Jerry Dowling Published Book on Pete Rose

When you think about Cincinnati cartoonists, most people think of recently retired Jim Borgman.  But for those of us who have a Jerry Dowling  original hanging in our house or eat at Arthurs on occassion, Jerry also is a Cincinnati cartooning icon.

For years he worked at the Cincinnati Enquirer and has focused mainly on single panel sports cartoons.  In the past several years, his work can still be seen weekly in the local indie paper City Beat.  He has pulled together his years of doing Pete Rose cartoons – from the Big Red Machine to the Big Ugly Banishment – and put them in a book with baseball writer Hal McCoy called Drawing Pete.   You can read an article about it from co-author Hal McCoy by following this link.

I know you can get it at Amazon (click picture) or at local Cincinnati book retailers.

Taztee.com

Another site to check out while I am vacationing from cartooning is Taztee.com.

It’s a free software program that allows you to use your voice to accomplish many functions on your computer.

Got itunes running and want it to pause so you can answer the phone.  Don’t fumble for your mouse.  Just program Taztee to pause when you say “pause”.

Bunch of different techy crap you can do with Facebook, Google, Myspace etc.

The Daily Elephant Blog

Going to be away from the computer this week so no cartoons. Decided to give another shout out to a blog that I have come to enjoy. I found it as part of the blog roll at unemployeddad cartoon website.  Its called the Daily Elephant and it is written by a Chicagoan named Brit (may be short for Britney, Brittany, Britain, Encyclopedia Britannica…not sure).

Honestly, I am not sure what her blog is about…and apparently she doesn’t either (this blog really has no clear point or agenda”).  But that’s the fun in it.  From What Not to Buy for Valentines Day to talking up some “friend” of hers named Kenny, which we are all waiting for that day when she posts that she slept with Kenny in a senseless state of drunkenness.

Anyway…check it out (the four of you who come by my blog).

Happy Valentine's Day and Welcome to Jail

OK..they have nothing in common but today is VD as I like to call (please don’t spread it).

Tom Richmond has an interesting post about the two judges who were taking kickbacks for sending teens to lockup for minor offenses.  One of them was a girl who was sent up for four weeks for merely drawing caricatures of her principal.

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