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 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 spent two days this week working on sketching in San Francisco.
Many of the museums in San Francisco are free on the first Tuesday of every month, so I chose to visit the Legion of Honor and the Asian Art Museum.
At the Legion of Honor there is a new show on French Jewelry. Not exactly […]

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I am teaching two classes at the Charles Schulz museum in Santa Rosa for their Spring Break week. It’s a great time to take the kids down to see the museum.
Crazy and Cute Critter Creations: Wednesday, April 19 (TOMORROW!!)
Learn how to create your own cartoon animals and how to make them cute, crazy, or maybe […]

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Booksteve’s Library is a site about…well everything. As the author, Steven Thompson states in the heading:
A look at books, movies, comics, music, ads and collectibles from my vast and virtual pop culture library.
I was lead there from Cartoon Brew with pictures of Hanna-Barbera Land at Kings Island. I went there on a trip with […]

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Now, I have never been to the Pez Museum in Burlingame California, But I plan to in the new year. I have known about it for sometime, but ever since I listened to their Audio Tour Podcast I am raring to go.
Thanks to the availability of portable digital music players like the iPod, […]

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The weather in San Francisco was perfect. Not warm, not cool, just right to walk around without a coat, but not too hot if you were wearing one.

The Salvation Army did their Holiday drive kick off with THUNDER, the Golden State Warriors mascot on hand.

My friend Richard treated me to lunch, mmmmmmmmmm good.

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Storybookers.com is a site that features homes from the 1920’s done in a whimsical fairytale style.
The websites author, John Robert Marlow writes:
…storybook architecture?” Can anything so varied in its manifestations really be defined at all? It seems a precise definition may not be possible, or even desirable—for, as Arrol Gellner wrote in Storybook Style: America’s […]

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