I've been drawing since I think I was probably about 7 years old. One of my earliest memories was drawing some charcoal sketches of a fountain at my grade school. They put them up in the Principals office. I don't know how many kids they did that for, but I thought is was pretty cool at the time.

Drawing became a pastime for some of my friends and I as we grew up in a sleepy little beach town in Southern California that is now long since gone. After skateboarding down Sandcastle, or cardboarding down a 45° hill in Buck Gulley on a voting booth with ski goggles on, or having one of our mom's drive us back from Blackies for an early morning surf session, one of us would say, "Hey let's go draw?" So, we'd go sit down at whoever's Mom's kitchen or dining room table and draw weird stuff for a couple hours. Then we'd show it to each other and try and freak the other guy out. It usually worked.

I was always pretty good with art and continued to draw through high school, college and even a little bit through law school. However, I never recognized my ability or talent (call it what you like), as a means to make a living. It's probably a good thing, because I'd have even more boxes of weird drawings sitting in my closet. I really do have boxes.

Quotoons® is a culmination of many years of drawing and illustration, not to mention thought. I'm always working on making them better. My goal is to make Quotoons® as timeless as possible, so someone 50 years from now can look at one and still find it amusing. Sometimes, however, that doesn't quite work depending on the quote and the subject matter... and even my mood!

I hope that you like them! Cheers!

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