Line Drawings

I used to create elaborate marginalia when supposedly taking notes in class, and this habit persisted whenever I put pen to paper. Eventually I realized that I could draw imaginatively in a way that the drawings could stand alone. A lot of these were basically cartoons but influenced by Patchen, Klee, Egyptian iconography, jazz, etc. My personal rule was that they should be improvisations, not planned ahead. The first line suggests the next. Words might insert themselves but always as if growing from the ink. Seeing them as books first came to me in 1964 when I composed a nonsense book for my youngest cousins. When I first got a press it was expressly in order to print from plates made of my graphic poems.The book Air Apparent was the result. These are mostly from 20-30 years ago.