Just finished inking and preparing to color tomorrow’s Swampy’s Florida Celebration Cartoon. You can see what it’s all about and the color version Sunday!

Notice the name on the boat – Ona? Anyone know where Ona, Florida, is? I was supposed to be in the area of Ona at Solomon’s Castle today for a Florida water conference about the problems of the phosphate industry. Had to stay put to get work a boatload of projects. I’ll be posting more later.

Attending the weekly dance fun for members of Champions for Champions, an organization I’m on the board of, and drawing hippos for s project!

This week from mice to puppies to hippos! Who knows what tomorrow might bring!

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Been in meetings all day with pals Tom Orr and John Horrighs talking politics, later with new friends Cody Phillips & Gina LaBruno talking south Central Florida water issues and then the monthly Silver Springs Alliance meeting talking even more water issues. All the while – I drew puppies.

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Cartoon Gratitude to Niger Innis for his work making the Hillsborough Lincon Dinner a success and the great conversation I had with him.

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Saturday was another tiring & Very hot day. Started at a Florida political rally with lots of local bar b cue & vegetables in North Florida. The event being near springs, I headed over to visit a couple parks along the Suwannee River. Got a bit over heated and headed to, the nearest city, Live Oak and noted a few of the many historic spots I’ve seen before but never photographed.

From there headed south with a stop in Gainesville at Lollicup tea & smoothies. A favorite stop to get some cartooning done.

I was getting an ad for my Swampy’s Florida Tuesday post. While pulling the advertisement from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, I came across a Captain Vincible comic strip by my friend Ralph Smith. It’s hard for folks to realize the hundreds and hundreds of strips that are produced and seen for one day and then never seen again. So, here you all can see this one again or for the first time!

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Jim & Nicole Collins, me, Don Nottingham and David Moore.

A successful night Friday night during Champions for Champions Fun, Dine, Wine and Giving Night. Much was raised through the dinner, silent auction and other fund raising activities, including some raised by my doing some drawing.

Champions for Champions mission “is to enrich family lives and values through providing and facilitating educational, sports, music, and life skill programs for people with special needs.”

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Two are for one project for the 4th Annual Critter Trail 5K Run/Walk. The other is for Thursday’s Swampy’s Florida celebration. You can see the color version there.

I penciled these first and then inked with various brush pens and a Flair marker.

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My favorites I met Saturday at the Florida SpringsFest : These two little girls who took special sessions with the National Park Service to become National Park Service Junior Rangers. They carry with them their studies over the past few months and sport special badges proclaiming their achievements involving the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, Big Talbot Island State Park & Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve! That’s how to educate our young to appreciate our incredible history, heritage and culture of the great state of #Florida!!!