Happy Holloween! 2025

 

My latest Substack is up and has some Halloween related cartoons from years past. Most have never been seen, so maybe you'll be in for a treat. Or a trick, I don't know.

Click here to be spookified. 

Belleville Drink N Draw October, Part Two 2025

Last night was the Belleville Drink Night Draw at Egan's Pub. We had a pretty decent gathering with plenty of good conversations and sketching going on.

I chose to do a sketch of Pizza Rat, a character that cartoonist Clay Jones sneaked into his political cartoons. Pizza rat, or Peezy as he is affectionately is called has become quite popular among Clay's fans, including me. Recently, Mr. Jones suffered a stroke and people have been sending him their versions of Peezy as a show of support and encouragement with his healing. Below is the version that I sent to him. I think you can guess as tho where I was going with this one. He is putting up all Peezys on his Substack.

Get well soon, Clay Jones!

Inktober, Day 28: Skeletal

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Today's Inktober word prompt is Skeletal. This guy is giving a little peep.

 

Inktober, Day 27: Onion

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Today's Inktober word prompt is Onion, as in Onion the Hunter! Oh wait, that's Orion. the Hunter. Oops.

 

Inktober, Day 23: Firefly

 

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Today's Inktober word prompt is Firefly. Do I go bug or do I go sci-fi series? I went with the bug.

Inktober, Day 16: Blunder

 

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Today's Inktober word prompt is Blunder. For this...BLUNDERbuss!

And that would be an Uncle Fester looking chap holding a blunderbuss.

Workplace Cartoons, Part 9

 

Once again, we have more workplace cartoons and sketches in my latest Substack newsletter. Like the sub-header says, 'more mattress making hilarity.' Click here for so much fun. 

Inktober, Day 15: Ragged

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Today's Inktober word prompt is Ragged. I kind of liked the idea of a mummy with ragged rags.

 

Warren Elks Comic Book Show October 2025

 

Poster by Martin Hirchak

(click on image to bigefy)

This Saturday, I will once again be at the Warren Elks Comic Book Show in Warren, MI. I do believe that the hours are 10-3. I will be one of five artists that will be on hand that include Dave Nestler, Mark Bloodworth/Claudine Creates, Steven Bejma and Gloria Pridemore.

I will have all the usual; AP sketch cards, original art, books, prints, stickers, etc, etc, etc.

Inktober 2025, Day 14: Trunk

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I've missed a few days of this here Inktober thing. I've been kind of busy, and add in that some of these word prompts are less than thrilling. Although, I have seen some folks do some imaginative stuff with those words. 

Today's word prompt is Trunk. 

 

Inktober, Day 7: Starfish

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Today's Inktober word prompt is Starfish. I'll bet that you didn't know that starfish, or sea stars as we in the scientific community call them now, have skeletons. Well, the skull is a dead giveaway. 

Science!

 

Inktober, Day 6: Pierce

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Today's Inktober word prompt: Pierce. Via le Revolution!

 

Inktober, Day 5: Deer

 

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Today's Inktober word prompt is 'deer.' Spooky deer skull.

Inktober, Day 3: Crown

 

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I'm a day late with this one, but as today's word prompt (murky) is 'eh,' I'll skip that one and do this instead. I was originally going to go with a zombie Jesus with a crown of thorns, but thought of this. I went with the word play of the other day and you have a crow with a crown. I crack myself up.

Then again, I could have done Max from Where the Wild Things Are, Jughead (as someone else did), a sloppy orange asshole who thinks he's a king...

I like the crow. What's not to like about crows?

Inktober, Day 2: Weave

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Today's Inktober word prompt is 'Weave.' Now, I could have gone with a spider 'weaving' its web, but no, you'd be wrong. Instead, I went with WEAVEr, as in Sigourney WEAVEr. Deep, I know.

And hey, I have now done more Inktobers than last year!

 

Belleville Drink N Draw October 2025

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Last night, we picked up again with the Belleville Drink N Draw at Egan's Pub. I worked on a couple of cartoons that still need to be finished up, but here is a sketch that I did of a bar patron. I was going to also sketch her friend, but his ass was hanging out bigly, so passed on that one.

 

Inktober 2025, Day One: Mustache

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So, it's Inktober again. I'm not sure just how committed I'll be this year, the same as lately. I have stuff to do, dammit. Plus, some of the word prompts...

But, I take it as a challenge, to not only come up with a decent image, but to make it Octobery, spooky, halloweenish.

Today's word prompt is 'mustache.' So, a creepy, Salvador Dali skull, with the appropriate stylish and waxed facial accoutrements.