For his 30th birthday, my friend Mitch requested, in lieu of presents, representations of himself.

I drew a comic strip that included several depictions of Mitch (plus his wife Kim and their dog Trinity). Here's the title panel...



Click here to read the whole thing.

Now imagine how good it would be if I had better art equipment, especially a couple of better pens. What I should have tried is scanning my black-and-white line art and doing the rest -- cleanup, lettering, and coloring -- on the computer, which I understand is the way a lot of cartoonists work these days. But I'm stuck in the olden days, so what you're looking at is colored pencils and hand lettering.