ART CREATED IN A COMIC STYLE, SOMETIMES WITH CAPTIONS, AND SOMETIMES FUNNY.
Blackbeard
Digital
Back in 2017, my family had their first ever official family reunion held in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Ol’ Blackbeard, the fierce famous pirate from history, met his end in the Outer Banks, so it seemed appropriate to create a T-shirt showing how he spent his final days on those wonderful beaches. For some reason, the history books never mention this part.
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Fundamentals of Math
Digital
I was asked by educational publisher BJU Press to create 42 cartoon illustrations for their 7th grade Fundamentals of Math textbook, and they wanted them to be set at a theme park! Pretty sure I did a double-take upon hearing that, because my student math books were always so stuffy and clinical. In fact, I was usually chastised for drawing cartoons during math class. I suppose math class ultimately DID prepare me for life after all, just not in the way my teachers expected.
Here are a few of the pieces I wrote and drew for the book that was published in 2022, and is AVAILABLE NOW!
Captain Traffic
Digital
Captain Traffic is a character I created with the guys at ComedyTrafficSchool.com. The good Capt. appears throughout the site as folks who got a ticket in sunny California go through traffic school online. He’s there to ease your pain as you pay penance for not paying attention to the road. And as much as you are tempted, don’t do traffic school while driving.
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Sewer Monsters
Ink & digital
No matter who you are, it’s always healthy to maintain sanitary practices.
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Generations of Grace
Ink & digital
Generations of Grace is a three-year Sunday school curriculum for elementary-aged children that is used all over the world. I created over 500 ink drawings for the program that serve as coloring sheets and craft projects as kids learn about the Bible. Even though the art appeals to children, I spent a lot of time researching architecture and attire and striving to make the characters look like they are from the Middle East.
Years later, the publishers wanted all the coloring sheets produced in color. I established a posterized coloring style by doing about 20 or so images (with help from illustrator Andy Heckathorne), and the rest were colored by other artists since I was busy with a television job at the time. Here are a few from the life of Moses that I colored, including my favorite drawing in the whole series, the plague of frogs.
CLICK HERE to learn more about the curriculum!
The Sea Monster
Ink & digital
C’mon! How can this website have a whole comics section and not have at least one gas joke?! A perfect one for the summer. This answers the question that everybody asks when they smell something “fishy” at the beach.
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Wreck-It-Ralph
Digital
This was an unusual project for me. Years ago when I worked on licensed character books as a freelancer, I would get my rough pencils back with tracing paper overlays on which some mystery artist had redrawn my characters to be more “on model.” Often, this was needed because the publishers didn’t send very good reference material to work from, but artists at the studios had access to all the good stuff. Years later, I was asked by Disney Publishing to be that mystery artist for someone who was working on a Wreck-It Ralph book to coincide with the release of the movie. So, I did these drawings of the characters to help guide that illustrator back to how the characters looked in the movie.
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The Nightmare
Ink & digital
Everyone knows that you are safe from monsters as long as you stay on your bed. All bets are off if you have to make a midnight wee-wee. This is why kids wet their beds – to stay safe.
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King of the Jungle
Digital
This was the art created for the official T-shirt of a volleyball tournament held on a California beach. The art could only be printed in one color, so they only used the line art, but later I went back and colored it up to what I would have liked it to be had they been able to screen print in full color. Feel the burn!
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