NextGen On Board Diagnostics (OBD)

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NextGen OBD sketch

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NextGen Finish

I don’t really know what On Board Diagnostics are, but I had fun drawing this.

iTech magazine cover

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iTech Cover

Transport Topics Cartoon

iTech Cover

Inks and finished art for the cover of iTech magazine. I got my tear sheets the other day. It’s a full tabloid size magazine so it looks pretty amazing.

Tax Day

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Tax Day Sketch

Tax Day Inks

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Transport Topics Cartoon

Tax Day Finish

So yeah. I didn’t post anything for a long time, obviously. But here’s me trying to get back in the swing. Enjoy my cartoons for things that happened weeks ago!

Oh, but I did gget my tax return today! Guess who is 50% out of debt? Awww yeah!

Sweet Dreams

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Transport Topics Cartoon

Transport Topics Cartoon

Transport Topics Cartoon

Sketch and inks I did for my Earth Day cartoon. Finished version to come.

Super Bowl

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Transport Topics Cartoon


Originally I had the dispatcher saying a whole litany of trucking-augmented football sayings. Working with the editors we cut it down to just this one quote by Joe Namath “when you win, nothing hurts.”

I jokingly refer to this sort of piece as a “cartooning for the blind.” It’s my short hand for shoe-horning in as many visual cues as possible, even though one or two probably would have done it.

Super Bolw inks

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Transport Topics Cartoon


Did an insane amount of revisions on this one, especially to the text. Unfortunately I forgot to save them all. I wanted to post them because I thought it was an interesting progression. Oh well.

Super Bowl sketch

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Transport Topics Cartoon


Getting ready for the Super Bowl. I actually looked up who is playing. The Ravens and… uh, somebody. :)

America’s Road Team – Safety Super Heroes

Transport Topics Cartoon - America's Road Team

Transport Topics Cartoon - America's Road Team


A lot more work than usual went into this piece, but I really think it was worth it. The publisher even liked the piece, and that’s like Mikey liking LIFE cereal! (If you’re old enough to remember that)

Heroes inks

Yes I’m posting this process over 4 days instead of 3, but this piece was a bit more involved than usual.

Transport Topics Cartoon - Heroes, inks

Transport Topics Cartoon - Heroes, inks


Road Team 2013

Road Team 2013


Full inks for the piece. It was important to have the drivers be as recognizable as possible, increasing the challenge was giving them all unique uniforms, and tying those into the trucking safety theme. I’m very happy with the way the inks turned out.

Heroes, in process

Transport Topics Cartoon - Heroes, in process

Transport Topics Cartoon - Heroes, in process


For absolutely no good reason I started inking an this while I was still penciling it. “No good reason” is an apt description because it’s a pretty dumb thing to do. Luckily around this point I stopped and finished out the pencils.

Note the change from the previous sketch. I got rid of all the masks so that the drivers would be identifiable.

Also this is a TERRIBLE scan.