"I'm thinking about putting my face on our new product line, like Paul Newman does...would that turn you on?" ©D.Barstow 2009 I heart Paul Newman! Not so much for his movies, although he was great - but for entering my own life by doing movies on location, where I found him in person. I was dating the ...

For Illustration Friday. Subject: Vacant. Is he not vacant? Of course, it doesn't have to be a man in advertising. Could be a hedge fund manager, too. The Drawing. I had fun with this Wacom brush and the colors. This is from a very early drawing. He has a neck! I struggled with the eyes, and couldn't figure out ...

"I just told him to pack his bags, get out, and send me large checks." Of course, this is a New Yorker cartoon, or SHOULD be a New Yorker one. Tell it to Mankoff. This is for the Illustration Friday topic of PACKED. I guess divorce isn't very funny, is it? Probably why I don't have many ...

I have this weird thing, where, when I color a cartoon, I often decide that there aren't enough colors. Not that there aren't enough colors in my paintbox or on my palette ( or more recently, in my Painter Essentials 4 program), but not enough colors in the universe. LA is green. I can't even think of ...