played Amazing Grace for us on harmonica and digital clarinet and her mom made us kalbi for lunch. Her brother Henry had us over to their new house and made a pho. It took all day and was delicious. Henry and his wife, Tracy, have a dog and a bunch of pet birds. Oscar had fun sticking his finger in the cages to see if the birds would bite him. They did.<span class="fullpost"><br /><br />Hae also attended her high school reunion where the women were all stunning and the men were bald and fat. The midwest depresses Hae and me if we stay there too long so it was good that we got in and got out quick. It’s the gray skies and endless suburban blandness that gets to us. We spent one night in downtown Chicago, though, so we had a little jolt of city and it was great. We took an architectural tour on a river boat. Then it was on to see my dad. He’s still chugging along at ninety-one. His sister lives in Milwaukee and he’s always driving there to see her, especially lately because her heath has been bad. I wish he wasn’t driving. I suggested that he hire someone, but he’s pretty cheap and that’s probably pretty costly.<br /><br />We had the big opening for my show at the Cartoon Art Museum. It was awesome. Thanks for coming if you did, or shame on you if you didn’t. The show is up until January 22, so come to San Francisco and make your Troubletown commitment.<br /><br />I was feeling really rusty work-wise when I came back from Chicago and spent a couple days in the studio not getting much done. Then I hit my stride and really cranked for the next couple days. I’m almost finished with that big year-long no-deadline project but the revisions keep coming. And I did an info graphic. Rush job. Tons of revisions. No time to work on the novel and after a few days away from it I have a hard time getting started again. <br /><br />We got a laugh here at the Dangle studio over the new Airborne packaging. Yes, they finally got rid of my art and replaced it with some that was done in Illustrator and looks it. I’m not complaining, just marveling at corporate decision making. The new packages resemble everything else in the drug store aisle.<br /><br />I upgraded my operating system to Snow Leopard. Fingers crossed, so far everything seems to work. I’m definitely not upgrading to Lion, I read that it sucks, no disrespect to Steve Jobs, may he rest in peace. I finally found an app I like for the Ipad. Sketchbook Pro. It’s a drawing program that actually works well and is very responsive to the stylus, not like Brushes, the program a lot of people like. I don’t like drawing with my finger because I can’t see the line underneath it. Besides, if I’m eating fried chicken the screen gets all greasy. Somehow I’m going to make money using the Ipad, dammit.</span>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-35689013541973996392011-09-19T15:23:00.000-07:002011-09-19T15:36:02.392-07:00Your Weekly Dose of Dangle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/APE_ad.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 760px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/APE_ad.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I’ve missed a couple of doses because I’ve been busy...and lazy.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Last Stop Troubletown, my retrospective at the <a href="http://cartoonart.org">Cartoon Art Museum</a> is up!</span> The earlier information was wrong, though, there’s <span style="font-weight:bold;">no opening on October 6</span>. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">opening is October 1st</span>, the same night as the Alternative Press Expo party. That means that the galleries will be packed with beautiful young people and sheepish bent-over cartoonists. I won’t know anybody. So please come by and keep me company. I’ll be the fifty-year-old guy in the corner with eyes like dark pits.<span class="fullpost"><br /><br />Last week I did an info graphic for a company. It’s top secret so I guess I can’t post it here. Corporations are so paranoid! I’ve done a few info graphics in my life but I must admit I was sweating it. It’s not a normal thing for me. It was cartoony and the client liked it. So far, fingers crossed. Hopefully they will not have an abrupt change of mind and send me down the road of endless revisions. I finished that monster job I’ve been working on for the past year--sent in the final files! But then they added six more pages. I suppose it’s a lot better than working in a coal mine.<br /><br />I’m going to see the in-laws and my dad and sister out in the Midwest at the end of the week. I don’t think I’ll make it into Chicago or Madison or Milwaukee, but thoroughly visit our creaky seniors at their suburban homes. Hae is having her thirtieth high school reunion so she has some dinners and events to attend. She isn’t taking me along. I think I’m an embarrassment to her. I don’t know why though, I still have a lot of hair. Either that or maybe she wants to hit on some of her old boyfriends. <br /><br />Geoffie called. He’s going to try to come to my opening but my guess is he won’t make it. He’s doing okay these days. He has an apartment. Hasn’t been in jail at all recently. He’s working on his lawsuit against the State of Michigan (or is it Washtenaw County?) for violating his civil rights when they beat him up in jail and broke his jaw. If anybody knows a good civil rights attorney send me the name. There aren’t many civil rights attorneys to be found apparently. He said he’s exercising and lost a few pounds. He’s got type 2 diabetes that he feels is stress induced from the situation with the ex, so he’s taking some steps to care for himself. He said that he’s got eight fully formed ideas for movies he wants to make. He just needs me to collaborate. He always tries to make me feel like I’m holding him back.<br /><br />Hae is wearing a pedometer and trying to walk ten thousand steps a day. So now she’s walking over to the drugstore and leaving the car in the driveway. I’ve never known her to do that. Me, I’ve been drinking a lot of beer and walking up to Pete’s coffee for a cup of poison on some mornings. Even though there are now dozens of coffee shops around here where one can go to show off one's tattoos they’re all crowded with people writing on their laptops. Novels? Screenplays? Who knows? I actually quit coffee--but I still drink it sometimes. <br /><br />I only grilled meat twice this summer. I did my ribs two weeks ago for a neighborhood barbeque and last night I made Barbados style chicken. I love to barbeque.<br /><br />Read TC Boyle’s <span style="font-style:italic;">East is East</span> and some others. Saw <span style="font-style:italic;">In Bruges, Lars and the Real Girl, Tropic Thunder,</span> hmmm, what else? I watched <span style="font-style:italic;">How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog</span> and broke down all the scenes. It’s interesting to do that. One of these days I’m going to write a screenplay. But I need Geoffie’s help.</span>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-4085709964309451852011-09-19T13:45:00.000-07:002011-09-19T13:49:02.059-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/troubletown_banner2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 771px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/troubletown_banner2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Hey, the show at the <a href="http://cartoonart.org">Cartoon Art Museum</a> is up!<br /><br />Please note:<br /><br />The opening will <span style="font-weight:bold;">not</span> be on October 6. It <span style="font-weight:bold;">will be on October 1</span>, same night as the Alternative Press Expo party, which means the place will be full of young hipsters.Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-46811377690783347172011-09-03T12:36:00.000-07:002011-09-03T12:43:30.275-07:00More Dangle Than You Want to Know<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/revision_hell.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 492px; height: 598px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/revision_hell.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>
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<br />My vision of hell is a job where the client keeps giving me revisions and more revisions and no matter how many things I fix they just keep coming, each one more meaningless and capricious than the last. A client, code-named Silver Salamander, has come along with a new project that promises to be one of these. This client is insane. But I need the money.<span class="fullpost">
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<br />School started for young Oscar but this week every day is a “minimum day,” which means that I’ve got to pick him up at 1:25. It seems like I’m getting about one hour of work in a day. My studio is three inches deep in revisions from a current project. I’ve had to come up with an elaborate file naming system to keep track of them all.
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<br />I’m in two writing workshops now, probably too much, but each is valuable in its own way. One involves reading your pieces aloud which is very helpful to me. Don’t know why.
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<br />I’m very bad at giving feedback to other writers though and it makes me feel guilty. Some of my fellow workshoppers are amazing at dissecting a piece of writing and figuring out how to improve the prose and structure. My comments tend to be more like, “me like this.” I give nothing of value.
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">More information than you want to know</span>
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<br />I had the Roto-Rooter job done to my ham-sized prostate last week. They went in with a laser and vaporized it. <span style="font-style:italic;">Star Wars: the Phantom Prostate.</span> I’m not going to tell you how they got inside, it would cause too much psychic pain to my male readers. My recovery is going well.
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<br />I was in the hospital overnight and the guy on the other side of a curtain, Williams, had shoulder surgery that <span style="font-style:italic;">got infected while he was in the hospital</span>. He was also on dialysis and had just had emergency surgery for a boil on his ass. He was all messed up and I could tell from his voice that he was in a lot of pain. He had a great sense of humor though and we joked around. When I told him how they got in to zap my ham he said, “I’ll bet you were glad you were out for that. I wish I had been out when you told me about it.” I hope Williams is okay.
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<br />Dysfunction of the Dangles</span>
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<br />Got a call from my sister today. She’s concerned about my dad’s mental condition. She and dad have a lot to deal with these days. Aunt Eileen has been in the intensive care unit of her nursing home after having a fall and a bunch of related problems. She gets bouts of tri-geminal neuralgia that cause excruciating pain and when she takes the medication she becomes zombie-like. Now they say she’s ready to return to her apartment but she needs 24-hour care for at least two weeks to determine if she can care for herself.
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<br />Dad, my sister, and Aunt Eileen have been working together to determine the best course of action, except problems always arise. Aunt Eileen is stubborn and half out of her mind. One minute she agrees to something, then the next she’s against it. Dad is crippled by anxiety, passive aggression, and doesn’t believe in voicemail. My sister has a demanding job as a school social worker and doesn’t have all day to talk to nursing agencies, other social workers, and Medicare to work out all the details. My dad sits around watching Fox all day so he could, in theory, take on some of the burden, but every time he gets involved he manages to get everything screwed up. Me, I’m out here in California doing revisions, writing, and having surgeries so I’m no help at all.
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<br />Happy Labor Day!</span>Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-68152901391926680172011-08-30T11:47:00.000-07:002011-08-30T11:53:02.440-07:00Last Stop Ttown Press Release!For Immediate Release: August 30, 2011
<br />Contact: Andrew Farago, 415-227-8666, ext. 309
<br />Images available on request
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Last Stop: Troubletown</span>
<br /><a href="http://cartoonart.org/">Cartoon Art Museum</a> Exhibition: September 17, 2011 – January 01, 2012
<br />Alternative Press Expo party with guest Lloyd Dangle Saturday, October 1
<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Opening reception Thursday, October 6</span>
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<br />San Francisco, CA: For over 22 years, cartoonist Lloyd Dangle entertained, educated, and occasionally outraged audiences worldwide through his weekly comic strip Troubletown. Dangle retired the feature in April 2011, and the Cartoon Art Museum is pleased to present <span style="font-weight:bold;">Last Stop: Troubletown</span>, a comprehensive retrospective featuring the first and last Troubletown strips—and 22 years of highlights in between.<span class="fullpost">
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<br />About Lloyd Dangle
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<br />Lloyd Dangle grew up in Michigan and, after attending the University of Michigan school of art, tossed his BFA out the window to draw cartoons for Michael Moore’s muckraking newspaper the Michigan Voice.
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<br />He moved to New York City during the go-go 80’s and worked for magazines, including the Village Voice which was in its heyday. Dangle landed a cartoon feature at upscale Manhattan, Inc. Magazine, lampooning the high living antics of Wall Street’s youthful elite (some things are timeless). After landlord larceny caused Dangle’s apartment building to literally collapse, he moved to San Francisco and earned his underground hipster cred, befriending Robert and Aline Crumb and appearing in their classic depressive übercomic, Weirdo.
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<br />Dangle is an multi-disciplined writer, designer, and artist whose works, over the past 20 years, have appeared in over 100 magazines and newspapers of every type, from the crusty corporate mainstream, to the altruistic not-for-profit, to the loftiest academic journals, to the bleeding, subcommercial gutter. He is now universally regarded as a big-money marketing genius for his branding of Airborne, the world's number one cold remedy, and one of the fastest selling products in retail history (according to Airborne's own data). His weekly comic strip, Troubletown, was first published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian in 1988 and has grown to become a widely-syndicated cartoon feature in alternative newsweeklies and lefty political magazines. He has published several books and exhibited his work in the United States and abroad.
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<br />Lloyd Dangle lives in Oakland, California with his wife, the powerfully-successful and attractive graphic designer and fine artist, Hae Yuon Kim, and their handsome and overachieving son, Oscar.
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<br />Praise for Troubletown
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<br />“Say it ain't so, Lloyd! Troubletown has stood alone for 22 years as the only political cartoon with a real sense of humor. Troubletown—and all of Lloyd's work, really—delivers its commentary and satirical jab with a finely honed jokester voice. After all, isn't laughing at corrupt and powerful targets what hurts them the most?
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<br />“Some political cartoons make me feel like I'm being lectured to. Lloyd Dangle, on the other hand, entertains me while I'm being lectured to. He makes his point, but I come away chuckling--at his punchline AND its intended victim. Here's hoping Lloyd's wit and wisdom will be entertaining and lecturing for another 22 years!”
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<br />-Bill Griffith, Zippy the Pinhead
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<br />“Lloyd Dangle is one of my all-time favorite political cartoonists. I've long admired Troubletown's offbeat sensibility, its unique way of wringing humor and silliness out of these, well, troubling times. It's a classic alternative comic, one that deserves its rightful place in history.”
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<br />-Jen Sorensen, Slowpoke</span>
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<br />Lloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-18316378589775553252011-08-18T13:05:00.000-07:002011-08-18T13:41:22.433-07:00Another Dose of Dangle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://troubletown.com/blog/diver1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 645px;" src="http://troubletown.com/blog/diver1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>
<br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;">Death defying cliff jumpers at Indian Falls</span>
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<br />I’ve missed a couple weeks of Doses, partly due to vacation, yes, more vacation for Dangle, and partly due to the way things go.
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<br />I’ve been writing like mad. I’m so over comics, but I’m more creative than ever. I had my own writing workshop up at Oakland Feather River Camp up in the mountains. I wrote all morning every day and broke some new ground on my book. Some really weird stuff bubbled up from my unconscious that was very vivid and powerful. Of course it puts more kinks in the plot and structure that I have no idea how to fix, but that’s another issue.
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<br />I wish I could write as effectively here at home but I’m constantly getting waylaid. I should probably turn off the computer and internet. I’ve been having to knock off work at 2:30 each day to pick up Oscar from science camp and take him swimming too. It’s the end of summer and finally hot so we’ve got to get our water play in.
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<br />More Troubletown History</span>
<br />The other thing that’s been going on is that I’ve been sifting through twenty-two years of Troubletown cartoons to pick the ones for my show at the Cartoon Art Museum. There’s over a thousand cartoons on the floor of my studio. Andrew, the curator, offered to have some interns help me with the restoration of the cartoons that are falling apart but I just couldn’t hand them over. I did it all myself and it was sort of meditative but mostly a giant pain in the ass.
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<br />More Glue Issues</span>
<br />I asked my friend Karthik, a collage artist, what glue he uses because the UHU sticks were just so fat and clumsy. He said get the PH balanced special glue they sell at Blick’s that’s formulated to last centuries and brush it on very thinly. I started using it, but then my other friend, Lee, a big comics collector said, never use the PH balanced special glue because the paper’s porosity soaks it up and then the paper becomes wavy. Wavy cartoons are the worst, he said, he wouldn’t buy them. Well, it’s too late now, unless maybe I weigh them down with an anvil or something.
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Show Details So Far</span>
<br />Hey, the show starts September 17th, goes straight through <a href="http://www.comic-con.org/ape/">Alternative Press Expo</a> (there’ll be a party that Saturday) and the reception will be on October 6. Mark your calendars! More info to come.
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<br />Next week I go in for surgery. As anybody who has ever drank beer with me in a bar knows, my prostate is the size of a Christmas ham, so I am going to have it fixed. One scene in my novel involves a surgery so this will be excellent research. If I go into cardiac arrest and die on the operating table, as happens to fifty year olds who have eaten pork ribs and ice cream all their lives, please buy my cartoon originals to support my poor little wife and child.
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<br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;">Daredevils</span>
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