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Congratulations!

February 19, 2007December 12, 2009 andertoons3 Comments

A quick congrats here to my brother-in-law for landing a great economics teaching gig at the University of Kentucky!

Turns out that when you’re interested in microeconomic theory, industrial organization, and applied microeconomics, work your ass off, get a PhD, and generally impress the hell out of everyone in your field, people really want to hire you!

Seriously, the guy is smarter than three of me put together, and that’s even if you dress all of me in lab coats.

Again, a HUGE congratulations! No one deserves it more!

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Like Father…

October 25, 2006December 21, 2009 andertoons7 Comments

This morning my three-year-old son and I were drawing monsters for Halloween while the baby napped.

Here’s mine:

Daddymonster

And here’s his:

Henrymonster

Honestly, I think I like his better!

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Scarecrows

October 8, 2006December 21, 2009 andertoons3 Comments

Yesterday the family unit and I took a well deserved morning off and took in the Morton Arboretum.

Part of their fall festival is a collection of scarecrows built by local girl scouts on a trail around a lake.

This sort of thing is good for the soul, so I’ve created a Flickr set of my pictures. Enjoy!

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L’il Help

September 2, 2006February 6, 2012 andertoons

One of the things about being a cartoonist is that family occasionally asks for a cartoon or a graphic they can use.

My mother-in-law asked me a few days ago if I could throw together a quick little graphic to use for her department’s fiscal-year-end goodie bag. She said they were referring to it as their “survival kit,” so I cobbled this together in Photoshop this morning:

What’s fun about stuff like this, is I sort of get license to try out some stuff I don’t normally use. This was created entirely with shapes and text (and the hospital’s logo), which, for a vector ignorant fellow like myself, was a bit of a personal triumph. I learned a bit more about layer styles and text-to-path too, so I feel good.

I know the Survivor logo has been ripped off a million times, but I think it turned out well.

Boy Genius

July 4, 2006December 23, 2009 andertoons5 Comments

Yesterday I was talking with my wife about a number of cartoon ideas I was fleshing out. A number of them, for some reason, revolved around pirates.

Well, my soon-to-be-three-year-old son overheard and decided he’d do his own cartoon, just like Daddy.

Here’s his gag, word for word: “One pirate says to another pirate ‘I’m tired of eating toast,’ so the other one gives him a muffin.”

And here’s his art:

Henrypirate1

OK, it’s a little sketchy, so here’s how he explained it to me:

Henrypirate2

No bad for how young he is, and, honestly, he sort of copied the basic construction of my idea, which is: Pirate to another – “I’m tired of ‘first mate.’ How about ‘co-pirate?'”

My wife and I have discussed children following their parents into careers, and specifically cartoonists, their children, and the numerous undead ‘legacy strips.’ And while I can’t say I want the boy to follow so closely in my footsteps, I can see how flattering it could be.

Anyway, not bad eh?

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