Latest Assignment - Anna Karenina

I was recommended by a local cartoonist and friend, you may know who he is (Ron Hill  of the Solon and Chagrin Valley Times) to a well known artist who goes by the pen name FISH, there's a documentary film out about the cartoonist Dwayne Booth’s struggle in making a profitable career in the dying industry of the editorial and political cartoons. It’s called Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep end. It’s a great flick for any artist or people looking for a keyhole into the artists psyche. It’s a relief for working artists in the same industry to share in the creative struggles and camaraderie amongst the breed of editorial cartoonist still left penning on the planet.  

The book project called Long Story Short  for Akashic Books, which was similar to the Graphic Canon book project in that classic works of literature were adapted to comics.  Except it's not a straight adaptation, but more of a metaphorical representation. Taking a long classic work and adapting the work to a one-page comic/cartoon page. The project was challenging and quite the creative boon for an editorial cartoonist if they were successful at solving the visual puzzle.  Anyway, the artist best known as Fish, or Dwayne Booth said he thought my “cartoons were smart” and that made me feel happy! So I contributed an editorial for Anna Karenina. He was very pleased with it. The book has been published and released in stores, and you can buy it on Amazon.  https://www.amazon.com/Long-Story-Short-Turning-Cartoons/dp/1617757969/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=long+story+short+famous+cartoons&qid=1613421222&s=books&sr=1-1