Rotty at work!

Here's a new one for the magazine about taking your dogs to work and the pros and cons
of integrating your dog in the work environment.

Bad dreams for McCain

Made up a cartoon before the US election was decided and for some crazy reason thought "I'll paint it!" instead of inking it.
So here is a bit of a poor photo, as it is too large to scan, of a McCain nightmare....back in a south sea sailor's booze can with all the dregs of humanity and his partner/Siren/mermaid/harpie.

December dog illustrations

Here are a couple for the magazine including a quasi-realistic 50's style drawing of a family on Christmas day. An interesting exercise for me to try and draw folks without exaggerating them.

Surfing Life Magazine

Here is an illo on Steph Gilmour, Australian surf queen and huge inspiration for all the girls out there to kick some butt on the waves.

WOOF

Some recent doggie things here for the Dogs in Canada magazine including doggies as the X files gang and a baked out beagle.

Eminescu

Here is a new watercolour sketch from this afternoon for the chaps at the cartoonist rights network.
This fellow was renowned poet Eminsecu who had all the ladies hearts a flutter in his day.
Unfortunately this shows him in decline as he was one of the best looking gents around about a decade earlier. Mental illness and probably some antics with the bottle took away his hunkiness.

HARPER DOES TAHITI

For some reason I felt that Stephen Harper and company ( Duceppe, Dion) would look completely out of place in Paul Gaugin's Tahitian paradise thus I produced this.

Attempting his vibe in watercolours as opposed to oil and trying to knock it off in a day was challenging and the effect is not quite what I hoped it would be, but I guess the main thing was trying to get a good expression for Harper which I think is OK.

I can't imagine anyone more uptight looking and certainly someone who really needs to spend some time lying naked outdoors in order to absorb some Kyoto protocol insight.

NEW DOG ART

A couple of new kooky dog cartoons for y'all.

NEW LITERARY REVIEW STUFF

Here are some recent pieces for the Literary Review of Canada. They represent articles on the following: Canadian aboriginal actors....who better to choose than Pat John who played Jesse on the Beachcombers for a million years; An article on the origins of ball sports which included the kooky ball/deathsport that the Mayans used to play by hitting a ball with their hips or shoulders through a hoop with the winner/loser getting sacrificed! the last piece was on landmark woman political leaders, Thatcher, Gandhi and Meir.

Crikey, it's Taj Burrow!

Here is a new illustration for Surfing Life magazine of world famous surfing demi-god Taj Burrow from Australia.
He has done everything in the sport except win the world championship and has come in 2nd a gazillion times.
This year he vows to swear off the women, booze, gambling etc. in order to concentrate on the magic prize which has proven illusive for too long.