For Illustration Friday: DESSERT!!!!! And I love Fridays, too! Dessert sounds swell. I am embarrassed to confess that I've started a new blog - I bought the name a while ago, Chocolatecartoons.com - but I've only recently started to write there. I'm going to do some more colored drawings for it, as the food companies are amazingly ...

Don't lies involve prevarication, entanglements, and just plain trouble? Especially when you lie about the food! Fortunately for this excellent waiter (who reminds me somewhat of the excellent and rather erotic waiter I had recently at Mimi's - yeah, I know, Mimi's?!) - he tells the truth! From my Daily Special restaurant cartoon series - especially for ...

Halloween cartoon I did for Double X (which is the girly side of Slate.) For Double X I do some cartoons that are current events and political, but also pop culture. Even fem, on occasion! I think Octomom would fall in the category of pop, or pup culture. Boy, did she wring the public on that one. ...

For Illustration Friday, the subject was: "sugary." I've always hated to follow directions, and the sound of this word sets my teeth on end, anyway. I've never liked sugar as a topping, not even confectioners' sugar. But I do like jimmies! Out here they call them sprinkles. I prefer all chocolate. I found a whole forum ...

This is part of the original post. The cartoon and the rest of it are now on my chocolate blog. There was a sad obit in the LA Times this weekend: Robert Steinberg, who founded Scharffen Berger chocolate, passed away. Here's a review at Chocolate Obsession that compares one of their bars to wine. This reviewer at ...

"Chocolate happens, dear." you've got my full attention. The Drawing I've done cartoons on chocolate from the very beginning of my cartoon career, even before chocolate became acceptable and not shameful! So I had a nice little stash of them before I signed a contract for my book on chocolate, but once I added them up, it was ...