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‘Candidaldea’ growing

Blog: May 23rd, 2004

Candidaldea, the Spanish-language version of Candorville, adds another newspaper to its growing list of clients. It will soon be seen in The Hispano Weekly, in Lubbock, Texas.
Candidaldea is produced by Darrin Bell and his fiancĂ©, Laura Bustamante. Laura, a professional translator, is also an accomplished Spanish-language voiceover artist who’s worked in the Spanish versions of [...]

Hiking today

Blog: May 30th, 2004

Great day for a hike at Mount Tam. I twisted my ankle playing tennis a couple weeks ago, and I’m pretty sure the best way to heal a twisted ankle is a 10 mile hike over rough terrain.
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Cover art for second Rudy Park book almost complete

Blog: May 31st, 2004

Today, I’m finishing up work on the back cover for the second Rudy Park book, Peace, Love and Lattes. This design is a lot less cluttered than the first one. I’ll post the front and back cover sometime in August, once the catalogs go out to retailers.
Last year, for the first book, The People [...]

Face Time in the San Francisco Chronicle

Blog: June 4th, 2004

I’ll be in this Sunday’s Face Time column in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday Magazine. It’s a regular Q&A column that features notable Bay Area residents. Somehow I slipped in, too.
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Getting married!

Blog: June 21st, 2004

I’ve been looking for a tux the past few weeks. Laura and I are getting married next month, and it’ll be outdoors. In Southern California. Getting heatstroke can put a damper on a wedding, so I’m looking for a good white or light gray tuxedo. I never knew how hard it would be to find [...]

Saturday’s cartoon

Blog: June 21st, 2004

Saturday’s Candorville strip featured Lemont sitting at a bar, watching TV. A few strips use this device - it goes back at least as far as Doonesbury, and it’s also been a mainstay in such strips as Bloom County, Boondocks and Rudy Park. Some readers are annoyed by those strips, which usually feature the main [...]

Candorville added to Ucomics!

Blog: June 23rd, 2004

Candorville, which already appears on Comics.com (which carries mainly United Media strips), has just been added to ucomics.com (which carries mainly Universal Press Syndicate strips). In related news, the Whopper has just been added to the menu at McDonald’s, and Burger King will begin selling the Big Mac.
According to Ucomics:
“Candorville centers around the interactions between [...]

Candorville added to Ucomics!

Blog: June 23rd, 2004

Candorville, which already appears on Comics.com (which carries mainly United Media strips), has just been added to ucomics.com (which carries mainly Universal Press Syndicate strips). In related news, the Whopper has just been added to the menu at McDonald’s, and Burger King will begin selling the Big Mac.
According to Ucomics:
“Candorville centers around the interactions between [...]

Lazy reporters

Blog: July 3rd, 2004

A reader e-mailed me the URL to an article that appeared on the Chicago Tribune’s website, where a reporter named Eric Zorn accuses Candorville of ripping off an old Peanuts cartoon.
Here’s the original article:
CLOUDY
I recently took note here of this “Candorville” comic strip in the Tribune showing two of the characters lying on their backs [...]

Lazy reporters

Blog: July 4th, 2004

A reader e-mailed me the URL to an article that appeared on the Chicago Tribune’s website, where a reporter named Eric Zorn accuses Candorville of ripping off an old Peanuts cartoon.
Here’s the original article:
CLOUDY
I recently took note here of this “Candorville” comic strip in the Tribune showing two of the characters lying on their backs [...]