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February 13th, 2014 – What I was drawing: A Valentine Gill-Man with a Hot Dog!

by on Feb.13, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida

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While helping sell the new Swampy’s Florida Valentine line of greeting cards, I also did a small drawing on the back. A wife was telling me about her husband and his liking of the Gil-Man, of the ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ movie. He also likes hot dogs. So, the imagery above. Below is a photo of me drawing during the event February 2nd.

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January 29th, 2014 – Springing to Illustrate Speakers about of Florida Springs

by on Jan.30, 2014, under Caricatures, Illusration, Swampy's Florida

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Last night I was part of a Florida springs symposium with a wide variety of speakers updating the audience about the current status of our natural springs and about upcoming legislation.

My role was creating a unique painting of each speaker during their presentation. A few are on the table below. I have a bit of cleanup to do with each and I’ll post them here in the next week.

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January 17th, 2014 – #DailyInks #17 – Melbourne, Florida, 1950s Construction!

by on Jan.18, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida

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Here’s a page from the upcoming ‘Swampy’s Florida: Melbourne’. Swampy and friends off to construct everything in sight as so many did around Melbourne in the 1950s. The book should be available in two months through The Knowledge Exchange.

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January 7th, 2013 – #DailyInks #7 – Turtle

by on Jan.07, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida

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As i signed a couple sets of Swampy’s Florida books for the Silver River Museum to sell, I added a critter or two along the way. You can get your copies by going by or contacting the Silver River Museum. Click here to learn more. Here’s a turtle resting along the waters of the Silver River.

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December 15th, 2013 – #DailyInks #44 : Swampy Art!

by on Dec.15, 2013, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida

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Here’s the inking for today’s Swampy cartoon. This time of year I’m extremley busy and I’m working right against deadline with just about everything. This cartoon is no exception as I literally have five projects i’m coloring using PhotoShop at the same time.

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November 10th, 2013 – #Dailyinks #9 – Swampy

by on Nov.10, 2013, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida, What's New?

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Been playing an enormous of Catch Up after a very hectic five days. Almost didn’t draw a thing. The #DailyInks got me to ink the pencils I did for this a few days ago. This will be the next Swampy’s Florida webcomic next Sunday. You’ll have to wait until then to se what the exchange is between Swampy and Pasco Pete.

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November 4th, 2013 – #Dailyinks #3 – Visit Dunnellon!

by on Nov.04, 2013, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida

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This is a page I inked today as a coloring page give away at the big Ocali Days event starting Wednesday. It was a last minute project, that took a half dozen layouts or so to work out. Inking was the easy part. This is the finished piece already at the printer.

The focus is the city of Dunnellon in western Marion County, Florida, that I’m working on a coloring book for.

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September 28th, 2013 – Silver Springs State Park Party

by on Sep.28, 2013, under Friends, Swampy's Florida

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Above Dr. Bob Knight, Lisa Saupp and Natalie Lyons save Swampy from the bite of the saber-tooth tiger!

Had a lot of fun tonight at a party celebrating Silver Springs becoming part of the Florida State Park system. The event was held at the Silver River Museum with famed photographer Clyde Butcher headlining the event. Clyde featured a slideshow and film of his recent photography work out west and in the past week around the Silver River.

Otherwise, for me, the room was filled with many, many friends. Most of my fellow members of the Marion County Historical Commission were there. As were Marion County Commissioner David Moore and his wife, designer and fellow Florida buff Rick Kilby, new vice-manager of Silver River State Park Nicky Aiken, the Ocala Star-Banner photographer who snapped pictures of me a couple days ago, a whole variety of folks from the Springs Alliance and the Springs Festival committees.

It was a great celebration with great food – Especially the grits bar! Looking forward to the “soft” opening of Silver River State Park this coming Tuesday.

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September 8th, 2013 – University of North Florida Swampy’s Florida Photo!

by on Sep.08, 2013, under Caricatures, Swampy's Florida, What's New?

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Here’s a large group of University of North Florida students with little stuffed Swampy of Swampy’s Florida. I was there to entertain with caricatures and I’ll post later about those.

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