I don’t have to tell you what anniversary today marks. Many people today are telling the stories of what they were doing on that day. I can clearly remember that morning. I won’t go into the story here because it’s no different from all the other stories. However, at the time I was getting ready to begin my senior year at Oregon State University. I was a cartoonist for our school’s newspaper, The Daily Barometer. It was a very interesting time being a cartoonist for a college paper. Below are a couple cartoons from that school year. The drawings are very crude, but the writing was good (I thought).

Recently my wife and I took a really fun vacation to California. We went to to my cousin’s graduation in San Luis Obispo, then made our way to Disneyland for a few days, and on up through the wine country and Redwoods. It was great. One of the highlights for both my wife and me was a quick, unexpected stop to the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa. If you ever find yourself driving through Santa Rosa and the wine country I highly recommend stopping here for a couple of hours (regrettably, we only had one hour to spend). Read More »

Yes, that’s right, a new portfolio website. I’m in the very beginning stages right now, and I plan on taking my time to make sure the concept is fully discovered and development is top notch. So, currently I’m only working with pencil on paper (and occasionally the scanner and Photoshop to resize/place images). I found some great website sketch comps at www.960.gs. Below are initial sketches in my discovery process. I haven’t nailed down a look quite yet, but the one I’m developing here looks quite promising. There’s going to be much greater emphasis on call to action, and highlighting/showcasing my capabilities. I hope to have progress updates here in the near future. This is going to be fun! UPDATE 7/25/09: This post was originally written on my old blog. As of 7/24 my new site and blog has been released.