Eric Carmen

Eric Carmen

Boats Against the Current by Eric Carmen is one of my desert island discs. It is a pop/rock masterpiece where Eric showed how deep you could truly go within the confines of a simple pop song. It inspired me to try to create work that good. I loved everything about it...
Winter

Winter

One of the joys of the winter season is hiking through the farm fields and woods that are nearby. I actually get a lot of work done there. The final months of Funky were all developed and thought through on these...
Gerry Shamray

Gerry Shamray

I was saddened to hear about the passing of Gerry Shamray. Gerry and I had worked together on John Darling for a number of years, but we knew each other before that and we would hang out, going to concerts of artists we mutually admired like Nick Lowe and Tom Waits,...
Foundation’s Friends

Foundation’s Friends

One of my pandemic projects was to reread all of Isaac Asimov’s Robot and Foundation stories. At the time, I didn’t think I’d be returning to those stories again, and then I rediscovered a book that that been on the bookshelf here in the cartoon...