For the last few month I have been putting together a Google Map aimed at visiting Cartoonist and cartoon fans to the Bay Area. It is far from done, but I think it is ready for prime time. I hope it is a help for my friends who will be visiting San Francisco and the […]

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I taught a Character Creation class at the Cartoon Art Museum last month where I created the character above. The Gunless Raven™ was an example I created for the class. The Gunless Raven™ is a nasty gun slinger is reborn as a living scarecrow who can keeping living as […]

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I will be at the Schulz Museum again on August 11 for the 5th anniversary Artist in Residence Sketch-a_Thon event.
Saturday, August 11 Cartoonist Open House and Sketch-a-Thon Celebrate our 5th Anniversary with a Cartoonist Open House and Sketch-a-Thon. […]

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I spent all of last week teaching the Character Creation class at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa CA. The class was held everyday from 9 to 12:30 in the education room which was stocked to the gills with drawing tools, books, and a TV playing one of my favorite musical themes from Peanuts. In […]

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I was coming on home on BART tonight when an announcement for station agents to keep an eye open for a missing iPhone came over the pa. I swear that the whole station gasp as a group. Just made me laugh. Some poor person is going to loose sleep over their new toy that cost […]

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Happy Independences Day America. While things are less then perfect in our country we can celebrate those Americans who work hard to unselfishly make the USA and the world a better place. When we help with no expectations to get anything in return, we are making the world a better place and are true SUPER […]

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This is footage I took with my digital still camera at Wondercon 2007 (in March) of the talented Linda Medley as she did a drawing demonstration with the audience.
Ms. Medley talks about how an illustration is different then fine art based on the fact that there is a story to it. While some fine art […]

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