Have you ever visited a park that lacked any type of attraction? So no playground, trails, pond, shelter, picnic table, or anything else that make a visit worthwhile? Boring right? Unless it’s right across the street from your house with just enough room to toss a ball back and forth, you’re probably not going back […]
Finish the Cartoon – Engaging Stakeholders
When I lead workshops, one of my favorite types of activities involves using half-finished cartoons. Sometimes I print out the cartoons as handouts, or I put them up on a slide and ask the participants to pull out a pen and paper. Then I ask them to try their hand at finishing the cartoons. After […]
Not Politics
I didn’t want to send a regular email today. If you are feeling anything like I am feeling, you probably have enough on your mind. So I decided to just do something completely and totally random. I created some stream of conscience cartoons and a little cartoon story. Not my usual, but not politics either. […]
Halloween Cartoons 2020 Edition
Happy weirdo 2020 Halloween everyone! Mask Wearing Monster Which one is really the monster? Also, it’s hard to remember to cover the nose when drawing cartoon characters with masks. A boo is an output Not sure how many output/outcome cartoons a single illustrator needs to draw. But here is another seasonal version. Oh no, we […]
Evaluator Inspired Cartoons
The majority of what I would consider to be my best cartoons have always been the products of simple collaboration. Here is how it works. I talk to another evaluator and ask them if there is anything they are struggling with or if there are any complicated things they are having a hard time describing […]
The 2020 Election: A Little Context
I am a little stressed out. In the US, voting in the general election has begun. My wife and I dropped our ballots off at the post office yesterday. It’s not that I don’t think we have good shot of voting Trump out office, I think we do. But after the events of 4 years […]