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Here’s page 2 of Flapdoodle. The pacing is a little weird. I take a whole page to pretty much deliver one joke. There are only four more pages to come, and they may be a little cramped, what with me using page two for one gag and a little backstory. But you’ll see. Stick around.
The local cartoonist group is the MidSouth Cartoonist Association, begun in 1989 or so. It’s been through a lot of forms over the years- headed up by newspaper cartoonists alternating with comicbook folk, and with seemingly random influxes of just about every kind of cartoonist there is. Good People All.
Anyhow, they being who they are, decided that a comic book is a much better business card than… a business card. So from one of the group’s business cards, here’s the first page of my contribution. It’s six pages, so the next six Off-Hubris days will be your 1/6th dose of Flapdoodle:
I’ve posted a couple of space-themed ‘Big World’ cartoons I did here previously. Now, here are the kickoff cartoons for that project- the idea was that some corporation, for some reason, hired some kid, who cruised along in the adult world for no better reason than it was a good way to explore the adult world. The first cartoon is just to set the stage- I imagine it’s been done by countless magazine cartoonists in the past hundred years. But the second one (and the fancy color cartoons I’ve run before) are the meat of the thing. See what you think:
Stay Tooned magazine is a good resource if you’re a cartooning enthusiast. I helped out on the first cover, and Eddie- one of my characters from The Buckets– is right there.
Check out Stay Tooned as soon as you have the chance!
Here’s some more Lord Lionel from way back. It was probably the first real attempt I made at creating a viable, syndicatable feature. If the third one down looks familiar, then you can scroll back through the old ‘other cartoons‘ section until you spot the more artsy-looking version I showed off earlier. 
Here’s poor Tom again- Carlo put the guy through his paces, to be sure- a different look and situation every day…
I used to belong to the Bluff City Canoe Club. Nice people. I was more of a kayaker, though, so I went off with kayakers. While I was a member, though, I did some cartoons for their newsletter. This is pretty standard when you’re a cartoonist. You join a group, you put your time and attention into the group, and eventually you use your one skill to add something to the group. And to show them that you’re NOT just a poor paddler, but a fine, fine cartoonist. Anyhow, here’s a twofer today! The first cartoon was a random, “Here, you can use this in the newsletter if you want. I’m thinking of drawing up a bunch of these and sending them to outdoors magazines.” The second was a sort of ‘Odd Couple with Boats’ theme that came up. I don’t know if there were ever any more than three or four of them drawn up.
There’s a park here in town that I like. It has some nice trails- a couple of nice dirt trails for bikes and horses, a BMX track, and even a long paved trail for kids bikes, skateboards, joggers, walkers… you get the idea. There are lakes and meadows, playgrounds and parking lots. Even a disc golf course. It’s very fine, and we’re very lucky to have it. During the last economic boom, one of the major ‘development’ players tried to get the local government to hand the north edge of the park over to him for development, and that was horrifying. But worse is the fact that a lot of moneyed people live to the East of the park, while most of their jobs are on the West of the park. That leads to a lot of high-powered commuters pissed off because they’re trying to get to their jobs and the park is in the damned way. There are always plans to carve up the park (which runs on both sides of the main road thereabouts) to make commutes easier. The defeat of those plans will, of course, go on until the park is ruined- all it takes is one big setback and the park will begin it’s slide into oblivion. The fight to save the park sometimes includes editorial cartoons like the one below, which I did for a group working to save the park.
One wonders why folks that work downtown wouldn’t want to live a little closer to it, but that’s a whole ‘nother can o’ worms.
Here’s another ‘Big World’ cartoon I did. I have no particular reason for pulling two space-themed Big World cartoons so far. I thought most of them were more down-to-earth. Anyhow, I think it’s funny. Hope you do, too. Scroll back in ‘Other Cartoons’ if you’d like to see the earlier ‘Big World’.
