Cartoons and illustrations

Appeared in the Sandusky (OH) Register. The modern secession movement -- by people, not states, and done on a billboard provided by the White House itself -- isn't exactly the modern equivalent of firing on Fort Sumter, despite the screamer headlines you've been reading.

Investigation of "cancer cluster" in and around Clyde, Ohio, focuses on playground built half a century ago over buried chemical dump. Sandusky (OH) Register.

For a cover story about high-end and online grocery shopping for Philadelphia's Region's Business.

Gracious speeches by victor and vanquished alike on Election Night called for a renewed drive to work together. That spirit actually survived for a few minutes past sunrise on the next day. For Philadelphia Region's Business.

The auto-industry bailout had as much as anything else to do with Obama's win in Ohio, particularly Northwest Ohio, which economically is more a part of Michigan's auto industry than of anything in the Buckeye State. And a bizarre, last-minute campaign ad claiming Obama "sold Chrysler to the Italians so they could produce Jeeps in China" destroyed any advantage Romney had in Ohio. For the Toledo Free Press.

A handful of state issues in the noisy Presidential election year points the way, one hopes, for getting along while sorting out the rubble.

For Region's Business in Philadelphia, a cartoon offering up a littler commiseration for your election fatigue.

Cover for Free Press Star, the entertainment edition of the Toledo Free Press. First chapter of a book by the weekly's pop-culture editor, about a private detective who investigates popular culture cases. His first client, you might recognize.

Cover for Region's Business, weekly business and politics newspaper in Philadelphia. Halloween is big business, and the grownups get in on the fun, too -- which really makes the registers ring.

Detail of cover for Region's Business of Philadelphia, PA, looking at the attention being paid to Pennsylvania as a key in the White House race between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney.

RIP Neil Armstrong. I know the moon landing was, to you, more about the ride than the walk but we didn't do a good job of following through on the shot you set up for us.

Editorial cartoon. Barack and Joe should just stick to the script; they got in trouble for ad-libbing. One of many interesting and distracting little tidbits in an election that was more about heat than light.

Editorial cartoon, Sandusky (Ohio) Register. What we have here in local government goes beyond the usual failure to communicate to outright refusal. Current result is that the search for a police chief has to start again. From the beginning. The kid is an adaptation of a statue in the local park that I use as a symbol for the city, same as Uncle Sam stands for the United States.

Editorial cartoon. The Aurora, Colorado movie theater shootings prompted the usual gun control debate.

Editorial cartoon.

Editorial cartoon for Toledo Free Press. Air freight firm, major tenant/user of local airport, pulled out. Former executives got together and opened a trucking firm to make use of suddenly-empty facility.

Editorial cartoon.

Illustration for Toledo Free Press story about politics in play as a casino opened in the Toledo area.

Editorial cartoon for 10th anniversary of 9/11. It was an "update" of one I did a month after the terrorist attacks, with the flag a bit frayed after 10 years.

Editorial cartoon for the holiday season, Toledo Free Press.

Editorial cartoon.

Editorial cartoon, Sandusky (Ohio) Register. The approach of spring, or even a milder winter than normal, brings the handful of people who insist the ice is safe for fishing. That is is not is usually explained to them in the back of a Coast Guard rescue boat. Or helicopter.

Collateral damage in the War on Women.

Illustration for editorial in Toledo (Ohio) Free Press, drawn to editor's specifications. PhotoShop Elements.

Editorial cartoon, Sandusky, Ohio, Register. Done in SketchBookPro on iPad.

Promotional art for maker of memorial markers in Toledo, Ohio, area. Done through Maxx Marketing & Design. Brushes and ink, then scanned into Photoshop and colored after consultations with final client.

Element of editorial cartoon about long-standing county financial problems (meanwhile, owners of a barge full ofcontaminated dredging materials were plying Lake Erie looking for a place to dump it), Sandusky, Ohio, Register.
Created, and elements composed, in Photoshop.