Getting close to Valentines’ Day …
The Cartoon Cowboy is feeling romantic …
If your looking for a place to take your significant other … you can always hang out at “THE COCKY ROOSTER” and listen to George Strait!
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Posted: February 8, 2014 in Black and White
Tags: Amarillo By Morning, Cartoon, Free Hot Dogs, George Strait, Hot Dogs, JP Rankin, The Cartoon Cowboy, The Cocky Rooster, Valentines Day
Are any of you looking for a “UNIQUE” birthday gift or birthday card for that special someone …
If so then give me a shout ( niknar.toons@gmail.com ) and we will see what we can come up with for you.
This is one we did for my good friend and Western Artist – Rick McCumber …
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Posted: February 7, 2014 in Black and White
Tags: Birthday Cards, Freak Show, Josephine Street Cafe, JP Rankin, Rick McCumber, Sideshow, The Cartoon Cowboy
Well Folks … it’s time once again for The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo so that means the obligatory FOUR PIG MEN of the Apocolypse cartoon …
It’s was “thought up” in 2001 at the rodeo after splitting a bottle of tequila …
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Posted: February 6, 2014 in Full Color
Tags: Apocolypse, Cowboys, JP Rankin, Miss Kitty, Pigs, San Antonio, San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, The Cartoon Cowboy, The Four Horsemen
This is a hand drawn and lettered logo that I did for Wildorado Silverworks back in 1999 …
I do believe they are still using this one!
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Posted: February 6, 2014 in Logos
Tags: Amarillo, Silversmith, Wildorado Silverworks
… for any of you out there that have ever questioned the “quality” or the “validity” of “PEARL BEER in a can”
This photo should remove all doubts.
This photo taken by The Cartoon Cowboy captured a “halo” encircling a Pearl Beer can proving that ….
… PEARL BEER in a can tastes “heavenly”
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Posted: February 6, 2014 in Photos
Tags: JP Rankin, Pearl Beer, Pearl Brewery, San Antonio, The Cartoon Cowboy
This was my Great Grandmother and the daughter of Captain Lee Williamson whose photo I posted earlier tonight …
She married Walter B. Rankin and that started the whole thing!
Maude Katherine Williamson Rankin
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Posted: February 4, 2014 in Uncategorized
Tags: JP Rankin, Maude Rankin, Rankin
“IT’S A CADILLAC” !!!
This was a 1974 Cadillac and my mode of transportation in 1983!
The driver side door was candy apple red so I always carried a spray can full of “white krylon” paint …
Everytime I went through the car wash the paint came off!
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Posted: February 3, 2014 in Photos
Tags: Cadillac, JP Rankin, The Cartoon Cowboy
This is a photo of my Dad, Robert “Bob” Rankin that was taken somewhere around 1947-48 …
He rode this motorcycle up the fire escape slide at the old Tivy High School – which is now Peterson Middle School.
Seemed like a good plan until he had to come down backwards and it didn’t end well.
My Grandpa picked gravel out of his elbows with a pair of needle nose pliers …
from left to right in the photo –
My Grandfather JB Rankin, Aunt Alyne (Rankin) Harvill, Grandmother (Mama Pearl), Robert “Bob” Rankin, Uncle Stanley Rankin and Aunt, Betty Jean (Rankin) Tracy
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Posted: February 3, 2014 in Black and White, Photos
Tags: JB Rankin, Kerrville, Pearl, Rankin, Robert Rankin, Tivy High School
This was a cartoon that I did in 2005 the night by Father passed away …
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Posted: February 3, 2014 in Black and White
Tags: Death, Empty Saddles, JP Rankin, Robert D. Rankin, The Cartoon Cowboy, The Old Corral
This was my Great, Great Grandfather on my Father’s side of the family
Captain Lee Williamson
1st Sheriff of Kerr County, Texas
from 1856-1859
He died in downtown Kerrville, Texas in 1911 at the site of the old post office when he dropped dead of a heart attack.
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Posted: February 3, 2014 in Famous People, Photos
Tags: Kerr County, Kerrville Texas, Lee Williamson, Rankin
In 1995 my wife Sam and I produced an advertising placemat around Kerrville, Boerne and Fredericksburg, Texas …
This was what got me started in the World of Cartooning – pretty much up to that point I was a caricature artist only.
If you look real close at Santa’s list you can see he was taking notes on a notepad from Herring Printing Company in Kerrville!
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Posted: February 2, 2014 in Black and White
Tags: JP Rankin, The Cartoon Cowboy
This is one I did for a Baxter Black story either for American Cowboy Magazine or Cowboy Sports and Entertainment.
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Posted: February 2, 2014 in Full Color
Tags: American Cowboy Magazine, Enid Oklahoma, JP Rankin, The Cartoon Cowboy
… 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.
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Posted: February 2, 2014 in Famous People, Other Artists
Tags: Cool Shoes, Dave Peek, JP Rankin, Mocassins, The Cartoon Cowboy
This is a cartoon that was given to me by a friend and fellow cartoonist from Bandera, Texas, Bill Stevens.
Bill has done a cartoon series called, “The Bull Pen,” which is featured in CALF News Magazine.
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Posted: February 2, 2014 in Famous People, Full Color
Tags: Bandera Texas, Bill Stevens, Bill Stevens Cowboy Artist, Cowboy Artist, Cowboy Cartoonist
Here is a caricature that I did of my friend and “World Famous Cowboy Singer” Jeff Gore.
… and yes his mustache really is that big!
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Posted: February 2, 2014 in Black and White, Famous People
Tags: Cowboy Singer, Jeff Gore, JP Rankin, The Cartoon Cowboy
JP Rankin "The CARTOON COWBOY" 