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 Stephanie, who I drew at a fund raiser, 10th Annual Horses for Hospice Trail Ride, for Hospice of Marion County this past Sunday. Click here to learn more about Hospice of Marion County.

Here’s Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kottkamp, me and the caricature I drew of him at a fundraiser last week. I was very pleased to learn that the Lt. Governor loves history and the caricature was all about that.

From Sunday night.

More caricatures! Here’s my good friend Claude Hunter above.

Here’s Luis and his caricature at the Triple Canopy Ranch Mud Bog!

Click here to learn more about this and upcoming mud bogs.

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Below is a black and white version and below that is color (hand-painted in watercolor):

A couple weeks after the kidney stone affair and a trip the the doctors office to have a stint removed I attended with Sandra the annual Florida Outdoor Writers Association meeting. I picked up the pen for the first time since the medical mess and tried drawing. I had a heck of a time with focus and depth perception. A doctor there said I was still suffering from a form of disorientation from the anesthesia. As I drew I was able to better focus, but the whole thing was very disturbing to me. After 30 years of drawing I hadn’t felt like that before.

Above Sandra adds to her multi-numerous awards! Here presenter Ralph Allen congratulates her.

Here’s FOWA members Sandra, Pat Pochurek, Charlene Johnson and Doug Kelly.

I saw my sister for the first time in a couple years with dinner at Black Angus Steakhouse. The restaurant is a new version of the old haunt my sister and I went to in Winter Park during oour childhood days. Above is my father, my sister, her two daughters and me.

Below is a caricature drawn later that day.

I attended the Friday luncheon of the Florida Press Association at historic The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. During the luncheon the Florida Press Association presented awards to those of the daily papers. Also given were awards from The First Amendment Foundation. The Pete Weitzel/Friends of the First Amendment Award was given to Pat Gleason, who is an assistant to Governor Charlie Crist on many things including open government. She is a great lady. She assisted Sandra and I when visiting the Governors Library & Sandra donated many of her books. Governor Crist was at the luncheon to present the award. Below is a fuzzy photo of Pat Gleason speaking, to the right of the photo.

I was honored to receive the Sunshine Award for my editorial cartoons on the subject of Sunshine Week. Below the photo are the two Sunshine Week cartoons. My time at Orlando City Hall greatly helped my constructing these two cartoons. Director  Barbara Peterson was a big help!

To the right is a colored sketch of drapery in The Breakers.

While at the Florida Press luncheon I met Mark Mathes who once editted a ton of cartoonists when he was with Tribune Media Services. Amongst those is cartoonist and editor, Dick Kulpa. Dick was one time editor of the infamous Weekly World News.  I once penciled a week of comics strips for Dick’s comic strip ‘Ghost Story Club’ many years ago.

Anyway, Mark invited Dick over and we went to dinner. Dick and I drew each other and a photo of such is below.