They Go Down Stairs Alone or in Pairs...

Ground Control to Peeping Tom...

Frozen Chicken -- Isle Five

Fortune Cookie say: "He who leap from bridge with bungie cord, take toll on life."

Daily Comic Strip--Watch your P's and....K's?

Daily Comic Strip--Fear of Commitment

This strip would appear in a sequence where the boys attend a convention and meet Jane Woodall, who lives with and studies chimpanzees.

Daily Comic Strip--Cluck Weighs In.

Daily Comic Strip--Great Trait

Discovery Channel Mammals

Still dragging my feet on the website. An official launch probably won't happen until summer. Meantime, Some new strips next week.

Contemplating the template...

The website design is still a work in progress. I'm hoping to be up and running in the next few months. Any comments or ideas are welcome.

Daily Comic Strip--Put Your Best Foot Forward

Banner Template for new Web Page

Under construction; lewisandcluck.com

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

2009 CALENDAR AVAILABLE AT LULU.COM-CHEAP!

MONSTERS TO MARCH IN MARCH MONSTER MOVIE!

I've wrapped up on MVA and am ready to divert time back to the boys on the Albtross.
The movie comes out in March in 3D new strips ASAP in traditional 2D. To my fans I just want to say thanks for your patience. Both of you.

Ahoy Dair! You now have a date with adventure!

Available Soon! Lewis & Cluck's 2009 Explorer Chicken Calendar!
Only $15.99 (New strips coming soon)

Daily Comic Strip--Collar Me Stupid

Daily Comic Strip--The Tale of the Tape...

This is an addition to the freeze tag sequence as the boys continue their feeble attempts to tag a Polar Bear.

Sunday Page--If the Shoe Fits....

This is a cleaned up version of an earlier rough. I'm thinking of this as my Sunday Page layout. Cover panel followed by related gag panels.

Why He's Not Called "BIGFEET"

Just wondering why they call him BigFOOT. Anyhow after a long delay got some new posts coming up. A Sunday page and several dailies. Got a lot of catching up to do. Been working on a Lewis and Cluck 2009 Calendar... Jumping the gun a bit, I know.

Technical Difficulties

Seems work has me hoppin back and forth so I'll get to more Lewis and Cluck ASAP...Sorry for the inconvenience but do check back next week.

Daily Comic Strip--Uneasy Rider

As the boys hit the road to investigate crop circles. Along the way

they experience the freedom of the open road.

Sunday Page--Too Close of an Encounter

Daily Comic Strip--Way out in left field.

Circle Jerks

Googily Isis

Cape Fear

Abysmal Abyss

Daily Comic Strip--Albatross in Flight

Daily Comic Strip--Hyper RE-Activity

A chance to show off free fonts from Blambot. Thanks JK.

Sunday Page--Receiving Mixed Signals

Daily Comic Strip--Wring around the tracking collar

Awesome!

I may be biased but I highly recommend

you seeing this movie. The story and animation 

teams really came out with a movie that is fun

and is wonderfully animated and a feast for the eyes.

I'm not sure if it's because of the Chinese locale but

an hour later I was hungry for more!  

Scary Thoughts

Looks like I won't get to new strips until this weekend. Here's

a little something for Saturday "Mourning" TV from my tried and failed idea drawer. 

Happiness is a friendly gesture.

I thought I'd share this seeing as because of my work schedule,I won't be able to post this week. Next week, a plethora of panels.

About fifteen years ago I had the honor of meetiing "Sparky" Schulz, though I always referrred to him as Mr. Schulz. In San Francisco we shared a bus to our hotel from a cartooning function. We discussed cartooning and gag writing and tools of the trade.

As the ride was ending I mentioned to him I just "happened" to have on me, one of his little hardcover books; "I Need All the Friends I Can Get.". I had this since I was five. I learned to read before first grade because of these books. He said he'd be glad to sign it. Believe it or not, neither one of us had a pen. So I borrowed a brush pen from another artist and Mr. Schulz kindly signed my book. It reads "To Bill with friendship-Charles Schulz"

I had met my idol and for about an hour or so we were friends. Sigh.

Daily Comic Strip--Feast or Beast?

This will be posted with the Cannibal sequence below.

Sunday Page--The bark IS worse than the bite.

Now I want to see some hands raised.

Daily Comic Strip--Before and After.

The Brothers Ploog.

Daily Comic Strip--Don't go shooting your mouth off.

Lewis and Cluck continue to interview the citizens of Slackjaw, Washington, home of the most Bigfoot sightings per capita.

Sunday Page--Eyewitless Description

This was done start to finish in photoshop, I prefer scanning my drawings in, not as time consuming. Hope you like it. Thanks to all the visitors who've taken time to read and rate the strips, it's appreciated.

Sunday Page--Roughing It....

I probably won't be posting this weekend so I scanned in one of my pencil roughs and marked in red the areas I would be fixing in cleanup. The original was only 3" x 7" and darkened in photoshop so the pencil lines would read. This is pretty close to how I work it out; A rough thumbnail (not quite as finished) look for places to fix and go to cleanup. Now with photoshop I can use this as a guide. I prefer redrawing it to get it right because it stiffens when I trace back in Photoshop, but I lose the spontaneity of drawing rough. Six of one...This is in reply to an email on how I work on the strip. New strips Monday...

Daily Comic Strip--Bringing up the rear.

Daily Comic Strip--Tunnel Vision

I watched too many Road Runner Cartoons... my humble homage.

"Homage" is a euphemism for "stealing"

Daily Comic Strip--Chilly Reception

Daily Comic Strip--Feeding Frenzy

Another vintage "Depth Charge" strip.

Daily Comic Strip--Facing our fears or fearing our faces?

A Note of Encouragement from a Cartoonist

When I first started working on my strip I sought advice from the very best and was lucky enough to receive a reply from the great, albeit reclusive, Bill Watterson. His advice was simple and to the point and appropo to any aspiring cartoonist. So I thought I'd share it.

Still, he never mentioned the fact that cream can curdle or turn sour.

Daily Comic Strip--Starkist...Starcrossed...

Another old strip and one of Depth Charge's first appearances back when Charlie Tuna was spokesfish for Starkist Tuna. (Note the Zip-a-tone.)

Daily Comic Strip--Whirly Bird Special.

Daily Comic Strip--Ritual Killing

I posted this Pencil rough several weeks ago. Here is the finish. I inked the final with a Copic SM brush. Scanned the image to photoshop, adjusted and colored the elements in photoshop. The scans are not holding up very well so I also adjust the contrast but still lose a lot in line quality. I've purchased a new scanner and hopefully will get better results.

This is a rough pencil of one of the strips in the "Freeze Tag" segment. I letter the strip first, then do an approximation of the final art in pencil. I then ink with a Faber Castell Brush Pen.

I'll have some new strips in a few days. Meantime check to see if you missed any late additions. Thanks for visiting!

Daily Comic Strip--Take a walk on the wild side...

Throughout the series, Cluck will try to keep a whole range of critters as pets.

Daily Comic Strip--If you can't stand the heat...

This gag will fit into the Cannibal sequence when Lewis' impromptu wedding is interrupted by an eruption...of sorts.

Daily Comic Strip--Trying to make a point...

Daily Comic Strip-- A-spelunking we will go...

Ouch.

Daily Comic Strip--That sinking feeling...

Ill be posting some non-sequiter gags for a bit as I continue to fine tune the Polar Bear and Cannibal sequences. Here's a sample strip from the Bermuda Triangle series, where the laws of nature become Murphy's laws of nature when it pertains to Lewis and Cluck..

Now for something completely different...

Still working on Lewis and Cluck strips hopefully by Friday. Meanwhile I dug this out of my files from my "working blue" period.

Postcard--Wish you were here.

Lewis and Cluck are taking a brief vacation and will be

back with new strips early next week. Tell your friends!

Daily Comic Strip--Pot Luck.

Daily Comic Strip--Home Cookin'

To see the order of strips look at the Cannibal sequence posting down below. I should be able to wrap this sequence up in a week or so. Thanks for reading and I appreciate the feedback (+/-).

Midnight Snack Attack

Mine-r Glitch

This cover was inspired by the Mad Magazine marginal drawings by Sergio Aragones.

Hands down the best pantomime cartoonist in the world.

Daily Comic Strip--Bon Appetit!

Say AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Daily Comic Strip--Crackshot.

Bullseye!

Daily Comic Strip--Target Practice

This gag is for the Polar Bear Sequence. Lewis and Cluck take to the air in ze Whirlybird in order to tag ze elusive Polair Bear.

Daily Comic Strip--Love is in the air.

Menage et trois.

Daily Comic Strip--Island Girl

Daily Comic Strip--Wipeout

Surfer's motto: "There's always another wave to catch."

Daily Comic Strip--Hang Ten

Surfin' U.S.A.

Daily Comic Strip--Cowabunga!

The intrepid chickens take on the "Tooky-Tooky" tidal wave. Next strip...Hang on!

Daily Comic Strip -- Surf and Turf

Captain Poulet is given an offer he can't refuse. After all he's a dinner guest and wouldn't want to seem impolite. Next strip....Surf's Up!

Daily Comic Strip--Dressed for Dinner

This strip fits into the "Cannibal" sequence of gags. I decided to finish that set off and do a polish on the "Polar Bear" sequence. More gags on this sequence tomorrow. I hope its not too hard to follow, it should all make sense in a couple of months. Thanks for dropping by. "Aloha."

Daily Comic Strip--Adapting Markets

Even Darwin would be impressed.

Sunday Page--Early On

This is a Sunday page, the first two-tiered gag I wrote when I first started working on the strip. The page has been laying in my flat file for a long time because the page was starting to yellow. I touched it up by removing the tinge. Otherwise this is how the finish looked. I'll be posting new strips next week as I'm trying to finish up the Polar Bear sequence. Some funny stuff coming up.

Daily Comic Strip--Original Sins

I dragged these early originals out. Here's how they looked early on when I first drew them, hopefully they're evolving. I found the first Sunday page I did and will post that next.

I gotta remember to work on sundays...

Daily Comic Strip--One is the loneliest number...

This is the very first Lewis and Cluck comic strip I ever drew. I dug out my original. You'll notice on the original strip the ship was named "The Collapso" a weak take on Jacque Cousteau's "Calypso". Also the use of zip a tone was popular back when. The idea came to me after a deep sea fishing charter ( A three hour tour...a three hour tour) out near the Ana Capa Islands. Seventy degrees, Pacific Ocean, middle of January...I saw whales, schools of flying fish, dolphins and seals, it was a great day right out of a Jacques Cousteau adventure. On the trip back looking whistfully at the sunset, I penned a few gags and Lewis & Cluck began to come to life in my imagination.

Idiots of the Iditarod

Daily Comic Strip--"Freeze Tag"

This adventure takes our intrepid heroes North to tag a Polar Bear and gather data on Global Warming.

All aboard!

Join Captain Lewis Poulet and his Cinema-tographer and First Mate, Cluck, aboard their research vessel "The Albatross" as they go in search of nature's mysteries and wonders as well as history's legends and myths all in the name of science, oh, and an outstanding loan they have on the boat.

Daily Comic Strip--Guess who's coming for dinner?

While studying of a chain of volcanoes in the South Seas, Lewis and Cluck discover a lost island of cannibals, and a new recipe for chicken stew.

Cage match.

You really have to have a couple of screws loose to swim with sharks.

Daily Comic Strip - "Depth Charge"

This is "Depth Charge" The Great White Shark. and Captain Lewis' obsession. The Captain's goal is to tag and study this feared fish which has been unchanged for millions of years.

Unfortunately, for the crew of the "Albatross," this "Perfect Eating Machine" has been designed for one purpose; to someday know what chicken tastes like.

The party's just beginning.

Deja Vu

Easter Island fills Lewis with a sense of awe, a sense of wonder and a very, very strange sense of Deja Vu.

Daily Comic Strip--"Safari so good."

Lewis and Cluck find filming on location to be too expensive for their budget. So this week's nature show will have to take place on a soundstage. Can you say, "Lights, camera, B'wana?"

Hang in There!

New strips coming soon.

LEWIS & CLUCK Explorer Chickens

This is a Sunday
page drop panel
for a comic strip
I'm developing
called Lewis & Cluck.
(Cross Peter Sellars
with Jacques Cousteau)

My attempt
is to do a gag-a-day,
adventure and
continuity strip.
From day one we'll join
them on their research
ship "The Albatross"
as they embark on a
voyage of discovery
from the enigma of
Easter Island to the
mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle to the search for Big Foot, with a lot of laughs along the way, I hope.
This panel sets the stage for a three week series of gags around their attempt at tree sitting to save the soft beaked, narcoleptic, spotted puff owl from a corporation's ravenous chainsaws.
--B.R.

Daily Comic Strip--"Tree Sitting"

Daily Comic Strip--"In Search of...BigFoot"

The crew hopes to finally prove once and for all the existence of Big Foot by capturing it alive. They've brought an extra large shoehorn just in case

Daily Comic Strip--"Bermuda Triangle"

Daily Comic Strip--"The Devil's Triangle"

The crew of the "Albatross" investigate the many mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle.

Daily Comic Strip--"Monkey Business"

This is a sample strip to show that sometimes their adventures

don't have to take place at an exotic locale. In this series,

Captain Lewis finds himself a target of desire from the amorous

antropologist Jane Woodall, who lures him up to her hotel room for some personal grooming. Cluck comes to the rescue in his bellhop disguise just in the nick of time.

--BR

Daily Comic Strip--"Ship Shape"

Everday life aboard the "Albatross" will also be covered.--BR

Daily Comic Strip--"Home Ice Advantage"

Bigfoot News Flash--Latest sighting

Earl and Lester Ploog of Slackjaw, Washington in Skookum County captured this fuzzy image purportedly of the creature known as Sasquatch.

Nick Fairy