A Cartoonist’s Diary
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André Valente: Day Three
André Valente confronts the question of Chris Ware. No, not the qualitative question! The question of size: does it matter?
André Valente: Day One
André Valente begins his week of diaries to attention, by answering the big linguistic questions…and chasing around the visual concept of what it would look like if Andre The Giant and Mandy Patinkin got together and had a couple of babies.
Jennifer Hayden: Day Four
On staring into black glass in a room of new silence.
Jennifer Hayden: Day Three
A drive to Princeton, a whale of a surprise, and books, books, books: today’s Cartoonist’s Diary has it all. Deadlines are in the rearview for Jennifer Hayden!
Jennifer Hayden: Day Two
A little bit of progress counts as progress: don’t let anybody put your success on a scale! Jennifer Hayden gets it, in today’s Cartoonist’s Diary!
Jennifer Hayden: Day One
There’s probably no more Cartoonist’s Diary then a Diary that includes good food, deadlines, dreams, frustrating emails and good bookstores: Jennifer Hayden, starting it off correctly!
MK Reed: Day Five
Good boy, Hank.
MK Reed: Day Four
Scenes from the early life of Hank, as MK Reed’s diary week continues.
MK Reed: Day Three
Garden work; a helpful pet; a fancy dress; trophies awarded before a thousand eyes in an empty room.
MK Reed: Day Two
Today, MK and her sibling try to find some sense of normalcy in the face of 2020’s various awfulness by heading out to the farm!
MK Reed: Day One
A new Cartoonist’s Diary begins, and so does a new era for a dog, depicted by MK Reed as having experienced, for the first time…well, you’ll just have to read on to find out!
Max Huffman: Day Five
In today’s conclusion of Max Huffman’s Diary, he turns his pen to the recesses of his memory, delivers a classic “footprints” gag, and touches upon current affairs in a universal fashion. It’s what we in the comics business call a “perfect landing”. Get in here, buddy!
Max Huffman: Day Four
“There’s something in them trees”, Billy once said. Which Billy? And how many trees are there at the beach, anyway? Answers: they await you, here on the precipice of clicking through to Day Four of Max Huffman’s Cartoonist’s Diary!
Max Huffman: Day Three
Max and his crew have made it to the beach–but so has a helicopter. What’s going on? And what’s going on with the supply situation? There’s only one way to find out!
Max Huffman: Day Two
When you hear it wrong, but it makes it oh so right: that’s what the pizza guys call “amore”. It’s day two for Max, and he’s heading to the beach!
Max Huffman: Day One
Max Huffman launches this week’s diary by sitting down and experiencing an emotional launch of his own: the kind that only cartooning can provide, without lasting physical repercussions!
François Vigneault: Days 14-15
Closing things out with a book report, the return home, some difficult news: François’s vacation (and his Cartoonist’s Diary) come to a close.
François Vigneault: Days 12-14
There can be no more direct and simple description of the adventures our intrepid explorers take this very day then these two words: limestone cowboy!
François Vigneault: Days 10-11
Today, François pulls back the curtain to show off the trusty steed that serves as chariot for the road trip these diaries depict: and speaking of depictions, today’s whale is still alive!
François Vigneault: Days 5-9
Will François’s visit to a Canadian lighthouse turn out like the lighthouse experience depicted in the movie with Willem Dafoe? Only a keen reader of today’s Cartoonist’s Diary will know the answer, unless somebody spoils it for them first. Don’t do that!
François Vigneault: Day 1-4
Today, one week will become two, as we’ll be joining François Vigneault for his travels along Canada’s Côte-Nord. In this installment, kayaks, subwoofers and Dan Brown make an appearance!
Ego’s Door: A Cartoonist’s Diary
This week’s Cartoonist’s Diary comes at you in one extreme, recognizably dramatic installment: join Michael Olivo as he and a very special guest deal with existential and creative ennui via illustrative assault. Or do they?
Mike Shea-Wright: Day Five
Mike closes out the week with some new tools, some more teaching, and a whole lot of VIOLENCE. (Drawings of violence!)
