On a Final Note...!

My Co-workers

THIS was done to my bus yesterday before routes, some of the people I work with decided to "trick my bus out" as my friend John said to me "You didn't want a party, but they are not going to let you get away quietly." We'll, I AM fortunate to have friends.... I just wish they didn't like me SO MUCH!!! ;)

This mornings "run."

I received all this this morning on my am elementary route, with my last day being tomorrow I was overwhelmed. Did I mention I drive the BEST kids EVER?!?!

...Where All Pets Go.

Well it's official, the cat is out of the bag. I have told everyone that I know that I will be not driving school bus after this Friday. The Metro Transit Commision has offered me a job driving and I have excepted. It has taken several months of going back and forth but I finally got my acceptance letter. I chose not to tell anyone that I got it until I could tell my school bus kids first. The news spread like WILD FIRE. We had some tears but mainly they understood after I talked to them, they are very excited as am I.

This will change how I do comics, I am not really sure how but I will be working that out over the next month or two, THAT'S why I have no December cartoons. I will still be posting sketches and what not but, until I can get into a rhythm, everything has to be put on hold.

Flash Back to Last Year

With the long Holiday over I am glad to be back to some kind of "normal" schedule. Don't get me wrong, I love vacations but they just put off my sleeping and waking times.

Over the last few days I have been thinking alot about the up comming December schedual and I have decided that I am going to take a break from STV for at least the month of December. I have a book deal in the works and am working on some other projects as well, such as an animation project and I can use more of that time in different ways. We will see how the month turns out.

I am still going to be releasing a new book for the year soon as well as the final comic for the year. With a lot of things changing over the next month, I can use every last minute I can get. More on that later.

Black Friday

Happy Thanksgiving

While recovering from being sick I am still reminded of how lucky for everything that I have and I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.

UPDATE!

While I haven't got any new drawings out because I have been sick for the last 5 days I have put up some old comics and will be working on doing that over the next couple of weeks. You can either choose to go to "March" in 2012 or you can click here.

UPDATE!

While I haven't got any new drawings out because I have been sick for the last 5 days I have put up some old comics and will be working on doing that over the next couple of weeks. You can either choose to go to "March" in 2012 or you can click here.

The Real Plan

What's The Definition of "Frozen?"

Too Much Is NOT A Good Thing!

THANK YOU VETERANS!!!!

I know that yesterday was Veteran's day but today is the day we "observe" it. Whatever. I just want to say thank you to all those men and woman out there who bravely step forward to defend our freedom, give me the right to do what I do and keep us safe. Thank you also to those who did make the choice whether new or old, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

So this morning I show up at one of my bus stops and I have some art work waiting for me in the drive way, look closly, it says "Hi Sketch"....I SO needed that this morning!

I appeared on the "Department of Offense" Podcast this last weekend. Had a great time with the guys as we discussed everything from Star Wars to re-leaving yourself in public...long story. As I get the link I will post it here, BE WARNED...it's NC17 material, and while it is really not intended for younger listeners I did have a good time :)

This last weekend I also finished up November's cartoons! Yea me! I now am going to be starting on December's cartoons and will be trying something new for this months work, we'll see how it turns out. I will not be releasing this months comic book until December is done and then it will be a three month issue. Once the comic is done I will be working on finishing up the Yearly Anual of STV and will HOPEFULLY have that ready by Black Friday...YEA RIGHT!! Anyway...it's a goal!

"Eau de tur-Kay"

A Note From Shannon:

Happy Friday!!! I am happy to be blogging on the day this cartoon appears - I have chuckled, snorted and belly laughed at this cartoon EVERY time I've seen/read it!

I don't know how it is in your household but, our Cartoonist avoids the perfume aisles and stores dedicated to 'pretty' smells that I like to venture into. Seeing Bud mix his own Turkey-seasoning aromatherapy and generously 'dab' it onto his wrists to offer Kay a little whiff of the Thanksgiving meal to come makes me smile.

Question of the Day: What is the most non-traditional food your family serves for Thanksgiving?

"Stop da tub! Stop da tub!"

This, I figure is how most men think....more power! Grunt, grunt, grunt!

Sorry for those of you that didn't get mailed the info, we are having troubles with the mail server and it will be done in the next 48 hours.

Not much else to put except; keep checking my Cartoons By Sketch Facebook page and Twitter for daily updates!

Tyler

I feel so bad for Bud sometimes, he just can't escape his Mother-in-law. For any of you who knows me...it's funny how life imitates art eh?!

Something else I wanted to bring to your attention. You will notice that I have an extra name at the top of all the cartoons this month. Mr. Tyler Clare helped me write this series and we did it in just a few hours while he was visiting me at work, while on the bus! Thank you "Crash" for your help, actually it was pretty funny and we came up with WAY more ideas than we needed...like for NEXT year's Thanksgiving..."I'll be back!" Tyler...you make me proud, everyday.

I am WAY behind on this months production and won't be starting December's until at LEAST the end of this week. Then I will be doing this years Annual Collection...whew!

Several of you have asked about the cards that I gave out to the kids this year for Halloween to the kids on my bus. No, I haven't had a chance to get the web page up that I wanted to so I'll just put them here...

First, this is the Halloween one that went out, not only to my bus, but FOUR others as well, I always did want to be a cowboy.

THEN, I made a special one just for my bus, well, just because I wanted to...

 The kids loved them, even the older ones.

Gobble Gobble!

Well it looks like "Turkey Fever" has hit The House. You really can't blame Bud, he just wants to have an old fashioned holiday. To bad they turn out more more like Clark Griswold's than Norman Rockwell's!

Well this site is up and we should have some of the problems that we did before while they are working on fixing everything this will be the "go to" site for STV. I apolagize for all the confusion over the last few weeks but it just could not be helped. By the end of this weekend all the old stvcomic.com & stv-comic.com will be redirected here so you can go back to those starting monday. I am doing more posting of other things as well so check out my twitter & Fascebook pages as well.

Thanks for hanging in there.

P.S. You can now post thing underneath the comics too now, just sign in and feel free!