American Mandala (2009)

CIRCLE OF CONSUMPTION


SELF PORTRAIT

THE REMOTE

I came across a man who could not find his remote.
Nor could he approach his own TV
in vain he looked under sheets, couches, piles of coats,
in vain! in vain looked he.

I don't trust, he said, the laws of science.
There's many things it will not see
and in refusing to acknowledge blind spots,
no vision can be genuine;
it's all either waves or particles, depending on whom you ask,
and things disappear;
commercials are endured;
as the TV has no knobs to turn,
and the remote is lost, all lost, said he.

As he babbled he was lifting cushions all the while,
and I, so wearious of watching
his futile rummaging, did make to leave

and later in my pocket
found it.

Mexican Mud, Syracuse, 1989

Wine, Women & WAR!

This November I celebrate 10 years without a drink. In memoriam, here is a comic I drew in 1999 while interning at the Bellevue alcohol clinic. I'd like to dedicate this to my childhood best buddy, Alan Pyle.

If you don't know war comics, this is patterned after DC's "Weird War Tales." And of course, the classic comics of Alcoholics Anonymous. Just click on each page for a larger version!