With the July 4th holiday, Harts Pass gets an early release. Fireworks baby! (But not in the Methow, please!!!)

Tough looking guys on tricked out bikes are a lot less intimidating once you get to know 'em. Tough looking pigs on tricked out bikes ...

It's the first day of summer... and fall will be here any day! I've always been partial to winter anyway, but summer seemed a litt...

After numerous production delays involving material and labor, the Sleepdog Studio is back in action!

A busy week again with the school end - summer begins transitions underway. For some reason I settled on this Don Draper ( Mad Men )/ Beav...

I'm a little late to posting these, but after an urgent April deadline I returned to consistent daily sketching in the month of May. M...

It's graduation week here in Harts Pass country. Congratulations class of twenty-twelve!

Spring Cleaning: Long-delayed and never ending!

Bigfoot again: This is the Squatchie's second appearance , thusly qualifying him as a regular guest!

  I'm pleased as punch with these new shirt designs for the Pipestone School of Music . They sold like hotcakes at "Music Days...

"Sweet Wolverines!" Amazingly, I have been drawing Harts Pass for 100 weeks - almost TWO years! Last weekend, the ever-fanta...

Today's strip is no where near worthy of it's penultimate (almost 100 weeks!) status... but the locals will probably get it. Giddy...

On the heels of recent bear baiting charges and the ongoing drama of wolf recovery (both at home and beyond), Melanie's inner Picass...

As usual, the final sleep-deprived push towards an impending deadline has my mind pinwheeling in about a million other creative directions...

Watching marmots run. It got me thinking...

I'm putting the final watercolor and colored pencil touches on my first illustrated poetry collection, Sea Star Wishes by Eric Ode (...

The "science fair" of Life.

Polar Opposites is a 2012-2013 nominee for the South Carolina Picture Book Award . Again, in lots of great company with the likes of Art ...

 Elementary school visits in Puyallup and a levy vote at home. "Yes" for Schools!

Awesome schools visits in Graham, Washington this week were made even better by the news that WHO HAS THESE FEET? was just named a Bank St...