Having A Funday

Here's a promotional video I made a while back.  I didn't realize, I'd not posted it here.  I hope you funsters enjoy this.  Thanks for reading my cartoons.

Finally!

It's been a long time since I posted anything to this blog.  By design, I lead a reasonably dull existence and reading about my failed diets or the latest amusements from my cat bores even me.

But today, I have something significant to talk about.  My cartoon officially started running in my hometown paper this morning and I couldn't be more elated!  You can read the story here.

This has been an interesting journey, from quitting cartoons entirely in 2000 - to 2009 when the bug bit me AGAIN!  In the last four years, I've created 583 new gags, reused some oldies I thought were still relevant and published two books.  What a long strange trip it's been.

My work is being syndicated by Bill Kellogg at Ink Bottle Syndicate.  If you're interested in publishing or reprinting my cartoons, his email address is bill@inkbottlesyndicate.com.  Thank you all for your continued support over the last four years!  It's your loyalty and support that has kept me going.  That and 5000 gallons of coffee.  

The best is yet to come!!!

I want my Me TV!

Here's an interview I did with Shanda Golden last Month!

My new book is available here.

An interview I did in Dallas with The Fellowship of the Geeks

My Big Mouth

Check out my interview with Tom Racine at Tall Tale Radio!  He makes me sound smart!

Let's celebrate by listening to Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

Interview part 7

This is the seventh and final segment of the interview I did covering my artistic career, my influences, and many great, interesting, and sometimes hilarious moments along the way. In this segment, I talk about my views on web versus print, what I think makes a successful web cartoonist, and my advice to new cartoonists.

Interview part 6

This is part six of the continuing interview I did covering my artistic career, my influences, and many great, interesting, and sometimes hilarious moments along the way. In this segment, I talk about the characters themselves, Bud, Pearl, Junior, Peaches, and Ninja the Cat.

Interview part 5

This is part five of the continuing interview I did covering my artistic career, my influences, and many great, interesting, and sometimes hilarious moments along the way.  In this segment, I show you the step by step process that goes into creating each Funday Morning comic strip.

See you next week for part six!

Interview part 4

This is part four of the continuing interview I did covering my artistic career, my influences, and many great, interesting, and sometimes hilarious moments along the way.

See you next week for part five!

Interview part 3

Here's part three of the continuing interview I did covering my artistic career, my influences, and many great, interesting, and sometimes hilarious moments along the way.

Part four will be posted next week, part five the week after that, and so on all the way to the end!

Book Signing at Taylor Books!

Yours truly setting up.

Lon Kelly, myself and Greg Florence.

Bill and Helen Craver.  Bill and I have known each other since we were eight years old.

Joe Bolyard is a Charleston artist I became acquainted with on Facebook.  It was nice to meet him in person.

Steve Hill and I.  We've been friends for about thirty years.  Steve is an extraordinary musician and plays bass on the Mountain Stage NPR radio show.  He was the person who told me I should be reading the Far Side.

Beth Chesney Frampton and I.  Beth's dad baptized me when I was a baby.  More than a few folks think it didn't quite take.

My stepmother, Ruth.

A blurry shot of Nathan Diller singing in the cafe.

 My brother rocking the house.

That's Rudy Panucci on the far left.  Rudy has been documenting the local music and art scene in Charleston for around ten years.  I think someone should write a story about him.  Not sure who the woman is, but she's having fun!

My brother Brian, my sisters Kathy and Charlotte and myself.

Waiting to film an interview for the television show, West Virginia Authors.

Show host, Gordon Simmons and I talking about cartoons.  I was much more nervous than I appear.

Interview With Brad Diller Part II

Here's part 2 of my video interview.  It's almost like it's interesting.

Tuesday Toon-Up: No Preview

A bit of an update for the two people who read my blog.

I've not been too active on twitter lately as there's much going on at the office.  For the people who follow me, please forgive me.  When I've nothing to contribute to a conversation, I tend to clam up.  Most of my close associates wish I would contribute less to my day-to-day discussions, but the rain forest needs carbon dioxide.

I'll be traveling next week, so I'll be pulling from my archive and posting older cartoons with some accompanying dialog.  Hopefully, you'll find some of this amusing.

As a few of you may be aware, I was at Strip Con in Dallas a few weeks back.  I needed to sell 67 books to pay for the trip.  I sold two.  Such is life.  So, let's close with the Rolling Stones performing, 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' on the David Frost show.  For some reason, previews aren't appearing in my blog for the last couple of weeks, so the link will take you to the page.  Enjoy!!!

Book Review

Rudy Panucci, a journalist and blogger from my hometown of Charleston, WV has reviewed my book! Please take a gander, folks!

Tuesday Toon-Up: Sleepless

In the 90s, I was reviewing music for my local newspaper when a King Crimson CD arrived in the mail.  I hadn't paid much attention to the band in years.  I was more intrigued by guitarist Robert Fripp's collaborations with artists like Brian Eno and Bowie.  King Crimson's work seemed to have wandered away from song writing and more into improvisational meandering.  

The album was called 'Thrak' and Adrian Belew's contributions piqued my interest again.  This song was on a double live album (BaBoom) that came out shortly afterward.  LOve Tony Levin and love Bill Bruford.  

It's four o'clock in the morning, so this tune seems appropriate.  Enjoy!

Tuesday Toon-Up: Paperback Writer

Well, well, well, I FINALLY finished my book.  Assembling a collection of cartoons was an arduous enough affair, that I must tip my hat to anyone who ever wrote anything longer than a grocery list.  Let's celebrate with the Beatles!  Enjoy!