I put up a discussion topic on the Perk at Work Facebook page. I’d love to hear thoughts on this. Have at it! http://bit.ly/b4hmzy

Here’s the story: A 29 year old homeless guy broke into a closed down bar and reopened it with a 6-pack of beer he bought across the street. He then sold the beer and reinvested the money in more beer and sold that too. Basically he ran a successful bar business (without the license, rent, taxes, etc.) for four days and made a hefty profit. Check it out:

I’m having a lot of fun with Perk at Work these days. Being in New York helped me get over some of my hang ups and opened me up to just draw freely and naturally.

Since the feel of Perk at Work is a bit looser, I decided to change up the website as well. You may notice I’ve taken off the ads. If I do have ads, I’d like for the ads to be interesting to the readers, not just a spot that’s making me a few bucks. So off they went.

In any case, I hope you like the new line art look. And enjoy the comics too!

Have a great week and let’s do what we can to make the best and happiest work possible!

Perk at Work was recently featured as an interesting website in the article “Making Life Better One Site at a Time” published in Ventanas Magazine. Ventanas a magazine focused on “The enjoyment of fine southwestern living.” It’s the biggest and best magazine in Southern New Mexico and I am honored to have Perk at Work mentioned.

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Check out the Ventanas website: http://ventanas-magazine.com/

They may or may not have this issue up to read digitally just yet.

The magazine is worth the read, lots of great stuff in there. New Mexico has an interesting culture and it’s a great place to work, live, or just visit.

Gracias Ventanas!

There’s a job for everyone out there. This guy looks like he enjoys what he does.

Find happiness in your work… and in your bee suit. Enjoy!

There’s this great place in town called Mikey’s Place – warehouse retrofitted as an art/dance studio. Tonight they had a function (for lack of a better term) for artists of all sorts.

Artist note: The other night I ventured into a local Chamber of Commerce meeting to try to rub elbows. I felt like a fish out of water. This artists thing felt more natural.

In any case, some of the artists were participating in a “Combat Drawing” session. Basically they had to draw images fighting other images according to random card selections. These artists were having fun with it. I couldn’t help but think how challenging this must be, drawing random images in front of a crowd. But it’s all part of the art. Glad I got to witness it.

The guy on the right had a zombie stabbing another person. Though the image was well drawn, spectators argued whether a zombie would wield a knife or not. Personally, I felt zombies are purists in that their weapon of choice is teeth.