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!
This is one I did for a Baxter Black story either for American Cowboy Magazine or Cowboy Sports and Entertainment.
… 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.
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!
” …if The Cocky Rooster Bar would have been in Dodge City…
Marshall Dillon would have drank beer there … ”
… if you are ever heading South on Hwy 87 through Comfort, Texas … hang a left and visit Wendy and Daniel at The Cocky Rooster Bar
Did this one for the owner of “The Sante Fe Junction” in San Angelo in 1996 …
Stopped in their once on my way to Lubbock with my running buddy Randy Hoofard
It was us and 3 other people …
Not one of my better pieces …
This is one that I did in 1998 with a trick roping twist!
This was the original pen and ink illustration that appeared in the April 2001 issue of Western Horseman.
This was an illustration that The Cartoon Cowboy did for Western Horseman in 2000 for “On The Edge of Common Sense”, an article written by Baxter Black that still appears in the magazine.
Here’s my latest one off the drawing board w/ a splash of color … and it is “for sale” …
“A big old whitetail from Mason County”
Texas Whitetail Buck
9″ x 12″ – Pen/Ink & Watercolor
Original – $300.00
This is a 11″ x 14″ hand colored (watercolor) print of a cartoon I did of Barney, the purple dinosaur … he was a favorite of my oldest daughter and I could only take so much of him and his barrage of happy songs …
This hand colored print is available for $75.00 plus shipping …
Send me an email if interested to niknar.toons@gmail.com
So this wraps up and 18 year span of cartoons …
I hope everyone enjoyed the historical look back
… and Happy New Year!
…. and here we have the famous and elusive “Longshot Buck”
… another cartoon that was hijacked by a fellow that was using it on one of his products.
After some outstanding detective work his deeds were uncovered and all matters were resolved.
2009 – A little spin on “The Three Amigos”
JP Rankin "The CARTOON COWBOY" 