Happy All Hallow's Eve

circa 2012

It's both Halloween and Reformation Day for some of us. Halloween's been around longer and for me the jokes are easier to think up. This toon and some others like it were drawn last year about this time. We were sitting in a coffee shop and I was wondering "would someone who isn't a friend, relative, wife, or acquaintance think my drawings are funny?" My wife talked me dissuaded me from trotting my drawings around the coffee shop and showing them to the patrons to find out. Probably wise. Instead, the idea of blogging these tunes began to form. More on that in another post.

Color My World, Homeland Security

2007

Remember those fun homeland security color coded alerts they used to blare out at the airports? Good times. Maybe not. I drew this one sitting in an airport listening to the pre-recorded announcement about the color of the day. No recollection if there were dire warnings about mixing plaids and stripes in the same outfit.

Encore! Day Two

2006-2007-My Don Martin Phase

I really love Mad Magazine and a favorite artist is Don Martin. Part of my learning and hobby has consisted of copying others' style to see if my own version might emerge. They tell me real artists way back used to apprentice under a master and served as "copyists" before they tried their own techniques and styles.

Don would have fired me. I had fun. So there.

Some days are like that

Energetic Flow on Mondays...circa 2005

I had said I might toss my old sketch books. A  couple of people including my spouse said that wasn't such a grand idea. So...if I'm not disposing, I could "recycle". Now I have a theme for the week: "Encore Presentations".

Sometimes it's the simple pleasures

Hello, friend!

Photo Op

Nap like an Egyptian*

Doxies love to burrow into blankets in any weather. Today as the clouds came and the air cooled Zoe decided to hunker in. Then, as I walked by she peeked out just in time to have a photo snapped. Doesn't the blankie look a bit like the head piece a Pharaoh would wear?

*Profuse apologies to the Bangles---(they probably aren't reading the blog today, so I'm safe)

Technically speaking,  the bosses' door IS open

Last week there was a yard sale at the church and the set required the door to my office serving as a wall against which to put 'stuff'. My little brain juked to the side and thought about "What if this arrangement were permanent? What would that say about my "approachability"? Then the pencil went to work.