Good sledding hill.

This week's cartoon is from an idea son, Sam, had.  It's a bit of a nod to Calvin and Hobbes but admittedly without its illustrative genius.  It's part of our Like Father Like Son informal weekly comic at http://likefatherlikesoncomics.wordpress.com/

Death Takes a Holiday

This comes from a cartoon I created many years ago but never colored.  I tried to get a comic strip syndicate interested in a daily strip using this cartoon (one of many) but it didn't happen.  One syndicate was very interested but I didn't know (nor did my agent know) I'd need to submit dozens of ideas before they'd sign me up.  I had maybe a couple dozen.  I read that you need around 120 daily strips ready to submit.  Anyway, still one of my favorites.  And now in living color.

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"A Bridge to Fur" puppet show

My puppet show, "A Bridge to Fur", was born in a writing workshop with Muppet head writer, Jerry Juhl.  I wrote the show to combine two of my loves: history and being completely silly.  The silliness is built on a foundation of real historic research of the 1700's French voyageurs who traveled the upper Midwest.  There are three main characters- Jacques, Gaspar and the Beaver.  Gaspar is a rod puppet.  The other two are hand puppets in the Henson Muppet style.  I made all of the puppets, props and stage.  Anything that looks professionally sewn was done by my wife, Nancy.  I've performed this show all over the world... if your world is limited to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri.  I do the show solo and the audio live so I can interact with the audience.  Below are some photos of some of the show's characters and a performance at the 2010 Children's Festival in West Liberty Iowa.

Hoppy beer

This one popped (hopped) into my head after a discussion of local breweries with a few friends.  I like the contrast of color and characters in this one.  It might have also worked with just the rabbit saying the punchline to another rabbit, but I enjoyed have the setting of this innocent little bunny saying it in this unquestionably seedy bar.