May 2026: Big news! The biggest, really! My head is spinning, so much is happening; first and foremost, Debbi & I are cleaning and painting the house, packing our bags and getting ready, with dogs and cats in tow, to board an Air France plane in June to our new home in Saint- Leger Magnaziex in southwest France! Yes-we are moving on from the States and my hometown in upstate NY and taking a leap of faith on a new adventure!
This is on the heels of my retirement from my home-away-from-home, teaching in the Art dept. at Adelphi University, after 30 years . There are lots of reasons, not the least of which is the beauty and tranquility of the French countryside, but also the politics of the U.S., the practical result of which is to make France a more attractive and affordable place for retirees.

As part of my retirement, I had an exhibition of some of my work from the last 20 years, and gave an Artist’s Talk to my colleagues and students. Rather than lecture about my work, which I’m terrible at, I spent the last few weeks making a film! It’s on the homepage, and it’s called “Packing: an Artist’s Journey” in case you want to know more about my work and how it all ties together across a lifetime. I showed it in mid-April, and honestly, I wasn’t prepared for the reception. It was truly gratifying.
If that project wasn’t enough, I’m also working on a new graphic novel, a project for my move to France. It’s exciting-it’s called “Feux dans le Ciel”(Fires in the Sky) and it’s about the French Revolution, the painter Jacques Louis-David and the death of Kings. It’s about a lot more than that. I’ll have more to say about this project later. But can I say, I’m really excited? Meanwhile you can see a sample below.

I’m sure I’m leaving something out, but life is a bit of a whirlwind at the moment, so I hope you’ll forgive me my forgetfulness! The next month or so is going to be crazy, certainly until we arrive at the new house, and it will likely be the end of summer before we’re settled in, internet is up and running and some sense of normalcy returns( albeit an altogether “new” normal).
Until then, my friends, “À bientôt”.

NICE WORK : Part 1; successfully funded on Kickstarter in March 2026!

December 2025: NICE WORK is a combination graphic/prose novel about Johnny Delgado, Sinatra stand-in/impersonator and sometimes errand boy for Mr.S and the mob in Hollywood, 1960. It’s a noir love story whose characters intersect with Sinatra, the Rat-pack, JFK, Johnny Roselli, Sam Giancana and more. It’s taken me twenty years but it’s finally getting together. Originally6 a straight-ahead graphic novel I was never saitisfied with, I dove back into it at the behest of the main character! It’s a different approach to story-telling I guess, but Johnny’s voice spoke to me in prose—and the book took off from there! So Part 1 is complete and will be a Kickstarter in early ‘26. It’s a bit of a departure for me, and I have no idea if there’s an audience on Kickstarter for a book this eccentric, but we’ll give it a go. When it’s live-I’ll be sure to announce it on social media. Be looking for it!

”Johns”, my animated memoir about painter Jasper Johns and the impact of his work on me as a young artist, won a “Best Short Film” at Feedback Animation Film & Screenplay exhibition last Spring, and “Honorable Mention” at the NY Short Animation Festival around the same time! And it’s right here on the Animation page for your viewing pleasure!

News! A number of things have happened since I last checked in, not the least of which was the election and its consequences. In its aftermath a lot of us are thinking about the future and what it portends. Thinking about the future -and the past -caused a bit of soul-searching on my part and that in turn eventually led to my latest project; “Johns” an animated film reflecting on the impact one artist(Jasper Johns) can have upon another (in this case, yours truly).

I was also honored to be included with a number of great cartoonists, past and present, in an exhibition at William Paterson University galleries called “Sunday Comics:The Creative Page”, curated by Art History Professor Claudia Goldstein and installed by Gallery Director Casey Mathern. It was a terrific show and there was a wonderful panel discussion the night of the opening, moderated by Professor Goldstein and featuring Karen Green, Curator of the Comics and Cartoons library at Columbia University, and cartoonists R.Sikoryak, Gideon Kendall, Charles Featherolf and myself. I had five pieces in the show, three from Daiquiri Jones :Sunday Adventures and two collages. One of the collages is shown below.

There are some changes afoot in both life and work. But more about that later.
It’s Spring! Time for things to grow!

bye for now-Geoff

JUST OUT! “Capt. Daiquiri Jones & The Space-ROCKETTES no.2: The Sunday Adventures” ; 20 pages, A 12” x 15” Retro-Style Tabloid Newspaper in Big, Bold Color! This one is like a collection of Weekly Sunday adventure comics, but telling a very contemporary story! Check out the video and gallery on the comicbooks page!

Brand new for Fall 24: “Spiking the Lens”; a collection of my comicstrip about 3 roommates trying to make their way in Hollywood!

The Donut & The Cheeseburger: Race to the White House; a satire of the first half of this monumentally agonizing Presidential election year was out in early 2024. We all know how that went.

“The Complete Plastic Babyheads from Outer Space”: 360 pages of full-color whacked out sci-fi satire fun, collecting the entire run of the comic from GoComics was printed in 2023. I’m so pleased to have it all in one book-and it looks terrific!

AND—“Capt. Daiquiri Jones & The Space-ROCKETTES No1”! Sci-Fi Retro-comics golden age style! Daq & her team kick some American fascist butt in 36 full color pages. PLUS-Archie comics via MAD- style laughs in “Vickie Venus:Teenage Alien”!

“ANNOUNCING BOB” : this was a fun diversion after completing the Daiquiri Jones project!

”Capt. Daiquiri Jones &The Space-ROCKETTES “ will soon be available via my Etsy store! Stay tuned!

The Kickstarter below will didn’t happen-but the book will soon be available! Stay tuned for the announcement !

”The Complete Plastic Babyheads from Outer Space” collects every strip published on GoComics between 2013-2015, telling the complete story of the Plastic Babyheads invasion of Earth! Adventure and Absurdity abound as a host of wacky characters, some familiar but all strange, walk across the Babyheads’ stage. Meet “The Stooge sPies: Lemon, Meringue and Rhubarb; Bella “Beehive”Dilemma, The Blain of Jelly Wewis, Dr. Botox Browlift, Director George Mucus, Saint George ‘Carloon and The Church if Imbeciletology and much, much more! A Kickstarter in February 2023!

Work-in-progress:

The history of the obscure comics publisher; told in comics and prose, including illustrations from their pulp beginnings, their first comics from the golden age to their last in the early 1970s, as well as material from their brief foray into TV animation in the late 1960s!

The following videos were done for last summer’s “ GreenScreen” Kickstarter and this summer’s “Daiquiri Jones “ and introduce the story of “HaveA-Banana Periodicals”