Here’s the color version of the art.  Next is to add the gag part and text and send in. Next it will be seen in print.

Here’s the inked artwork of the pencil drawing below. Now to color add the wording and send it off.

I’m keeping the actual gag out so that those who get the magazine see it first. Of course, you might just guess what it is…. Except I am leaving an important detail out that I’ll add when I color the art.

Here is the pencil drawing before I ink. You might notice I started to ink with the caption box and the eyes. It’s been a while since I posted art in the process and thought I’d do it with this gag cartoon I’m working on right now.

I played with some gray markers and thought I’d post my doodling.

Above is a pile of work I knocked out at the local coffee shop in about 2 hours.

I intend to post parts of projects I’m working on here and then forget. Here’s part of an illustration I’m working on.

Parts of a larger illustration for a brochure project I’m penciled and inked today. Eventually it will be colored. It was drawn with ink on paper.

We had a book signing of ‘The Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 2010′ at Barnes and Noble in Orlando at the Colonial Plaza. Myself and Dana Summers, editorial cartoonist for the Orlando Sentinel, first had a cartoon talk about the business. Below are photos from the event. Many thanks to old friend Richard Scott for taking many of these photos.

Here I am talking about something of other.

Here’s Dana!

Here’s me and my old friend who I went through grade school with, Richard Scott.

The towering Mitchell brothers, fellow cartoonist Dave and Gary, over the diminutive me.

My old buddy and gag writer, Ken Culotta joined us and signed books, too. Here he speaks to Dana and Dana’s friend Michael Bell.

Dana signs the book by drawing a tall Obama.

Fellow cartoonist/ comic book artist, Orlando Pagan, stopped by.

Dana passes along advice to a fellow. Robert Baurle came by. Robert, Ken and I often get together and discuss politics and joke around. Robert is brilliant about the geo-political world and is planning to start blogging about it. I look forward to his writings and his thoughts!

Here’s a group shot of us who care about politics!: Dana Summers, Ken Culotta, myself and Robert Baurle.

Here’s a sample of one of the pieces I’ve been working on this past week.

A gag cartoon for the word ‘Expired’ for Illustration Friday.

Below is film of me coming up with the gag and drawing the cartoon. It follows after 28 minutes of me drawing my Glenn Beck editorial cartoon. You can see me and UStream viewers kick around ideas and then me realizing gag, penciling and inking cartoon.

Here’s a tiger adrift!

It’s Illustration Friday’s word of the week: Adrift. During my UStream broadcast I called out for another word. Thanks to Jared Sloger and Chris Bjors who piped up ‘Tiger’ and ‘Ribbon’. So I added both. You see the tiger and if you don’t recognize the ribbon, it is not just something you tie in your hair, it is also a type of flag.