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I’ve known Dan Meth for a few years and I was always fascinated with his hand made sketchbooks. Dan explains:

Years ago I left a nearly filled up sketchbook on a bench in Rhode Island and it made me so depressed. I had spent almost 5 months filling it up with drawings and then WHOOSH…. gone forever. I decided to start making smaller sketchbooks that I had only 30 days to draw in before I started a new one. That way, if I lost it… no big deal.

So I started gathering together whatever paper was around. Junk mail, printer errors, paper that wasn’t going to get recycled. Anything. Staple it all together with a cut-up cereal box for the cover.

I soon found that not only was I less concerned about losing it, but I was less concerned with how good my drawings inside it were. And that made me draw better, more free, and much funnier. Also, the fact that there was already random images and text on the paper gave me all kinds of inspiration and ideas.

I call it my monthly magazine: Jazzed About Life. It’s a magazine that make no sense and that’s just fine with me. It’s a wild experiment that is liberating from the world of internet cartoons in which I strive to make everyone laugh. With Jazzed About Life I’m strictly concerned with making myself laugh.

If you’re interested in entering a very strange world, click here to see more.