Have a Clucking Good Holiday!

I've always loved to draw chickens. They have personality and are just amusing in general. The cartoon below was my number one all time best seller as a t-shirt at craft shows, for years! What does that say about the women of America (or the North East, anyway) in the early 90's? Not only that, but it has been published numerous times and licensed as a card and in a calendar:

That brings us to this year's card. Everyone around here seems to have gotten chickens in the last couple of years, so that inspired me. I always draw my cards in a tiny graphic novel format folded into 4. This is the way the art looks in a sort of strip format. Hope you enjoy it! Have a Happy, Merry Holiday of your choice!

e-ddicted to My e-book!

Gad! I last posted at Thanksgiving and now it's all those other holidays! Well, I have been busy. Here is a brand new Cafepress design for the e-book lover...and yes, I am one of them!

 Who would have ever thought it? I live in a house packed from top to bottom with books!!! I have great collections of Edward Gorey and Cornell Woolrich and all of Roz Warren's Women's Glibber titles and art books and fiction, fiction, fiction! There is NO more room on the extensive shelves... so, last year, I was thinking about when I travel and take a bag full of books, that they were awfully heavy, so, I decided to get a Kindle (after much research) and thought I'd only use it for travel. How very wrong that idea was! It is now filled with 164 titles, at the moment, anyway, and I love it, love it, love it!!!! Hence the new design.
And here's a link to it on Cafepress if it turns out to be something you just can't live without... it is on a multitude of items from tees to trinkets.

Thanksgiving Classic!

Thanksgiving is finally here! So, after you've watched all the great Broadway scenes in the Parade and "Muppet Family Christmas" what better way to celebrate than to gather the family around the table and read aloud the classic tale of the Turkey Prince. Here's the link to last year's post.

http://stephanie-piro.blogspot.com/2011/11/turkey-prince.html

"Homeland" Total Immersion

 

I spent last weekend watching the first season of the fantastically addictive Showtime series Homeland with the amazing Claire Danes as CIA agent Carrie Mathison and Damian Lewis as Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody  who were so believable and compelling and realistic you felt you were part of the story and yelling advice to them from the sidelines. When do you ever do that? If you can't afford Showtime, (and really, who can?) check it out at your library. You'll be glad you did...and maybe find yourself looking into CIA job requirements. They might need a cartoonist. Or maybe, Showtime...you might want to add one to the cast!

Creative Differences

A few months back, fabulous cartoonist Jennifer Camper  invited me to do a full page comic for the Women's Review of Books. It had to include books, publishing, writers and women. I always love a good challenge and of course, these are topics I (and the Militant Recommender) feel strongly about. One thing that drives me crazy is that almost every title that gets published these days seems to be part of a series...so, even though I do read series, I am also excited when I read a great book and it is a stand alone (Scorpio Races, Break My Heart 1,000 Times, anyone?). Here's the cartoon I came up with.

Happy Christmas!!!

What better Christmas present can there be than this???

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