And by the way, you know, when you’re telling these little stories? Here’s a good idea – have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

*I think Buckley does the artwork.

And using underwear! Why do I get the impression that Muir is the kind of guy who figures you can launder bath towels infrequently because you just use them to dry off after you’re clean, and then wonders why they feel like cardboard after a few weeks?

(give me A Town Called Dobson anyday)

And can someone tell me WHAT he is holding? Is that wire hook thing coming off his right hand part of the white thing? For a second I thought he was tying up a white quail…Oh wait…He’s wiping his sunglasses! I see it now. Jesus. Looking at his strip is like looking at a magic eye. You just gotta wait for some image that makes sense to appear from the mess of shades and squiggles.

Its really the chair that gets me in this one. The right arm of it looks to be more in the forground than any part of her body (or even the other half of the chair). I think its the gradient on her pants. The darkness of the left calf hints that it should be buried in shadows and therefore further back in the picture, but it is not.

The whole thing is one nonsensical optical mind-fuck.

I won’t even get into the words because those make even less sense.

Actually, as an artist and graphic designer myself, his drawings are quite minimal and beautifully drawn…

Wahaha! As a craftsperson and a graphic designer myself, I guarantee you you’re the only one who thinks this. I have to laugh out loud. His lines are of the quality of ‘first time I played with MacPaint,’ made by a lawyer on his first mac classic. Picasso in grade school could draw a horse’s head with a line that’d make you cry. Muir at his advanced age can’t trace the silhouette of a square. Allow me to show you some professional vector art to compare to Muir: http://www.youworkforthem.com/…..?sku=P0615

All art is drawn on a Wacom 11×16 tablet, using Adobe Illustrator,

You can see the Illustrator all over this. The guy doesn’t know how his beziers from a hole in the ground. A better craftsperson would finish things better, even print out and trace his computer lines over by hand and scan the result back in, then color in Photoshop, a workflow used by many of the better illustrators out there. But no, Muir’s too lazy.

That’s a nice trick, that one trick Muir seems to know–the gradient tool in Photoshop.

In 2003, he told Dean Esmay about his ‘methodology’:

All art is drawn on a Wacom 11×16 tablet, using Adobe Illustrator, then exported over as a gif in Photoshop. All coloring is also done natively in Illustrator. I have templates of bodies, heads, expressions, etc. If you look at the cartoons closely, you may notice that, at this time, each character has about 5-6 head positions only. I will be adding, over the course of time, more head shots. I tend to draw the bodies and the backgrounds individually, though (but not always).

[my emph]

So it’s not even as if he’s relying upon a set of badly drawn limb templates, or the Illustrator ’splay’ tool.