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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 02/10/2026

It’s Find A Thirty-Year-Old Eltingville T-Shirt in Your Closet Day

Me, in my bathroom mirror, wearing an Eltingville T-shirt from 1996

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 30/09/2026

Still playing with this. I got a little too precious in panel 5 but whaddayagonnado

A page of comics. In the first panel, we see a sprawling, crumbling cemetery with an old Victorian house in the back. Then the title: We All Die Sometime, the lettering decorated with skeletons. Another shot of the cemetery, but now we can see an awkward, thin figure silhouetted against the sky. Is it a zombie? The next panel shows us a closeup of the figure's face, and yes, it is! A smash cut to an old CRT television displaying an image of Tor Johnson. Then a shot of a portly, balding man watching the tv while eating dinner. The zombie is in the door behind him!

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 28/09/2026

I spent the last day or so by Trillium Lake and that was pretty nice

A view looking north from the South tip of Trillium Lake. Mt Hood is visible over the trees on the other side.

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 25/09/2026

I'm not sure how I'm going to render this in line but I'm pretty happy with the pencils

a closeup of a roughly-penciled comics panel, showing a caricature of Tor Johnson displayed on an old television

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 24/09/2026

I've decided to finish these pages and see if there's anything there

some more detailed pencils drawn over the ones I just posted

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 24/09/2026

I found these two penciled pages in a notebook. I have no memory of drawing these or when I might have done so

A page of penciled comics titled Explorers Into Mystery. Two men and a woman sit on the other side of a desk from the reader. In the second panel, we turn around to see a third man sitting behind the desk with a window at his back. In the third panel, we get a close-up of the center man in the first panel.

A page of penciled comics. The first panel is an establishing shot showing a run-down cemetery and a nearby crumbling Victorian house. The second panel is the word "Title" surrounded by skulls and bones. The third panel shows a silhouetted figure in the graveyard. The fourth panel shows a closeup of a zombie face. The fifth panel shows an old CRT television set. The sixth panel shows a man eating in front of the tv as a zombie appears in his doorway.

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 23/09/2026

My initial inspiration for this cover was to make something sort of similar to one of EC's horror books so I kind of strayed far afield here, but I'm happy with how it came out.

The cover of Tales from the Crypt #39, featuring a crazed killer chasing three boys through a cemetery. The top third of the cover is devoted to the title, and there are three circular frames showing the faces of the three horror-hosts.

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 23/09/2026

I have been working on the same thing for like a week and a half but I think I'm happy with it now. I also made a censored because some people might prefer that

A cover image for my comic The Shit Kids. It's designed to look like a corkboard, with a torn piece of writing paper tacked to the top with the title written on it. Taped to that is a strip of paper with "by Les McClaine and Dan DuBeau" typed on it in a grungy typewriter font. Below that is a painting intended to look like a flash photo of Dwight and Dirk, two teenage duck boys, at a house party. Dwight sits on a milk crate and Dirk is leaping off the kitchen counter, clowning for the camera. Taped to the side of that is a four-picture black and white photo booth strip, featuring several images of Dwight, Dirk, a cat girl named Krista and a raccoon girl named Rachel.

the same image as the first, but the title has been changed to "the $#!% Kids"

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 23/09/2026

I rethought my trade dress and I'm pretty happy with how this looks

The same cover as the previous post but I've made it look like a collection of pictures and papers stuck to a corkboard.

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 22/09/2026

Probably the best graphic design I’ve ever done

An old screenprinted image of Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theo Huxtable with the text "Deez Nuts" in Cooper Black

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 21/09/2026

I had a camping trip planned for Sunday and Monday nights :(

a ten-day weather forecast for Government Camp, Oregon. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday next week are predicted to be cool and rainy.

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 18/09/2026

I'm not 100% on those photo booth pics but I think I'm almost there.

The cover from yesterday, but the photo booth photos down the side are rendered in halftone

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 17/09/2026

I did some photoshoppery to try to make this look a little more like an old photograph

A detail of the cover from my post last night. I've blurred the painting slightly and added a film grain.

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 17/09/2026

Still making progress. I think my painting got better over the course of this one. I'll have to make time to keep learning in the future.

A cover image for my comic the Shit Kids. There is a large image, digitally painted, of Dwight and Dirk, two teenage duck boys, in a kitchen. It is intended to look like a candid flash photo taken during a house party in the nineties. Next to that is a strip of photo booth photos depicting Dwight, Dirk, Krista (a cat) and Rachel (a raccoon) in various combinations. It's still in the pencil phase.

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 12/09/2026

I never feel like my last four watched reveals anything interesting or new about me

My last four watched on Letterboxd: Ziam, Late Night with the Devil, Dawn of the Dead (1978), and Eradication

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 12/09/2026

not finished but progress is being made

a partially-completed digital painting for the cover of my comic The Shit Kids

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 11/09/2026

I've never been much of a painter but I'm pretty happy with that bill

Dwight, from my comic the Shit Kids, rendered in a painterly style

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 10/09/2026

I found my glasses from seventh grade and the prescription isn't all that different from my current one, actually

Me wearing a pair of glasses I got in 1989

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 09/09/2026

Did Thrash do really well and I didn't hear about it? Because the Asylum just made a knockoff

The poster for "Shark Thrash", by the Asylum

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 09/09/2026

I redrew it and did clean pencils. I'm planning to do a lot with tone and color so the lines are much plainer than I'm used to doing.

finished pencils for a cover image for my comic The Shit Kids.

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 08/09/2026

I got the proportions all screwed up on the big image. I've got to redraw it so they're squinchier

cover pencils for my comic The Shit Kids. I've drawn the two duck boys with much too realistic proportions in one part of the image.

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 06/09/2026

I'm in favor of subduing belligerent malefactors, but is that a bite mark on his forearm? Just above the tape on his wrist? How did that happen?

That guy who got taped to a plane seat due to his racist aggression

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 04/09/2026

Gracious. This is the first time I've ever taken a dialect quiz and not ended up with the northwest suburbs of Boston. I guess I've been in the PNW for long enough to shift my speech!

my results from mydialect.us showing that my dialect is closest to someone from San Francisco

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 01/09/2026

Very few penguins in this dive bar, unfortunately

The Zoo Tavern on Eastlake Avenue in Seattle

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 29/08/2026

All sorted and put away into now several boxes

Three big cardboard boxes and three smaller, nicer cardboard boxes now full of organized cables

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 25/08/2026

My sister sent me this photo of me by our neighbors' pool in I would guess 1987-1989. I look extremely cool

A photograph of a young me wearing a blue tank top tucked into blue striped shorts and big sunglasses and giving the camera a double thumbs up. I look extremely cool.

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 23/08/2026

I love used books. Hi, Bridget McCami!

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 23/08/2026

they finally read my letters of complaint

today's La Times crossword, with the clue "'One Piece' medium" and the answer "anime"

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 23/08/2026

"Chicken Pickle" sounds like something I'd call my cat

from an article about food recalls:

The affected products were sold under the Gangothri Foods label and included:

8-oz. glass jars containing “Gangothri Goat Pickle”
8-oz. glass jars containing “Gangothri Gongura Goat Pickle”
8-oz. glass jars containing “Gangothri Chicken Pickle”
8-oz. glass jars containing “Gangothri Gongura Chicken Pickle”

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 23/08/2026

Sid Haig was in Diamonds are Forever? Sig Haig was in Kill Bill?! Sig Haig was in Point Blank?!?

from my Plex server: "More with Sid Haig:
The Aftermath (1982)
Dark Moon Rising (2009)
Galaxy of Terror (1981)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
Point Blank (1967)

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 22/08/2026

$Omni-Man says "Look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power"$

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 20/08/2026

so did the AD just say "make me the poster to Die Hard" or what

a poster for the new movie Mutiny, looking eerily similar to a poster for Die Hard

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 18/08/2026

I bought these at the same time when I got my first CD player in 1994

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 14/08/2026

Dang. We had a fairly deep scratch in this table top and some Minwax scratch repair crayons really cleaned it up. You can still see it a little but I'm pretty impressed!

The edge of a nice walnut side table in my living room with a repaired scratch right in the middle of the picture

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 09/08/2026

I used this method on these fonts:

six handlettering fonts in a few variations

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 04/08/2026

I've been having trouble getting anything done so I went back and edited the layout of one spread and re-inked and toned another spread

a two-page spread from my comic "The Shit Kids"

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