by Tom Batiuk | Mar 14, 2024 | Komix Thoughts
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...
by Tom Batiuk | Jan 25, 2024 | Komix Thoughts
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...
by Tom Batiuk | Dec 21, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
However you celebrate the holidays, may they be all you want them to...
by Tom Batiuk | Oct 12, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
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,...
by Tom Batiuk | Jul 13, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
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...