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Jun 10, 2011, 2:23 pm
Hello dear readers,
I have now moved this blog to my website, where you can read my funny comic strip as well!
Please be sure to change your bookmarks and redirect those RSS readers so you can keep up with all the goings-on. Seriously, it's like Keeping Up With the Kardashians over there. Comment - Like
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May 24, 2011, 12:16 pm
Read my new post right here!
And if you haven't already, be sure to change your links, redirect your feedreeders, change yer bookmarks, and generally pretend this site never existed.
www.joshshalek.com !!! Comment - Like
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May 16, 2011, 8:10 pm
www.joshshalek.com
For some time I've been importing the posts from this blog to my main website, where they live beside my comics in peace and harmony. Now I feel it is time to make that an exclusive relationship.
I'm going to phase out this site in favor of my Wordpress blog at www.joshshalek.com... Comment - Like
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May 15, 2011, 6:59 pm
There should be a word for the disappointment one feels upon discovering a new band, only to find out that band has already broken up.
For me, that band is Limbeck. Thanks to itunes, I own all three of their albums. Unfortunately I am afraid those are the only albums they will ever release. Ac... Comment - Like
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May 13, 2011, 10:00 am
Although it feels just like yesterday, I've been drawing Welcome to Falling Rock National Park for five years now. Today is the last episode of the fifth season.
I took this week to explore the edges of Falling Rock National Park and beyond. Faithful readers will remember another trip outside t... Comment - Like
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May 11, 2011, 12:30 am
They say good things come in threes. This has certainly proved true for me this past month.
First, Isis and I moved into our new house:
The view is particularly inspiring:
Then, my mom brought me this piece of amber with bugs trapped in it:
From this humble piece of fossilized amber, I will one... Comment - Like
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May 9, 2011, 1:00 am
Though Welcome to Falling Rock National Park began running in papers and on the web in September 2006, I made my first attempt at the concept many months earlier. When I was still drawing The Family Monster, I made my first attempt to draw Falling Rock. What follows is the complete packet I sent... Comment - Like
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May 6, 2011, 1:00 pm
Happy Friday Robots Day! Though these robots are enclosed in boxes, rest assured they can still cause untold destruction at a moment's notice. Comment - Like
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May 4, 2011, 1:00 am
I would be deficient in my duties as cartoonist/blogger if I failed to mention the triumphant return of Bill Watterson. Bill, as you faithful readers may recall, took the funny pages by storm in the mid-eighties with his comic strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland." Nah, just kidding. He's the dud... Comment - Like
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May 3, 2011, 12:14 am
I can't believe I've been drawing this comic strip for five years and haven't made a fishing joke. Today, all that has been rectified:
Growing up in the desert means seeing more dry riverbeds than actual running rivers. Only during the monsoon season, roughly August-September, do you see the wa... Comment - Like
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Apr 29, 2011, 1:32 pm
This week's Friday Robots are dedicated to Biosphere 2, located just north of Tucson, Arizona.
Built on a whim by a billionaire, Biosphere 2's original mission was to see if people could live inside the glass structure for prolonged periods of time. B2 could have been the model for future lunar or... Comment - Like
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Apr 28, 2011, 1:00 am
All tattoos would have gone on my forehead, unless otherwise noted.
Eddie Vedder riding an eagle
The album cover (gatefold) to Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy
Abraham Lincoln slam dunking over LeBron James
Art Garfunkel's hair
Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Flying Mario
An ad for Jack Furrier's... Comment - Like
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Apr 22, 2011, 3:37 pm
Here we have a team of superhero robots, as evidenced by their matching outfits and newsprint background. In a world of mayhem, robots may be the only ones capable of saving us from ourselves.
As a side note, these robots have been known to occasionally turn bandit and rob passing travelers of all... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2011, 12:53 am
Scenic Byways is now in the esteemed company of The Sound and The Fury, East of Eden, and The Bluest Eye!
Oprah Winfrey yanked a copy of Scenic Byways out from a pile of memoirs by twenty-year-old first-time authors and chose to elevate it to the status of National Treasure. Thanks, Oprah!
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Apr 18, 2011, 3:22 pm
Last weekend I exhibited at the Stumptown Comics Fest right here in Portland.
Thanks to all the fine folks who stopped by table C-13 1/2 to chat or buy books. This being my third year as exhibitor, I saw some familiar faces which of course expanded my ego to an embarrassing size. If this is a ta... Comment - Like
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Apr 15, 2011, 4:11 pm
Today's robots are brought to you by the evening sky, which is happening later and later in the day to those of us in the northern hemisphere.
May these bright northern light robots bring you weekend joy, but always remember to duck if you see them coming for you. Joy can so quickly turn to sorro... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2011, 2:29 pm
MoCCA was held last weekend at The Armory. I had a blast in New York!
The Armory is apparently as famous for military history as it is for hosting art shows. Who would've thought the two worlds could coexist in harmony? This may be the only comic convention in which you can meet Ruben Bolling... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2011, 4:08 pm
I'm in New York, but Friday Robots appear as scheduled:
These robots got stacked on top of each other in an almost reverse pyramid. That happens sometimes.
Have a great weekend everybody! Comment - Like
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Apr 5, 2011, 11:25 am
I didn't want last week's big announcement of Scenic Byways to crowd out the equally exciting news that my pirate story, Dancing With Jack Ketch, is now available again!
Now in its second print, Dancing With Jack Ketch tells the story of Jackson Donfaire, an escaped slave who eventually becomes a p... Comment - Like
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Apr 2, 2011, 2:06 am
Just because it's April Fools Day doesn't mean you don't get Friday Robots.
These are companion robots to last week. Yeah, they hang out after work, and are Facebook friends, and know about each other's favorite HBO series. Comment - Like
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Apr 1, 2011, 12:00 pm
Today's Falling Rock was not drawn by me. It was drawn by a team of highly-skilled covert operatives known collectively as "Kenan Rubenstein."
My favorite April Fool's tradition has been to have a friend draw this day's episode of Falling Rock. Kenan is my first cartoonist friend to draw the com... Comment - Like
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Mar 30, 2011, 9:28 pm
It's the best day of the year! Today I picked up 500 freshly-printed copies of Scenic Byways, the fifth collection of Falling Rock comics. You've seen the cover before, but here it is once more:
FrontBackHere, for the first time ever, is a photo of the actual book itself.
Like Welcome to Falling Ro... Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2011, 12:00 am
Hey, Mr. Adsit. Really dig your show.
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Scott Adsit two times last year, first at Stumptown and then at ComicCon. It was a real coup, meeting an actor whose work I enjoy on a weekly basis and being able to tell him that without sounding like a complete nincom... Comment - Like
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Mar 27, 2011, 3:15 pm
Now it is time to reveal the final covers of Falling Rock book five. The title of this year's collection is Scenic Byways.
Ernesto and Carver are going on a grand adventure. Where are they headed? You'll have to buy the book to find out. (HINT: It's a twist ending. They were dead the whol... Comment - Like
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Mar 20, 2011, 8:00 pm
I knew that I wanted this year's collection of Falling Rock comics to be a companion of sorts to last year's:
I was at a disadvantage this year because Ken Burns has not put out any new National Parks documentaries since my last book. I could not steal any of Mr. Burns' good ideas. This thought ... Comment - Like
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Mar 18, 2011, 3:44 pm
I imagine this is the robots' version of the White House. This is the seat of Robot power, where the Robot leader lives (if a robot can be said to "live").
Be wary if you should happen upon this strange and formidable house. And for goodness' sake, don't send your kids trick-or-treating there. Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2011, 12:25 am
Falling Rock book 5 is currently in production! As with all my Falling Rock comic collections except OWL, book 5 is being printed by the good people at Pinball Press right here in Portland.
The most challenging part of putting these collections together is coming up with a cover that will blow peo... Comment - Like
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Mar 16, 2011, 12:20 am
Some plants and stink bugs I drew.
These are for a Falling Rock episode I call "The Great American Series."
I've got a number of reference books specific to desert flora and fauna. Sometimes I'll flip through them for ideas. It's a great way to pass an hour or so. Comment - Like
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Mar 12, 2011, 11:49 pm
You may have noticed that the rate of posting on this here blog has dramatically dropped in the past few weeks. I have not forgotten you, dear readers. Rather, I have been hard at work putting together two books for upcoming conventions in April.
MoCCA, April 9-10, in New York
Stumptown Comics F... Comment - Like
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Mar 11, 2011, 3:30 pm
The weather is warming and the trees are beginning to bud. Here are two robots that celebrate the beginning of renewed life this year.
And, because I love you so, these are the original sketches for today's robots. I kind of like the "wooden robot" in the sketch better than the second time aroun... Comment - Like
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Mar 4, 2011, 3:26 pm
Hey, remember those robots from last Friday? Well, here they are again!
This time they've been covered in paint. Has this altered their meaning, their purpose? I don't know. Robots are mysterious. Will Rashida Jones read this post and think, "Hey, that paint really ties the picture to... Comment - Like
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Mar 1, 2011, 11:22 pm
I was forced to write in cursive for one year of my life, and it was the most miserable experience I've ever lived through. If you can't write the way you want, you might as well be dead. I think Bob Dylan said that, and I'm pretty sure he was talking about cursive.
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Mar 1, 2011, 12:02 am
Read the news last week that United Media, a syndicate that once managed Peanuts and Dilbert, will turn over their comic strip properties to Universal uclick. For those of you keeping score, we're down to three viable syndicates:
Universal uclick (in my limited experience, the most active syndicat... Comment - Like
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Feb 25, 2011, 3:45 pm
Friday Robots have long been compared (favorably) to The Very Hungry Caterpillar. That is why these cutout Robots are dedicated to Mr. Eric Carle.
Have a great Friday, and don't forget to eat! Comment - Like
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Feb 21, 2011, 5:49 pm
Tom Hanks
Bill Watterson (likely fake)
A zombie
A ghost
A pirate
2 dinosaurs (stegasaurus and olorotitan)
Fake David Bowie
Mount St. Helens (usually dormant)
Lady Liberty
DJ Roomba
Zeus, King of Gods
Liam Neeson, player of Zeus in the remake of Clash of the Titans
McBone
Slider K. Shaftacular
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Feb 18, 2011, 3:30 pm
What better time to bring out the leafy robots than the middle of February?
"But where are the robots?" you may wonder. Are the leaves themselves robots? Are there robots hiding behind each leaf, or are the robots too small or too big to see in this picture? Or was the artist drawing leaves on... Comment - Like
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Feb 15, 2011, 11:39 pm
I have arrived. My brand new foldy comic has now been posted on the official Five-Page Folded Mini-Comic website. This is only my second foldy comic, but it will not be my last.
Malcolm Gladwell has long been a nemesis of mine. With his hair reminiscent of a certain foxy jazz singer, his conne... Comment - Like
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Feb 13, 2011, 5:04 pm
It's been a while since my last five-page folded minicomic. Ernesto and Cookie Monster's special message is still a fan favorite. I wanted to make another "message" comic but waited until I had something truly important to say. After all, the foldy comic form should not be desecrated with half... Comment - Like
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Feb 11, 2011, 3:30 pm
Robots, as we all know, can be any size or shape. These microscopic robots exist in the extreme atmosphere of the ocean floor. It has been incredibly difficult to study these extremophile robots thoroughly; their attitude towards humanity remains unknown.
Perhaps some future Friday will bring u... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2011, 12:06 am
In the not so distant future...
Robots are coming, and you'd better get the hell out of Staples unless you want to meet a sour demise.
Also, stay out of school unless you want a robot to teach you a lesson you'll never forget.
I'm beginning to feel like the dinosaur who looked down at the small ... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2011, 8:03 pm
This cat:Sambora, the cat I live with, agrees with the late President Ronald Reagan not one bit. Seriously: foreign policy, the national debt, military spending. Sambora is Reagan's political opposite.
On this hundredth anniversary of the old coot's birth, Sambora and I both mourn the fact that ... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2011, 7:23 pm
For the last two years President Obama has been quietly and steadily fulfilling his campaign promises, not the least of which is the first major health care act since Medicare, and the very first to include those of us under 65. Despite a Republican majority in the House I'm confident Obama will c... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2011, 1:00 am
I witnessed a filmic tragedy this past weekend. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the sequel to Wall Street (no colon). Unlike the original, Money Never Sleeps has no apparent point of view and no guts.
It is a mess of ideas that never really resolve; I weep for the waste of it all.
There is ... Comment - Like
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