DREAMS: I'm arguing with a worker on our oil rig when a huge piece of steel falls, crushing me instantly.
MONTHS LATER: that very worker gets in an argument with me. I recall my dreams, step back, and...
My town transforms into a circus--trapeze artists, elephants, clowns. At first I loved it, but when I went home...
Green Day singer Billie Joe hocked a lugie on me in concert. I felt blessed...
CAUTION: EWWW
After fighting off an electrified Orson Welles, I meet the twelve
vulture-pine-politicians climbing Mt Sinai, looking for librium...
In my nightmare, TV ads push new, supposedly eco-friendly uses for pigs, until this alarming ad...
I meet Peter Pan grown up: a stark, fey prince in exile. Why do only I see him and the Lost Children? Oh.
Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone...
CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)...
Our Appalachian town revolts against fundamentalists, but brainwashing takes time to undo...
CAUTION: SEX AND INJUSTICE
I'm at a party in an air-lake. We fish for a girl who's gone invisible. But... what if we catch her?
In a field in the Central Valley, I face the Terror of California...
CAUTION: FIENDISH LEFTIST PROPAGANDA
In Surinam, a whole river falls 600 meters into the sea. I put on a birdsuit and fly into rainbows...
I'm a woman living in a space habitat. A new Napoleon invades us, and damages our life-support.
I fight him--but I'm attracted, too. We need to ally to fight the second invasion...
In old Egypt, a part of me sabotages my audience with Bast, the Cat Goddess. Why?
Bodies are laid out upstairs in a dirt bed. Potatoes will sprout.
The plants won't feed on the bodies, but they will support the vines...
Rather than draw the model, I often sketch my classmates in life-drawing. They get so intent!
An elegant, sexy classmate of mine, a fastidious feline island in our sea of grubby manic sketchers...
A wizard into spots and dots invites me into his beach house, hungry for advice on his peculiar fears...
A cannibal friend of mine is shocked at our burial customs, and argues his case in court using crabs...
I help a brilliant, starving composer turn his family curse into a profitable business...
My take on IQ, racism, Murray and Herrnstein's notorious book, and the theory of multiple intelligence.
As an (ex)child prodigy it's not theoretical for me: broken hearts, broken trust, broken ribs...
CAUTION: LONG WORDS, RAMPANT ELITISM, GENIUS SHOPTALK
A model clowning--an ephemeral emotional flash
CAUTION: ART-SCHOOL NUDITY
My cold-sensitive dinosaur friend makes a find at our archeological dig by thinking like the Old Ones...
There's power in dark memories--creatures of the deep strata. But the flowers of now are just as real...
She tried to find a pose so melodramatically goofy the sketchers couldn't take her seriously... but no.
CAUTION: ART-SCHOOL NUDITY
I suspect the pinball champion of Jupiter is cheating. I try to scare her psychic confederate out of hiding...
An artist I know dismisses her (gorgeous) art as just therapy... while the museums are full of trash. Why?
Why am I an outsider? Can I change? Even my dreams don't know. I wake to find my
meditation was a dream, and as much of an answer as dreamwork can give...
Allied submarines attack the giant Nazi toddler who's hunting us with sonar, occupying my playroom...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND GUILT
Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
How exactly did I acquire a mother-in-law snooping on my phone calls, when I don't have a wife?
A logging war in the northern forests is confused by subjective realities. Am I sure what I see is real?
The new smart beds stimulate your dreams--but how to program them? We can't even manage VCRs...
Fighting vampire archers is risky enough WITH proper armor! And all I have is dream-journals...
CAUTION: MENTIONS BATTERING
I explore a zone lost in Shroedinger probabilities, and meet time-ghosts who want to collapse into reality...
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns.
I track down the wizard who cursed me. He turns me into a swan! Worse?
No! His first curse was on a human being, and now I'm a bird. My mind is free!...
I always laughed at those silly superhero outfits. But when it's my turn to fly, I find out why...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
In our steamy future, after the cities drown, I'm hiking through Rainbow Tunnel, when I meet a holy man...
Julie keeps dreaming that she gives birth to a cat, or a part-cat baby...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BIRTH, UNBIRTH, REBIRTH...
Evangeline the model arranged pillows and potted ferns and told us to
"Just picture the pillows as rocks and a ferny cascade." I did...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Evangeline stood before the mysterious portal and shushed us...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
How the hell do I summarize this? Lola, a werefox I'm hot for, becomes my feudal Japanese brother, and
her fox-shape reappears as the truck-driving maid for a Han Dynasty lady. We counter the interdimensional
energy vampires by importing ghost unicorns on sailing ships, who have an orgy. Two weeks later,
it all comes true. Literally? No, but closer than you'd think....
A sculpted orgy of unicorns, dryads, and werewolf-satyrs designed to stand sideways on your wall...
CAUTION: SEX
Montgomery's film about her teenage affair with a pedophile
is troubling enough before the FBI tries to blackmail her...
CAUTION: MOLESTATION/ABUSE ISSUES
Am I a punk dyke or a shy ballerina? Both! And they're complementary facets. Underwear never lies...
We play with worlds for balls, and gravity wells for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out.
I'm back in the 19th century, learning that horse breeders cross-bred
more than the public thinks. One suggests I look hard in the mirror...
CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE
God's dance club, the Universe, is shutting down. God broke his promise that we staff could get on stage...
Just what it says.
CAUTION: CARTOON BUTT and GRRL BICEPS
Nina the model's weirdest pose yet, as a TV with rabbit-ear antennae...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I dreamed I couldn't walk on water like Jesus, but I COULD crawl on it! A baby miracle.
CAUTION: NUDITY
From an ad. I recommend drawing photos as well as live models; some poses, models can't hold!
CAUTION: NUDITY
After a workout, she looks at herself in the mirror, and for once, she LIKES herself...
CAUTION: SHE LIKES HERSELF, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT!
A magic lake where deer glide on water... so I try it. And start to realize I could build such a lake...
Day: Why did I get sick from figure-sketching? Guilt?
Dream: I'm at a group wedding; shall I wed a dwarf, a feral boy or a horse?
Just a startling moment when a woman with backlit hair turned incandescent...
Girl in a red cap, half-asleep in bed, looking either sexy or she has the flu, like I did...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Black holes can be scary enough outside you, but what if you have dormant ones inside you?
An Arabic traveler to China is shocked by toilet paper, which explains the origins of dualism. Really.
Soon after my friend and mentor James Merrill died, I had recurring, elusive dreams about him...
A woman dreams of her boyfriend recently killed in a car crash. Unremarkable so far. But he
also haunts his ex-babysitter, two thousand miles away, who had no idea he'd died...
My sister Althea sets herself up as the judge of whether I can go to a wedding...
I was sick again, so I drew a tiny photo in a gym ad, and then realized it was her strange stare I liked...
Clarisa Pinkola Estes (who runs with the wolves) was on the radio, and this popped out of my mouse...
Cartoonist Robert Crumb just turns off all taboos while drawing. A learnable technique...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, CARTOON SEX
I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
A small statue of this beautiful creature who keeps appearing in my dreams...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Dry noodles shatter when bent. Wait, not noodles--they have auras! Feel like me--parts of me? Oh!
These aren't noodles or strands of my being. I'm not this brittle. They're relatives!
Alien abductions upset us--being studied, treated like animals. But isn't that how we treat other species--
study, exploit, ignore their feelings? That night, I dream one dog on a leash paralyzes a civilization...
Dream math often seems bad, but I think the discrepancies are a signal, not noise...
I project I'll make a lot more money soon. Good, now I can support all my lazy friends! Wait...
I meet a tragic heroine--great heart, rotten luck. But I open her magic sword and find a bad chip...
Trapped in elementary school, Julie is forced to study the alphabet
until she declares "I'm a professional cartoonist, goddammit!"...
I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me...
CAUTION: TERRORISM
In a world obsessed with genes and pecking order, we're half-sisters--
very different, yet we support and trust one another. Our society's just wrong!...
I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever.
I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife...
CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT
Among aliens, humans are jokes. Fragile and blind, we can't fly starships. Unless we build our own...
I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...)
Late in life-drawing class, Evangeline got tired and snuggled into a pillow-nest. She looked so feline...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A confrontation between the top predators on this planet: Evangeline and her boot...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
Evangeline between poses, hand to mouth, undecided, in an odd evanescent mood I tried to catch...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A late-night conversation with the proud developer
of a new concept in South Asian convenience dining...
Studies confirm that prayer can heal. So can curses harm? Yet the fear of curses fueled the witch hunts...
CAUTION: DISTURBING IMPLICATIONS, IF TRUE
While visiting a friend in New Orleans in my dream, I saw a pangolin. I was very excited...
Gryphon meets Dragon, mid-air, and they're both me--sometimes...
My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die...
CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES
God flames me for putting pagan stuff on the Net, and we end up suing each other. Then the riots begin...
CAUTION: HITMEN AND HERESY
I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...)
My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why?
CAUTION: DREAM PUN, NUDE MARES
It's the Vietnam era; my draft board tolerates only a secret quota of COs. I decide not to tolerate THEM...
I meet a girl with a plant growing out of her head...
Someone prays to the spirit of a spring to heal me...
I watch people practice exercises with the ritual feel of voudun or candomble...
A fan's in love with Michael Stipe of R.E.M. I see no hope for him, since his idol's straight...
I'm a kid again, gawking at the Space Needle. But a woman stands before it, who no one else can see:
CAUTION: NUDITY, A SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE
Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon
on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours...
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY...
CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE
I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky the
talking black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats...
Tarot with Dolly Parton. But I piss her off. "Men! You think I'm dumb, cuz of my tits!" She fixes THAT...
CAUTION: STUPID BREAST HUMOR BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT GRUESOME
Half our religion-founders were just one guy, repeating till he got it right. Practice makes perfect!
I was an avian Mr Niceguy with sore knees, till I got some advice from my supposedly extinct big brother...
The size of ancient flying creatures implies that Earth may lose more atmosphere over time than we think...
This dream's not about a man whose dream lovers keep materializing till the bed overflows.
This dream's about who those lovers are and what the neighbors will think...
CAUTION: SEX
When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex...
I'm just an ordinary guy, who beats his son so he'll grow faster, and sees tits on drinking fountains...
I feel a drag, and take off my safety belt. I find I've been towing an invisible buggy with two men in it...
A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred...
I'm a Lapp boy in northern Finland, studying shamanism. So why do I pour coffee down a driveway?
I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though
not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage...
I swim with my daughter Naomi in a desert pool amid lemon trees. She may be able to help me...
In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For gods aren't the gardeners, they're the crop...
You know angels feud over regional underfunding of Divine Grace. But you don't know how low they'll go...
After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival...
I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES
A tribute to Hokusai's sketches. A crane and a fairy were out drinking, and now can't fly home...
When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES
I meet a sexy seal-girl. Being single and desperate, I overlook a slight values conflict...
CAUTION: DISGUSTING JOB
I meet a girl with a plant growing out of her head...
Someone prays to the spirit of a spring to heal me...
I watch people practice exercises with the ritual feel of voudun or candomble...
I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape...
CAUTION: NUDE CAT
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat...
A looming figure on the border of the new Lunar Republic, who told me it's time to turn from war to art...
At an amusement park, big 3D letters appeared in the air, saying
"I WANT YOUR DREAMS". Terrified, I dived underground...
On the Night Train out of my small-town life, I meet the town rebel. But she's misplaced her tongue...
CAUTION: PETTING; UNNERVING TONGUE
A mysterious stranger offers free wishes to the kids of Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer wants to fly...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light...
Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire,
a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm?
Krishna, Orpheus, Kokopelli...why are the mythic musicians all guys? Where's Orphea's head?
An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW without preconceptions--
no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void!
For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted...
My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find
a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am...
A painting of mountains, manes, mermaids, moons, mattresses, mouths, maples, mohawks, mice & men...
CAUTION: NUDE M-THINGS
I think Yeats was wrong to use the Sphinx to symbolize the brutal post-Christian era he foresaw...
Central America. A pale sorceress has stolen the splendor of the Mayan pyramids. Is pagan
power strong enough to defy the church's promises of savation & its fears of a rumored devil?
In the cathedral, before the nation, I solemnly crown someone with my own detached head...
Two kids I grew up with are dead. We carry their still-smoking corpses by the home of George Bush...
CAUTION: BURNT BODIES
Night thoughts. Are they eggs? Dreams? Worlds? Phases of the moon?
CAUTION: NEGATIVE BREASTS
Soil turns to air for me; I float in the dark between tree roots
and stones, thinking "If only I could remember my name"...
The comics industry degenerates into civil war. We peddle all night to avoid the Marvel...
A naked angel came and perched on a rock, pointing at a vista that seemed both alpine and undersea...
A misty day in San Francisco's Presidio, where migrant pegasii graze on pine-tips and shadow witches nest...
Puzzled me why I (the girl on the left) was so outraged about the gift of a perfectly nice levitating flower...
CAUTION: NUDITY, INGRATITUDE, WITCHCRAFT, ELVIS
The unemployed angel with her resume is the Goddess of Freedom...
I wake up with my head swollen, full of vivid bewildering experiences, without a clue...
We need to get down to the sea, but Disney Corporation blocks the way. Wait--we're
dreamworkers! We ooze through the walls, and cheer the parade marching in on the tide...
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in
stroboscopic photos. Like weird undersea growths...
WARNING: NUDE CAT PEOPLE
"I believe, O lord/ Help thou mine unbelief"--as a kid I thought this meant "God, keep me skeptical"...
I grope through fog to the Vague House. Fog inside, too. Find a stone carved with an Eye of
Horus, and know it's my anger. Find a bigger stone scarab, and know it's my REAL anger...
The House of Comics has a shabby annex jammed with self-publishers.
We make a human ladder and climb out a high window, but I don't fit;
as the tenement collapses, I must smash the windowframe to free...