Summer, 2010. My favorite season – warm sunny days and cool evenings, and as SAM says, “the weird things in my head.” Thoughts of summers past and the one ahead.
Memorial Day for the past twelve years has meant a fun weekend with my cartoon artist heroes and heroines at the NCS Reuben Awards. This year we were on the Jersey side of the Hudson with great views of lower Manhattan.
We enjoyed the parties and seminars and chance to spend some time with pals Roy Doty (in top form again,) Barbara Dale, Rich Thompson, Brian and Diana Crane, Tom and Marie Stemmle, Gerry Mooney, Tom and Anna Richmond and Yaakov Kirschen from the Jerusalem Post (below, right.) Those old enough to know about George Booth will appreciate my excitement in meeting this master of hilarious characters and settings.
Bill Plympton was also there and shared some of his animated shorts and process. (Click on the dog to view a trailer.) SAM seems to get all this, or at least goes along with my groupie-like enthusiasm. She sure looked beautiful for the evening affairs.
Got a note from Chris Sparks, Rich Thompson’s web guru in Swannanoa, that the Citizen-Times had run a piece I’d sent in. All work these days using Painter + Cintiq. It’s getting easier, but still a long way to go.