Again an over productive time at TeaStori! Pages and pages penciled for the comic/coloring book to be given away free at the Florida SpringsFest Weekend March 2&3, 2019. I’ll be at the Festival “signing” with cartoon critters both Saturday and Sunday. Also got artwork penciled for a personal project of critter cartoons.

More to post later!

One-Way Trip by Scott McEwen

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Above average military thriller full of detail of tactical and strategic efforts to save a soldier. The characters are mostly well written. Considering there are two authors, you’d think one might have noticed how similar a great number of the characters are. Especially the military ones. True, my encounters with military folks has me finding many being very similar. In books characters need to be more clearly drawn to follow the story.

The plot is average for this kind of book. It is well executed, especially the last half of the book. The writing is standard with the above mentioned poor character development.

Overall this is a very exciting book.

Bottom line: i recommend this book. 7 out of ten points.



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A TON of work and meetings this coming week! Hope to end the week at the Battle of Olustee, a re-enactment of Florida’s most significant Civil War battle.
Just about wrapped up with the digital coloring. This is a piece for a project involving how much children are being watched while at school.

Been digitally working in the past week. Wow! It is boring as ever. Been playing films while working. Decided to draw a bit during ‘Jamaica Inn’ from the big movie year of 1939. The film is adapted from the book by, one of my favorite authors, Daphne du Maurier.

Scribbled using a handy purple ballpoint pen.

Hope to do some live drawing again. This coming Tuesday.

A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


A very good debut of a series with a good mystery. There is a ton of extraneous stuff to provide plenty of background. As well as this is written it’s worth reading.

The story starts off as easy enough but gets more and more tangled as one reads. The characters are very good, especially considering the great number of them.

Bottom line: i recommend this book. 7 out of ten points.



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Last event before December!

This one a baby shower. I usually refuse these, but went with this one in Mount Dora a couple months ago so I could see friends.

The work load has gotten the better of me and I’m heading straight home.

Turned out to be a pretty good group. I’ll add cations to each photograph.

I’m sorry to learn of Roy Clark’s death.

It was seeing as a young person an episode of Carson, or some such, that Clark performed playing banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, etc. in various styles. His amazing ability struck me that one can do many things, not just one. Which likely helps explain my involvement in cartooning, history, politics, etc.

Often i wonder why I’m off in so many directions. Memories of Roy Clark’s brilliance of handling his crafts keep me reaching to his heights.

(Art work by Jack Davis from a TV Guide cover he did back in 1973)

Wandering back into Florida and did a Swampy stop at the Florida Welcome Center along 95. Of course, I found myself helping folks finding places and how to get around Florida.

🙂

Was I surprised to see one of the brochures I did for VISIT FLORIDA still on the shelf! I’m real proud to have been a part of various Visit Florida projects.

There was also another brochure there with artwork I did years ago for Glades County Economic Development Commission.

#Inktober #3

Swampy becomes part of the swan colony along Lake Morton in Lakeland!

Terisa Glover suggested Lake Morton, a home to dozens and dozens of swans and other birds and critters that live along the shores of the lake in Lakeland, Florida.