Cartoons

  • Dino

    Smurf’s adorable pronunciation inspired this comic

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  • Happy New Academic Year!

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  • Me on Vacation

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  • Embrace the Leapfrog

    Another day, another NSF grant rejection. Scores were E, V, V, V (E=excellent, V=very good). I haven’t seen the report yet, they probably won’t show up till next week. The scores are only a little better than last year, although I thought the proposal itself was MUCH better than last year. (Update: Did get the reviews, really very positive. Still

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  • Hegel

    Hegel Kegel

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  • Vignettes

    “Academaze” will be available to preorder soon! Below are a couple of vignettes I drew specifically for the cover of “Academaze” (cover design by Susan Lavoie, to be revealed shortly!). There are other drawings by yours truly on the cover, selected from among the 34 cartoons that make an appearance in the book. This is one badass plane, if I do

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  • Angry Ghost

    This one is for a bloggy friend, who has little patience with teaching fads, especially those that “reinvent the wheel” without proper attribution.

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  • Comic Makeover

    Lots of ideas for posts, not enough time. I have been busy with figures for the book, and some were redrawn. Here are a couple that got a makeover: And a few oldies that I like but that didn’t make it into the book:

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  • Marriage

    This one was inspired by real-life events. Earlier this evening, DH and I finally converged at home, me after a post-daycare-pickup trip to the grocery store with the younger two, him after having brought back Eldest from an activity. We passed each other in the garage; he was carrying trash bags out, I was carrying the groceries in,

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