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THE LAST OF MY PINK PANTHER COMIC BOOK COVERS (Unpublished).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

THE PINK PANTHER speaks Norwegian!

THE PINK PANTHER speaks Norwegian in these stories I did in Spanish years ago for Novaro.

Thanks to Jan Roar Hansen from the GCD, Grand Comics Database for sending me these scans!

Four of my PINK PANTHER covers in Sweden!

And here we have four of my covers for the PINK PANTHER comic books published in Sweden between 1983 and 1985. The Grand Comics Database has all the information but there is no way of knowing if the inside stories and artwork were mine.  Bummer!

Some of my PINK PANTHER covers published in Norway back in the 80s and 90s!

Thanks to Peter Croome from the Grand Comics Database™ (GCD) for sharing this information with me. I was not aware my work had also been published in Norway!!!

This month I celebrate my 10 years as an Editorial Cartoonist for the EXCÉLSIOR daily newspaper.

AUGUST 2006 - 2016

SOMEDAY A WOMAN WILL BE PRESIDENT!

Sometimes fact is stranger (and funnier) than fiction! This was in the news a few days ago:

Hillary Clinton became the first woman nominated for president by a major American political party, but just 21 years ago — when she served as First Lady — Wal-Mart wouldn’t even sell T-shirts promoting the idea.

In August 1995, a Wal-Mart store in Florida sold T-shirts showing Margaret, a character in the comic strip “Dennis the Menace,” proclaiming that “Someday a woman will be president.”

A customer spotted the T-shirts and complained, reported The Associated Press, and the store removed them.

We've come a long way since then, baby!