Hi, it’s me the picture guy about to get all wordy on you again.

In case you’ve wondered, I’ve been out. My mind, along with all of my other earthly parts have been away, out of the office, out of order, out to lunch, out of the country peddling furiously. No, that isn’t a metaphor for the creative process; I mean I’ve been literally peddling on my bike, really fast and for great amounts of time over vast and strange landscapes looking for an adequate way to start this blog.

One of the most frustrating things about illustrating books is that I never get to spend as much time with my creations as I’d like because my books are more or less limited to 32 pages; which seems like the blink of the eye. 

Hello it’s me- I know it’s been ages since we last spoke and I wish I had a good excuse to offer up other than I’ve been hard at work painting and drawing my pictures.

One Facebook fan will win this signed original and five runners-up will receive a signed print. Here's how to enter!

I draw what I know best. How many people talk to the things around them? Okay, at the risk of sounding like I'm off my rocker, I admit that I do. And that literally includes the rocker, and the lamp and the guinea pig and, of course the dogs.

A beloved editor once told me, “Never, EVER, tell ‘em you’re sorry”. It was on a morning when a particularly mean (but I thought well-drawn) cartoon ran skewering one of our local human elected officials. I remember depicting him in my style of that period; one of a variety of blood sucking parasites I enjoyed drawing.

I’m back home now, finally, from a two-week whirlwind tour of Chicagoland. Of course, it’s always good to be back home to my pups and my pictures, but I have to admit I miss all my new friends as well.

I’m overwhelmed, I really am. You’ve all endured my blogging and have remained my fans anyway. So as promised, this creature (a self-portrait maybe?) that I’ve  conjured will soon be sprung from it’s cage and land softly in the hands of one of you wonderful fans; with nary another peep from me.

When I first asked my Facebook fans to help me find 16 new friends in less than a week I never thought it would happen over night. Thanks to my fans (that being you) my fan list grew by 30+ in less than 6 hours.

Since the launch of my Facebook page my goal was to have 300 fans by the end of January and with only a week left I have to find 16 brand new super awesome fans.