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Hello I am alive.

Time and socials move different in the wake of one’s university suddenly closing down. Now I’m on a completely different life path in a completely different place. Still making art

Hoping to start making more fanart like i used to but life has a way of throwing me curveballs

Bruto! Comic #3

It may have taken 42 years, but the latest and, sadly, the last issue of DUCKWORK is out!

DUCKWORK was a short-lived newspaper "CREATED FOR THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF ART COMMUNITY" back in the early 1980s. It lasted a handful of issues until the school pulled the plug on the funding. It was more funny pages than news which was probably a factor in consigning the paper to its doom.

13th Floor of Anderson Hall facing South

The recent, shocking collapse of The University of the Arts which used to be PCA prior to 1987 was the inspiration for this illustration. That event and my meager attempts at digging up the still mysterious reasons for the school's failure has set me careening down memory lane revisiting times both good and bad. While I was ambivalent about attending PCA particularly my junior and senior years which were slogs, being part of DUCKWORK is among my fondest memories of that time. I remember seeing the cartoon ducks on the early issues of the paper and thought "those guys are ripping off Howard the Duck -- they must like comics!"

I headed up to their tiny office on the 13th floor of what was Anderson Hall, and it was like finding my tribe -- a group of comic book nerds and science fiction freaks who understood one another. Unfortunately, it was not to last. The fun went out of art school when the axe fell on the paper and the Ducks dispersed for schoolwork and/or real life. Some of the main figures behind DUCKWORK dropped out of school or graduated to real life to make independent comics publishing history with Comico. I continued on with my education always hoping that the next semester would be better than the last until finally I was awarded a degree.