Otto M.
@otto-m.art
Artist, Writer, Media Scholar. PhD USC Film School. MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Teaching with the Screen from Routledge. Cartoonist. otto-m.art
Head Shot: Profiles in Courage. Fame and Fortune. All these years. Haunted by the JFK funeral. The horses with caisson rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue. The sad salute by John Jr. Early morning cartoons.
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/16/the-headshot-comic-profiles-in-courage/
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/16/the-headshot-comic-profiles-in-courage/
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Head Shot: Profiles in Courage. Fame and Fortune. All these years. Haunted by the JFK funeral. The horses with caisson rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue. The sad salute by John Jr. Early morning cartoons.
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/16/the-headshot-comic-profiles-in-courage/
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/16/the-headshot-comic-profiles-in-courage/
Structure and Space. Books I'm reading now. Architecture: Form Space Order. Timeless Way of Building. Architecture without Architects. Archi-Groove in the moment.
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/16/structure-and-space-architecture/
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/16/structure-and-space-architecture/
November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Structure and Space. Books I'm reading now. Architecture: Form Space Order. Timeless Way of Building. Architecture without Architects. Archi-Groove in the moment.
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/16/structure-and-space-architecture/
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/16/structure-and-space-architecture/
Here's a selection of Inktober drawings that I posted over on Instagram in October plus some student work from my Photo class. Student work is the payoff in teaching. If you teach, you know.
Inktober select Cuts.
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/09/inktober-images-and-student-photos/
Inktober select Cuts.
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/09/inktober-images-and-student-photos/
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Here's a selection of Inktober drawings that I posted over on Instagram in October plus some student work from my Photo class. Student work is the payoff in teaching. If you teach, you know.
Inktober select Cuts.
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/09/inktober-images-and-student-photos/
Inktober select Cuts.
https://otto-m.art/2025/11/09/inktober-images-and-student-photos/
A Week of Inktobers - October 1-7
A Week of Inktobers – October 1-7
I’ve been posting daily over on Instagram for Inktober. You can see the latest pictures and hear the audio for each post if you click the Instagram feed in the sidebar on the standard pages on this website. Check out the projects page or the writing page to find the sidebar. Or just stay here and scroll down to see the first week of images on this archival post.
otto-m.art
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A Week of Inktobers - October 1-7
A quick one. A comic strip on my twin obsessions - virtual humans/simulations/artificial intelligence and American cartooning.
https://otto-m.art/2025/10/13/working-for-peanuts-and-monster-mugshots/
https://otto-m.art/2025/10/13/working-for-peanuts-and-monster-mugshots/
October 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A quick one. A comic strip on my twin obsessions - virtual humans/simulations/artificial intelligence and American cartooning.
https://otto-m.art/2025/10/13/working-for-peanuts-and-monster-mugshots/
https://otto-m.art/2025/10/13/working-for-peanuts-and-monster-mugshots/
This week's project. Write a short prose poem. Make it 5-10 sentences in length.
Tell us a story. Show us how you do something. Cooking eggs, for instance.
Poem = Short Evocative Text.
World = Your Experience.
It's a script.
https://otto-m.art/2025/09/14/poem-of-the-world-teaching-media-66/
Tell us a story. Show us how you do something. Cooking eggs, for instance.
Poem = Short Evocative Text.
World = Your Experience.
It's a script.
https://otto-m.art/2025/09/14/poem-of-the-world-teaching-media-66/
September 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This week's project. Write a short prose poem. Make it 5-10 sentences in length.
Tell us a story. Show us how you do something. Cooking eggs, for instance.
Poem = Short Evocative Text.
World = Your Experience.
It's a script.
https://otto-m.art/2025/09/14/poem-of-the-world-teaching-media-66/
Tell us a story. Show us how you do something. Cooking eggs, for instance.
Poem = Short Evocative Text.
World = Your Experience.
It's a script.
https://otto-m.art/2025/09/14/poem-of-the-world-teaching-media-66/
One Week – 100 Drawings: Teaching Media @ 66
Week two teaching media arts to high school students. Project number one. One Week - 100 Drawings. Media Art is based on two fundamental skills - writing and drawing. Concept and…
https://otto-m.art/2025/09/08/one-week-100-drawings-teaching-media-66/
Week two teaching media arts to high school students. Project number one. One Week - 100 Drawings. Media Art is based on two fundamental skills - writing and drawing. Concept and…
https://otto-m.art/2025/09/08/one-week-100-drawings-teaching-media-66/
September 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
One Week – 100 Drawings: Teaching Media @ 66
Week two teaching media arts to high school students. Project number one. One Week - 100 Drawings. Media Art is based on two fundamental skills - writing and drawing. Concept and…
https://otto-m.art/2025/09/08/one-week-100-drawings-teaching-media-66/
Week two teaching media arts to high school students. Project number one. One Week - 100 Drawings. Media Art is based on two fundamental skills - writing and drawing. Concept and…
https://otto-m.art/2025/09/08/one-week-100-drawings-teaching-media-66/
I've spent the past 25 years teaching in colleges and universities. I enjoyed it immensely. A few weeks ago, I signed a contract to teach media arts for the 25-26 school year because I thought it might be…
https://otto-m.art/2025/08/24/otto-m-back-to-school-mu-mu-modo-with-random-cartoons/
https://otto-m.art/2025/08/24/otto-m-back-to-school-mu-mu-modo-with-random-cartoons/
August 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I've spent the past 25 years teaching in colleges and universities. I enjoyed it immensely. A few weeks ago, I signed a contract to teach media arts for the 25-26 school year because I thought it might be…
https://otto-m.art/2025/08/24/otto-m-back-to-school-mu-mu-modo-with-random-cartoons/
https://otto-m.art/2025/08/24/otto-m-back-to-school-mu-mu-modo-with-random-cartoons/
Once there was the Dream. Now there is the Algorithm. Raymond Williams, the cultural theorist, speaks about the dominant, residual, and emergent aspects of culture and media. The Dream is residual. The Algorithm is dominant. What is…
https://otto-m.art/2025/08/08/mu-mu-modo-the-straight-and-narrow/
https://otto-m.art/2025/08/08/mu-mu-modo-the-straight-and-narrow/
August 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Once there was the Dream. Now there is the Algorithm. Raymond Williams, the cultural theorist, speaks about the dominant, residual, and emergent aspects of culture and media. The Dream is residual. The Algorithm is dominant. What is…
https://otto-m.art/2025/08/08/mu-mu-modo-the-straight-and-narrow/
https://otto-m.art/2025/08/08/mu-mu-modo-the-straight-and-narrow/
The Mimi Bolero does not wish to contradict artist Barbara Kruger and her famous artwork, but we do need another hero. Anyone with some bravery can act now and get a great discount on immortality (or at least what that other…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/24/the-new-avengers-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/24/the-new-avengers-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
July 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Mimi Bolero does not wish to contradict artist Barbara Kruger and her famous artwork, but we do need another hero. Anyone with some bravery can act now and get a great discount on immortality (or at least what that other…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/24/the-new-avengers-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/24/the-new-avengers-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
Cartooning in the Age of AI #22: If AI Takes Over Search, Is It Worth Having a Website?
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Cartooning in the Age of AI #22: If AI Takes Over Search, Is It Worth Having a Website?
AI-powered search is bad for news sites, but could be good for cartoonists.
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July 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Cartooning in the Age of AI #22: If AI Takes Over Search, Is It Worth Having a Website?
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Hands. The Bu-Bu need no hands. They have tendrils. They are Squids. Or perhaps Jelly Fish. They are microscopic and live in an Everyperson Nose.
The Mimis have small hands attached to noodle-like arms that they whip around as they…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/23/hands-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
The Mimis have small hands attached to noodle-like arms that they whip around as they…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/23/hands-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
July 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hands. The Bu-Bu need no hands. They have tendrils. They are Squids. Or perhaps Jelly Fish. They are microscopic and live in an Everyperson Nose.
The Mimis have small hands attached to noodle-like arms that they whip around as they…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/23/hands-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
The Mimis have small hands attached to noodle-like arms that they whip around as they…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/23/hands-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
Disregard the Symbolic World. Embrace the world of the Imaginary. Compress the body into a dream shape and seek the answer in the Tube. That is the way of the Mimis as they transform the state of being into a dance.…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/22/being-and-dance-hall-shtick-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/22/being-and-dance-hall-shtick-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
July 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Disregard the Symbolic World. Embrace the world of the Imaginary. Compress the body into a dream shape and seek the answer in the Tube. That is the way of the Mimis as they transform the state of being into a dance.…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/22/being-and-dance-hall-shtick-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/22/being-and-dance-hall-shtick-a-mimi-bolero-phantasy/
Let us celebrate the Dance of the Mimis as they enter the Tube and join the Bu-Bu in their city in the Nose-Braine, Nostrilopolis. Here are daily Cartoons from the Nostrilopolis streaming service, NoseTube. One for each day. MTWThF,…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/21/i-dream-a-mi-mi-bolero-phantasy/
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/21/i-dream-a-mi-mi-bolero-phantasy/
July 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Let us celebrate the Dance of the Mimis as they enter the Tube and join the Bu-Bu in their city in the Nose-Braine, Nostrilopolis. Here are daily Cartoons from the Nostrilopolis streaming service, NoseTube. One for each day. MTWThF,…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/21/i-dream-a-mi-mi-bolero-phantasy/
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/21/i-dream-a-mi-mi-bolero-phantasy/
Last week I posted an uncensored version of this image as my feature image. I sent it to Threads from my Blogzine. And then I received a "We removed your post" message from the Meta Algorithm. See full post over on…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/16/the-treachery-of-images-the-stupidity-of-meta-ai/
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/16/the-treachery-of-images-the-stupidity-of-meta-ai/
July 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Last week I posted an uncensored version of this image as my feature image. I sent it to Threads from my Blogzine. And then I received a "We removed your post" message from the Meta Algorithm. See full post over on…
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/16/the-treachery-of-images-the-stupidity-of-meta-ai/
https://otto-m.art/2025/07/16/the-treachery-of-images-the-stupidity-of-meta-ai/
A single comic page. Modeled on a Sunday Funnies page from some cursed newspaper in a far and distant land. Accompanied by breakdowns and a commentary on the text.
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/30/bubu-moderno-the-soul-king-of-destruction/
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/30/bubu-moderno-the-soul-king-of-destruction/
June 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A single comic page. Modeled on a Sunday Funnies page from some cursed newspaper in a far and distant land. Accompanied by breakdowns and a commentary on the text.
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/30/bubu-moderno-the-soul-king-of-destruction/
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/30/bubu-moderno-the-soul-king-of-destruction/
In Italo Calvino's story, "The Distance to the Moon," the earth and the moon come so close together in their respective orbits that characters from the tale are able to leap up, escape gravity, and land on the moon.
Sternstrom the physicist: "No,…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/23/heroes-and-villains/
Sternstrom the physicist: "No,…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/23/heroes-and-villains/
June 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In Italo Calvino's story, "The Distance to the Moon," the earth and the moon come so close together in their respective orbits that characters from the tale are able to leap up, escape gravity, and land on the moon.
Sternstrom the physicist: "No,…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/23/heroes-and-villains/
Sternstrom the physicist: "No,…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/23/heroes-and-villains/
Scribbly drawings that I made on the back of some postcards, then sent to my friend Beauregard DuPont (artist name Steve). This is the last of the series. No more postcards. No…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/16/the-last-of-the-beauregard-dupont-postcards-famous-players-carmen-miranda-and-wes-anderson/
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/16/the-last-of-the-beauregard-dupont-postcards-famous-players-carmen-miranda-and-wes-anderson/
June 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Scribbly drawings that I made on the back of some postcards, then sent to my friend Beauregard DuPont (artist name Steve). This is the last of the series. No more postcards. No…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/16/the-last-of-the-beauregard-dupont-postcards-famous-players-carmen-miranda-and-wes-anderson/
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/16/the-last-of-the-beauregard-dupont-postcards-famous-players-carmen-miranda-and-wes-anderson/
Speaking to one of my Media Arts high school students last Thursday, I mentioned Charlie Chaplin, Francis Ford Coppola, and Vincent Price. He was very polite. “I’m sorry Dr. Otto, I have no idea who those people…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/08/the-beauregard-dupont-project-charlie-chaplin-and-cher/
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/08/the-beauregard-dupont-project-charlie-chaplin-and-cher/
June 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Speaking to one of my Media Arts high school students last Thursday, I mentioned Charlie Chaplin, Francis Ford Coppola, and Vincent Price. He was very polite. “I’m sorry Dr. Otto, I have no idea who those people…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/08/the-beauregard-dupont-project-charlie-chaplin-and-cher/
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/08/the-beauregard-dupont-project-charlie-chaplin-and-cher/
The Beauregard DuPont Project – Hoagy Carmichael and Faye Dunaway
Continuing with the caricatures drawn on the back of a postcard and mailed in honor of Beauregard DuPont's birthday. The conceit, the…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/02/the-beauregard-dupont-project-hoagy-carmichael-and-faye-dunaway/
Continuing with the caricatures drawn on the back of a postcard and mailed in honor of Beauregard DuPont's birthday. The conceit, the…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/02/the-beauregard-dupont-project-hoagy-carmichael-and-faye-dunaway/
June 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Beauregard DuPont Project – Hoagy Carmichael and Faye Dunaway
Continuing with the caricatures drawn on the back of a postcard and mailed in honor of Beauregard DuPont's birthday. The conceit, the…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/02/the-beauregard-dupont-project-hoagy-carmichael-and-faye-dunaway/
Continuing with the caricatures drawn on the back of a postcard and mailed in honor of Beauregard DuPont's birthday. The conceit, the…
https://otto-m.art/2025/06/02/the-beauregard-dupont-project-hoagy-carmichael-and-faye-dunaway/
The Beauregard DuPont Project – Famous Players Postcards – Bradford Dillman and Betty Grable
Bradford Dillman and Betty Grable on the little and big screens. Pickman's Model and…
https://otto-m.art/2025/05/25/the-beauregard-dupont-project-famous-players-postcards-some-comments-on-bradford-dillman/
Bradford Dillman and Betty Grable on the little and big screens. Pickman's Model and…
https://otto-m.art/2025/05/25/the-beauregard-dupont-project-famous-players-postcards-some-comments-on-bradford-dillman/
May 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Beauregard DuPont Project – Famous Players Postcards – Bradford Dillman and Betty Grable
Bradford Dillman and Betty Grable on the little and big screens. Pickman's Model and…
https://otto-m.art/2025/05/25/the-beauregard-dupont-project-famous-players-postcards-some-comments-on-bradford-dillman/
Bradford Dillman and Betty Grable on the little and big screens. Pickman's Model and…
https://otto-m.art/2025/05/25/the-beauregard-dupont-project-famous-players-postcards-some-comments-on-bradford-dillman/
M. Bott, The Punchman.
Minor Gods and Major Heroes M. Bott collects the fees for traveling between the ordinary symbolic world of daily life and the extraordinary imaginary world of the BuBu Moderno. He intervenes when things get out of control, and frankly gets punched a lot. But he can take it.…
Minor Gods and Major Heroes M. Bott collects the fees for traveling between the ordinary symbolic world of daily life and the extraordinary imaginary world of the BuBu Moderno. He intervenes when things get out of control, and frankly gets punched a lot. But he can take it.…
M. Bott, The Punchman.
Minor Gods and Major Heroes M. Bott collects the fees for traveling between the ordinary symbolic world of daily life and the extraordinary imaginary world of the BuBu Moderno. He intervenes when things get out of control, and frankly gets punched a lot. But he can take it. He smiles through it all. Is he a god? Or simply a fool? ©2025 D. Leopard/Otto M.
otto-m.art
May 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
M. Bott, The Punchman.
Minor Gods and Major Heroes M. Bott collects the fees for traveling between the ordinary symbolic world of daily life and the extraordinary imaginary world of the BuBu Moderno. He intervenes when things get out of control, and frankly gets punched a lot. But he can take it.…
Minor Gods and Major Heroes M. Bott collects the fees for traveling between the ordinary symbolic world of daily life and the extraordinary imaginary world of the BuBu Moderno. He intervenes when things get out of control, and frankly gets punched a lot. But he can take it.…
Braine’s Nose.
The Existential Home of the BuBu Moderno Freedy C. Braine sits in their easy chair in their study on a sunny Sunday afternoon as dust floats in the air, when suddenly… a microscopic Tube lodges itself in their left nostril. What lies within the Tube? ©2025 D. Leopard/Otto M.
The Existential Home of the BuBu Moderno Freedy C. Braine sits in their easy chair in their study on a sunny Sunday afternoon as dust floats in the air, when suddenly… a microscopic Tube lodges itself in their left nostril. What lies within the Tube? ©2025 D. Leopard/Otto M.
Braine’s Nose.
The Existential Home of the BuBu Moderno Freedy C. Braine sits in their easy chair in their study on a sunny Sunday afternoon as dust floats in the air, when suddenly… a microscopic Tube lodges itself in their left nostril. What lies within the Tube? ©2025 D. Leopard/Otto M.
otto-m.art
May 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Braine’s Nose.
The Existential Home of the BuBu Moderno Freedy C. Braine sits in their easy chair in their study on a sunny Sunday afternoon as dust floats in the air, when suddenly… a microscopic Tube lodges itself in their left nostril. What lies within the Tube? ©2025 D. Leopard/Otto M.
The Existential Home of the BuBu Moderno Freedy C. Braine sits in their easy chair in their study on a sunny Sunday afternoon as dust floats in the air, when suddenly… a microscopic Tube lodges itself in their left nostril. What lies within the Tube? ©2025 D. Leopard/Otto M.
The Beauregard DuPont Project – Movies from Memory Too
Warning: cartoon violence and ironic intent. More snail mail art sent to my friend Beauregard DuPont (artist name Steve) on the occasion of his birthday a few…
https://otto-m.art/2025/05/18/the-beauregard-dupont-project-movies-from-memory-too/
Warning: cartoon violence and ironic intent. More snail mail art sent to my friend Beauregard DuPont (artist name Steve) on the occasion of his birthday a few…
https://otto-m.art/2025/05/18/the-beauregard-dupont-project-movies-from-memory-too/
May 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Beauregard DuPont Project – Movies from Memory Too
Warning: cartoon violence and ironic intent. More snail mail art sent to my friend Beauregard DuPont (artist name Steve) on the occasion of his birthday a few…
https://otto-m.art/2025/05/18/the-beauregard-dupont-project-movies-from-memory-too/
Warning: cartoon violence and ironic intent. More snail mail art sent to my friend Beauregard DuPont (artist name Steve) on the occasion of his birthday a few…
https://otto-m.art/2025/05/18/the-beauregard-dupont-project-movies-from-memory-too/
A Quote to “Live By”
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? “Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building the previous three months." - J. G. Ballard, High Rise, 1975…
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? “Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building the previous three months." - J. G. Ballard, High Rise, 1975…
A Quote to “Live By”
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? “Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building the previous three months." - J. G. Ballard, High Rise, 1975 My response to a random Wordpress prompt. Ballard’s book seems even more prescient these days. NYC circa 1998
otto-m.art
May 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A Quote to “Live By”
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? “Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building the previous three months." - J. G. Ballard, High Rise, 1975…
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? “Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building the previous three months." - J. G. Ballard, High Rise, 1975…