As promised, the winner of my Facebook fan challenge was Duncan of Madhatters. Here is the finished piece and here is Duncan in his original glory.
Hope you enjoy it. Dunc, I’ll have a print out to you later this week. If there is enough interest, maybe I’ll repeat the contest in the next couple months.
Well the entries have been culled and a winner drawn in my first Caricature contest. The winner was
DUNCAN from MadHatters. Congratulations to Duncan. I will soon have his mug in caricature form for the world to enjoy.
In other news I have the recipient of several gifts over the last few months that I wanted to show off.
First was from Jillsy Girl (Formerly Just Jill, formerly YNB) as a prize for one of her many contests. Check out her incredible photography site. I got to choose my favorite photo and here it is on display on my computer monitor.
Second is an entire printed series of the great Callous Comics by DR (as in medical) Carlo Jose San Juan. I have it proudly displayed next to my guest cartoon that I did for him a few months ago.
Finally, one of the projects I have been working on during my hiatus was to create some posters for friends who will be front row at WWE Monday Night Raw. So maybe if they get on camera, I’ll have my work shown worldwide. (not that it isn’t already) but you know what I mean. Here is just one of the images I made of fan favorite Randy Orton who has a finishing move called the RKO. I’ll post more later in the week.
Many of my cartoonist friends brag when their cartoon character ends up with a guest appearance in another artist’s cartoon. Well I don’t have characters (besides I could never draw the same one twice if I tried).
Then I realized that I am a character. And much like David Hasselhoff, my appeal is stronger overseas than in America. It became clearer when I got an email from DuncanR of UK who posts frequently at the Madhatters that he has immortalized me in a short story. In fact many of the regular posters of Madhatters are in it. Go read it here.
Now I don’t appear until page two but this is how I am introduced:
At this point, a big fellow, by the name of Bearman – braver or more foolish than most – spoke up.
‘Call yourselves men. You’se are just a bunch of Jessies. There’s no such thing as ghosts. Once you’re dead, you’re dead. And that’s that! It’s only imagination, or drink, that makes you see ghosts’
‘If you’re so hard’, said a voice from the crowd. ‘Why don’t you go into the Wailing Wood and bring us back the cap from that cattle thief we hanged today?’
‘Bugger the cap’, said Bearman. ‘I’ll bring back the firkin head!’ So saying, he pulled on a big pair of boots, tucked a bottle (to keep out the cold) into his pocket and strode from the castle.
“Braver or more foolish” would tend to be how many would describe me. Now I admit while I knew what bugger was, I had to pull out my English to English dictionary to figure out what a Jessie is.
So go check it out now so you can say you were one of the first as soon my popularity will increase to the point that they will be making movies about me.
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