Leland Purvis is an artist and craftsman currently working in graphite and pigments on paper, using pictures to tell stories. His major works in recent years have been graphic novels, historical fiction, largely aimed at younger readers. He prefers baseball, single malt highland scotch, the speed of sailboats and the smell of horses. And he [...]
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SCHMUCK DIARIES: ADULT COSTUMES
I like Banana Republic. I like how they display their items in just such a way as to cue me in to what’s “cool” and “in style.” I’m not one for digging through racks of clothing trying to figure out what I like. I also appreciate that everything there seems cut to fit thin guys [...]
SCHMUCK DIARIES: NEUROTIC CINEMA
Across the table from me was Ami, a pretty Asian singer/songwriter with dyed blue hair and blue contacts. We sat at a small table, approximately six inches from the tables on either side of us, at a small restaurant in the East Village, which if it were a tad larger could be considered “intimate.” The [...]
SCHMUCK 9: WARNING SIGNS
Skuds Mckinley is a Professional comic book artist and Illustrator based in Doylestown Pa. His first Self Published comic work, I’ll Take You To The Moon And Leave You There Vol.1 was met with fantastic reviews and quickly sold out of print. He has designed merch and album covers for Heavy Metal and Punk bands [...]
SCHMUCK DIARIES: Unhappy New Year
I spent Christmas alone and sick. Alberto was out of town with his family and I was bedridden with fever. It made my Jewish Christmas Envy even worse than usual. I was miserable. The only thing this Grinchenstein hates more than Christmas is New Year’s Eve, or more specifically the pressure surrounding it. “What are [...]
SCHMUCK 8: The Double Date
Stephen DeStefano began his career as a professional cartoonist at the age of 15. He’s drawn the comic book adventures of SpongeBob and Mickey Mouse, has been the chief licensing artist on Popeye the Sailor for 25 years, and served as a storyboard artist, voice artist and designer in television animation on the Ren and [...]
SCHMUCK DIARIES: Thanksfornothing Dinner
It was Thanksgiving at my mother’s house. In attendance were: my mom, my second cousin David, my friend/roommate Alberto, and myself. I remember when I was a kid and we had huge Thanksgiving dinners at our house. My sepia toned memories of those dinners are of my grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins, my father, [...]
SCHMUCK 7: The Ex-Factor
George Schall: 26 years old, born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, decided to get into comics little more than two years ago. Illustrated Hector Lima’s script for Maurício de Souza Productions MSP+50 (a Monica’s Gang anthology) and self published a collection of short stories, alongside another brazilian writer, Matheus Alves, intitled Micro. Now, you [...]
THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: THE GOODBYE
I watched the water stream down her naked body. Early morning light filtered through the bathroom widow and it was the most beautiful she’d ever looked to me. I handed her the shampoo, and I felt sad. I’d decided the night before it was time to break it off with Pam. We sat at dinner [...]
SCHMUCK 6: THE ONE
Read past installments SCHMUCK 1: Beer, Babes and Bowel Movements THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Mein Roommates SCHMUCK 2: The Burning THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: The Lap-Date SCHMUCK 3: The Hook-Up THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Writing (No) Class THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Number 32 THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Send in the Clones Part-1 THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Send in the Clones Part-2 [...]
SCHMUCK 5: A HAIRY SITUATION
Read past installments SCHMUCK 1: Beer, Babes and Bowel Movements THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Mein Roommates SCHMUCK 2: The Burning THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: The Lap-Date SCHMUCK 3: The Hook-Up THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Writing (No) Class THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Number 32 THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Send in the Clones Part-1 THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Send in the Clones Part-2 [...]
THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: “Nice” Jewish Girls
For as long as I can remember it has been endlessly drilled into my head that I must marry a Jewish girl. This drilling was done courtesy of my mother. My grandmother helped though—she often told me if I marry a ‘shicksa,’ she would haunt me…presumably from beyond the grave. A direct quote from my [...]
