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All of the cartoons below have appeared in the Coloradoan.  They are shown in order of most recent to the oldest.
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For those of you from outside NoCo, the City of Fort Collins blew $80,000 on a new logo, creating a firestorm of criticism.  The thing I like most about this cartoon is coining the term "bureaucratically obese".
 
 
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I know my cartooning career has reached it's zenith when I can do a cartoon about pine bark beetles.
 
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City Council apparently had no idea how big a can of worms they were opening when they decided to form the Holiday Decoration Task Force to "reform" their Christmas decoration policy.
 
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Who knew how much fun there could be with CSU's student newspaper's four-word (and four-letter word) editorial?
 
 
 
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I could probably make a cartooning career out of the growth vs. no-growth issue.
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Wouldn't it be nice if hell froze over on a regular basis?
 
 
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Ah, yes, the recent spat amongst the Larimer County Commissioners.....For those of you from outside northern Colorado, Commish Wagner (D) resigned because of Commish Gibson's (R) temper tantrums, while claiming Commish Rennels (R) ignored the problem. 
 
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This is one of my favorites, regarding Fort Collins pulling out of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA).  It's like pitching a no-hitter when you can get your point across with no dialogue, just the drawing.  It's also nice to know I can draw farm animals.
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I did this cartoon about 2 hours after hearing about the Virginia Tech shootings.  As a graduate of Tech, this was simultaneously the hardest and easiest cartoon I've done.
 
 
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One of my favorites, because it deals with a very complicated subject in as simple a statement as I could make.  This picture is worth WAY more than a thousand words.
 
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If people I run into remember any of my cartoons, it is usually this one.  When will they figure out how much we hate these things?  By the way, stay tuned.  I have plenty more roundabout cartoons in the idea file.
 
 
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This is the one that got it all started.  I guess you could say my cartooning hobby was caused by global warming!