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October 13, 2009 – Halloween!
Oct 15th, 2009 by Rob Smith, Jr.

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When Ken Culotta said his son is dressing as a soldier for Halloween, I knew I wanted to do a cartoon about that. Then on Monday I heard Vince Flynn would be on Glenn’s program on Tuesday. I decided to have a child dress as Flynn’s character, Mitch Rapp. I figured to do the cartoon early and have it out the same day Flynn’s new book came out.

This was drawn on paper and scanned in. There was a bunch of digital work here involving duplicating scenes and getting the word balloons to sync.

May 15, 2009 – Pelosi Spooked
May 15th, 2009 by Rob Smith, Jr.

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Nancy, just ignore those dark cars following you everywhere.

To see the cartoon at Glenn Beck’s site click here.

She reminds me more and more of my mother, who, as she got older, seemed to be more and more detached from reality. My mother also had trouble getting some sentences out without a stumble or two. I wonder what Pelosi’s medical condition is.

Below is the penciling prior to ink and color. I worked real loose again with the pencils ’cause I was hoping to give the finished art a looser look. In the end, it’s all rather tight. That seemed to work better getting the idea of lighting. I was going to have a yellow glow from the light above Pelosi’s head, but the glow was taking away from the somewhat eerie feeling i wanted.

I essentially have two panels happening. One of Pelosi at the door and the other of something speaking in the shadows.

How do you all think it worked out in the end?

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