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July 26th, 2010 - Artwork Done
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.28, 2010, under What's New?

Haven’t been going anywhere in the past week, just working on artwork. Above is a photo of a flock of artwork done in about 3 hours today.
July 25th, 2010 - Stuff Found
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.28, 2010, under What's New?

I’m going through boxes and found this flyer from the 1980 Atlanta Comic-Con.
July 17th, 2010 - Hey! Hey! It’s the Monkees!!!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.17, 2010, under What's New?
I ran across ‘The Monkees Go Mod’ while perusing a bookstore and I thought I’d share a couple pages of cartoon artwork from the 1967 book. Both are drawn by Dick Hodgins, Jr. If the style has a Dennis the Menace type look, that’s because Hodgins was an assistant to Hank Ketcham drawing Ketcham’s strip ‘Half Hitch’ and helping with the Dennis strip.
Hodgins’ dad was also a cartoonist. For years he was staff cartoonist for The Orlando Sentinel in Orlando, Florida. While at the Sentinel he drew a history of Orlando comic strip and a ton of other art. Later Hodgins, Sr. joined his friend Jim Ivey at Jim’s ‘The Cartoon Museum’ to teach cartooning classes. I was one of the lucky ones to take one of those classes. I’ll have to post some Hodgins, Sr. art sometime.


July 11th, 2010 - Swampy’s Florida
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.11, 2010, under Caricatures, What's New?

Here’s some new art I’m doing for Swampy’s Florida. The new strip will be up Tuesday which begins a little trip for Swampy, Pasco Pete and Bunny. Starting a lot of trouble is Ma Watson who arrives looking to hunt Swamp Apes.
July 10th, 2010 - Angie Boynton
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.11, 2010, under What's New?

Saturday I helped out my good friend Angie Boynton with her campaign for school board in Marion County.
July 7th, 2010 - A Caricature Gift
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.07, 2010, under What's New?

This is a caricature illustration I did a few weeks ago for Donna Hartsfield, above. I met her at a restaurant near in Winter Park, Florida, and produced the entire piece there. I didn’t want to post the photo until the recipient received it. Jeff was presented with the art last weekend, so here’s the photo of Donna and the art.
July 2nd, 2010 - Artwork!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.03, 2010, under What's New?

Too much swirling around to work in the studio, so for the first time a quite a while I headed over to Chelsea Coffee and knocked a whole lot of artwork out in an hour and a half. Above is a photo of some of it.
June 25th, 2010 - A stop for dinner…
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.25, 2010, under Books, Florida Restaurants, Sandra, Sketchbook, What's New?

I made a pit stop at ABC Pizza for dinner last Wednesday night in Zypherhills. The sketch above is of part of the interior. The building was once a Biff Burger changed over twice to be an ABC Pizza. More Sunday on Swampy’s Florida!
June 5th, 2010 - Happy Birthday, Taylor!!!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.05, 2010, under Sandra, What's New?

May 15th, 2010 - Caricatures!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.17, 2010, under Caricatures, What's New?

Here are some caricatures I drew this past weekend!



Pedro, above, is a young 97 years old! It seems fishing is a key to his youth!
May 3rd, 2010 - Happy Birthday, Mary Carver!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.03, 2010, under What's New?

Today is the birthday of actress, Mary Carver, who played the mother, Cecelia Simon, to those bickering sibling detectives in the very popular 1980’s series ‘Simon and Simon’.
I drew this for the Simon and Simon fan club on Yahoo, which I’m not as much a part of than I’d like.
