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With the World Series now going to Game 7, I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for days gone by. Oh, well. There’s always next year. Or the year after that. Or the year after that. I’m drawing live for ESPN.com tomorrow night so expect a World Series cartoon and a Boulder Daily Camera cartoon on Saturday morning!
But here’s the cool news:
You are invited to this fun afternoon event next Saturday, November 5 from 3:00 to 6:00 at MVP Sports in the Belmar Shopping Center with me and my pal, Kyle Banister, the Nations Best Baseball artist!
We’ll be signing prints and selling originals (great holiday gifts) and who knows what all. Kyle makes some pretty mean baseball themed guitars and has a great print to commemorate the 2011 World Series. Afterwards you’re welcome to join us just across the street to watch the Alabama-LSU game at the Baker St. Pub and Grill. We’ll have a blast! So come on by! I’ll give you some more details early next week.
Here’s whatcha need to know for now:
Saturday, November 5 · 3:00pm – 6:00pm
Location
MVP Sports: Cards, Memorabilia and Art
414 S Teller St, in the Belmar Shopping Center

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Yankees prove Money Talks, and hits the occasional homer.
True story. I’m not much of a Yankees fan. Now, my brother, Gary, is a HUGE Yankees fan. Crazy about them. Not an easy thing to do when you live in Boston, but somehow he has managed. Here’s the deal though. You ever had one of those 4th cousin removed kind of brush with something strange. We had a guy in our newsroom at the Rocky who was related to Tex Watson, one of the members of the Manson family. Not something I’d brag about, but, hey, he was a Braves fan. My family fortunately fared better. We got the distinction of being able to say we were related to Mickey Mantle. Yes. That Mickey Mantle. Not that it meant anything. He was so far down the bloodline from us (of which, I’m sure he was thankful) that our paths never crossed. So, one day I’m having this deep philosophical debate with my brother, Gary, about the whole Mantle thing and why should that mean that Litton’s have to be Yankees fans. “You’ve got to be kidding right?” I said in disbelief. ” Just because he’s in the bloodline (barely) we have to be Yankees fans?” “Yep” he answered. So I played devils advocate. “Gary, name one time we ever got his autograph? Did he ever send us one of his rookie baseball cards? A jersey? A baseball”? No. No. No. and No. “Then I rest my case. No autograph, no Yankees fan.”

And besides. The Yankees have more money than Bill Gates. The don’t earn their world series titles, they buy them. Probably at some baseball memorabilia store. Right next to the Micky Mantle rookie cards.

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Thoughts and Musings for Monday
If you missed the weekends announcement that I posted Friday night, here’s a recap. We are in the process of putting together the first ever Drew Litton wall calendar. We’ll have more updates as they become available. They will be out in plenty of time for early Holiday shopping. I’m excited about this project as it’s one of the first real attempts at merchandising here at DrewLitton.com.
Another item of interest. Sunday’s edition of the Denver Post featured an article on Chris “The Birdman” Andersen. In the article there is a reference to some Arby’s glasses that will be coming out soon. I can’t say much but I might have had a bit of involvement in that project. There’s a set of 3 glasses total and I really think you’re going to go all Birdman over them.

I’m also beginning to make serious in roads on a couple of things. First, are all of the caption contest mailings. All of the winners prizes went in the mail on Friday, and I’ll have the rest of the runner-ups prizes in the mail by Wednesday. I’m working diligently on the first chapter of Cartooning 101: How to Act Like a sponge: A primer on capturing an idea, smacking it on the head and caging the little sucker. All while keeping your sanity. And the last, but not least, I’m making progress on a web comic/ graphic novel I’ve been toying with. It will be vastly different then anything you’ve seen me do in the past. I’m excited about branching out a bit and doing a wide variety of new content, so please stay tooned. And feel free to let your friends know about this blog. The more the merrier.

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