Sometimes I get ideas from song tunes. I’ve used songs by U2, Simon and Garfunkel and Kermit the Frog (which was actually penned by the great Paul Williams). Today’s is a song made popular by Three Dog Night. It was actually written by Harry Nilsson.
The worst song choice I ever used in a cartoon…”If I Only had a Brain” from the Wizard of Oz. I couldn’t stop singing it for days.

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Absolutely loved this article by ESPN columnist Johnette Howard. See it herehttp://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?id=5736976
I was given the great pleasure of illustrating it and I love the column and cartoon so much I thought it was perfect for a Friday get-away toon. Hope you have the greatest Halloween weekend of all-time. Stay safe. And be sure to come back Monday for a most hilarious ESPN animation on the Texans-Colts match-up. This is our best one yet!

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I can’t imagine any head coach in his right mind would want to deal with a combination of Ocho Cinco AND T.O.. But I’m glad some sucker is crazy enough to try. Talk about a cartoonists gold mine. It’s like Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew rides again! Yowza!

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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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Personally, I would have been all for the Broncos making a bid for T.O. I’m not sure that Brandon Marshall will ever grow up. Might as well trade immaturity for immaturity. I hope you’re enjoying the Web site. Please feel free to send the url around to as many friends as you want. The more the merrier. In the coming weeks I’ll be adding elements to the blog, more cartoons both new and old, the finished Mount Rockmore cartoon, new merchandise to the drew store and some fun new things as well, such as a weekly cartoon caption contest. So please stay tooned. Right now I’m planning on updating daily and I’ll probably be on the comments section fairly often so I’ll see you then.

Here’s the WLD (win, lose & Drew) Question of the day.

Would you have made an effort to sign Terrell Owens?

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