Grouchy New Year

Uh oh!

sports idiom illustrated

Xmas greeting

Video demo on Kowalczyk Kartoons

Hey, Kowalczyk Kartoon fans! Check out this video showing the "Branch office" cartoon, from idea creation to finished drawing. This 1-minute clip shows where I got the idea and includes every step in the process in high-speed time lapse. Apologies to my son Alex, whose cool song I pirated for the soundtrack.

Branching out

I never know where my ideas are going to come from. This one came to me when I looked at a small black-and-white photo on page 2 of a U-T San Diego Home+Garden section.

Light sweets

Miked

brewery

Swiping paranormal spirits

project tile

done gins

Batter

Bucket

Back

fair well

The lesser of two weevils

#lesseroftwoevils

Caution

Winter in the news

July 4 celebritization

Worm words

One sick strip, and I mean that in a good way

Gallo revisited

This version is better.

Gallo

In d'fence

Straw

Pudding

Hole in the ground

Cash

For whomever may deserve them

Violin...

New year

Lack toes

Sue per boll

Superb Owl

So, yeah, I got this idea last week and started sketching it out, then "The Colbert Report" totally milked the pun this week in a running joke about the NFL's aggressive legal threats to anyone trying to cash in on the name of its big game. But for the record, the inspiration for this, for me, is former Union-Tribune feature copy editor Elizabeth Gabriel, who in the 1990s sometimes referred to the takeout eatery Super Bowl as "the Superb Owl." The restaurant, at a food court in the, as it turns out, appropriately named Hazard Center near the paper, served a killer teriyaki chicken bowl, which a lot of us habitually ordered for lunch, until we started to find cockroaches in our food. I found one once, and I must say the teriyaki was soooo good at this place that I actually contemplated finishing it AFTER I spotted the cockroach.

The big game