Accomplished cartooning genius Chris Garrison has started a great new blog - Salty ‘Ham Cartooneestas, which features Birmingham Alabama area cartoonists. I’m honored to be included on the blog with some of our area’s best cartoonist. Check it out at http://saltyhamcartooneestas.blogspot.com/.

Wow it has been a heck of a long time since I updated this blog.

But things have been busy… I’ve getting ready to launch about 3 new web sites and getting fired up on a few more. I hope to be able to put some time into working on some new illustrations over the next couple of months. Just this past week I started working with Lawler Ballard Van Durand on their Smithfield.com project. I’m currently just helping with small graphic and content updates to the site. But it did give me an excuse to work on some seasonal vector illustrations this past weekend.

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Working with a local creative firm NorthSouth, I launched a new web site this week for a free 1411 service here in Birmingham called Infophone. Basically you give them a call, and rather than pay a $1.25 for an address or phone number they make you listen to a 15 second ad while they find your information. On top of that, they’ll help you find out anything you need to know (within reason). Check them out yourself by calling 205-870-1411 or visiting callinfophone.com.

Godbit is apparently a fairly popular site featuring Christian web design. So digging into it a little I clicked on a link for “featured sites”. Low and behold one of the recent sites is actually a church I grew up near(and somewhat in) - Trinity United Methodist. I was never a member, but visited Trinity every Wednesday night for Boy Scout meetings for 7 years, and regularly for other scouting and local events. I’m always amazed at the local connections you can find online without meaning to. I’ve got to give Trinity a pat on the back. It’s a great site and another great piece of inspiration for our own new church site.

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