Thursday, December 12, 2013

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The Greasy Cowboy

This was another one of Linda Mussehl stories for American Cowboy called "The Greasy Cowboy"

This one was from the October 1997 issue.



Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Cowboy Sports & Entertainment - Illustrations for Baxter Black

Cowboy Sports and Entertainment was a magazine that was around for awhile in the early 2000's ... always liked illustrating Baxter's work in here and in Western Horseman Magazine.


The Cartoon Cowboy and American Cowboy Magazine

In 1996 I picked up a copy of John Erickson's book, Ace Reid - Cowpoke and discovered the name of Jody Logsdon who owned a publication syndicate, Laid-Back West, out of the Metropolis that is Perryton, Texas.

Long story short Jody got me a deal with the editor of American Cowboy, Jesse Mullins (A heck of a good fellow) and I illustrated a number of magazines for them over the years.

This story was written by a great writer, Linda Mussehl and I was lucky enough to illustrate many more of Linda's stories.

I still run across Jody and Jesse every now and the, but not real sure what happened to Linda.

This was an illustration that I did for the April 1997 issue and was one of my favorites to do.




Cactus Margaritas for Everyone!

Was looking around on the internet and ran across some labels that I did back around 1999-2000 for a gal that was making Cactus Margarita Mix ...
Stumbled across her Facebook page ...
She also did a Daiquari and Sour Mix ...





Saturday, December 7, 2013

I Hope I Don't Blackout ... cuz this is Fun!


Jake Hull was the winner of our cartoon give-a-way
in September ...

Here is his cartoon!


Fancy Saddles and Fancy Suits ...

You can dress a pig in a fancy suit, put him in a Cadillac and give him a bottle of champagne ...
... but he's still a pig, riding in a Cadillac, wearing a fancy suit, drinking champagne.
  
- JP Rankin


... moving along

... moving along now with a little Freddy Fender.

Can't go wrong with Freddy, I met him and Augie Meyers in the SA airport a few years back on my way to a gig for Marriott in Orlando, Florida.

He split an apple with me and talked about his old 1950 something Chevrolet flatbed pick-up that he had at his place in South Texas.

Helluva nice person!


magic "Lone Star" ink

... Picked up an 18-pack of magic Lone Star ink from the
old Super-S store, turned some Gene Watson on pandora ...
... time to start spinning some "toons" ...


Friday, November 8, 2013

I SPENT A YEAR IN MASON ... LAST WEEK!




... ain't nothing like getting away
and spending time out where there's
no cell phone service, open sky, open pasture
and plenty of beer!

... the End of the Rainbow


... for those of you that don't understand Texas
... and it's lore,
it's not every beer you find at the
End of the Rainbow


Paper Plates

Sometimes when you don't have a bar napkin ...
You just grab whatever you can find ...


Tito's Vodka

Occasionally the Texas Nine Banded Armadillo
is known to deviate from his more
regular diet of Lone Star Beer ...


Trophy Buck ...


Here's one I did for a friend of mine
the other night ...