Sept 1, 2010 - Cultural Shift

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Here's a little something different. I surprised myself the other day when I found this artwork while organizing old sketch books. Before I decided on doing Calamities of Nature, I considered a number of other concepts. Some of these actually included traditional superhero style stuff (I know, it's crazy to think in retrospect). These are some of the character designs I was playing with. Click on the pictures below to see the full-size versions.

The website FMyLife.com features embarrassing and humorous anecdotes that people share about themselves. Each week, an artist goes through the archives and chooses to illustrate one of these. I got to provide an illustration this week, which you can enjoy here. They also did a quick question and answer session with me.

If you're new to Calamities of Nature because you followed the link from FMyLife, thanks for stopping by. You might enjoy my recent blog posts featuring the most popular strips from the last year: part 1 and part 2.

I'm excited to announce that today's guest strip is by Zach Weiner, creator of the smart and hilarious webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. In case you're one of the three people in the world that don't read it, I definitely recommend you check it out.

After this Friday, I won't have prints or original art available for sale for the foreseeable future. I have a lot of other responsibilities that I need to tend to, and I'm just not going to have the time to fulfill these orders. I wanted to give everyone a heads up about this instead of suddenly removing these items from the site and store without warning.

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