… I was out having coffee with the girls (Mollie and Maggie) this morning.
One reason I am glad I don’t wake up in the city.
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… meanwhile at “The Cocky Rooster Bar”
Posted: November 25, 2014 in UncategorizedTags: Comfort Texas, Cowboy Cartoonist, JP Rankin, Rankin, The Cartoon Cowboy, The Cocky Rooster Bar
… if you are going to start something you might as well finish it!
If you don’t think stuffed toads are funny then you don’t know what funny is !
THE CARTOON COWBOY – Live At The Jersey Lilly
Posted: November 16, 2014 in UncategorizedTags: JP Rankin, Judge Roy Bean, Langtry Texas, Law West of the Pecos, Lillie Langtry, The Cartoon Cowboy
Ol’ Judge Roy Bean’s place was always a favorite place of my Dad’s … of course when he went there for the first time in the early 1950’s it wasn’t anything like it is today.
The State of Texas has stepped in and made everything around there real fancy …
Still a place I like to visit on occasion.
They say this place is 2 miles from water and 2 feet from HELL !
… some more graffiti – off of HWY 90 headed West to Sanderson @ a Scenic Overlook
Posted: November 16, 2014 in Uncategorized
These were and are my uncles – remembering them on Veteran’s day 2014
At the start of World War I, my grandfather Daniel Dewy Mooney and his brother on April 16, 1917 quit school and enlisted in the Army, his brother Joseph enlisted in the Navy.
The Cartoon Cowboy’s lucky day … I go in to a Flea market in Bandera, Texas today and I see hanging on the wall a frame with a “Mad Jack” Hanks cartoon in it.
The price on the cartoon was $8.00, well upon closer inspection I discover that the cartoon is actually a “Mad Jack” original and vendor selling it has no idea.
So The Cartoon Cowboy is now the proud owner of this “Mad Jack” original cartoon.
I have always been a big fan of the comic strip “Frank and Ernest”
I cut this out of the paper about 20+ years ago and still have it.
It may be one of my all time favorite comic strips.
I got in to the business of cartooning through drawing caricatures. Sometime in 1990 I met a three caricature artists that performed in and around the San Antonio area. One was a professional artist and illustrator that went by the name of “Doc Haliday”.
The other is Mel, a freelance artist who is still one of the most active and prolific caricature artist in San Antonio and if your lucky you can catch him at the San Antonio Rodeo in February or on any given weekend in “El Mercado”.
The third one operated and ran a group of caricature artist that was known around town as “The Infamous Cartoon Posse” and he was known by many as “Kidd Cardona”. Kidd received the honor of being named as the “Official Cowboy Caricature Artist of Texas”.
I have not seen Kidd in many years and not sure of his whereabouts, but as I was stumbling through some old cartoon artifacts I ran across this photo of Kidd.
I think it is important to sometimes stop and remember those that had an influence on your career as all three of the did on mine.
… here’s one from the other night @ Comfort Little Theater
Snake Farm – It’s A Reptile House
Posted: May 11, 2014 in UncategorizedTags: Lone Star Beer, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Snake Farm
You never really know where your inspiration will come from …. and if you drink to many Lone Star Beers … well … you won’t remember it either!
“GOD BLESS RAY WYLIE HUBBARD”
On a table at Luckenbach, Texas
Posted: May 3, 2014 in UncategorizedTags: Armadillo, Hondo Crouch, Lone Star Beer, Luckenbach
A quick “sharpie” sketch I did on the table at Luckenbach last Sunday …
Look for it next time your there and take a picture of it for me!
“God Bless Hondo Crouch” — at Luckenbach Bar.
JP Rankin "The CARTOON COWBOY" 