AboutMe

I was born in St.John's Newfoundland in 1940. Did twenty years in the Army and worked the oil rigs all over the world for 18 years.
Still working, doing security work on a part time basis. Can't sit still except when I am drawing.I have been freelance cartooning for more years than I can count and love it. I have been published in newspapers and magazines but also have drawer full of rejection slips, part of the business but I keep drawing all the time. All my work is done digitally using a Wacom Tablet and Photoshop.

I really like the political cartoon and have been concentrating on it for the last year..

Hope you get a kick outta the cartoons. I can do book illustrations and newsletter cartoons to suit your business.

Keep smiling.

My cartoons have been published in the St. John's Telegram. The Baseline Magazine It's a magazine covering The Corps Commissionaires activities in the Great Lakes Area. Also published in The Londoner. London Ontario's Community Weekly Newspaper.
The Interim a lifestyle magazine published in Toronto and The Independent a weekly paper published in St.John's NL I am also featured on the following websites
www.straightgoods.ca and www.brokennewz.com

Meantoons offers a variety of services for your publication and personal needs. Syndicated cartoons are available in both black and white and color.Pricing is flexible, and syndication arrangements can worked out according to your paper's particular requirements.

Since 2002 I have not drawn my cartoons with pen and watercolor on artist's paper as I used to. Instead, I draw on an electronic tablet with a special pen,
and the drawing comes up directly on the computer. Alternatively, I may rough out a small pencil sketch in my sketchbook, scan it in, and redraw and color it on the computer.

The program I use lets me to choose to “draw” with any of the conventional artists' tools, such as charcoal, chalk, 2b pencil, pen and ink, air-brush, watercolor, oils, oil pastels and many others.

There is no “original” as such, on paper. When people want to collect an original, I print a digital original, which consists of a high quality ink-jet archival print on artists' acid-free paper.
The printer's inks are as stable and permanent as artists' watercolor, and the quality and richness of the colors is amazing.
The digital original is unique and is a collectable artwork the same as an old fashioned original.
I digitally erase the signature that appeared on the cartoon in the newspaper, and sign the digital original personally, with the notation 1/1. This means it is number one of an edition of one.

The price per digital original is $150 plus packaging and freight.

To purchase an original, phone me at 709-834-4790 or on my cell 709-689-4870 or email me at meantoons@meantoons.com

My new books , MEANTOONS and MUDDLED AGE are now on sale and can be purchased here http://www.lulu.com/meantoons