Phodoodling. Cartooning is a skill I'd been dabbling in for years, starting with my high school paper,The Redwood Bark (collaborating on "The Senior Quad", a single panel 'toon with now-filmmaker Jonathan Parker ("Bartleby", "The Californians") From there I graduated to being the staff cartoonist at the College of Marin Times newspaper, then dribbling off with a few single panel jobs sold to magazines like "The Chess Times", "Dragon Magazine", and "Just For Laughs, the Comedy Newspaper".

But then I got a call from my old buddy, Bob Lacey, who asked me to collaborate with him on the weekly editorial cartoon for the Half Moon Bay Review. After almost 4 years of providing a weekly cartoon for the paper (and more for their monthly magazine supplement,) our partnership abruptly came to an end with Bob's sudden and tragic passing at the end of April, 2004.

I continue to create images for the Review in the style we created over the past couple of years, "phodoodles", if you will -- editorial images created by manipulating photographic elements. What's more, I began using the phodoodle style on my blog The Daily Grill, both as individual cartoons and to illustrate some of the humorous entries which are updated daily.

I'm happy to announce that as of September, 2006, I have begun contributing editorial cartoons to Marin County's weekly Pacific Sun! You can check out the latest, both at the Half Moon Bay Review, and on my blog The Daily Grill. Here are a few samples to wet your whistle... (The Pacific Sun doesn't yet publish much online, but you can see the latest phodoodle I've done for them by clicking here.)

Click on the images above to be taken to The Daily Grill Online Junk, my webstore. Many other phodoodles are also available on mugs, hats, t-shirts and much, much more! You can also click the banner below to check out the entire inventory!

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