I cut this out of the LA Times Magazine in 2006, as you can see. I was going to call Macy's Department Store to compliment them on their guts and creativity, but instead I'll write it here. I could not believe the ad agency was cool enough to be so uncool!!! Yay, Macy's! Canaries are such ...

"Tonight's show is a rerun, but then, so is tonight." The Illustration Friday topic: ROUTINE. Of course, I'm afraid this will be my life. Or is my life. Is there anything more comforting than your favorite show on? She's all alone, though.  I pretend there's someone with me, when I watch TV. I like the old TV. But what ...

I talked in the post below about re-using cartoons. It's like a kiss, really. You don't call a second kiss, "re-using it", do you? A good kiss is just as sweet the second time around. But a magazine editor today doesn't think that way, I guess. He bought it, I redrew it, and submitted an invoice ...

Bar cartoon copyrighted 2008. The Idea This is from my self-syndicated series, Daily Special. It ran in the LA Times for almost 5 years, and I slowly expanded it to reach a dozen other major newspapers (like the award-winning Minneapolis Taste section!) and alternates, like Nashville Scene. Daily Special is all about restaurants. Don'cha love them? I ...

Severe no for Trader Joe's Chocolate Chunk Cookies. The cookies are dry and the chocolate is not satisfying and tastes cheap. I'm Yankee thrifty, but I'm tempted to throw the rest out! Ingredients look fine (ie, no corn syrup, which I won't eat anymore), and there's a bit of honey, which will usually raise the ...

Shoe sale, 75% off! But none in your size, Nancy. Nancy is unlucky at shoes.;) I'm not a boat person, but sometimes I'm a shoe person, especially when they're on SALE! The assignment was to do an interpretation of the subject Sail, for the fascinating ongoing project, Illustration Friday. Of course, when you compare me to the ...