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The Big Easy will never be the same!

February 11th, 2010 3 Comments

When Pigs Fly, Chickens have teeth, Frogs have hair, and the Cows come home…
That’s pretty much the mindset these days in New Orleans. They’ve already renamed Mardi Gras, Lombardi Gras. It brings back memories of Denver in 1977. No one believed the Broncos could do it then, much like the Saints now. Oh, that first championship does amazing things in the community.

Olympics to come
I’ll start cranking out Olympic toons soon, but I might wait til after a Danica at Daytona cartoon. Not sure yet. You pick. Which one do want me to draw for Friday?

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Tags: New Orleans Saints, NFL, sports cartoon, sports cartoonist, sports cartoons, Super Bowl LLIV

When you know life is unfair

February 10th, 2010 4 Comments

High School sports
Maybe it’s just me, or the market I live in (Denver) but it pains me to see so little importance and air time given to high school sports. I wish, sometimes, the coverage was the other way around.

Comments and critiques
I realize I have foisted a tremendous amount of new stuff here on the site all at once. But it’s been almost a year since the loss of the Rocky Mountain News and almost that long for this blog. I felt like it needed some refreshing here. Feel free to let me know what you like and don’t like about the changes here. I want to make this place a blast for you to come to!

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Tags: Hardball, High School sports, Hoops, Pigskin, sports cartoon, sports cartoons

Olympic Events of the Future

February 9th, 2010 8 Comments

Site Changes
As you can see I changed the site over the weekend. I’ve added some fun features, the biggest one being Mingle. I hope you’ll join the community. To sign up just go to the header and hit the signup button. Just think of it as Facebook for sports fans! Let me know what you think of the new look. I want a great reader experience here on the site. A place where you can go during the day to have a little fun. I’ll be adding some more things in the coming days.

Thanks,
Drew

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Tags: 2010 Olympics, sports cartoon, sports cartoons, Vancouver Olympics, Winter Olympics

The Super Bowl Shuffle

February 3rd, 2010 3 Comments

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Super Bowl Week
Here’s another cartoon that kind of sums up the way I feel about the Super Bowl. It’s bittersweet. Just knowing that when the game is over, so is the season. I’ve always tried to convince my wife to let me keep the Christmas lights and tree up until after the Super Bowl. Tis the season ya know. But then I would have two things end at the same time so it’s probably better to go ahead and put one away before the other.

The metaphor of the roller coaster is one of the most used in all of cartooning ( next to the guy on the desert island.) I’d never done one though with the thing just ending in mid air. I kind of like that. It’s certainly the way I feel after the game is over. Be sure to check back on Thursday for our Super Bowl poll and another cartoon.

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Tags: drew litton, NFL, Pigskin, Saints vs. Colts, sports cartoon, sports cartoonist, sports cartoonists, sports cartoons, Super Bowl, Super Bowl XXXXIV

Groundhog day: Seligs shadow

February 1st, 2010 4 Comments

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Groundhog day
One of my favorite days of the year! Old Punxsutawney Phil pops up to see just whose shadow he sees. These days it could totally be anybodies. I narrowed it to Bud Selig, Tiger Woods, and Josh McDaniels. I finally settled on Selig. He’s so much fun to draw.

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Posted in Hardball

Tags: 9News, Bud Selig, groundhog day, Groundhogday, Hardball, Major League baseball, Mark McGwire, Rocky Mountain News, sports cartoon, sports cartoonist, sports cartoonists, sports cartoons, steroids

A Pro Bowl rough, some stuff and back to Five.

February 1st, 2010 3 Comments

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This was a rough draft that I did for the Tribune on Friday that didn’t make the final cut. I liked it so I decided to post it as my daily. Did I say daily? Yep. I’m revving it back up to 5 a week again starting today. You’ll see some new stuff on 9News as well. It’s been a good break for me and I appreciate your patience as I took a little time to tend to some much needed business to move forward in my life after the Rocky. I have some things to share from my break. But before I do, I’m asking all of you to help me. As I rev back up I’ll be making some additions to the blog. I need your help to spread the word about the blog, the cartoons and that I’m back to five a week. I’m hoping we can add some new readers in the next few weeks, but I can’t do it without your help.

I’ spent some of the time off rebuilding my portfolio site at http://www.littoonzstudios.com
I’m pleased with the results and if you have anyone you know who needs comic art work, animation or illustration please feel free to pass the link along.
I’m also playing with changes here. I’m exploring the idea of adding a thing called mingle, which basically allows you to chat with myself and fellow drew crew members live.
I’m planning to add a real store when I can get some products developed.
Lastly, I’m developing a Web comic that will be very different from the sports stuff I have done for 27 years. I’ll keep doing this and do a web comic two to three days a week. The site is being built (it will be housed at a different site) and the process is underway. I’m losing sleep over this one because I’m so excited about it. It will give me a creative outlet I feel I have needed for quite some time. For those of you who don’t know, sports cartoons was not what I wanted to do when I grew up, drawing comic strips was. With the changes in the newspaper industry I’m not sure print is the direction to go these days. With the advent of the iPad and the Kindle I think comic strips will have a renaissance on a new platform. It’s vital for me to find new ways to do what I do.

More than ever I treasure my readers. Thanks to all of you for continuing to stop by daily to read and offer comments. You’re the best!

Sincerely,
Drew

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Tags: Cartoon Caption Contest, LittoonzStudios, NFL, NFL Pro Bowl, Pigskin, Pro Bowl, sports cartoon, sports cartoonist, sports cartoonists, sports cartoons

The Winter Malady: SOD

January 27th, 2010 12 Comments

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The End is Near!
The season can’t be almost over already. I don’t know about you but the worst funk of the winter for me is always right after the Super Bowl. I don’t ski, it’s still cold outside and there isn’t any football left. Now if they played those lousy bowl games we have to endure in December in February they might be on to something.

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Tags: College Bowl games, New Orlean Saints, NFL, NFL fans, NFL Playoffs, NFL Pro Bowl, Pigskin, S.A.D., SAD, Seasonal Affection Disorder, sports cartoon, sports cartoonist, Super Bowl

And When the Saints Go Marching In…

January 25th, 2010 5 Comments

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Here’s to the Saints
NFL’s doormat no longer. This one goes out to all of the brave and courageous people of New Orleans, who have faced more adversity than any of us will ever know. It has bee a long time coming. Enjoy the journey, it’s long overdue.

A Secret
I guess it’s finally safe to come out of the closet. I was the only kid in West Texas to wear a New Orleans Saints jacket to school. This was in the heart of Dallas Cowboys country but I chose to root for the Saints and a young quarterback named Archie Manning. The Saints of course just got the crap beat of them game after game, and as I recall, so did I. Not a bright move wearing the Saints Logo on my sleeve. I eventually relented (after much violent coercion) and converted to the Cowboys. Soon I was the only kid in West Texas to cheer for Craig Morton over Roger Staubach. Bet you can guess how that went over. So yesterday I sat proudly wearing my New Orleans Saints hat as they marched into their very first Super Bowl. In the comfort of my own living room, thank you very much.

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Tags: Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Hurrican Katrina, New Orleans Saints, NFL, NFL Playoffs, Pigskin, Reggie Bush, sports cartoon, sports cartoonist, sports cartoonists, sports cartoons

New Kid, Same Old Story

January 21st, 2010 4 Comments

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Flashback
Sorry but I just couldn’t resist re-working this old Shanahan cartoon. It says just as much now, with McDaniels as it did then with the Mastermind. You can’t run the team by yourself. When will they learn?

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Tags: Denver Broncos, drew litton, Josh McDaniels, Mike Shanahan, sports cartoon, sports cartoonist, sports cartoonists, sports cartoons

To Cheat or Not to Cheat: that is the question…

January 20th, 2010 10 Comments

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Cheating and its consequences.
People through the years have asked where I learned to draw. My answer has always been honest, yet embarrassingly so. I learned to draw in algebra class. I’m proud to say, however, while I actually scored single figures on several tests (or pretty darned close to it), I never once cheated.
I love doing these cartoons about how sports effect us in our everyday lives. One of the things I enjoy most about sports are the important lessons we can learn from them. Teamwork. Hard work. Hustle. Persistence. Patience. Honor. Integrity. Rising above Adversity and defeat.
Yet these days, it bothers me a great deal the lessons that are being passed on to our children from people like Mark McGwire, Tiger Woods, Terrell Owens, Michael Vick and Brandon Marshall. And, yes, us. Fans who root for people like this regardless of their conduct and what it means. I feel as though we are not only losing some moral ground here, but skiing right off of it into a perilous abyss.

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