Cutler to the Bears cartoon to come

I’ll add a Cutler to the Bears cartoon over the weekend sometime. Since it was caption contest day I wanted to give that it’s proper place on the site. So, hang on, it’s coming.
Also, I’ll be adding the Cutler is a Horses Patootie cartoon to the drewlitton.com store over the weekend so it should be available for you to buy a t-shirt or a coffee mug with the cartoon on it on Monday. It was super cool that the Chicago Sun Times picked up the cartoon to run in today’s paper. Thanks to Steve Foster for making that happen. Reed Eckhardt, the editor from the Wyoming Tribune Eagle in Cheyenne ran my Cutler sucking His Thumbcartoon yesterday on their front page. That was a pretty cool honor. Thanks Reed.

The Ken Caryl Artists Guild
I had the great pleasure of speaking to the Ken Caryl Artists Guild last night. My friend and fellow artist Kyle Bannister invited me to share some of my experiences about life after the Rocky. Kyle is an amazingly talented artist who concentrates primarily on Baseball. He draws some incredible stuff in pen and ink as well as pencil of players in action and players from the golden age of the Major Leagues. His website is under construction but I’ll share the link as soon as it goes live. I met so many fantastic people there and it was so cool to be among other creative artists. Thanks to everyone in the Guild for making it such a wonderful night.

Have a great weekend!
Drew

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TGIF Caption Contest Time
Get your thinking caps on, it’s caption time. I’m hoping this will stir the wounded Broncos fan in all of us and give you good fodder for some funny captions. We had fantastic response last week and I’m hoping we can shatter the number of entries this week. Only two rules. Be original and keep it clean. The Winner will get the original cartoon with their caption in it, your name in the signature area of the cartoon and a Fraternal Order of Pigskin T-shirt.
Start sending those captions! And, always remember, let’s have some fun out there!
Drew

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Way to Go Nick!
You’re the winner of this weeks Caption Contest. We had such an unbelievable response and so many hilarious captions it was hard to pick a winner. Nick gets the original cartoon with his caption in it and a free Fraternal of Pigskin t-shirt. Nick, just send me an e-mail: sportoonz@gmail.com with your contact information so I know where to send the goods and include your full name so I can finish the signature block in the toon.

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There’s Plenty of Blame to Go Around
The most outrageous part of this whole Cutler-McDaniels soap opera is that no one is right and nobody wins. Especially the loyal Broncos fans who have helped sellout Mile High (it will alwasy be Mile High to me) for decades. I try with every image I draw to represent the voice of the fan. Just think of me as your next door neighbor who talks to you everyday over the back fence about sports both in Colorado and throughout the country. If I can say it all through a cartoon without words, even better. It saves me from having to keep an editor on retainer. And probably makes it quicker for you to get back to ESPN.

the DrewLitton.com update
I hope you’ll take the time to read yesterdays post about some plans I have for this blog. I just want to let you know how much I appreciated all of you who took the time to leave suggestions and I will try to implement as many of them as possible as soon as I can. I’m excited about all the cool things we can do here and I do hope you’ll stay around for the ride.

Irv and Joe
I had the chance to talk with Denver’s Legendary sports talk hosts, Irv Brown and Joe Williams yesterday on 1600 ESPN Radio. They are without a doubt two of the greatest guys in the world. We talked about this blog and I kind of gave them an update about life after the Rocky. The last month has been a one of busy transition as I move from being a full-time cartoonist at the News to an online cartoonist who is continuing to draw sports cartoons and starting my own freelance business. I’m speaking tomorrow night to the Ken Caryl Arts Guild. Kyle Bannister, the incredibly talented baseball artist from Denver, invited me to share some cartoons and insight. I’m learning a lot about starting over at 50 and I know I’ll be talking some about that. I love getting out and meeting people. That’s one of the reasons I love getting your comments here.
By the way, don’t forget tomorrows deadline for this weeks caption contest.

Drew

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For those of you who are new to my new website www.DrewLitton.com. Welcome! For those of you who are already part of our community, Hello, and thanks for coming back. I’ve got a few updates and an birds-eye view of what we have planned in the coming months for the site.

* First, I’m doing a brand new Sports cartoon everyday Monday through Friday about the Broncos, Rockies, Avalanche, Nuggets, Buffs and Rams as well as the national sports scene.
* In the next few days we’ll be adding a Join the Drew Crew button. It will give you the chance to subscribe to our free New Monthly E-Zine with news, merchandise updates, and a monthly feature spotlighting members of the Drew Crew and what’s going on in your worlds. It will also include some insider sports info, in-the-studio updates, and some other cool stuff.
* The site will be a great community of Colorado sports fans, a place where it’s fun to gather and to share your comments on the cartoons and on the issues behind them.
* We’re planning some Podcasts and some in-the-studios how to videos.
* In the coming months we’ll add some New Animated cartoons about the Broncos, Rockies, Avalanche, Nuggets, Buffs and Rams!
* Also coming your way will be some Animated sports games to keep you busy at the office when your boss isn’t looking!
* The DrewLitton.com sports store will be growing with more fun T-shirts, coffee mugs, prints, mouse pads, clocks and greeting cards. And you can buy original cartoons as well.
* We’ve already started our Cartoon Caption Contest. It’s found every Friday with the winner receiving the original cartoon drawing with your caption and a free Fraternal Order of Pigskin t-shirt.
* Exclusive Desktop wallpaper schedules and screensavers that you can download and add to your computer.
* We’ll add a draw your own cartoon feature and take the best Drew Crew members cartoon submissions and spotlight them right here on the site.
* Fantasy Leagues! We’ll have our own leagues, just like last year, where you can join me to compete for prizes. We’ll be using several different sites to help host those.
* E-cards! I’m working now on a way to have e-cards that you can send to your friends.

These are just a few plans for the future. I hope you’ll join me on this new venture. Feel free to tell your friends. They can still get their daily fix of “win, lose & Drew” and a whole lot more.

And remember: Let’s have some fun out there!

Take care,
Drew

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