Gratitude

My shining moment....when Cher's best friend Paulette arranged to have my Cher-toon grace the top of Cher's Birthday cake. I was later even more thrilled to receive a phone call from Cher requesting me to do a toon of her Mom since her Mom loved my work....a complete labor of love, I have been a lifelong Cher fan and am also a secret admirer of her fabulous Mom Georgia.

A dear friend asked me to join him in NYC for a Joan Rivers show, so what better time to create some JOAN-TOONS. I made a collection of humourous Joan Greeting cards with illustrations and rhyming jokes for her. When I arrived at the venue I gave them to the maitre'd and asked him to please give them to her backstage thinking they'd probably not make it passed the nearest trash can. Later as Joan took the stage to my enormous surprise she brought the cards onstage with her and proceeded to introduce me and my work to the audience. She bought us dinner and joked with me all evening....another shining moment I shall never forget.

I was presented with the opportunity to meet Barbara Eden and as a lifelong Jeannie fan I couldn't say no. I had been drawing her for many years and I can remember as a child I would sit for hours blinking my eyes trying move things around my bedroom. I drew up a very special collection of Jeannie-toons for her and she loved them, some of which are included in my Jeannie-toons book. Meeting her was truly magical, she's beautiful, gracious and when I looked in her eyes I was once again a little boy enchanted by the magical lady in the bottle.