And To Close Out 2018....

Creative Characters Holiday Card 2018

My yearly contribution to the CREATIVE CHARACTERS print/web company holiday card. I did the figures, they did the rest.

Holiday Mail

Merry Fishmas!

Snow Joke

You were expecting Queens?

Fast Net

Why Dogs tend to avoid the World Wide Web...

Lunchtime

Talk about the old traditional styles of cooking...

Interrogation

Treason within the ranks.

Well, Blow Me...Up

My opinion on the new "POPEYE" cartoons on YouTube. Is King Features THAT desperate about making Popeye "relevant" they have to dumb him down to appeal to millenials? I'm Popeye the PC Man....

Visit To Santa

And so the holiday season begins...

Speed Buggy

A silly sketch done on a gloomy afternoon. One of Hanna-Barbera's numerous series based around the SCOOBY-DOO formula  of a group of teenager and their whatever sidekick going around solving mysteries. Despite only one season's worth of episodes being made, somehow, Speedy had enough staying power to be broadcast on ALL THREE MAJOR NETWORKS on concurrent seasons. (this was BEFORE cable/streaming, mind you) Speed Buggy's voice was supplied by the great MEL BLANC, who based his performance on his sputtering Maxwell car he had voiced for JACK BENNY's radio show.

Michael Pence

My take on the Vice President and Donald Trump's Altar Boy. Obviously He's praying for Trump's impeachment.  You may think I'm being mean here, but I have little trust in folks who want use the government to enforce their specific religious values onto the entire country. As our founding fathers noted, Church and State should be separate.

RIP Stan Lee

Stan Lee, Writer, Publisher, Figurehead,  and one of the biggest influences and creative forces in the evolution of today's modern comics books has left us today at the age of 95. 'Nuff said.

Reject Archie

From 2004: despite my overtly cartoony style, I decided to send some sample pages to ARCHIE comics. It probably didn't help that I decided to poke some mild fun at some of the cliches in the Archie books at the time.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! Bonus points if you can figure out who Fozzie is dressed as!

Obscure Muppets #4

Drawn for a #Muppetober challenge.

The Black Dragon Knight

Newest commission: A cover illustration I drew for a short story called THE BLACK DRAGON KNIGHT written by a young writer named Kevin Pascarella. Kevin has a website at www.kevinpascarella.com and also has his work available on Amazon. Special thanks to Jaclyn Hunt for connecting us.

Obscure Muppets #3

Character done to promote MIRINDA soft drink on UK television ads. Drawn for #Muppetober.

Obscure Muppets #2

Done for a #Muppetober challenge.

Obscure Muppets #1

Done for a #Muppetober challenge.

Cold Opening

Frankly, when in first posted this on FACEBOOK and TWITTER, I expected more in the way of a few groans.

Caroll Spinney Retires

Happy retirement to a legend.

Argyle Gargoyle

Never attempt to gargle Gershwin after you've had a very spicy pizza for lunch.

Another Fine Meep

Groucho Darth

As long as Star Wars will never go away, neither will lame Star Wars cartoons.

The Blind Date

Dark Crystal collides with Labyrinth.

Bird Meets Cat.

Thufferin' Thuccotath!

The Standoff

When an unmoveable object meets an unstoppable force.

Fozzie's New Bit

The great thing about drawing Fozzie Bear is: You don't have to be funny. Heck, you couldn't if you tried.

It's September, So You Know what THAT Means...

As they say, 'tis the season....

Happy Labor Day!

In honor of the workers....

Alfred E. He Ain't.

Went a little "mad" here.....

Ernie's Mom

We saw Bert's Mom in the Fresh Prince parody, so...But seriously..as difficult as it must be for Bert to live with Ernie, what must it have been like to RAISE him?

Foodie Truck

Gonger says it all.

The First Cartoonist and His Editor

Ink and watercolor drawing I did back in 1987.

Sesame at Fifty (Somewhat Early)

I know this is early yet..but I understand that production of a certain tv show's milestone season begins this fall and I decided to have a little fun with that...

Table Manners

I know there's no table, but still....

The Great Grape Ape For President

We could do worse. In fact.....

Little Shop of Stinkweed

Got this idea while making a birthday card for a Facebook friend using this rather obscure-these-days SESAME STREET character.

If Eric Idle Was Ever On the Muppet Show

Just following his advice.

Sprockamatic

Fraggle Rock and JETSONS mash-up. Too obvious?

Sheldon the Sea-Genie

Sheldon the sea-genie from SIGMUND AND THE SEA MONSTERS. Muppets aside, This caricature of Rip Taylor in green makeup and tights, running around in swim fins and tossing confetti out of a seashell has to be one of the strangest things I've ever drawn.

Personal Growth

Been watching  "pimple popper" types of videos on YouTube lately. It was likely to come to this.

Systema Naturae

Don't worry, he recovers.

Bear Hunt

During these times, I wonder if Bear has trouble paying the mortgage on his Big Blue House.

Jim Henstone

Obviously based on intensive historical research.