ALFIE Comic Strip For DCM's January Issue!

Here is the new strip for Alfie for January's issue of Delaware County Magazine!

ALFIE Comic Strip For DCM's December Issue!

Here is the Alfie strip for the December issue of Delaware County Magazine! I forgot to post it here! Yikes, but it's sure been busy here!

Alfie's Thanksgiving Meal Maze!

Here is the new Aflie cartoon for the month of November for DCM! I made it a maze this time to make it interactive! Help Alfie get to the table scraps for his Thanksgiving treat! And yes, he does have a small plate for himself as well. He LOVES Turkey...actually he likes a lot of people food! Enjoy!

New Alfie Comic Strip for October!

Here's the new comic strip for Alfie this month for DCM magazine. I realize it's not an actual strip, but I got jammed up with Power Rangers and other work. Still a super cute drawing though...which I'll do something else with at some point. Enjoy!

New Alfie Comic Strip for September! Co-starring Penny, the Bassett Hound!

Here is the new Alfie strip for the September issue of DCM magazine! This is the first strip featuring Penny, the Bassett Hound, who lives around the corner from Alfie. When I walk Alfie (in real life) and he sees her in her yard he will sneak under the fence to say Hi. This stuff is all true, people. I'll post some pics of them both together in real life soon! Enjoy!

More of Alfie's Doggie Dictionary!

Here is the new Alfie strip that ran in the August issue of DCM magazine! I had to do another Doggie Dictionary filler piece due to the HUGE amount of work I have going on right now with the Power Rangers! I plan on having a normal comic strip for the September issue. Enjoy!

Some Days It's Hard To Find A Good Punchline...

Here's the new Alfie cartoon for July's issue of DCM magazine! The top one is the one that's going to print, though the one on the bottom was the original punchline. I changed it late today as I was loading the other editorial to the printer's FTP. I asked a few people when I was having lunch what they thought and they suggested to go with the Scooby line. The problem is that the MacGyver line works better and is funnier, BUT...NO kids (or people under 30) will know who MacGyver was and get the gag unless you watched the show in the 1980's. So much for dated pop culture references...

The Scooby line does work as well in my mind, since it's a tip of the hat to Scooby since I draw that as well, but maybe it means that Alfie watches cartoons when the TV is left on and Scooby is his hero? Hey, it could happen...!

Alfie in the Snow! Final color version...

Here is the color final art that I whipped out this morning in a rush since the print deadline was today at 5pm and it will be in print early this week! I like the color theory for the strip. I love the first panel and how he sits by the back door. Ha! Just like he does in real life! Enjoy!

Alfie in the Snow! The pencil sketches...

Here is the new pencil drawing for the new Alfie strip I just did this weekend for DCM! The whole gag for this cartoon was based on the last panel which was a sketch (seen below) I drew sometime early on in Alfie's development as a cartoon. It was a moment of Alfie's life that I wanted to capture on paper and I decided that this sketch could be the punch line for the new strip this month.
This whole gag pretty much actually happened as I showed it. Alfie was close to one-year old and he saw his first snow storm and wanted to see snow close up. He was at the back door and he was hesitant to go out and I knew he had to go to the bathroom so I gave him a soft boot out the door. He jumped and landed tail end in the snow and sank like it was quicksand! It was pretty funny. It was a deeper snow than I though it was. Alfie was only 1 pound and 9 ounces at that time so he just tried to swim in the snow to get back inside since it was cold. I bundled him in a towel and then went outside and shoveled him a whole blocked out area that he could roam around in the snow. He then went out and enjoyed the snow which I'll be showing in the future!

Alfie's First Coloring Contest!

This is another page from the new Delaware County Magazine issue for January '08. I run a coloring contest every month for some kind of giveaway or prize and this is the first one ever featuring Alfie. It was thrown together at the last minute as well since the mag's deadline was kinda tight and it hit me late that, "Hey! Why don't I do one for Alfie?!" You'll be seeing this image in other spots probably as well. I'll get the most out of it in my style guide for Alfie. I have some color prints of Alfie that I'll be signing and mailing away to the winners of the contest!

Also below is an ad for Hollywood Hal & Rhinestone Al that I co-created. I run an ad for the boys every month as well. You can see them at www.halandal.com! It's a Pre-K winner for your young ones at home!