Genevieve Cartoons

2012-01-15T07:38:00.005-05:00

Silver Page 47: Pa Luklab
Felix Cranberry is scouting in the jungle when he makes a discovery...

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Bonus: Green Dog Cafe - Espresso Shocker!

2012-01-02T12:52:00.005-05:00

Silver Page 46: Chapter Five: A Temple Finds Felix

Felix Cranberry kept a diary while he was a scout in the hot jungles of southeast Asia.

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2011-12-26T13:23:00.002-05:00

Silver Page 45: The Silver

Uncle Paul shows his niece Felicity something small, round...and silver...

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2011-11-29T10:21:00.002-05:00

Silver Page 44: Seeing Auras
Uncle Paul finishes telling Felicity what happened the day Joy disappeared.

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2011-11-13T08:37:00.002-05:00

Silver Page 43: What the Blind Mole Rat Saw
Mrs. Nacktmull and Felicity see something follow Joy down the street and around the corner.

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2011-10-15T05:32:00.001-04:00

Silver Page 42: Photos of the Past
Uncle Paul and Felicity are looking at photo albums.

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2011-09-23T18:35:00.002-04:00

Silver Page 41: Uncle Paul vs. City Hall
Uncle Paul makes good on his promise to take care of Felicity Cranberry.

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Cartoonist's Note: this is not an endorsement of violence against government workers, no matter how bureaucratic they act. This is a cartoon, and as such has license to indulge in a a little off-steaming. For anyone who's ever had to go through an important and annoying process, panel one is for you!

2011-08-21T09:55:00.008-04:00

Silver Page 40: Mrs. Nacktmull’s Tale
Paul gets in touch with Felix Cranberry's neighbor, who is the last person who saw Joy and Felicity.

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The naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber), also known as the sand puppy or desert mole rat, is not threatened, but it's interesting enough to rate an appearance in Silver!

The species is one of only two known eusocial mammals (the other being the Damaraland mole rat) with a social struture similar to that found in ants, termites, and some bees and wasps. Only one female (the queen) and one to three males reproduce, while the rest of the members of the colony are sterile and function as workers.

The sand puppy also has a highly unusual set of physical traits that enables it to thrive in an otherwise harsh, underground environment, including a lack of pain sensation in its skin and a very low metabolism. As you can see, there were many reasons for Mrs. Nacktmull to run away and built a nice little bungalow in Treetown where she lives in peaceful solitude with her pet cat.

2011-08-21T09:53:00.001-04:00

Green Dog Cafe: Triple Espresso

2011-08-07T14:40:00.001-04:00

Silver Page 39: Lucky Rabbit's Foot
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The clever (and large) medic with the horns is a Kouprey, a wild forest-dwelling ox found mainly in northern Cambodia. It was discovered in 1937.There are estimated to be fewer than 250 kouprey left in the world. These low numbers are attributed to uncontrolled hunting by locals and soldiers, in conjunction with diseases introduced from cattle and loss of habitat. No kouprey have been sighted since 1983, and during the last decade several searches for the animal have proven fruitless. The 2008 IUCN report lists the Kouprey as Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct). There is no captive population. The only individual in a western zoo died early in World War II.

The airplane passanger in front of Uncle Paul is an Alagoas Curassow Mitu Mitu, a large, mainly glossy black pheasant-like bird. It was formerly found in forests in north-eastern Brazil, but it is now extinct in the wild.

2011-08-06T16:57:00.001-04:00

Green Dog Cafe

2011-08-06T16:57:00.000-04:00

Green Dog Cafe

2011-07-18T14:26:00.002-04:00

Silver Page 37: What Happened to Joy? and Page 38: Camp Attack
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Silver Page 38: Camp Attack
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2011-05-28T13:54:00.000-04:00

Silver Page 36: Crepuscular Customer
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2011-05-28T13:52:00.003-04:00

Silver Page 35: Nice Cold Ice-Cream at Midnight

Miss Cranberry storms out of the Police Station in a high dudgeon...

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2011-05-28T13:52:00.002-04:00

Silver Page 35: Nice Cold Ice-Cream at Midnight

Miss Cranberry is facing Police Commissioner Fuzzbucket, who, despite having burned his feet after stamping on his poisonous toad employee, is about to make a very unpleasant discovery...

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2011-05-28T13:52:00.001-04:00

Silver Page 35:

Miss Cranberry is facing Police Commissioner Fuzzbucket, who, despite having burned his feet after stamping on his poisonous toad employee, is about to make a very unpleasant discovery...

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2011-04-02T12:53:00.003-04:00

Silver Page 34: We Have a File on You...

Miss Cranberry is facing Police Commissioner Fuzzbucket, who, despite having burned his feet after stamping on his poisonous toad employee, is about to make a very unpleasant discovery...

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2011-03-08T13:07:00.005-05:00

Silver Page 33: Ouch! My Feet!

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Officer Bufo is a cane toad. Glands on the back of cane toads excrete Bufotoxin, a dangerous poison. For more about these large, poisonous toads, click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toad

2011-02-13T15:26:00.009-05:00

Silver Page 32: The Trouble With Vendors
Commissioner Fuzzbucket reveals a bias against...Ice Cream Vendors?

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It looks like National Geographic and I are on the same trail - we're both running specials about the world's coldest-climate monkey, the golden blue-faced snub-nose! Check out their story in February's issue for some great photos. I warn you though - the first one is almost too cute to bear.

2011-01-30T14:24:00.002-05:00

Silver Page 31: Meet the Commissioner

Miss Cranberry arrives at the Treetown Police Station for a fateful meeting with the top cop. (click here for previous page) | Read the Story from the Beginning

2011-01-09T11:06:00.002-05:00

Silver Page 30: Infracting the Law

Officer Bufo lists Miss Cranberry's shortcomings during a traffic stop, and invites her downtown. (click here for previous page) | Read the Story from the Beginning

2010-12-18T15:28:00.007-05:00

Silver Page 29: Heap of Trouble

Miss Felicity Cranberry and her ice-cream cart appear to be in some trouble. (click here for previous page) | Read the Story from the Beginning

2010-10-30T16:54:00.007-04:00

Love Story; Who She Is

He said they're finally getting to move in together after a long time apart. He said "she dreams of carnaval, ice palaces, cruises to the antarctic." He added "I'm a panda; she's a giraffe."

Check back later to see the development of this unusual commission.

Athena At Trevi Fountain

Athena's First Carnaval

2010-10-22T05:46:00.016-04:00

Love Story

He said they're finally getting to move in together after a long time apart. He said "she dreams of carnaval, ice palaces, cruises to the antarctic." He added "I'm a panda; she's a giraffe."

Check back later to see the development of this unusual commission.

2010-09-25T10:46:00.008-04:00

Silver Page 28: In Which Miss Cranberry Stops

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2010-09-15T11:07:00.000-04:00

Silver Page 27: Chapter Three: Miss Cranberry and the Law

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2010-08-23T07:01:00.001-04:00

Silver Page 26: Exit Felix

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2010-08-22T15:48:00.005-04:00

Silver Page 25: Math Quiz: 90% Alcohol Mouthwash + Durian Fart = ???

The story so far:
Felicity, the young ice-cream seller, is sitting with Uncle Paul at the Lakshmi Cafe, as he tells her the astonishing story of her father, his former comrade-in-arms. Felix, an unusually lucky - and unusually unlucky - jerboa, was last seen in the night market of Nuaydung, gobbling durians (which lead to violent, frictional, flatulence) and then taking a swig of Owl brand Mouthwash (strong enough to strip linoleum). Uh-Oh...

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2010-08-08T11:37:00.002-04:00

Silver Page 24: Beware the Back-alley Mouthwash Dealer

The story so far:
Felicity, the young ice-cream seller, is sitting with Uncle Paul at the Lakshmi Cafe, as he tells her the astonishing story of her father, his former comrade-in-arms. Felix, an unusually lucky - and unusually unlucky - jerboa, was last seen in the night market of Nuaydung, gobbling durians. Lots of them. He has been warned not to mix durians and alcohol. And now we are coming near the end of his frightful night with:

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2010-07-18T14:48:00.009-04:00

Bone Apetit?

2010-07-03T15:16:00.001-04:00

Silver Page 23: The Durian Spree
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2010-05-30T15:28:00.000-04:00

Silver Page 22: The Other Problem with Durian Fruit
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2010-05-02T17:00:00.001-04:00

Silver Page 21: Do Not Drink Alcohol!
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2010-03-21T10:25:00.003-04:00

Silver Page 20: A Taste of Durian
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The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit - depicted with amazing scientific accuracy in row two, center panel, with the Babyrusa Pig - is now genetically extinct due to the muscle of the meat industry: From an article from Jan 2009:

This may be our best current example of a subspecies (“species”, by ESA definition) being stomped into extinction by Public Grazing...I had worked for years trying to get the cows off, because the grazing clearly was at odds with the rabbits (trampling burrows and eating grasses and forbs necessary for reproduction)....

It wasn’t long before I began getting calls ...reporting collapsed active burrows, scorched earth between sagebrush plants, and other insults in the relatively small area where the rabbits were holding out. But the WDFW had instituted an elaborate “monitoring” scheme that conveniently sidestepped reality, and their “data” showed “no impact” from the cows. When the rabbits were down to fewer than 20, the decision was made to take them all into captivity....

The rabbits sent to the Portland Zoo were fed nothing but sagebrush for at least months...when they should have been fed grasses and forbs as well. (I know this because some of my ex-students were hired to make the trip to eastern Washington to gather the sagebrush and care for the rabbits). ...The last known one of those died a couple of years ago.

...the captive breeding attempt could never have substituted for the application of responsibility that would have combined conservation with science, and no one was willing to act responsibly.

Grazing was not the only thing that contributed to the extirpation of the Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit, but it was a very major contributor ... sagebrush is mowed, chained, burned and otherwise manipulated on vast expanses of public lands, to be replaced with more productive cattle forage – mostly non-native grasses largely useless to wildlife.

Other human activities including development, energy transmission lines, roads, fences and others isolate small populations of pygmy rabbits from each-other... Fences and posts provide height for predator birds to prey on pygmy rabbits – height that otherwise does not exist in the vast Sagebrush Sea, and livestock crush pygmy rabbit burrows.

Although efforts to preserve the Columbia Basin gene have been supplemented with Idaho pygmy rabbits, the Idaho pygmy rabbit is also imperiled across nearly all of its range....

Unfortunately, things aren’t looking good for pygmy rabbits in the immediate future; Mega wind-farms and energy transmission lines planned for development across public landscapes are increasingly threatening some of the last, best pygmy rabbit habitats in the West.

2010-03-07T18:58:00.000-05:00

Steampunk 01

2010-03-07T15:10:00.001-05:00

Film Noir Man

2010-03-07T15:08:00.002-05:00

Film Noir Scene

2010-02-07T13:07:00.000-05:00

Silver Page 19: Eat It! - The Durian Fruit-Smelling Contest
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2 Facts About Smell:

Dr Stephen Lee, a ear nose and throat (ENT) specialist from Raffles Hospital, says variance in the sense of smell among people is greater than that of other senses - up to a factor of 1,000.

People recall smells with a 65% accuracy after a year, while the visual recall of photos sinks to about 50% after only three months. www.senseofsmell.org

2010-01-23T12:41:00.001-05:00

Silver Page 18: Whack
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A few fact about Golden Parakeets:

The Golden Conure has been determined to be endangered , due to increased deforestation and now illegal cage bird trade. Locally it is considered a nuisance to agriculture and is used for food or hunted for sport. Golden Conures continue to be smuggled out of Brazil.

Breeding is apparently communal , with several females contributing two or three eggs to each nest and several adults caring for the young.

2010-01-17T10:50:00.003-05:00

Silver Page 17: The Idea

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Fun fact about anteaters:
Anteaters have huge salivary glands and no teeth.
Anteaters, armadillos, and sloth are all members of the Xenarthra order.
Anteaters are in a suborder called "vermilingua" which means "worm tongue."
Learn more at The National Zoo site.

2010-01-08T15:50:00.004-05:00

Silver Page 16: Behold, the King

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Threatened and Endangered species acting in second row, left to right: (click each name for interesting facts and photos!)
Babyrusa Pig, Colombia Basin Pygmy Rabbit; Solenodon; Jerboa; Giant Anteater; Golden Parakeet; Red Slender Loris

2010-01-03T09:41:00.001-05:00

New Year's Resolution 2010

2010-01-01T18:27:00.001-05:00

Happy New Year, and may you bring peace to your corner of the world.
hugs from your pet cartoonist.

2009-12-13T12:26:00.008-05:00

One Night in Nuaydung: Felix and his pals arrive at the night market.

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Endangered species acting in this scene:
Babyrusa Pig; Solenodon; Giant Anteater, Jerboa; Red Loris, Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit;Golden Parakeet

2009-09-26T12:27:00.002-04:00

Silver Page 14: Doc Stays Behind

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Endangered species acting in this scene:
Eritrean Warthog, Cambodian Ibis, Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

2009-08-01T16:08:00.004-04:00

Silver Page 13: The Patrol Sets up Base Camp (click here for previous page)

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2009-07-26T17:36:00.002-04:00

Silver, Book 2: A Bad Night For Felix Cranberry

2009-02-21T09:40:00.028-05:00

Silver: A Tale to Tell BOOK 1 (Pages 1-11)

The Solenodon (doing the shopping in frame 1) is a rare venomous mammal, now on the edge of extinction. See the link for interesting notes on nipples. The critically endangered Pygmy Hog (humming cheerily) is the sole representative of Porcula,and there are only about 150 of them left in the world.
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The Slow Loris is an endangered primate which stores poison inside its elbows. The mother will suck up this toxin and lick it onto her babies to protect them from predators. Learn why their eyes are so dangerous by clicking here.. Can you find the Loris on this page?
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2009-02-06T16:28:00.006-05:00

New Cartoon Adventure: Teasers

2008-11-03T18:04:00.009-05:00

The 3 Letters: A true story. Almost.
The Complete Compendium (All Four Pages!)

2008-10-30T07:45:00.005-04:00

The Bean Feast

A Bean Feast is the middle-ages equivalent of the office holiday party. The landowner or baron would throw a big banquet for the villains - excuse me, peasants - and everyone would frolic and have a grand time, including searching for the magic bean hidden in the cake. Whoever finds the bean gets to be the Bean King!!!

To learn more about the game hidden in this Bean Feast, click the picture!

2008-08-22T13:11:00.001-04:00

The Union Street Oyster House

Everyone seen here is an endangered species AND an artist.

2008-07-21T15:55:00.000-04:00

Science Camp 1

2008-07-19T11:38:00.001-04:00

Tomatoes and Basil

2008-07-14T19:15:00.001-04:00

Mad at Carly

2008-07-14T19:15:00.000-04:00

Mad at Carly

2008-07-01T07:42:00.000-04:00

The Sun Porch: Where mythical creatures nap

2008-06-26T17:00:00.013-04:00

Picture in Progress - Dance

This picture is under construction. Check back later and see what's been added!

2008-06-20T18:16:00.002-04:00

The Hamster Hoarding Game

2008-06-18T09:18:00.001-04:00

Stonehenge

An English Quintet (Bulldog, Pointer, Sheepdog, Mastiff, Setter) Play "A Little Night Music" after the shortest night of the year. It's Solstice on Salisbury Plain!

2008-06-06T12:29:00.002-04:00

Twittens: A Forgotten Era

Appropriately enough for the theme of "forgotten" i forgot to post this illustration of bygone times last month. My cousin challenged me to draw the Twittens without my even knowing what they were, but my imagination ran inappropriately rampant. so in the end i looked online and found out that twittens is an old (english?) word for area of narrow alleyways. apparently many cities have twittens, and this one is based on a photo I found in York. i doubt anyone would recognise it though, as the place occupied by a nest of pigs in my illustrations is in fact an outdoor fitters store in real life.

For those of you with a bit of time on your hands, see if you can trace the love octagon. most of the people in the picture are in love with someone who loves someone else. You can tell whom they love by looking at their eyes. Happy mediaeval Friday!

2008-06-05T11:31:00.000-04:00

Kohala Bath Time

2008-05-16T09:22:00.003-04:00

Midget Viking Warrior and the Pumpkin

A picture done for my brother's rough 'n' tough biker gang.

The picture was supposed to be about the Midget Viking Warrior (Hi Ernie, you don't mind if this gets all over the web, do you?) but that huge orange "bike" (Really, can you honestly call it a bike when it's that big?) just took over the road. I just did this yesterday, and today's theme is "wide" so I thought I'd share it.

The scene here is pictured just before the Harley broke down, and just after the Harley broke down.

2008-05-02T09:45:00.001-04:00

Don't Mess With My Seeds!
Every seed planted by The Carrot enjoys superhero protection.

2008-04-28T11:54:00.002-04:00

Wrinkles
hah. i wasn't going to do one this week because i didn't have time....and then a client sent a comment for revision on one of my pieces - get rid of some ofthe wrinkles! and I though aha! a perfect opportunity to submit to illo friday! enjoy! (click picture to see more storyboard and development samples.)

2008-04-27T08:18:00.005-04:00

Wurlitzer
This is a component of an illustration I did for the ZBS Foundation. Since it is a small part of a background shot, I thought I would give it a solo performance here. I love lighty stuff!

2008-04-06T10:10:00.001-04:00

Thanks to Lenny Boudreau for hosting an evening of live animation!
"Draw me a Bath"

Find more videos like this on Channel Frederator RAW

2008-04-04T08:10:00.001-04:00

South Station, Boston

One of the few things I enjoyed about commuting was passing through this lovely train station with the curlicue bus station attached to the back.

2008-03-27T14:07:00.000-04:00

The Credit Union

2008-03-14T11:49:00.002-04:00

Heavy for Illustration Friday
a swimming elephant....

2008-03-07T10:25:00.002-05:00

Charter Street Playground - Kindergarden

I saw the charter street playground for the first time when the kindergardeners were out playing in the yard. Every single child had a hat on. I don't know if it's kindergarden policy so they can keep track of their kids, or if the children of Boston's north end are very sun sensitive. Anyway, the "garden" is all brick paving, but with the bushes, trees, and park benches it's a lovely place - not at all the "concrete jungle" it sounds. I thought that big people should be able to play here too, not just the wee ones.

2008-02-29T08:32:00.002-05:00

leap
for illustration friday

in india last month a pregnant bengal tiger was chased up a palm tree by terrified villagers. she was rescued (after being tranquilised), treated for injuries, and released into a tiger preserve. i saw a photo of her at the moment of her release. she was in a cage on a boat, and the door of the cage opened over the side of the boat, which was in shallow water (a foot or two). the boat was loaded down with people, and the door was opened. she leaped, swam to the shore, and made for the sanctuary of the forest. Thank you, tiger rescuers.

2008-02-25T18:18:00.001-05:00

The Beale Building in Boston, aka the Grain Exchange. reputed to be stuffed with lawyers.

Can you find the hidden rainbow?

2008-02-21T19:53:00.007-05:00

Musical Chairs: a little bitty movie about multiple variations on a theme!.

This is a Flash movie....sorry, you'll need flash player software. fortunately, it's free to download. let me know if you have any problems. and now, please enjoy....."Musical Chairs"
(beta version!)

I got a lot of my sound effects from these folks: Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects They say "Download the music and sound effects you need for your multimedia project today at Partners In Rhyme." I say THANKS! When I'm selling animation, I'll buy your stuff!

2008-02-19T11:43:00.000-05:00

In Which I learn how to draw tuckpointing tools

2008-02-17T09:39:00.002-05:00

Something Must be Going Around

2008-02-16T18:10:00.005-05:00

Bratwurst Bob's first Road Trip! click the picture to go to the game:

2008-02-15T14:26:00.001-05:00

My Theory of the Origin of Black Holes
(designed specially for Illustration Friday's theme of "theory")

2008-02-14T07:48:00.003-05:00

Happy Valentine's Day!

2008-02-14T07:47:00.002-05:00

Back to Bed

2008-02-11T11:22:00.000-05:00

Achoo!

2008-02-08T12:12:00.000-05:00

CHOOSE!

2008-02-07T18:41:00.001-05:00

2008-02-06T09:32:00.000-05:00

Spring is Coming!

2008-02-03T20:17:00.000-05:00

May goes vector....

2008-02-02T09:32:00.000-05:00

Help me!

BIG THANKS to my brother Warren Wilson and my Mom Johanna Kowitz for buying me a NEW GRAPHICS TABLET!!!! This is the first cartoon done entirely digitally, so it's a little rough, but what a fun toy!!!!

and yes, please do yourself the favor of getting up just before dawn to see Jupiter and Venus, our neighbors, getting together in the south-eastern horizon. you have only a couple days, go!

2008-02-01T10:43:00.000-05:00

"Cat in a Blanket" for Illustration Friday

2008-01-25T09:33:00.000-05:00

The Highwayman

2008-01-16T06:25:00.000-05:00

A Green Park: Post Office Square in Boston

At a time like this, when all is ice and snow, I like to remember the warm green of Post Office Park and all the um...people....taking their lunch break outside.

2008-01-11T09:07:00.000-05:00

Red Sox Family
I'd like to offer this to Illustration Friday's team for the subject of "stitch." I'm never entirely comfortable using an "old" illo that perfectly suits the theme, so you'd think I'd be happy to use this one which is so fresh it's not even quite done. I did it yesterday for a client, and until I had to do a Red Sox shirt, i never noticed that there is a baseball behind the socks. Those stitches....so it's a fairly literal interpretation of the theme. What can I say. Happy Drawing, Everyone!
-Genevieve

2008-01-09T14:17:00.000-05:00

GENEVIEVE SHAPIRO, PET CARTOONIST, ESQ., AT LARGE and AT YOUR SERVICE.
Genevieve Shapiro | sixoneseven-970-0133 | i n f o @genevievecartoons dot com|

So I went egosurfing to see how my PR department is doing, and I found a lot of really talented Genevieves out there in webworld. One's a ballet dancer, one is a surfer-model , one has a truly kickass hairdo. When I grow up I want to have their talents. But the one Genevieve I REALLY took a shine to, was this one. What the world needs now is naps, sweet naps.
So I'm revamping my art image/business. I had a meeting with my web designer (me) and my PR campaign manager (me) and we are gradually overhauling the website. My business manager (me) thinks we need to make the "business side" of the site more prominent, which means developing better payment options. My paypal representative (me) suggested we put "donate" buttons on the site so that the varaible costs of custom artwork can all be resolved with a single payment, instead of lots of specifically tailored buttons (one mug, $15.25, one Tshirt $24.99, one card $2.99, one photo retouch, $18.99). We all agreed to try that out. Then I talked to my photographer (me) about getting some new photos of me and my "merchandise" but she said we'd have to have a Photoshop expert (me) prep them for the web. I had to cut short the teleconference, because my sales rep (me) told me we were out of business cards and could I have the printer (me) make some more. My chef (me) catered a working lunch, while my secretary (me) took care of mail and banking stuff, and as for me? Well I have to get to work on a commission that just came in. Looks like I'm the only one left to do it.

And because you probably need a hug, here's one from me. ****

2008-01-06T07:27:00.000-05:00

Lemon Drop in Full Color!

This picture began with the phrase "Lemon Drop" - which here means someone borrowing a lemon from a neighbor. Can you find the lemon, the lemonade pitcher, and the lemon-lender? Every flying, floating and dropping object in this picture has a source - can you find out the point of origin for the bubbles, vegetables, leaves and musical notes?

2008-01-04T12:10:00.000-05:00

The Life of A Paper Towel: A Two-Part Tragedy

Greenwashing: the corporate trend towards self-proclaimed ecofriendliness. Frequently misleading.
When you pay extra money for "recycled" stuff, look for 2 things:
1) go for "post-consumer recycled content"
2) beware that the product doesn't have to be 100% recycled to claim it's a "recycled product."

If you want 100% recycled towels, use real towels and wash them!

2008-01-02T11:06:00.000-05:00

Happy 2008 from my keyboard to yours!

Gentoons is getting a spicy boost this year, as I am now working full-time as a freelance artist. My day job was so pesky, it kept getting in the way of my real life, so finally I let it go.

Look here this year for the rest of May's Halloween adventure (candy's still ok, don't worry), which was suspended during my "Help-I-Have-Two-Jobs" Phase. Look here also for more big "where's waldo?"-style illustrations, visual puzzles, and the odd graphic novel. Will there be another sack-based adventure this year? Will Space Kitty finally take another trip? Stay tuned.

I hope that when you visit this site, you will find comfort and smiles, and return to the real world refreshed and recolored. Thanks for visiting, and best wishes.

Hugs, Genevieve

2007-12-23T10:04:00.000-05:00

Happy Kissmas from Genevieve to you

2007-12-16T18:20:00.000-05:00

Friends' Meeting

2007-12-01T08:47:00.001-05:00

Carnaval Excess

Finally colored!

2007-11-25T20:54:00.000-05:00

Gentoons.com (ok ok, Genevieve Shapiro) is proud to present the 2008 Happy City Calendar - a whole year's worth of fun drawings collected into a treat that lasts a year! Makes a great and affordable present for all ages, all languages! 100% fun, zero calories!

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2007-11-18T23:12:00.000-05:00

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