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Will even niche sub genres like paleo cartooning face extinction in the AI onslaught? Not if we don’t give up✊ I’m giving a presentation on paleo cartooning tonight for the Eastern Missouri Society for Paleontology.

A mutant ichthyosaur with spines on its back, extra eyes, extra fins, and the words “generative AI” written on it is emerging from the ocean waves and chomping down on the neck of a plesiosaur with “traditional paleo cartooning“ written on it.

I made these during my last year at Hampshire College for my Division III project: Teletravel, a Metaphysical Fable.” There is no other school out there with the same kind of radical approach to education that Hampshire has.

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We went to Woodstock IL this past weekend for Groundhog Day and I got Stephen Tobolowsky (who played Ned Ryerson in the film) to sign our poster from Deadly Prey Gallery! Art by C.A. Wisely.

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Trilobite cheer and happy New Year! Ink, watercolor, and digital. My favorite project I worked on in 2025 was the Urban Fossil Hunter’s Guide to the Mississippian, a sub period of the Carboniferous. I will post that later.

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More older work: The Illusionist’s Decapod Digital image that I drew in procreate using subtractive mark making, printed out on watercolor paper and add the color by hand.

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Hellbender salamander. Ink and watercolor on paper. I made this back in 2012 and it got me an exhibit mural gig with the St. Louis Zoo that I stuck with for 13 years.

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