In the Big Rock Candy Mountain, you never change your socks. And the golden streams of lemonade come trickling down the rocks.

My wife ordered a Wacom Bamboo tablet for my birthday. I’ve had my eye on a tablet for 6 or so years, but could never justify the cost. Fortunately, the price came down to something close to reasonable for a refurbished. In conjunction with that my niece and mother would like a nice picture of Elmo-gone-Emo. It must be that Elmo has a bad sunburn and so it HURTS to smile. So here is my first completely digital drawing with the Bamboo. My review: It is everything I dreamed it would be.

This is concept art for a project I have on the back burner.

Time is of the essence! This contest only lasts 7 days, so if you want to help me out, pretty please:
1. Join threadless.com (another t-shirt contest site)
2. Check mark “I’d buy it as a t-shirt.”
3. Score the design (5 = best, 0 = worst)
4. Leave a comment on my design page at threadless.com

Yet another t-shirt design accepted by DesignByHumans.com. I’m sure by now you know the drill.

I have another t-shirt design accepted into the contest at DesignByHumans.com.

This is a remix of a drawing/painting I did in my moleskine notebook.

I have another t-shirt design accepted into the contest at DesignByHumans.com.

This design was originally submitted to Threadless, but was rejected due to fears that it involved licensed characters. I believe this is covered under parody. Apparently so did DBH!

I have another t-shirt in the running over at www.designbyhumans.com. (See “Sanijan” below.)

I’m going to have the same contest for each shirt that makes it to judging.

This is a momentous occasion for The Replacement Komics, as the 100th post coincides with a design of mine being accepted into the DesignByHumans.com T-Shirt contest. That contest encourages Shameless Self-Promotion. If you know me very well, you know this makes me Slightly Uncomfortable. So I decided to hold a promotional contest so I can pretend your support is motivated by greed instead of love and admiration.

What does this mean to you? Should my t-shirt get printed, A FREE T-SHIRT goes to the winners of my contest-within-a-contest!

A young pirate named Two Lipped John was in a horrible accident involving cutting toward himself.

Here is the colored version of Capt. Halfbeard. I used Noodler’s ink and watercolors in a moleskine notebook.

Isabelle made a portrait of me from the side with my hand on my cheek. She borrowed my fountain pen and used her own watercolors. She’s obviously a shameless flatterer.

Richard at http://table38.com/ has been rocking out the drawings the last few days. Here is my current drawing, sans the color it will some day be graced with.

Mr. Manheimer is working hard to blend into his new environment. He has taken to the foxtrot quite nicely, but is still uncomfortable with the fancy dress and rich diet of the late 1870’s.

When we’ve finished raising kids, perhaps we’ll buy an oat guzzler and hitch it up to this here wagon. We’ll take the show on the road. We’ll follow a horses fanny around for a few years before we forget our own names and become indigent social parasites… I think it is good to have a plan for retirement.

Dale and I both like to wear plastic buckets on our heads. It lends an otherwise missing dignity to our beings.

After overhearing salacious talk of bacon, Mr. Manheimer began construction of his balloon. After a few false starts he is now on his way to a bright future.

Original design from found photographs.

I found a couple of illustrations I did earlier this year. I’m going to post them up over the next few days in order to keep the content going while I’m working on the code. I hope you enjoy them.

The CSS is coming right along. I still have a long way to go, but I am having to relearn the basics and learn some advanced as I go. I am surprised I’ve gotten this far in Internet Programming without learning more than the few snippets of CSS I already knew.

The other thing I am dabbling in at the moment is MySQL. I’m using it to keep track of the images and their titles, etc. I’m not very savvy yet, but I’ve appropriated some code off of the PHP documentation web site to use in the meantime.