I believe I've spent most of my waking life with a pencil or a pen in my hand.  There is just something about a sheet of paper and a brand new yellow No.2 pencil.  

Cartoons are basic to all of life. Ask anyone.  The cave paintings of France would really have been exciting given the technology of celluloid and the Disney colors.

I grew up with Looney Toons and the Warners Brothers artists, Robert Crumb and Mad magazine's Don Martin and all.

My own cartooning is what I do for fun, and I think my own universe is more like my drawings than what the rest of people around me THINK they are experiencing as reality.

When I draw quite often the character you see is me, or at least an altered  version of me - what I have been, want to be or felt like at the time.

My friends get a laugh, or I do, as long as my work connects, says something and communicates --  then I am satisfied.

I'm always surprised when I visit an old friend and discover they've mounted and framed one of my cartoons when it was something I'd scribbled for them in a passing moment for fun.

Cartooning  is unique for websites and gives your page a distinctive  look and feel - One of the simplest ways to give your website some content that people will eat up visually is to contact me at the planning stage so I can feed banner graphics or icons to your page designer.

The Haole Guy came about in 1979 on a shop window along Kapiolani Highway.

The Nimitz Market is still there, at least according to my Google Maps search, however the original window painting has somehow gone by.

I ran across the pen on paper cartoon original in my archives that I had used to rough out the painting on the glass.  So here he is, the "haole guy" as he originally looked there on the Nimitz Mart.

He's been around the world a few times and seems to be in a permanent state of " Pau Hana Time  "  Steady reminder that it's always 5 o'clock somewhere.