These four-panel comic strips depict my struggle to create a "masterpiece," goaded on by my relentless inner voice and featuring a quirky cast of characters including my wife and a teddy bear who sometimes acts as my therapist (though he's more concerned with collecting payment than actually offering me any real therapy).
I publish these comic strips weekly over on my email newsletter. It is free to sign up.
I regularly produce work for Mission Local, a news website in San Francisco that does excellent local journalism. I draw cartoons promoting their fundraising efforts as well as illustrations and editorial cartoons to supplement their high-quality reporting.
To a certain community of scientists and laboratory workers, I am somewhat notorious as the in-house cartoonist for Rainin Pipettes, a global purveyor of liquid handling equipment. I love making cartoons about lab equipment—blame it on my first few years at college when I majored in biology before deciding to become a cartoonist.
For three years, from 2020 to 2023, I produced a weekly comic strip for Ocean Ale House, a bar and restaurant in my neighborhood in San Francisco. The comic strip featured the owners and employees of the bar (including me when I was a server and bartender there myself) and indulged in fantastical scenarios which were always a delight to draw.
These four-panel comic strips depict my struggle to create a "masterpiece," goaded on by my relentless inner voice and featuring a quirky cast of characters including my wife and a teddy bear who sometimes acts as my therapist (though he's more concerned with collecting payment than actually offering me any real therapy).
I publish these comic strips weekly over on my email newsletter. It is free to sign up.
I regularly produce work for Mission Local, a news website in San Francisco that does excellent local journalism. I draw cartoons promoting their fundraising efforts as well as illustrations and editorial cartoons to supplement their high-quality reporting.
To a certain community of scientists and laboratory workers, I am somewhat notorious as the in-house cartoonist for Rainin Pipettes, a global purveyor of liquid handling equipment. I love making cartoons about lab equipment—blame it on my first few years at college when I majored in biology before deciding to become a cartoonist.
For three years, from 2020 to 2023, I produced a weekly comic strip for Ocean Ale House, a bar and restaurant in my neighborhood in San Francisco. The comic strip featured the owners and employees of the bar (including me when I was a server and bartender there myself) and indulged in fantastical scenarios which were always a delight to draw.
(c) Neil G. Ballard, 2024