These are the two opening pages of my second graphic novel, Diary of a Manic-Depressive, 1997.       As with my first graphic novel, I had no idea what sort of project I’d begun, or how much time I would end up devoting to it. Whereas my first graphic novel was a somewhat goofy science fiction sort […]

     On May 27, 1992, I left Seattle after my first year living there. I decided I wanted a vacation, a time to myself, and a time to explore…. I had no plans or immediate destination, just a mixed tape I’d made for myself for driving in the car: My “Leaving Seattle mix”, a sad […]

     This is from my 1993 book, Double Tall Latte, Please. This is the Puget Sound, the body of water separating Seattle from the Olympic peninsula, and which opens out to the Pacific Ocean further north. The Sound is alive with boat traffic, especially in the summer months. Besides the hourly ferries that carry  tourists and commuters to […]

     This is the cozy camp J. and I made for ourselves in the Hoh rainforest (Olympic National Park, west of Seattle on the Olympic peninsula).  This was one of our many backpacking excursions, (many of them in the Hoh), probably in 1996, but drawn in 1998. The raccoons were there, as was the six-pack […]

Happy New Year, Everyone!

From a journal sometime in 1994. (I think my brain is actually a tad larger than as depicted here.)

      American Dreamer is a strip I began shortly before I moved to Seattle in 1991. It’s a strip about this guy, Trent, who moves to Seattle to make it big as a musician, in spite of all the obstacles. Nearly everyone in the strip is based (at least in part) on people I knew […]

      While at my folks’ house over Christmas, I came across a few old playbills from high school I’d designed. Coincidentally, my high school friend, Geoff (who starred in “Come Blow Your Horn”), suggested just yesterday that I post a few of the AHS playbills. Here are the two that I found.        I hope you […]

     Pooter and Cooter started appearing in my sketch books in 1992. They were two immature, beer-drinking delinquents who helped me through a dark Seattle winter. This past Thanksgiving, my sister opened up this book from 1994, and started laughing out loud. I was surprised that my sister found these juvenile characters funny, and even […]

Excerpt from The Samuel Do-Good Letters, by Stephen Richter, 2007: The Night before Christmas It was the night before Christmas, and I drank beer in my house It was pretty darned quiet as I slowly got soused. I was sittin’ at the table and I knew it was late when I had visions of sugar […]