 This cartoon is a bit of an inside joke. Since the digital revolution, comic artists have steadily shifted toward creating their work on computers and tablets. The change makes sense for many reasons: digital tools can speed up the creative process, and programs like Photoshop make it easy to revise or correct mistakes. Still, a small and ever-shrinking group of cartoonists continues to work the old-fashioned way, using brushes, ink, paper, and other traditional tools of the trade. We're a dying breed—perhaps even on the verge of extinction.
  The Farmacy is a family owned, independent, and full-service natural foods grocery store in Athens, Ohio.
This was commission that I received a ways back and only recently finished. The rough is pretty "comprehensive", as they say but I changed the spacing of the elements and decluttered things a bit. Those sci-fi pillars are there for design purposes mainly: The Vision is looking upward (maybe having a vision of the SW) and I wanted to have something moving the viewer's eye up... an upward thrusting. And I wanted to have a dream like quality to the environment, and hence, keep things vague. So instead of trying to draw a lab or something like that, I opted for free-floating pieces of machinery that might suggest the Vision's android nature. [Quick marker rough below, followed by final piece]    "Love Mice" by Sandy Plunkett were included in a calligraphy project by Paul Tescher — which was part of a display in Athens County [OH] Public Libraries' Athens exhibit in May 2017.
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