I’m taking this Sunday off from the usual mailbag question and answer silliness. Happy Easter!

I opened a new caricature booth at Six Flags in St. Louis yesterday. We just need a few more signs and it’ll be dialed in.

Cartoonist and Australian Cartoonist Association member Lee Shepard recently uploaded this video of me doing a quick caricature demo at the 2009 Stanley Awards weekend in Sydney, where I was one of several presenters. Unfortunately Lee was sitting with my substantial bulk between his camera and the paper, so you can’t see me drawing much except when I am kneeling down or when I move aside. Sorry about that, Lee. This segment took place after I gave a boring hour long lecture on caricature and the audience was drawing the same faces on the screen as I was during the demo.

Two things about this video: First, the first subject we are drawing is amazing cartoonist and caricaturist Jason Chatfield. Second, I have lost over 30 pounds since I got back from Australia and that gigantic gut you see here is long gone…. hopefully never to return if I can lay off the beer and bratwurst this summer.

No place exotic like Colombia, Iraq, Australia or Cuba… just St. Louis MO to help open up our caricature operation for the season at Six Flags. I’m not even flying but driving… however I have no drawing of me driving along with underwear flying out of my car window so i just used the airplane. I’ll upload a postcard from the park!