Sweeping Statement

Good ol’ Lifeway Press did a kid’s mag for a while called More, now, alas, no more. This pic was one of four or five that illustrated a story about a helpful young girl named Lucy.

Solar System Panic

This I drew for an article by Henry Cloud (author of Boundaries among many other books) that appeared in ParentLife, published by Lifeway Press. Mom’s trying to get a moment for herself, but, well, we all know how those things go.

Kid Finds a Revolver!!!!!

I did a series of drawings on safety issues for a great kids’ magazine called MORE that was published by Lifeway Press. This alarming picture suggests why gunlocks and gunsafes are better than, say, shoeboxes in the closet. It’s from April of 2005. A good month and good year.

Quaker Humor

The Wittenburg Door, a Christian humor magazine — No, really! And funny too. Gives new meaning to “the offense of the Cross.” — Anyways… they ran an article about the lameness of Quaker jokes as if there were such a thing as Quaker jokes. As in a similar piece in the National Lampoon decades previous about “Canadian jokes,” the subject was supposed to be too bland to inspire cruel ethnic humor. The Quaker in the jokes is always peaceable, sensible and composed and spoils the joke. Above is the drawing the editors had me draw for them. From 2002, or 2003, or 2004. Maybe 2001 or 2000. I don’t remember.

Ball Drop

Here’s a drawing I did for American Fitness Magazine. It was for an article about… er… about some horrible new weaponry I guess. I don’t recall exactly.

Huckleberry Finn Illo for Door

This illo was for a Christian humor magaine — or is it a humorous Christian magaine? — called The Wittenburg Door.  The story was about a studen suffering from over-scrupulousness.

Overloaded Workboat

Why, looky here: Another fine illustration from my carton of fine illustrations!

This is one of many drawings I’ve done for Workboat Magazine. The subject of the article this nice drawing went with was the burden placed on small business operators (in this case commercial boat owners and operators) by government regulation in the form of mandatory TWIC (ID card) scanners.

Y2K Kid — Nine Years Later

Here’ another drawing I did for Milwaukee Sentinal’s parent mag. It was for an article about how to deal with your kids’ fears about the non-existent Y2K threat.

The original was black, white — plus all the gray shades in between tossed in ABSOLUTELY FREE! I’ve gussied it up here with pretty pretty colors to delight your eye and gladden your heart.

I have been using this picture — or a portion thereof — as the header on my other, good-time fun weblog, Nice Work, for many a moon now.

I keep say to myself, gee whillikers, old boy, you oughta update that hoary ol’ thing, but, by golly, I still like sorta it. Maybe I’ll leave it that way forever… or at least until an electromagnetic pulse from a terrorist atomic bomb wipes out the internet.

We Delve into the Picture Trunk to Find More Beautiful Drawings For You

Just this moment we were delving into the picture trunk to find some more beautiful drawings for you. Our efforts did not go unrewarded. Not at all. We found this charming drawing that we gave to the Milwaukee Sentinal (more specifically, for the parent magazine they owned) for… a small consideration.

Unless I am very much mistaken, this artwork was undertaken in conjunction with a special Halloween investigation. The cover required illustration. I stepped up.
The rest is history…

The Picture Trunk Yields More Treasure

How about another drawing of mine?

I had one here a second ago…

Wait. Okay, here it is:

How about that? It was a cover illustration. Ha!