This is the second installment of “50 Ways to Die in the Grand Canyon” (2001). It’s about me getting past my challenging fear of travel.      It’s a work in progress, and I’m pleased to say that the last two days were another good success story in  overcoming my travel fears. Some of you […]

      Creating humor from my anxieties is an enormous driving force in my cartoons. My anxieties can take on a life of their own and follow me like my own shadow. I’m often overwhelmed to the point of despair, having such a companion as this, but here’s the up-side: Without my anxieties, most of my cartoons would […]

From this afternoon by my pond…

     From the ongoing “Terrific Adventures” series:        Our cat, Chautau, finds her way into many of my real and fictitious scenarios with B.  Here, the three of us are roasting marshmellows over a campfire, moments before a grizzlie bear attack. Thankfully, our cat saves us from certain death. Later, Chautau claws me when I claim to […]

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     This was drawn during my first Autumn in Seattle, 1991, while in a sentimental mood. This scene at Mac Sweeney’s (a bar that no longer exists), is drawn from my college days in the late 80’s, a memory that gave me comfort during the transition between a lively social life in Athens to the relative […]

     While living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with my sister for a summer, I was working on a childrens’ book about a lion named Ryan. I was experimenting with watercolors and with characters. I drew all the animals I sensed might be among Ryan’s cohorts: giraffes, monkeys, zebras, and, of course, warthogs.