Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.
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Drawn & Quoted: Abundance
“America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad – based on huge portions and fast food. Let’s stop with the excuses and start creating something better.” – David Chang (1977 – ) I’m not sure this is what Chef Chang meant, but the drawing still seemed to…
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Happy 40th Blair!
Okay, I rarely get personal with my posts online, but today I shall make an exception. Today is the 40th birthday of my brother Blair! Now, normally I wouldn’t go all public with the age of someone because many people are sensitive to such things, myself included. However, Blair has his birthday, including the year,…
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Hobby Lobby Steps Up!
Yesterday I wrote about an issue close to my heart, artists’ rights. Copyright for creative content is a vitally important thing for an artist. It is the only legal thing in place that is supposed to protect our creativity from being taken away by others which subverts the artist’s ability to make a living. If…
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Do You Instagram?
Earlier this year a friend talked me into joining Instagram. I was apprehensive at first because it was going to be yet another thing to update constantly, but when I took a look and saw all the amazing creativity there, it felt like I should have joined that party long ago. So, I got on…
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Drawn & Quoted: The Thinker
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” – Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) A new sketch made its way into my sketchbook the other day. Inspired by Auguste Rodin’s Thinker sculpture, here is a robot contemplating the meaning of life while sitting on top of a pile of discarded…
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Birdman
The next time someone says to you, “It’s like a walk in the park,” think of this man and how difficult that walk in the park could actually be: What happens if someone else’s dog starts to chase his large pet? Can he keep the bird from attacking little children? And lastly, but perhaps most…
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The Fellas
A couple of weeks ago I shared with you the fact that Paul Coker Jr. drew me into his story in the August 2016 issue of MAD Magazine. He later gifted me with the original art which I received two weeks ago. Since he poked fun of my Disney past (CLICK here to see Paul’s…
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Mell’s Piano
My recently departed friend Mell Lazarus (cartoonist of the comic strip Momma) has a white baby grand piano in his living room that he invited visiting cartoonists to draw on. It has sketches on it from the likes of Charles Schulz, Gary Trudeau, Will Eisner, Eric Goldberg, Gary Baseman, Bil Keane, Patrick McDonnell, Mort Drucker,…
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