Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Dec 1, 2009, 8:26 pm
It was a surprise that I was not able to book the plane tickets online. After all, I had always used the internet to purchase plane tickets. Calling the phone number listed in tiny type on the botto...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 29, 2009, 10:41 pm
My wife was made for the pioneer days. She would be perfectly content living on the edge of white America (which also explains how she fits in so well in Oregon). Surrounded by the wild, unpredictab...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 27, 2009, 5:11 pm
On November 9, 2007, Friday Robots were born. It was a whim; posted hastily-drawn sketches of creatures so bizarre the only name I could give them was "robots." I'd actually been drawing robots ...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 26, 2009, 3:09 pm
As my two favorite blogs both sent out such nice Thanksgiving messages today, I wanted to join in the cheer. Thanks to all of you, my dear readers. Without you I'd just be some crackpot; with yo...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 25, 2009, 5:38 pm
Ever wonder what Carver and Ernesto would look like if they were human? I can't say this is definite, but here are my initial thoughts on the matter: I noticed, after I chose this photo, that th...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 23, 2009, 11:55 pm
Your guess is as good as mine. I'm also working on a song based on the same theme. Piiiigeons, gettin' the job donnnne...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 22, 2009, 10:55 pm
Part life story, part medical treatise on the long-term mental effects of pot smoking, Peter Ames Carlin's new biography, Paul McCartney: A Life, chronicles the once and future Beatle from his par...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 20, 2009, 4:45 pm
Today's robots were inspired by a photo I took many years ago at the Tower of London: You could get those self-guided tour CDs and wander around with a disc spinning on your chest. How I wished w...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 18, 2009, 9:00 pm
I've been consuming two pieces of National Park entertainment lately. I don't know what serendipity caused this to happen, but I'm happy it did. Ken Burns turned in his latest opus, a do...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 16, 2009, 10:11 pm
Cars, like penguins, have the capacity for both goodness and evil. Do cars have souls? Doubtful, unless they are voiced by Paul Newman. But Saturday I witnessed the extremes of car behavior, and it...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 13, 2009, 4:19 pm
Hey, let's check in on Friday Robots! What goofy hijinks are they up to this fine Friday? Okay, they all seem to be congregating together to form a letter. What is that? An A? A big, scarlet ...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 11, 2009, 8:45 pm
I've seen actual penguins in the wild, and let me tell you: there are the good ones and there are the evil ones. As it is nearly impossible to tell the difference just by looking, Falling Rock Na...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 9, 2009, 10:56 pm
It's been a while since I've posted anything from my sketchbook. Here are two Prismacolor drawings. Top: cliffs over the ocean. I might like to try another version with paint. Below: you&#...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 8, 2009, 11:50 am
My little piece of fan art can be found over at Richard Thompson's blog Cul de Sac right now! Richard, as longtime readers will be aware, draws the hilarious and provocative comic strip Cul de Sa...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 6, 2009, 4:00 pm
Micron robots, Prismacolor background. Art geek chic.
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 4, 2009, 4:02 pm
I just finished a story about Ernesto and Carver meeting three witches. Carver wants the witches to tell Ernesto's future. I'm thinking mid-December will be a good time to run these comics. ...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 3, 2009, 12:00 am
Here is Rashida Jones, making Anne Hathaway look like a bridge troll by comparison. I've made no secret that this blog's raison d'être is to propel Rashida Jones into my strong, comfortin...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Nov 1, 2009, 9:35 pm
Sometime after Helicopters Make It OK, I began thinking on the true power of helicopters across all media. The thin rotating blades have held the movie business aloft for years, but what about other ...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 30, 2009, 6:00 pm
Halloween robots, just chillin' by a castle. And a special bonus! Pumpkins! If you look carefully, you may spy a black cat getting into the festive spirit. Black cats do fine without candles in...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 28, 2009, 8:00 pm
Apparently the fine folks at Amazon and Universal Press Syndicate never received my envelope full of cash: I did not reach the Top 10 finalists in the Comic Strip Superstar contest. Making the top 50 ...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 27, 2009, 11:00 pm
If Kubrick had stopped making movies after 2001: A Space Odyssey, the world would be the poorer for it. Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, walked away from the comics page at the end of 19...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 26, 2009, 11:45 pm
My brother generously got me a book of Hannah Montana stickers for my birthday. Obviously, I had to use them. I like the sticker that says "Part Time Pop Star." It means that half the time she's...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 26, 2009, 12:42 am
This year was the first time I attended the Alternative Press Expo, held in a part of Northern California known for earthquakes, big trees, gay people desecrating the Institution of Marriage, hippies,...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 23, 2009, 8:24 pm
Today, we have a robot with a puppet, a robot with a saguaro growing out of its head, and a duck with the legs of an ostrich and the tail of a tiger. Happy Friday everybody!
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 22, 2009, 8:04 pm
I always wanted to be published in the Willamette Week, a weekly free newspaper here in Portland, and now I am. It isn't my comic; rather, a blurb about my comic. Will my comic make it to the nex...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 13, 2009, 10:20 pm
Longtime readers of this blog know of my fondness for Richard Thompson's comic strip Cul de Sac. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to read a comic strip that is visually innovativ...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 12, 2009, 5:26 pm
Today I received word that I am one of the 50 Semi-Finalists in Amazon & Universal Press Syndicate's Comic Strip Superstar contest. It truly is an honor to be in the running. I can't yet rev...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 12, 2009, 12:09 am
Here's another storyline from my old strip, The Family Monster. I'm having fun looking through these. Sometimes they even surprise me by being good. Take this story, where pirates crash in the...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 9, 2009, 5:14 pm
I used dry brush and flicking paint to make some new patterns in Photoshop, hence the distressed look of these robots.
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 8, 2009, 12:42 am
Evidently you've ignored my last post on this subject. First you pooped all over The Polar Express. Then you remade Beowulf into something lifeless and vile. Now you're going to take down C...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 6, 2009, 8:27 pm
Men have to go it alone in this life. Unlike women, who have magazines, TV ads and Florence Griffith Joyner to guide them, men have no place to turn when we have a question about fingernails. What a...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 5, 2009, 9:23 pm
So you lost your Olympic bid, Chicago. You're the laughingstock of the entire world! No, I'm kidding. Lots of cities weren't even in the running for the 2016 Olympics. My home state of...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 4, 2009, 11:07 pm
Do you like music? Are you doing anything Friday night? If the answers to those questions were Yes and then No, I've got a treat for you. My friend Henna has a band, and they are playing at Clu...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 2, 2009, 4:33 pm
My Chuck Close imitation. I don't think he has anything to worry about...except evil art-critic robots. They'll destroy your career and before you know it you'll be designing coupons. T...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Oct 1, 2009, 11:40 pm
For no real reason, here is a week of The Family Monster from April 2004. Abraham Lincoln has long been a source of inspiration for my comics. He's the flip side of Nixon in almost every way. ...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 30, 2009, 12:08 am
There are some differences between bloggers and, say, rock stars. This blogger dries his laundry on a rock in Forrest Park, something Keith Richards probably hasn't had to do in quite a while. I...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 28, 2009, 10:14 pm
The entire run of Welcome to Falling Rock National Park is now available to read over on my main website. Years of toil went into the making of these comics (not to mention the website itself), so wh...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 28, 2009, 12:06 am
There's been a lot of talk about commercial radio going the way of the dinosaur, and I honestly couldn't care less. Unlike newspapers, a media that is still vital and hosts some great comics,...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 25, 2009, 8:14 pm
Today's Friday Robot was drawn during a conversation with my brother about moonshine whiskey. Background added later. Dinobot thrown in for good measure.
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 24, 2009, 2:31 pm
A big addition to joshshalek.com today: I uploaded every single episode of Falling Rock dating back to February 1, 2008. Feast your eyes on almost two years' worth of Falling Rock. I'm parti...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 23, 2009, 8:49 pm
It is ironic that the battles comic book aficionados want to see most are between friends. Batman hates the Joker: this is a given. Superman hates Nazis: duh. But what would happen if Batman fought...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 22, 2009, 12:52 am
Let it Be was the final Beatles album released. It was not, however, the final album they recorded. Abbey Road, a superior album in almost every way, was the Beatles’ farewell to their fans. The ...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 20, 2009, 9:54 pm
Before Superbad was a funny movie about high school, Super Bad was an awesome funky song by James Brown. (Probably not a coincidence, considering the funky score of Superbad the movie.) I was introd...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 18, 2009, 7:08 pm
I think of these guys as cave painting robots. Neolithic robots. When early humans went out to hunt deer, they'd run into these primitive Friday Robots. Then they'd get back home and, over ...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 17, 2009, 10:40 pm
I bought the world’s biggest, most inefficient ipod. Just kidding! The Beatles remasters are out on CD, and this blogger has been listening intently for the past week. Everybody knows the band: Li...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 16, 2009, 8:00 pm

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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 14, 2009, 11:33 pm
A few months ago I made a deal with the spiders in my apartment. I felt it was an honest, fair agreement worthy of Jimmy Carter. With one notable exception (when I had to Unleash The Fury), spiders ...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 13, 2009, 10:53 pm
Since the beginning of American Idol, cartoonists across this great country of ours have been pining away at our drawing tables for a similar contest to come along. Why couldn't there be an Ameri...
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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 11, 2009, 2:07 pm

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Josh S. posted an article on Welcome to Falling Rock National Park - Sep 10, 2009, 7:06 pm
You'll notice a difference in my main website. With the help of an Irishman named Kevin, I've successfully updated it to a WordPress site. Now you can subscribe to my comic via an RSS feed. ...
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