THE FROGTOWN CHRONICLES - 1993

Back in 1993, I created THE FROGTOWN CHRONICLES, a comic strip depicting the life of a frog community. The gags always related to everyday events or some current topics. The strip was published rather obscurely in La Jornada (The Working Day), a local newspaper, on its Sunday Comics section.  The strip was not very successful and I stopped doing it after about a year. Here are some brief samples.

MOBSTER NICK in MEXICO!

THE LAST OF MY PINK PANTHER COMIC BOOK COVERS (Unpublished).

This was the last PINK PANTHER comic book cover I ever did for Editorial VID, which never saw the light of day.  Late in 1992, I was informed that the comic book branch was closing up shop and all artists and writers were being let go. However, VID  kept publishing and reprinting the same stories for several years more, without paying any royalties.

This is the original pen and ink artwork. I always signed my drawings even when I knew they would be white-washed out by the editors.

The cover was a reworking of my original NOVARO cover for DOMINGOS ALEGRES No. 2-1202, published in September 30, 1977. I substituted the Inspector for the generic little guy.