some of my cartoons

Here are 4 of my characters I have used for cartoons in my workshops over the past 40 years but not seriously since 2001 when a woman from Kuala Lumpur asked me to draw 10 drawings illustrating key stories across my life, during CPSI before I began my first trip around the world that included two short stays in Kuala Lumpur.

She was writing a book about a series of creative people from around the world she had met.

These are the ten cartoons I gave her in 2001.

I actually drew all of them during my 9 hr plane ride from

Brisbane, Australia to Kuala Lumpur where I met her and invited her to attend one of the workshops I was doing there. Unfortunately she never published her book. Story 1 - how I became a licensed architect from early childhood

Often over the past 40 years I have used a variety of exercises involving BALLOONS around the world.

Me and my drowning in a sea of BROKEN CRAYONS

Me doing a workshop with my character MR. CRAYON

my first clown character: Dr. I. L. Create. I brought him to CPSI first in 1980 and then again in the 1980s

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From 1950 to 1962 each Summer my parents and I traveled around the US to all of the mainland 48 states, Canada from Windsor to Montreal. One of my mother's 4 sisters lived in Toronto. Mexico just south of San Antonio.

Because I went to Wayne State University for speech correction and hearing tests so often we had a family story that said I graduated from Wayne State before I entered kindergarten.

this is a joke from when Merry and I stopped in a restaurant in Delft and I asked for my cappa "mit slag" Mit slag was or is slang for with slagroom (whipped cream) and a custom in Amsterdam not practiced in Delft.

this is a cartoon showing my life for many years

I took a 5 week evening class from my speaker friend Jeff Justice, a experience traveling stand-up

comedian and comic writer for Sienfeld and others for 20 years until he quite to become a speaker instead The class was about Stand-Up Comedy

this is me acting our a cartoon that was one of my favorites about speaking.

throughout the last 41 years of traveling internationally I have lost many, many umbrellas, almost one in every country.

this is my cartoon of my chosen nickname Wandering Alan

Thanks for the inspiration through your AMANDA cartoons Diane