Illustration Guy Blog

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.
  • June & Squirrel

    This past Saturday night, March 1, was the opening of  Moosylvania: A Group Art Show Tribute to Jay Ward (curated by Phillip Graffham) at Van Eaton Galleries in Sherman Oaks, California. Hundreds of people came to see the art by many local Los Angeles creators. My Jay Ward Studio tribute piece focused on Rocky & Bullwinkle,…

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  • And Now Here’s Something You’ll REALLY Like!

    A few months back, I was invited to create a fresh and tasty piece of art for an art show to be held at Van Eaton Galleries. The show opens this coming Saturday in Sherman Oaks, California. Naturally, I put it off until the last minute and finished my painting just this past weekend. The…

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  • Stan Sakai Benefit Auction

    Together with a terrific committee of fellow cartoonists and writers at CAPS (the Comic Art Professional Society) in Burbank, CA, I have been busy helping put together a benefit auction and book (to be published in July by Dark Horse Comics) all to help our cartoonist brother Stan Sakai (creator of Usagi Yojimbo) with medical…

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  • Happy Presidents’ Day – 2014

    Hope you are having a fun time celebrating Presidents’ Day. Have you gotten those presidential decorations up? Have you chopped down a cherry tree to put in your living room? Are you having a Weapons of Mass Destruction hunt in the backyard with the kids? What a FUN holiday! Bet you didn’t expect a greeting…

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  • 2013 Eastern European Vacation 4 – Croatian Band

    It has been awhile since I last shared with you a drawing from my travels through Eastern Europe last November. How about a little music from the locals? While traveling aboard the river boat, once in awhile after dinner they would bring folks on board from wherever we were docked to entertain or enlighten us…

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  • Sick Sketches

    Yeah, I can draw really sick stuff sometimes. Take last week for instance – I was sick as a dog for much of the week with a temperature. I was sneezing, wheezing, hacking, yacking, shivering, sweating and sleeping for days on end. In a rare moment of lucidity, I picked up my sketchbook to draw…

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  • Happy New Year 2014!

    Welcome to 2014! Out with the old, in with the new! I had a pretty good 2013, though from all the comments I’ve seen on Facebook over the last few days of the year, many others do not share in my sentiments. With all that is going on in the world and personally good or…

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  • Merry Christmas 2013

    Christmas creeped up on me this year. I would love to share with you a brand new Christmas card, check but alas, life and work prevented me from being able to sit down and create a painting this year. These past few months have provided some freelance work, a vacation to Eastern Europe, long hours…

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