Paul Chadwick
@paulchadwick.bsky.social
Concrete's papa. The Matrix Online. Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Comics, storyboards, illustration. Paulchadwick.net
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...to make the words communicate just as well as the pictures do.
If you want realistic dialogue that's rich and specific and ironic, go to Leonard Starr. But if you want stagy, wordy, chew-the-scenery dialogue, Caniff is a master.
If you want realistic dialogue that's rich and specific and ironic, go to Leonard Starr. But if you want stagy, wordy, chew-the-scenery dialogue, Caniff is a master.
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
...to make the words communicate just as well as the pictures do.
If you want realistic dialogue that's rich and specific and ironic, go to Leonard Starr. But if you want stagy, wordy, chew-the-scenery dialogue, Caniff is a master.
If you want realistic dialogue that's rich and specific and ironic, go to Leonard Starr. But if you want stagy, wordy, chew-the-scenery dialogue, Caniff is a master.
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...Charlie...their dialogue is distinctive and specific, and he's just as good with a world-weary monologue as he is with an excited expostulation as he is with a stirring call to battle.
He's a cartoonist of words, too. He knows where to exaggerate, and where to put the light and the shadows...
He's a cartoonist of words, too. He knows where to exaggerate, and where to put the light and the shadows...
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
...Charlie...their dialogue is distinctive and specific, and he's just as good with a world-weary monologue as he is with an excited expostulation as he is with a stirring call to battle.
He's a cartoonist of words, too. He knows where to exaggerate, and where to put the light and the shadows...
He's a cartoonist of words, too. He knows where to exaggerate, and where to put the light and the shadows...
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I think his dialogue's not terribly realistic -- but it's rich in character. On the one hand, he's playful and versatile, which makes the comedy lines work well, but he's just as capable of being bittersweet or ironic or rueful. Everyone's got their own voice -- Connie, Terry, Pat, Burma, Hotshot...
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I think his dialogue's not terribly realistic -- but it's rich in character. On the one hand, he's playful and versatile, which makes the comedy lines work well, but he's just as capable of being bittersweet or ironic or rueful. Everyone's got their own voice -- Connie, Terry, Pat, Burma, Hotshot...
Of course computer lettering was just about to make them superfluous antiques, but I fooled this upstart rival-to-be bwah ha ha!
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One of my happiest interactions as an amateur cartoonist was in 94 when @paulchadwick.bsky.social explained to me what an Ames Lettering Guide was and how to use it. He drew me a picture in my sketchbook to show me what it looked like! #CartoonistsHelpingCartoonists
when I was starting out, (pre-internet) I asked another artist a question about buying the chemicals to make a blue line (again, very long time ago) & they said they weren't going to tell me because I was competition & that's when I decided I'd never be a dick like that to another artist
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Of course computer lettering was just about to make them superfluous antiques, but I fooled this upstart rival-to-be bwah ha ha!
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One of humanity’s best ideas ever was taking the darkest time of the year, as cold temperatures set in, and doing celebrations with lights, loved ones, generosity, and food.
Various cultures independently came up with something along those lines, and others picked it up.
Fantastic idea, people.
Various cultures independently came up with something along those lines, and others picked it up.
Fantastic idea, people.
December 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
One of humanity’s best ideas ever was taking the darkest time of the year, as cold temperatures set in, and doing celebrations with lights, loved ones, generosity, and food.
Various cultures independently came up with something along those lines, and others picked it up.
Fantastic idea, people.
Various cultures independently came up with something along those lines, and others picked it up.
Fantastic idea, people.
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The Year in Photos - NY Times - [Gift Link]
Read on a bigger screen if you can, a phone doesn't do the images justice.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read on a bigger screen if you can, a phone doesn't do the images justice.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Year in Pictures 2025 (Gift Article)
Reflections of Turbulent Times
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December 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The Year in Photos - NY Times - [Gift Link]
Read on a bigger screen if you can, a phone doesn't do the images justice.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read on a bigger screen if you can, a phone doesn't do the images justice.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
You give us William Shatner and Martin Short and we do this
Canada is catching a US plague - illegal guns from the US are driving up homicides. 90% of weapons seized in Ontario come from south of the border.
Out of gift articles for this month if someone else can add a gift link in replies.
Out of gift articles for this month if someone else can add a gift link in replies.
As U.S. Guns Pour Into Canada, the Bodies Pile Up
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December 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
You give us William Shatner and Martin Short and we do this
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Artist-client dialogue not improving
I worked on a commercial where the client used AI to 'generate' their ideas. A mishmash of Pixar, Disney, real life and Christ knows what else. Simultaneously too vague and too specific for me to have any handle on the material. A couple of stick figure doodles would have been so much easier.
Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane?
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
December 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Artist-client dialogue not improving
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An education
The latest edition of my free comics newsletter co tintues my wee series on 22 panels by Alex Toth that blow my mind. Feel free to post suggestions below!
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Toth's 22 Panels That Blow My Mind (Part 2)
Wherein I continue my awestruck look at the master's work
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December 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
An education
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EX-MACHINA (from Christmas With The Superheroes #2) - written & pencilled by @paulchadwick.bsky.social, inks by John Nyberg - one of my all-time favourite Christmas comics, and an all-time favourite Superman story. Very low-key, intimate, and personal.
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December 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
EX-MACHINA (from Christmas With The Superheroes #2) - written & pencilled by @paulchadwick.bsky.social, inks by John Nyberg - one of my all-time favourite Christmas comics, and an all-time favourite Superman story. Very low-key, intimate, and personal.
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A political environment in which a decisive number of voters are mad all the time and think everything's awful, no matter current material conditions or personal experience, presages years of swinging back and forth, accomplishing nothing, satisfying no one but entrepreneurs of chaos and decline.
December 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A political environment in which a decisive number of voters are mad all the time and think everything's awful, no matter current material conditions or personal experience, presages years of swinging back and forth, accomplishing nothing, satisfying no one but entrepreneurs of chaos and decline.
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Insane that these antivax horrors, which bring avoidable suffering onto millions of people, including a lot of children, follow the biggest, fastest, most successful vaccine roll out in history.
RFK Jr., Trump, the GOP Senate, and “MAHA” evidently think the problem with COVID was not enough death.
RFK Jr., Trump, the GOP Senate, and “MAHA” evidently think the problem with COVID was not enough death.
December 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Insane that these antivax horrors, which bring avoidable suffering onto millions of people, including a lot of children, follow the biggest, fastest, most successful vaccine roll out in history.
RFK Jr., Trump, the GOP Senate, and “MAHA” evidently think the problem with COVID was not enough death.
RFK Jr., Trump, the GOP Senate, and “MAHA” evidently think the problem with COVID was not enough death.
Dig the range of skin tones, the assymetries of eyes and brows, the perfectly rendered compressions of tissue and wrinkles of this detail of a Norman Rockwell painting. The champ.
December 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Dig the range of skin tones, the assymetries of eyes and brows, the perfectly rendered compressions of tissue and wrinkles of this detail of a Norman Rockwell painting. The champ.
Useful image courtesy of my friend Aaron.
December 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Useful image courtesy of my friend Aaron.
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“‘Death By Lightning’ Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters”
My latest for @washingtonmonthly.com
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My latest for @washingtonmonthly.com
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Death By Lightning Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters
Donald Trump wants to bring back the spoils system. Death by Lightning is an entertaining tale of why we should never do that.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“‘Death By Lightning’ Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters”
My latest for @washingtonmonthly.com
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My latest for @washingtonmonthly.com
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I've thought about this since learning of it in one of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels, of all places, in the seventies.
Considering India's population, could be the biggest human-made disaster in history.
Plutonium-powered snooper device rusting in glacial ice.
Great graphics btw.
Considering India's population, could be the biggest human-made disaster in history.
Plutonium-powered snooper device rusting in glacial ice.
Great graphics btw.
"Gift Article"
"After losing it at the top of that mountain 60 years ago, the American government still refuses to acknowledge that anything ever happened."
😱 "...worry that the nuclear device could ...dump radioactive material into the headwaters of the Ganges..."
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"After losing it at the top of that mountain 60 years ago, the American government still refuses to acknowledge that anything ever happened."
😱 "...worry that the nuclear device could ...dump radioactive material into the headwaters of the Ganges..."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? (Gift Article)
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I've thought about this since learning of it in one of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels, of all places, in the seventies.
Considering India's population, could be the biggest human-made disaster in history.
Plutonium-powered snooper device rusting in glacial ice.
Great graphics btw.
Considering India's population, could be the biggest human-made disaster in history.
Plutonium-powered snooper device rusting in glacial ice.
Great graphics btw.
It's Tower of Skulls, and illustrates a poem by
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
And I wonder if it was in the mind of director Danny Boyle when designing the poignant late scene of the boy's tribute to his mother in 28 Years Later.
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
And I wonder if it was in the mind of director Danny Boyle when designing the poignant late scene of the boy's tribute to his mother in 28 Years Later.
December 18, 2025 at 5:53 AM
It's Tower of Skulls, and illustrates a poem by
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
And I wonder if it was in the mind of director Danny Boyle when designing the poignant late scene of the boy's tribute to his mother in 28 Years Later.
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
And I wonder if it was in the mind of director Danny Boyle when designing the poignant late scene of the boy's tribute to his mother in 28 Years Later.
I've seen this with the title, "The Boy Who Never Shivered."
Love the irrationality of the extra, disembodied eyes. Why? It works somehow.
Love the irrationality of the extra, disembodied eyes. Why? It works somehow.
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The Cats [Grimms' Fairy Tales] — José Segrelles
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The Cats [Grimms' Fairy Tales] — José Segrelles
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December 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I've seen this with the title, "The Boy Who Never Shivered."
Love the irrationality of the extra, disembodied eyes. Why? It works somehow.
Love the irrationality of the extra, disembodied eyes. Why? It works somehow.
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Tanto McCay como Segrelles tocaban esas temáticas fantásticas de esa época. Cuando Segrelles se pone a imaginar, se acerca mucho a McCay!
March 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Tanto McCay como Segrelles tocaban esas temáticas fantásticas de esa época. Cuando Segrelles se pone a imaginar, se acerca mucho a McCay!
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La supèrbia, per Josep Segrelles
Anuari del Foment de les Arts Decoratives: Any 6 (1924)
UAB. Servei de Biblioteques
Anuari del Foment de les Arts Decoratives: Any 6 (1924)
UAB. Servei de Biblioteques
November 13, 2024 at 6:47 PM
La supèrbia, per Josep Segrelles
Anuari del Foment de les Arts Decoratives: Any 6 (1924)
UAB. Servei de Biblioteques
Anuari del Foment de les Arts Decoratives: Any 6 (1924)
UAB. Servei de Biblioteques
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Jinn — José Segrelles
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Jinn — José Segrelles
I keep a file of "Mist and Liminal" pictures, and occasionally use them as wallpapers. Soothing and comforting.
December 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I keep a file of "Mist and Liminal" pictures, and occasionally use them as wallpapers. Soothing and comforting.