Elroy

 

colored pencil from sketchbook

We lost our faithful, loyal and best buddy, Elroy on Monday. 

I was looking for this sketch done last December when I was working on ideas for future Christmas cards. This one was done of Elroy wearing a plush reindeer hoodie. He looks a little crazy here, but sometimes that tooth came out. So, instead of an elf lip-locked to a giant candy cane, this is what you can expect for this year's card. 

He was a good boy. 

Bill Mauldin

 

I wasn't too sure that I would be able to write up this post for today due to unavoidable circumstance here on the home front, but as I started to make it yesterday, I found it to be helpful with dealing with what we were dealing with. I suppose, more on that later.

Anyways, today's Substack is about the cartoonist Bill Maudlin and how he influenced my own cartoons. You can check it out HERE.