Barry Manilow Cartoon in Tshirt Contest

Cartoonists and cartoon advocates --

A plead for help. Would you do a simple "Thumbs Up" for the cartoon of Barry Manilow by Sept. 10th? One of my first cartoon characters was for a high school art project ... has appeared in high school and college comic strips and is now in a contest for two free Manilow concert tickets at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. No need to sign up or register for anything. A Thumbs Up vote is all -- it takes two seconds to do.

Thank you so much!

Here is the cartoon.

Midterms -- Cartoon from the Past

Way back in my college days, the musical "Cats" came out. The song "Memory" was sung by my favorite crooner -- whose music was still on the current airwaves at that time.

Music videos were coming about, and I figured a Music Comic Strip in parody form was in order to cut the stress. (I submitted comic strips to my college newspaper at the time.)

Sitting opposite side of the desk, I find midterm and end of term still stressful and time consuming! Thus my light posting during the back to school and build up of reports.




















... and I apologize half heartedly to any Ronald Reagan fans, but with the market fallout, etc., it just seems this panel fits today.

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Valentine Editorial by John Daiker

This appeared in the Argus Leader on Weds. Earlier I had sent an e-mail out to all local cartoonists inviting them to an informal Create-A-Valentine contest. Bonus points if they included something about Barry Manilow.

John certainly won. :-)

Cartoonist Toolbox - Tunes for Toonists

Nothing like coloring in your 'toons while listening to online music and creating your own station on Pandora. (Here's my created Barry Manilow station.)