May 3, 2022Member-only‘Axis’ for May 2, 2022Hey everyone, this is me, Thomas’ pencil. Yeah, the dutifully-sharpened one that he always uses to jot down story notes and actually draw the strip here at the cartooning desk. Thomas isn’t really in the mood to say anything of substance or any measurable amount of self-indulgent bullshit tonight so…Axis3 min readAxis3 min read
Apr 24, 2022Member-only‘Axis’ for April 24, 2022This humble cartoonist is a sucker for delicious, deep-fried cholesterol so this is my own personal ode and tribute to that succulent and rather working-class mainstay of my very young boyhood — that being a steaming, straight-out-of-the-fryer batch of English fish & chips — served up with lots and lots…Axis2 min readAxis2 min read
Apr 4, 2022Member-only‘Axis’ for April 4, 2022 (Reprint)Take that, #LinkedIn . Way too much of this drivel has always been more or less staged and centered around many of my own past experiences in the superfluous, buzzy world of graphic design (I was a senior graphic designer for over 20-plus years). Let’s just say that I know…Axis1 min readAxis1 min read
Mar 31, 2022Member-only‘Axis’ for March 31, 2022The life-long role of the “indie” cartoonist can never be overstated. We live to serve only ourselves. One of the impending signs of the apocalypse is the day that I actually get published. Watch out for it.Axis1 min readAxis1 min read
Mar 20, 2022Member-only‘Axis’ for March 20, 2022Existentialism 101 meets brute capitalism. Axis has a way of adding a few more dollar-driven tangles to the ever-growing ball of…Axis1 min readAxis1 min read
Mar 13, 2022Member-only‘Axis’ for March 13, 2022Happy #InternationalMensDay , everyone! #MenMatter #MGTOW #GenX #midlife #NotDoneYetAxis1 min readAxis1 min read
Feb 5, 2022Member-only‘Axis’ Cavalcade for February 5, 2022 (Reprints)I’ve been rejected from the Rejections window. If The Syndicates were a super hero, their superpower is simply an unvarnished ability to tell someone “No.” They’re damn good at it.Axis3 min readAxis3 min read
Jan 28, 2022Member-only‘Axis’ for January 28, 2022 (Reprint)Ohmygod! This world is going to hell! Axis and me mutually agree on that ugly point. Go outside and stand on a street corner and ask any…Axis1 min readAxis1 min read
Jan 23, 2022Member-only‘Axis’ for January 23, 2022Because I am a cartoonist, I do my damn best to try hiding behind the thinly-veiled veneer of just being an incognito personality around here. But this is Medium so I am more or less always beholden to at least write something that can be understood as a meaningful word…Axis3 min readAxis3 min read
Jan 13, 2022Member-only‘Axis’ for January 12, 2022Axis does his best at passing along a bit of Stoic wisdom to Molly in the form of some classic “cup-marking” (the way we used to do it all…Axis1 min readAxis1 min read