I drew this comic strip a few weeks after my mother’s funeral. I was feeling guilty about being such a slob while she was alive. And living on the west coast while she’s buried on the east coast means I’ll hardly ever visit her grave site. Add the Karloff/Lugosi 1934 Black Cat movie into the mix and I’ve got a comic strip.
Hey fans, here are two dumb gags from my sketchbook that should hold you until I get back from France. I’m going to Paris and
Sometimes you just want to see what something looks like. I’ve had this comic strip in my sketchbook for a while in a different form
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Kaz grew up a working class brat who loved cartoons, monsters, punk rock and fine arts. He studied cartooning at NYC’s School of Visual Arts under art spiegelman and Harvey Kurtzman. In 1991 he created the Harvey-nominated strip Underworld which continues to be published in alternative weekly papers across the United States. Since 2001 he has written for Spongebob Squarepants, Cartoon Network’s Camp Lazlo and Disney’s Phineas & Ferb.
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