Got 2 mandalas, a couple of goauche paintings, 2 or 3 good topical cartoon ideas all in various stages of incompletion; not multi-tasking, more like full spectrum procrastination or something. Attention span is down to about 42 seconds.
I know, that’s not very funny, & rude to mock someone for being scared. Just trying to good-naturedly suggest calming down. Not really making light of the whole thing, I’m scared, too. Not that scared. I don’t think it’s time to panic, yet. Yeah, I’m a jerk. Sorry.
Every day I drive 6.7 miles from our house to my little rented space at LivLab in Wells Park, an industrial/residential neighborhood next to downtown Albuquerque, & draw, write, ruminate from around noon til 10 pm or so. The LivLab crew, 3 or 4 of them, come in & out, mostly out at a jobsite, so it’s just me in my little cubby. “But you’re supposed to stay home.” You’re supposed to not go to work with a bunch of other people, you’re supposed to not do business, which involves doing transactions, having intercourse (yes, intercourse) with other people. You’re supposed to not be gathering together with other people. I’m not doing any of those things. I’m just sitting alone in a dark corner, performing the essential service of drawing funny cartoons.
Last week when everyone was rushing WalMart for toilet paper, someone told me they had it at the Co-op, we’ve got like 3 rolls to go at home, so I thought I’d check it out now & maybe get some bread & fruit, maybe some tinned fish. It’s more of a health food store than an actual market, like they do co-ops in California, anyway, they had no TP, no strawberries, the tinned fish was too expensive, but they did have this really nervous guy stocking the veggies. I brought my own bag so I wouldn’t have to use a cart, I know where the bag has been, but I get it (facepalm), not a good idea under the circumstances, but Jeez, it’s OK, really, you will probably survive me having come into the store.
This is really hard; trying to write a comic about the horror of living in a world where That Piece of Shit is occupying the White House, as the real-life horror unfolds before our eyes.By the time I get this written & drawn, it will have turned out differently, & even worse. Hard times for satirists, although Stephen Colbert & Trevor Noah with their respective writing & graphics teams, are, or at least were up till now, whipping out excellent stuff. Also here’s an excellent essay in Slate magazine about how badly this guy is fucking the dog.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/trump-coronavirus-response-9-11.html?via=taps_top
On Sunday we helped our friend the amazing Felicia Davis do a photo shoot for her Tarot deck. She’s doing the whole deck with live models. Here’s Sharon as the 10 of Wands.
