Thursday, January 24, 2013
New Cartoon Ebook Featuring Color Cartoons and Black & White gag panels
My newest cartoon ebook recently launched and is available. Funny Cartoons For The Entire Family can be found at various online book retailers such as Apple's iBookstore, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Baker & Taylor and others. A majority of the book presents 2 cartoons on a page...one color and one black & white. A few pages have a single full page color cartoon and there are a total of 194 cartoons. Many of the panels offer humor that depicts talking animals, fish and insects, including bigfoot cartoons. The content is family-friendly and will appeal to a G rated audience.
The book was published through BookBaby, an Oregon based publisher. If you have an iPad, Kindle, Nook or other e-reader tablet device, the book is available for downloading.
The book was published through BookBaby, an Oregon based publisher. If you have an iPad, Kindle, Nook or other e-reader tablet device, the book is available for downloading.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
NEW HEALTH HUMOR BOOK AVAILABLE
Introducing my newest business partnership with Irwin Krigman whom I've illustrated a new book for, entitled Mental Health: You're Only Crazy If It Aint Workin' For Ya. The book encapsulates a humorous perspective on health and healthcare over the ages. This new health book can be purchased directly online
and shipped right to you. Many of my cartoons enhance various chapters throughout the book (about 50 total) and my cartoons were customized from rough sketch to all of the final art you'll see that accompanies those specific chapters.
If you have a good sense of humor and want an in-depth, funny perspective on how American's viewpoints on health, medicine and the system in general has evolved, this is a great book for anyone!
and shipped right to you. Many of my cartoons enhance various chapters throughout the book (about 50 total) and my cartoons were customized from rough sketch to all of the final art you'll see that accompanies those specific chapters.
If you have a good sense of humor and want an in-depth, funny perspective on how American's viewpoints on health, medicine and the system in general has evolved, this is a great book for anyone!
Labels: "cartoon health book", "funny health books", "healthcare comics", book, books, cartoon, cartoons
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Check out this profile I found on the Sharpie Gallery.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
TERRORIST IN HELL T-SHIRT from Zazzle.com
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Current Book Illustration Project
I was contacted by a pediatrician to illustrate a book cover for a project he's working on. After working out the formalities, he liked my samples I sent for the cover and a final peice was then selected for the cover design which I'm posting here. This book will be distributed in packages of baby formula, sold at outlets to be announced later and on certain websites plus through the pediatrician's website once he gets all of those details worked out with the publishers and distributors. I thought it may be of interest to other artists on how the final cover art was chosen. I was given a basic description of the book, along with the title and what will be throughout the book and I made some initial suggestions on my own and illustrated concepts based on what the pediatrician supplied me with. It went expeditiously well as I supplied him with a few quick images I enhanced with a bit of color to help make his decision easier, not to mention he's easy to work with. Were now working on illustrations for the inside of the book. There's going to be 20 total which I'll try and post samples here, as the project evolves, and I really liked his suggestion of us doing them in increments of 5 at a time. This spacing will allow a sort of breathing room and I think it will help the flow of concepts and shorten the time in getting from rough sketch to final accepted art for each image. I've always felt bogged down by creating dozens of images in a compressed period of time for a single project, and this "incremental approach" might be something other artists, illustrators and cartoonists may want to keep in mind when negotiating with your own project editors. 
The pediatrician writing this book emphasized "frantic parents" when creating the characters which was more than enough to go on . . . .
Finally after looking over the above rough sketches, we agreed on the final art and layout below. I asked the writer (Cliff) if using my own cartoonish block lettering would be better, or a chosen font I showed him in a mock up I made using Photoshop. He liked my samples of block lettering I showed and we went with that.
If I can, I'll post any samples for the inside of the book as we move through the project. Update: Was just informed the baby formula company that will distribute the book is Infamil, so I think the publication will get wide distribution. Whether the book is intended for corporate promotional packaging or will be in packaging to the public sector, I'm not sure. If you are an art director, creative director or graphic designer who seeks customized cartoons and humorous comic illustrations, I can assist if you'll contact me at my email address on this cartoon book illustration samples page. Cartoon below is part of a series of new cartoons just created for a book on divorce which is still in preliminary stages and being put together by a writer out in southern California.Will try and update here with complete title of the book as we move forward with this particular book. 
The pediatrician writing this book emphasized "frantic parents" when creating the characters which was more than enough to go on . . . . 
Finally after looking over the above rough sketches, we agreed on the final art and layout below. I asked the writer (Cliff) if using my own cartoonish block lettering would be better, or a chosen font I showed him in a mock up I made using Photoshop. He liked my samples of block lettering I showed and we went with that. 
If I can, I'll post any samples for the inside of the book as we move through the project. Update: Was just informed the baby formula company that will distribute the book is Infamil, so I think the publication will get wide distribution. Whether the book is intended for corporate promotional packaging or will be in packaging to the public sector, I'm not sure. If you are an art director, creative director or graphic designer who seeks customized cartoons and humorous comic illustrations, I can assist if you'll contact me at my email address on this cartoon book illustration samples page. Cartoon below is part of a series of new cartoons just created for a book on divorce which is still in preliminary stages and being put together by a writer out in southern California.Will try and update here with complete title of the book as we move forward with this particular book. 
Labels: babies, baby, cartoon, cartoon humor writers, cartoonists, cartoons, changing, custom, diaper, diapers, humorous, illustration, illustrations, illustrator, illustrators
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Cartoonist Robert Crumb Artwork Auctioned For Just Under $17K
Cartoonist Robert Crumb, who is the undisputed godfather of underground comics, recently saw some of his original art recently auctioned off for just under seventeen thousand dollars. I think this is unbelievable for many reasons. First, the dude is still alive and well and living in the south of France. the second reason is he doesn't honestly think his work is worth that much....in essence, he never grasped the commercial aspect of his cartooning style. He never embraced the commercialism of cartooning that most cartoonists aspire to and I think he should be lauded for this. Some call this peculiar, weird or any other type of strangeness associated to his talent. I really don't think so, I think he does what he wants and does it the way he wants to. Really, isn't that what anyone really wants out of life? Read about it here: Cartoon art by Crumb Sells At Auction
Labels: cartoonist interview, cartoons, crumb, godfather, r. crumb, underground comics
MARRIAGE WEBSITE running my daily web cartoon
WEDDING GIFTS and information on preparing for a wedding are at this site. I am giving it a heads up, since it has my daily cartoon on it!
Labels: cartoon, cartoons, comic strips, comics, daily, marriage, prepare for weddings, wedding gifts
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