Author Archives: Barry O'Keefe

Another in the vein of our Moby Dick variations.

Update: 10/22  John from Candle

With help from Guy Clark, Terry Allen, and Tolkien Some S.O.B. stole my house Out on Lake Cherokee If I hadn’t loved that house so much It wouldn’t mean nothin to me But you son of a **** I’ll tell you what I will not be deterred I’ll find you out and track you downContinue reading “Dirge for Croatan”

Advice to Paterfamilia on A Sunday Come blaggards and feeblesThose prone to the groanFor there’s wise to get upcontained in this pome There’s a stick for a dogand some carrots for haresand for slackin two-leggerssome la-z-boy chairs I’ve got pickles and peanutsPretzels and PopBe ye walkin by,please make for to stop I’m prepared to beContinue reading “Advice to Paterfamilia on A Sunday”

Resume What pays the billsneeds to be filledbut worthless,can’t contain a thing? What carries weightwhat proves we’re greatbut frail and muteis a point, moot? What draws the bloodand, sucking, floodsour lives with endlessvain pursuit? What is this crap?A 2D trap?All life insidea one page map? As pants the heartfor cooling streamsSo seethes the soulat endlessContinue reading “Sunday Poem”

Rescued from the margins of a notebook. My professor said, ” Observe the book closed-” in class, and that struck me as poetic. This poem resulted: Observe the hand closed:pointer like an eye shut,fingers like puppies in a bed,thumb like a hand over the eyes,nails like faces trying to hide,knuckles an arched back,pinky, the coldContinue reading “Hand Poem”

I was just eating my 4:50 am Finals Macaroni and Cheese and thinking: “I’m making all this art, but no time for the Rhino? PSH! I should just make some little real fast slapped together comic thing tomorrow.” But right then I realized that I was in a uniquely weird psychological territory that needed toContinue reading “Sunday Comic”

Working on a comic about watching trains with Brian. I’m planning to redraw it on a bigger scale and print it on the new machine. 

These are some sketches for a new comic I’m planning out. Just trying to figure out a style. I think cutout/ collage is gonna be the way to go.  P.S. The leaves in the feet of the cutout sketch were cut out of a real leaf!

There are still a couple of minor changes I’m going to make, but this is basically done. I’m going to print it with one of those old fashioned photocopiers so that I can use thin paper more easily, and so the ink will soak into the paper better. The actual comic has black outlines aroundContinue reading “Found Letter Comic”