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Cheap Pencils

When I went to art school it was drilled into me that my art materials had to be of the highest quality. Anything else was crude and beneath the status of a high caliber artiste.

While I agree that your drawing paper, mats and backing board must be acid free, I don’t agree about things like [...]

Buddy

This is Buddy

The other day I went to a gathering at the home of one of my friends. She has a beautiful house that she and her husband built in the mountains of Morrison County.

Whenever we go we are greeted by her two dogs. There is a cat that is at best indifferent to [...]

Marker joy

Who would have thought I would be as happy at 55 with a new set of markers as I was when I was 10?

I am even happier now because my little brother isn’t here to destroy them. Actually, the chances of that happening are way down since he is almost 50.

They came from my [...]

A fellow cartoonist

Ed Stein

The other day at my writers’ meeting we had an editorial cartoonist as a speaker. I enjoyed him very much. His name is Ed Stein. He ticked off the republicans but I thought he was fantastic. Some of us were laughing hysterically. A few were frowning.

I could really relate to him as he [...]