Monthly Archives: January 2009

impatient chair guy

Posted on January 27, 2009 by mcglinch

For being laid off, I still don’t have a lot of time to draw. Pieced this together throughout the day between other tasks. Tweet

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Having recently injured my back and working it out through physical therapy I felt a little bad for former VP’s condition this morning watching the inaugural events. They said he hurt his back moving boxes as they were preparing to … Continue reading →

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Turtle Head on Wheels

Posted on January 15, 2009 by mcglinch

I think I did this on an Amtrak to or from New York City on a business trip for the old job back in September — I get to call it that now: “old”. I think I had those Art … Continue reading →

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The C Was Catapulted by The Boy

Posted on January 14, 2009 by mcglinch

I received my walking papers yesterday by the job. Economic downturn, cuts, etc. Wasn’t a complete surprise: pull out your exit strategy when the boss casually asks you whether and where the project you’re working on is backed up. So … Continue reading →

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HearYa Earwood Vol 1: Best of 2008 Live Sessions

Posted on January 9, 2009 by mcglinch

When I emailed the guys at HearYa my opinion of an O’Death song they took a look at the mcglinch blog and asked if I’d be interested in doing a drawing for the cover of their first-ever compilation of live … Continue reading →

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Bad Hair Day

Posted on January 9, 2009 by mcglinch

Ended up working on this messy hair experiment when I should have been working on at least one of two other projects. This will at least warm me up for them. Tweet

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Archives: Surf’s Up

Posted on January 6, 2009 by mcglinch

Another old sketchbook find. My room-mate and our pals were surfer dudes. Back in the free-wheeling single days, I’d spend some evenings practicing drawing/painting in our South Street apartment ball point pen sketching surfer pix by eye out of his … Continue reading →

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Archives: Gray Scale Study

Posted on January 4, 2009 by mcglinch

Part of my ongoing digging through the rubbermaid tub of stuff that I kept from high school and college days. I think this one was from my painting class at Temple U or just something I did at home. Some … Continue reading →

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Archives: Reaching For The Pit

Posted on January 4, 2009 by mcglinch

From the late 1980s, I think this was a rough concept when friends were working on building a surf/skate wear company . Or just more of my fascination with arm pits . Tweet

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Archives: Mall Cop

Posted on January 1, 2009 by mcglinch

Was putting away Christmas boxes this afternoon and figured I’d dig through some of the other plastic storage containers in the basement and see what I could get rid of. Here’s one from 1989, a collaboration with my old anonymous … Continue reading →

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