Tom Motley
Tom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His publications include Tragic Strip (a monthly strip in the Brooklyn Rail), The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, and contributions to the indie anthology Cartozia Tales. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at Pratt.
T. Motley will continue his fake jam comic, The Road to Golgonooza, at Penumbric.com
T. Motley is alive and well and wishes you security and good health.
T. Motley is the author of The Road to Golgonooza, a fake jam comic.
T. Motley is the creator of The Road to Golgonooza, a fake jam comic.
T. Motley is the author of The Road to Golgonooza, a fake jam comic.
T. Motley is the author of The Road to Golgonooza, a fake jam comic.
Tom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His publications include Tragic Strip (a monthly strip in the Brooklyn Rail), The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, and contributions to the indie anthology Cartozia Tales. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at Pratt.
T. Motley is the author of The Road to Golgonooza, a fake jam comic.
T. Motley is the author of The Road to Golgonooza, a fake jam comic.
T. Motley is the author of The Road to Golgonooza, a fake jam comic.
Tom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His publications include Tragic Strip (a monthly strip in the Brooklyn Rail), The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, and contributions to the indie anthology Cartozia Tales. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at Pratt.
Tom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His publications include Tragic Strip (a monthly strip in the Brooklyn Rail), The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, and contributions to the indie anthology Cartozia Tales. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at Pratt.
T. Motley is serializing Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org. Text translated from the French by Harry Mathews, Trevor Winkfield, Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, Rupert Copeland Cuningham, and Fedra Rodriguez Hinojosa.
T. Motley is serializing Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org.
Text translated from the French by Harry Mathews, Trevor Winkfield, Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, Rupert Copeland Cuningham, and Fedra Rodriguez Hinojosa.
T. Motley is serializing “Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel” in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org.
Text translated from the French by Harry Mathews, Trevor Winkfield, Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, and Rupert Copeland Cuningham.
T. Motley is serializing “Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel” in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org.
Text translated from the French by Harry Mathews, Trevor Winkfield, Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, and Rupert Copeland Cuningham.
T. Motley is serializing “Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel” in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org.
Text translated from the French by Harry Mathews, Trevor Winkfield, Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, and Rupert Copeland Cuningham.
Text translated from the French by Harry Mathews, Trevor Winkfield, Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, and Rupert Copeland Cuningham.
T. Motley is serializing "Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel" in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org Text translated from the French by Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, and Rupert Copeland Cuningham.
T. Motley is serializing "Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel" in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org
Text translated from the French by Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, and Mark Polizzotti.
Text translated from the French by Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, and Mark Polizzotti.
T. Motley is serializing "Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel" in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org
Text translated from the French by Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, and Mark Polizzotti.
Text translated from the French by Mark Ford, John Harmon, John Ashbery, and Mark Polizzotti.
T. Motley is serializing "Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel" in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org Text translated from the French by Mark Ford and John Harmon.
T. Motley is serializing "Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel" in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org Text translated from the French by Mark Ford and John Harmon.
By Tom Motley
T. Motley is serializing “Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel” in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org
Special Insert: Minxes meet the Maid Dulac
T. MOTLEY is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales, cartozia.com. He blogs at cartooniologist.blogspot.com and yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com
T. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
T. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
T. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
Shit just got real.
T. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
T. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
T. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
T. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
T. MOTLEY is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
T. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
T. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
T. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages.
Imagine a country village nestled in a lush river valley, flanked by steeply sloping mountains.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages
During the summer of the mouse infestation, my roommate's cat got very good at catching mice.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages.
October 2014Fiction
Comic Strip Beginning with a Line from "A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar" by Robert Duncan
Words shed like tears from a plenitude of poems time stores.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages.
Our story: Aline the alien and her sidekick, Kik, are paying a visit to their creator.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales,, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages. Buzz Buzzizyk, a k a Maximum Traffic, has been a key figure in minicomic publishing since the 1980s. He publishes the White Buffalo Gazette out of Butler, PA.
T. Motley invites you to solve Froggy's Problem and submit your answer via tmotley.com. This is a simple logic problem with a clear answer. Let's see how clever you are.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages: cartozia.com. He blogs at cartooniologist.blogspot.com and yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages.
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages: cartozia.com. He blogs at cartooniologist.blogspot.com and yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com
T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages, which was just funded on Kickstarter, guaranteeing 10 issues.
Tom Motley's Continuing Ed cartooning courses are enrolling right now at the School of Visual Arts.
T. Motley blogs at yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com, yourdailysketch.tumblr.com, & cartooniologist.blogspot.com.
Come meet T. Motley at the Grand Comics Festival in Williamsburg June 8 & 9, Bird River Studio, 343 Grand Street (Marcy + Havemeyer) Brooklyn, NY.
T. Motley blogs at cartooniologist.blogspot.com, yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com, & yourdailysketch.tumblr.com.
T. Motley blogs at cartooniologist.blogspot.com, yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com, & yourdailysketch.tumblr.com.
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
T. Motley has these blogs: yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com, yourdailysketch.tumblr.com, cartooniologist.blogspot.com.
T. Motley has these blogs: yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com, yourdailysketch.tumblr.com, cartooniologist.blogspot.com.
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
Sit at your table with a plate of grapes. Look at them closely. How deformed they are.
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
Crowded urinal. / Too shy to pee in public, / I feign a nose blow.
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
Spare change?
Once upon a time, a lazy grasshopper watches an industrious one gathering food for the winter.
Fiction Krishna, episode 5, in which Fiction Krishna address YOU, the reader.
Fiction Krishna, episode four, in which Fiction Krishna meets his maker.
Fiction Krishna, Episode Three: In which Fiction Krisna tries in vain to explain the nature of the imagined universe to Arjoona, his favorite disciple.
As news of fiction Krishna's miracles spreads through the comics section, a gathering of disciples abandon their strips to attend his lectures.
Once upon a page...
Without ever guessing why, Victor developed a fetish for girl giraffes.
T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."
The continuation that made a Tijuana bible out of the insult man that made a man out of "Mac."
The Insult that Made a Man out of "Macbeth"
The eminent behaviorist, Dr. Lubitsch Gordbergner.
Plus Seven: The Integer That Made a Manchu Out of "McCoy"
Two Joke Comic #2
Two Joke Comic
Secrets of Unprofessional Cartooning
Did You Fart, Mommy?
Hare Krsmas.
we are waiting, waiting to go, waiting for the white man
coming soon to this space: rip-roaring, white-knuckle, post modern adventures with the META-RAIDERS: Disproportionate Man, Cubist Girl, Doc Dynamism and Composite Lass. And introducing...Frame Boy.
Try Our Big Ass Burrito
On the Passage from Insult to Injury that At Last Made a Mockery, a Stooge, of Man and Brought Out the Dregs of Society--the "Mac" Syndrome.
The Inspiration That Made a Sculpture Garden Out of "The Insult That Made a Man Out of 'Mac'."
That Mac Insulted A "Made Man." Far Out.
The Maid That, Insulted, Outed "MAC"
Tragic Strip
Tragic Strip
Tragic Strip
PREMISE for a SCIENCE FICTION EPIC
"Sing Song from the Portugese"
I'm always struck by the contrast between the idealized images and the people who're so heavily invested in them.
The insult that made a paranoid psychotic out of "Mac".
T. Motley's Tragic Strip
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