“Who was that hot-shot doctor on call last night?” the wheezy 80-year old lady asked from her hospital bed. “That was Dr. Daung,” I answered. “Daung?  That’s some name.  Could you imagine having that as a name?  Sounds Chinese.” “Well, actually –  ” “Ding-a-ling-a-ding-dong ching-chong big dong-dong ding-dong,” she said without taking a breath. “Uh [...]

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“If a girl asks you who the most beautiful actress ever is, the correct answer is Audrey Hepburn. “Always,” My brother recently told me. “A lot of good that does me now,” I laughed. “Every time I’d tell a girl that Audrey Hepburn is one of my all-time favorites, she’d say I was just saying [...]

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Is there enough time for everything?  I wonder about this often. The parenting.  The drawing.  The writing.  The doctoring.  The husbanding.  The exercising.  (I haven’t been gaming this week except on the treadmill.) It seems like you can hardly cover one aspect above without neglecting the others. Parenting obviously takes the biggest chunk (at home), [...]

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Sorry, I haven’t been in a writing mood lately, partly because I haven’t seen the point of it lately. Anyways…. Trying to draw more man faces.  Fleshing out the Sir Gens, in particular.  Ortho (orthopedic surgery) is in the background.  What’s not pictured are his two giant robotic prosthetic arms. After several years, I’ve finally [...]

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When I started this drawing (about two hours ago), my sole intention was to do something “cartoony.”  But once I laid the framework down, it was impossible not to add slightly more realism.  I like the compromise.  Sometimes realism is confining. E.C.G. – Electro Cutey Girls, as they are colloquially called, form the recon division, [...]

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