Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.
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Drawn & Quoted: The Great Communicator
“I admire machinery as much as any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But, it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.” – Charles Dickens (1812…
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Tuesdays with “TIM” – As Seen on TV!
A couple of weeks ago I shared with you a version of the news below. Now that the video file can be embedded within the blog instead of being posted just as a link, I thought I’d share it once again… A few months ago I was regularly sharing updates with you about the short…
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Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
?…my oh my what a wonderful day! It’s beginning to look a little like one of them zip-ah-dee-doo-dah days! Perhaps I should explain… Over the past seven weeks, I have mentioned and illustrated several times here on the blog that on May 10, Hotmail had turned it’s back on me. I was locked out of the…
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…From the Flat File: 2006 – Dick Van Dyke
Two weeks ago at The Writer’s Guild in Beverly Hills, CA, entertainment legends Carl Reiner and Dick Van Dyke had a conversation on stage on the occasion of the release of Mr. Van Dyke’s new autobiography. Hosted by Writers Bloc Presents, these two legends swapped tales and memories before a rapt audience of which I…
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Zhu Zhu Pets Movie Trailer
Last May I was contacted by a studio in Woodland Hills, California called Moonscoop to come work for them as a character designer on a series of DVD movies based on Zhu Zhu Pets toys. Zhu Zhu Pets? I had been oblivious to their existence, despite the fact that the Christmas before they had been…
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Hotmail? Or NOTmail?
Back in the 1990s when the internet was young and naive, something called “e-mail” began to creep into our collective consciousness. I am usually not one to jump on a technological bandwagon immediately, choosing rather to observe its acceptance by others to gauge the likelihood of its staying power. For example, only recently have I…
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Needs More Cowbell!
Everyone loves a good ol’ fashioned singing cowboy. That is, unless he don’t sing too good… I was just doodling in my sketchbook the other day, and started doing the face of what became the cowboy. Often when I grab that sketchbook, I don’t quite know what will pop out. So, once the hat was…
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SQUIRREL!!!
Recently at the office I’ve been working on some drawings of cute characters. I couldn’t quite shake the cute out of my arm when I got home, so I drew this pencil drawing of a young squirrel in my sketchbook. I’m thinking of doing another one in watercolor at some point when I have the…
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