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.

Happy Birthday, Stanley Mouse

 Let's wish a happy birthday to Stanley Mouse!  His iconic artwork personified the sixties!

Interview With Brad Diller Part II

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

Tuesday Toon Up: Mungo Jerry

I always mourn the passing of summer. As a young man, I'd spend my weekends camping at a lake, swimming and just soaking up sun. I always experience a sense of dread as the autumn chill hits after Labor Day. Let's say goodbye to long days and warm night's with Mungo Jerry - a theme from my youth.

Happy Birthday, Jack Kirby!

Jack Kirby may be gone, but his influence in comic books will live forever!  Let's wish Mr. Kirby a happy birthday!  For more on his career, click here.

Happy Birthday, Brant Parker!!!

Today is the birthday of Wizard of Id creator, Brant Parker.  For more on Parker's cartooning career and collaboration with Johnny Hart (BC), click here!

Spread The Word

I have two cartoons on other websites this week.  It always makes me proud when someone enjoys my work enough to share it with their fellow websters.

The first is a guest strip I wrote for the Mighty Monocle.  Mighty Monocle is a webcomic by Darren Rolfe about a flabby American who is a superhero in England.  Dareen is on vacation and asked if I'd write a filler strip for him.  At first, I was reluctant, because I am more comfortable in a single panel format, but I somehow managed to drag the joke out to three.  You can see my awful hand lettering here.

The second is a panel I created earlier this year that Tom Racine of Tall Tale Radio fame, featured on his new website, Geek Papas.  Geek Papas is a podcast focusing on geek culture, and specifically, fatherhood in geek culture.  Check out their websites and enjoy yourself!  Have a great day!

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!!!

Happy Birthday, Mr. Herriman!

Let's wish a happy birthday to the late, great George Herriman, creator of the magnificent 'Krazy Kat!'

Book Review

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