… in 2000 while exhibiting in “Bud City” at The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo we ran across a fellow by the name of Dave Peeks …
He made leather moccasins and one night was approached by a couple of gals who wanted him to make a set of leather bikinis …
The rest they say is history … have not seen Dave since 2000.
Mel Lothrop is a good friend of mine and fellow Caricature Artist out of San Antonio, Texas ….
For years his calling card has been the “Happy Face” ….
This was a cartoon that I did for him a few Christmas’ back in 2006.
Check out his work at http://mello-toons.com/ or his blog at http://mello-toons.blogspot.com/
… and if you are ever down in Market Square in San Antonio, Texas get your caricature done by him and you won’t be disappointed … and tell him that you heard about him from The Cartoon Cowboy!
Signed by the author John Erickson and “ACE REID”!
So I was saying the other day that this was the book I read by John Erickson that got be introduced to Jody Logsdon with Laid-Back West Syndicate and that is when I started having my cartoons published in American Cowboy, Western Horseman and Cowboy Sports & Entertainment ….
I loaned my copy out and never got it back.
I found this one on the internet the other day for $9.00.
Signed by the author John Erickson and more importantly signed by “The Greatest Cowboy Cartoonist”
“ACE REID”
When I was in Kevin’s shop I also noticed this pencil drawing hanging on the wall … Kevin said that his Granpa did this artwork in 1947 … thought it was very cool!
Check out some of Kevin’s work at ….
JP Rankin "The CARTOON COWBOY" 