My brothers love to fish.  My nephews and nieces love to fish.  Me?  Well, I like to fish, too.  But, mostly, I like cartooning fish.  I guess it’s because you can make each fish a unique character by changing it’s fins, eyes, tail, etc.  You can play with the lines and, really, that’s what cartooning is all […]

In this digital age, we can get information just by sitting at a keyboard and peering into a flat panel display or swiping our fingers across a tablet.  And, as much as I love Ereaders, sometimes it’s just wonderful picking up a real book! So, if you’re interested in learning to cartoon and draw a […]

Double Take is another feature I draw for Georgetoon.com. It’s a fun game panel where you compare the two almost identical drawings and find the differences between them. It’s one of those features whereby, once I start drawing it, I really can’t stop.  I keep adding little elements and details here and there.  And, I […]

I’m having a lot of fun playing around with the time-lapse function on my Asus Transformer Prime. I thought I’d give it a try while drawing a George cartoon. This enables me to show you a bit of the process, compressed, in how I construct a George comic strip panel. I start out with a […]

I really love my Kindle.   I can take all my books with me quite easily. It’s light, portable, and the battery lasts at least a month! When I’m not reading books, my Kindle does a good job as a calculator, stopwatch, and gaming device (through the use of installed programs). When I’m at the […]

Here’s another video (shot with the Asus Transformer Prime tablet in 1080 HD) showing just a bit more of the process involved in creating a George comic strip. Many times, while searching for an idea or gag, I’ll make notes or thumbnail sketches on the margins of the template. It’s not unusual to see a […]

Here’s another quick video showing how I use Gimp to enhance my cartoons. The Gimp is loaded with all kinds of filter effects. this particular one works well for black and white cartoon line art. And it’s a real time sver. if I dopn’;t like the line or dot pattern I’d added, I can simply […]

As many readers of this blog already know, I use Linux on all my computers.  Specifically, I run PCLinuxOS.  And because I run PCLiinuxOS, there are hundreds of programs available for photo editing, web page creation, etc. And the really great thing is, all programs are free and at the ready for download and installation […]

As you know form a previous post, I recently attended a meeting of the NCS Great Lakes Chapter. It was nice to get together with fellow cartoonists. One of the highlights at these meetings is the give-a-way of door prizes.  It’s done to raise money for the chapter to pay for future functions.  Cartoonists usually […]