Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Rednecking

Sometimes you just gotta get the inner redneck out of you. Some let him loose by slipping into a drawl, others by wearing a trucker hat, and others by wearing plaid and suspenders. I get him out with a pen, and name him Delbert. I’m not sure exactly why I drew Delbert with a mobile…
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Food Therapy

I’m not the smallest guy around. I enjoy my pizza, burgers and just about anything else on which cheese may be included. It is safe to say that I could use a little direction with my culinary concoctions. One day a friend with her own edible issues called and suggested we go to a one-night…
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Drawn & Quoted: Airport Diva

” Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it’s rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you’re just renting for awhile.” – Candice Bergen (1946 – ) I was recently in an airport and noticed this girl sitting across from me. She was dressed…
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Happy Father’s Day

When it comes time for gift giving, why do fathers fall into a stereotype that they are hard to shop for? It is probably why the common Father’s Day gift is a tie because the kids don’t know what else to get the man who seems to not have a single need (not that he…
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The 2010 NCS Reuben Awards – Part 4

The annual Reuben Awards weekend this year was not content to lay back and be relaxed on the Sunday after the actual awards ceremony as it has been in years past. Usually after the big night when shiny things had been handed out, the next day has a leisurely brunch, and then a dinner at…
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The 2010 NCS Reuben Awards – Part 3

In my previous post about the 2010 Reuben Awards convention hosted by the National Cartoonists Society in Jersey City, New Jersey, I reported on the seminars that took place on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. After Joe Kubert’s great talk, cartoonist conversations continued in every nook and cranny of the hotel, while others started…
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The 2010 NCS Reuben Awards – Part 2

Welcome to my second report on the National Cartoonists Society‘s annual Reuben Awards weekend that happened just one week ago in Jersey City, New Jersey. What an amazing time spent with cartoonists of all disciplines (animation, comic strips, comic panels, editorial, illustration, etc.) – no fans, just pros with pros and their families. President Jeff…
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The 2010 NCS Reuben Awards – Part 1

When Memorial Day weekend rolls around each year, cartoonists from around the United States, and a few internationally, gather together to swap stories, slap each other on the back, and give each other awards. This annual ritual is called the Reuben Awards which has been hosted for the past 64 years by the National Cartoonists…
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