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Jesse Hawley
12 August 2014
cartoons & comics, personal

Maxwell's Silver Hammer comic in R. Crumb style from 2009

Jesse Hawley
12 August 2014
cartoons & comics, personal
Maxwell's Silver Hammer comic in R. Crumb style from 2009

Maxwell's Silver Hammer illustrated in R. Crumb style (from 2009).

Tagged: cartoon, personal, Robert Crumb, Maxwell's silver hammer, the beatles, comic, illustrated lyrics, r. crumb

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Jesse Hawley
6 August 2014
cartoons & comics, personal

'Shortcuts' a mess of a comic from 2009

Jesse Hawley
6 August 2014
cartoons & comics, personal
'Shortcuts' a mess of a comic from 2009

A messy, hard-to-read comic about time being money or some such (from 2009).

Tagged: comic, cartoon, In Time, time is money

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Jesse Hawley
22 July 2014
science, writing

Kindred Spirits: How a 375 million year old fish named Tiktaalik can shape our humanity

Jesse Hawley
22 July 2014
science, writing
Kindred Spirits: How a 375 million year old fish named Tiktaalik can shape our humanity

A trip through our past, proto-humans, and proto-amphibians.

Tagged: Colin Groves, evolution, Homo ergaster, Neil Shubin, pelvic girdle, Tiktaalik roseae, Your Inner Fish, other, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
13 July 2014
personal, cartoons & comics

Real Adult

Jesse Hawley
13 July 2014
personal, cartoons & comics
Real Adult

Recognise and dismiss

Tagged: cartoon, cardboard cut-out, cardboard cut out, adulthood, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
13 July 2014
cartoons & comics

Time Consuming Pun: That's All Forks

Jesse Hawley
13 July 2014
cartoons & comics
Time Consuming Pun: That's All Forks

A cartoon involving a dad joke, Looney Toons, and a fork.

Tagged: fork, looney toons, looney tines, pun, time consuming, dad joke, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
8 July 2014
cartoons & comics

Neptude

Jesse Hawley
8 July 2014
cartoons & comics
Neptude

Neptude. Cartoon.

Tagged: ArtStudio, art studio, digital art, cartoon, neptude, storm in a teacup, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
8 July 2014
personal, miscellany

Lender's Curse

Jesse Hawley
8 July 2014
personal, miscellany
Lender's Curse

The phenomenon where lent items are impossible to devour.

Tagged: lenders curse, lender's curse, lend something, doesn't watch, doesn't read, doesn't listen, borrow, borrowed, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
1 June 2014
science, writing

Let them eat placenta: Reptiles may need plentiful food to evolve placental feeding

Jesse Hawley
1 June 2014
science, writing
Let them eat placenta: Reptiles may need plentiful food to evolve placental feeding

Reptiles can evolve live-birth (without having to make eggs). But special circumstances are needed before this can happen.

Tagged: news, southern grass skink, placentotrophy, evolution, viviparity, skink, james van dyke, SOBS, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
28 May 2014
cartoons & comics

More comics

Jesse Hawley
28 May 2014
cartoons & comics
More comics

A few comics and cartoons with ink.

Tagged: cartoon, comic, to be curt, to be frank, curt and frank, gelatine, gelatin, jelly crystals, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
22 May 2014
science, miscellany

App development: Lineage

Jesse Hawley
22 May 2014
science, miscellany
App development: Lineage

My contribution to a life cycle-themed iOS & Android game.

Tagged: Lineage, evolution, evolution game, tadpole, axolotl, salamander, iOS, Android, app, life cycle, other, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
24 April 2014
miscellany

Picnic Terminology

Jesse Hawley
24 April 2014
miscellany
Picnic Terminology

Those are all umbrella/basket/blanket terms...

Tagged: umbrella term, basket term, blanket term, picnic terminology, umbrella group, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
19 April 2014
cartoons & comics

The Gift

Jesse Hawley
19 April 2014
cartoons & comics
The Gift

A tarot card reader draws a blank...

Tagged: taro, tarot, taro card reading, tarot card reading, fortune teller, drawn a blank, fortune teller comic, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
19 April 2014
personal, fine art & animation, science

Flesh fly thesis

Jesse Hawley
19 April 2014
personal, fine art & animation, science
Flesh fly thesis

My Honours thesis/paintings on its cover of flesh flies

Tagged: flesh fly, nutrition, pen drawing, research, sarcophaga, sarcophaga crassipalpis, Sarcophaga crassipalpis, stipple, stippling, watercolor, watercolour, natural history fly, natural history, art, other, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
11 April 2014
cartoons & comics, miscellany

Pokémon 'n' Plastimake

Jesse Hawley
11 April 2014
cartoons & comics, miscellany
Pokémon 'n' Plastimake

I used Plastimake, a handy malleable product developed in Aus, to sculpt Pokémon stuff.

Tagged: plastimake, Plastimake, Pokemon doorstop, Pokemon door stop, Elektabuzz model, model, pokemon sculpture, Poliwhirl, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
10 April 2014
science, commission, cartoons & comics, fine art & animation

Psychoactive Illustrations — Meds For Heads

Jesse Hawley
10 April 2014
science, commission, cartoons & comics, fine art & animation
Psychoactive Illustrations — Meds For Heads

In 2012 I helped illustrate a pop-psych book: Meds for Heads.

Tagged: big pharma, cold turkey, drugs, illustrations, meds, meds For Heads, Meds for Heads, popular psychology book, psychoactive, psychotropic, psychotropic drugs, benzos, MAOIs, art, other, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
9 April 2014
cartoons & comics, miscellany

Pen Sapiens' Greetings with Comic Pages

Jesse Hawley
9 April 2014
cartoons & comics, miscellany
Pen Sapiens' Greetings with Comic Pages

First post on PenSapiens.com.

Tagged: Pen Sapiens, Feeling Creative, I'm Feeling Creative, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
9 April 2014
science, cartoons & comics

The Meaning of 'Pen Sapiens' Plus Illustrations

Jesse Hawley
9 April 2014
science, cartoons & comics
The Meaning of 'Pen Sapiens' Plus Illustrations

An introduction my blog and the meaning of its name.

Tagged: apes, humans as apes, pen sapiens, Pen Sapiens, Pen sapiens, humans as chimps, humanzee, chuman, other, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
9 April 2014
personal

Interactivity and Feedback

Jesse Hawley
9 April 2014
personal

Let me know how my creations make you feel. Confused? Pissed off? Bored?

Tagged: feedback, art, suggestion, criticism, critical, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
9 April 2014
personal, cartoons & comics

The Endowment Effect

Jesse Hawley
9 April 2014
personal, cartoons & comics
The Endowment Effect

Some people would die for their phones I suspect.

Tagged: Endowment Effect, observation, opinion, other, smartphones, iPhone, staring at phone, phone obsessed, Myspace, iShit, 20141

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Jesse Hawley
9 April 2014
fine art & animation, science

Jumping Spider Painting

Jesse Hawley
9 April 2014
fine art & animation, science
Jumping Spider Painting

A gouache painting of a small purple jumping spider

Tagged: biological, biological illustration, jumping spider, gouache, illustration, melvyn yeo, Salticidae, art, 20141

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