This is one of those comics that I’m talking about a specific subject of entertainment that if you’ve never heard of it or pay attention to these types of formats you probably have no interest in today’s piece. But, if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I say in this comic, I initially drew these comics just for myself. Usually a very fast drawing with sloppy lettering (if you’ve ever gone back in my archives to read the comics I drew in the first few[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hopefully this video works, I’m usually hit and miss with placing videos on these posts. With yesterday’s comic I filled my 25th Sketch Book with my comics. Here’s what it looks like, alongside the other 24 Sketch Books.
My father spent his entire career working in the US Steel mills (when he wasn’t in the Army Reserves). I’m sure I get a lot of my work ethic from him and in the back of my mind, when I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The people running Tootsie Roll are Ellen Rubin Gordon, (the daughter of William Rubin one of the Rubin brothers who took control of Tootsie Roll Industries in 1935) and her husband Melvin Gordon. Melvin was in his 80’s and Ellen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are a few of the bags I designed and illustrated while with Concord Confections.
This company has been housed in this building since the 1950’s, so the offices are old, the hallways are old and the tools and machinery that makes the bubble gum are old. In fact, it seems that many of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t know exactly what happened, that weekend in February of 2001, but my biggest problem with this company wasn’t specifically that they almost went out of business (after I moved with everything I owned from Kansas City to Philadelphia,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess I could go over all the stuff that happened to me at Hallmark, because I didn’t leave, (both good and bad), but that could lead to a lengthy post. I’ll just add this. In 1997 I got to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After I left Hasbro in 1989 I still had a lot of friends working there. But, with every acquisition of another toy company, (Kenner, Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley, Tonka, etc…) there were numbers of redundant employees, so Hasbro would just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…