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The Dark Side of the Farce
Our culture is obsessed with the mind. Not only the conscious mind, but the subconscious or preconscious or unconscious mind as well. In visual art, Surrealism espoused “automatic” writing and drawing, which supposedly was guided by the unconscious mind. Many fascinating works emerged. Paintings with melting clocks, burning giraffes, trains coming out of fireplaces are just a few famous…
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chimeraspoortracker · 12 days
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A Noodle for Doodles
“Four Elbow Shrug” Doodling is a way of life for me. My giant doodle bin dominates the landscape, like Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin. Like old Scrooge I like to dive like a porpoise through treasured heaps of paper of all sorts, each with at least one doodle on its surface. Seriously though, I have accumulated a generous supply of doodles over the many years of my life. But I don’t rely solely on…
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chimeraspoortracker · 20 days
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Ooze Newz & Neckties
BOTTOM PANEL from PAGE 99 of KNOT IN THE LOONEYVERSE On the lower right of this complicated panel, the amoeboid anchor of the “Ooze Newz” is relating the top headlines regarding ooze. I want to relate this to my doodle process. It’s a stretch, but maybe it’ll work if I ooze my mind around the problem. A REPRESENTATION of the FREQUENTLY CONFUSED STATE of the MIND The mind is a wonderful,…
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chimeraspoortracker · 8 months
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THE LOONEYVERSE IS LOOSE IN PHILLY!
I recently celebrated my 75th birthday! By way of celebration, I’m celebrating that my latest comic, Knot Nudding in the Looneyverse, is now being carried by two (!) comic book stores in Philadelphia. The first one is Partners & Son 618 S. 6th St. The partners are Gina Dawson and Tom Marquet and the son is a 5-year old named Homer. Check out their events! They have a book signing/release party…
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chimeraspoortracker · 9 months
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Love in the Looneyverse
The top panel from page 111 of Knot Nudding in the Looneyverse (SEE BELOW) The plot of my new comic is based on a simple boy-meets-girl scenario. Only the location is odd. A quatumatic frammistat sends a disembodied clone Knot into a peculiar parallel universe. Largely through the improbability effect generated by the Chimera, Knot gains a new, multicolored body, and is saved from falling to his…
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chimeraspoortracker · 10 months
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Psst! Wanna Buy a Weird Comic?
New comic now for sale!
At long last, both the paperback and Kindle editions of the new comic are available for sale! It hasn’t been easy, believe me! My “Amazon Author Page” is now live! Whoopee. About the New Comic This comic is derived from a 22-episode webcomic done over the past two and something years. It’s full-color, 149-pages and is in 8.5″ x 11″ format. After doing Multiverse Comics and Stories in a 7″ x…
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NEW COMIC IN THE WORKS!
FINAL (I hope!) COVER FOR NEW COMIC IN THE WORKS YIKES! I haven’t posted since LAST HALLOWEEN! In my defense, I have been busy! When I posted “Street Scene” on September 28, 2022, I had finished the Chimera Spoor Comix webcomic that I had been working on for over two years! I had 300 panels from 22 episodes. I knew I wanted to make a comic book from all that work, but the task seemed…
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Happy Halloween!
Hope y’all have a very Happy Halloween with lots of goodies and maybe not too much high-fructose corn syrup! Here’ some low-cal Halloween treats you might consider: Multiverse Comics and Stories, is a 106-page, full-color comic available in both hard copy and Kindle versions HERE>> Asteroid Stu and the Mind-Duel, 54-page black-and-white comic with a color cover, is available in hard copy and…
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chimeraspoortracker · 2 years
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Street Scene
The last Chimera Spoor Comix post, Episode 21, was posted on September 22. I also wrote about plans to use the 21 espisodes, created over a period of two years, as core content in a new comic book. The episodes on this blog will be taken off at the end of this year. For the final full panel of Episode 21, I wanted a Looneyverse street scene. As I often do, I turned to my sketchbooks for…
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chimeraspoortracker · 2 years
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EPISODE 21: "Pause & Reflect" - Chimera Soliloquy and Farewell
Final episode of CHIMERA SPOOR COMIX ready for your purview.
Last time, in EPISODE 20, our protagonist, Knot, returned to the Looneyverse. NixTrix, a multidimensional being of constantly changing appearance, who dwells simultaneously in multiple universes, informed Knot that his ladylove, Lyndle, having succeeded in freeing her people from corporate slaver, Neff Zeeboss, was returning to the Looneyverse to rendezvous with Knot as promised. EPISODE…
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chimeraspoortracker · 2 years
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EPISODE 20: Return to the Looneyverse
Check out Episode 20 of Chimera Spoor Comix!
LAST TIME, in EPISODE 19, “Dimensional Doings,” Knot met NixTrix, the multidimensional being. Courtesy NixTrix, Percival Pig-Puddle – the machine intelligence who turned the tables on his master, Neff Zeeboss – gained a new responsive artificial body. We, dear readers, gained micro-glimpses into a 3-dimensional sample of NixTrix’s “house / world / bodies,”… an infintesimal (sic) sliver of…
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chimeraspoortracker · 2 years
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DIMENSIONAL DOINGS
LAST TIME, in EPISODE 18, “Expanding Knot,” our hero, Knot, took the Chimera’s advise to “Pause and Reflect.” He didn’t just “do something, he sat there” – and meditated – with surprising results. EPISODE 19 Yikes! It’s actually been over 3 months since I posted Episode 18! That’s less a hiatus than just being AWOL on the cartoon front lines. I’m just so lucky that nobody reads this thing…
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chimeraspoortracker · 2 years
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Rest in Peace, Justin Green
Rest in Peace, Justin Green
Cartoonists Carol Tyler and the late Justin Green Justin Green, one of the great underground cartoonists, died on May 23rd. The Picture above links to a wonderful homage by Patrick Rosenkranz for The Comics Journal. Carol Tyler, cartoonist and Justin’s wife, survives him. Justin Green did many comics during the flourishing underground comix scene in the 60’s and 70’s. He’s particularly known…
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chimeraspoortracker · 2 years
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EPISODE 18: Expanding Knot
EPISODE 18: Expanding Knot
If you’re new to Chimera Spoor, here’s the starting point: EPISODE 1: Portal to the Looneyverse! Last time, The Chimera suggested that Knot, our principal player, should slow down, pause and reflect. “Knot So Fast,” in other words. So our hero settled on a comfy cloud to meditate. Here’s what happened next. Reportedly, meditation, a tool quite useful for cultivating “mindfulness” – a term…
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chimeraspoortracker · 2 years
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Tangles
Still working on Episode 18 of CHIMERA SPOOR COMIX, the webcomic that undertakes to explore a small segment of an alternate universe I call the “Looneyverse.” If this description is meaningless to you, you are not alone, part of a distinct majority of the human population of the planet Earth, somewhere around 7.0 billion people. In fact, I’m sure the people who know about this webcomic are…
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chimeraspoortracker · 2 years
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Deva Dog
Copyright Scott H Spencer The Toon Lab, No. 2 The first “Toon Lab” entry back on March 1 was so boring it was putting me to sleep as I wrote it. Fuggedaboutit! I intended to eventually lead to a big messy sob story detailing my frustration with having a great graphic tablet and not being able to take full advantage of it. Why? because Photoshop was the program I used to make comics and my…
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chimeraspoortracker · 2 years
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Nepa
Nepa (2001 – 2021) Our cat, Nepa, died December 13, 2021, after 20 years as a deeply loved family member. Twenty years ago, Cameron was walking our dog, Zeus, one morning by the Wissahickon creek and heard a plaintive yell. She brought Zeus home straight away, got me, a carrier, and some cat food. Cameron spent 2 hours coaxing her out of a briar patch with bits of food on the stick. She finally…
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