1) Aaron Squires ‎”….And the healthy family stuff too!”

2) Chuck Kramer ‎”Err…and for what they said.”

3) Paul Oster “Is this an adult cartoon? I dont want to offend anyone.”

4) David Felts ‎”It’s funny how much a pelican looks like a turkey.”

5) Harvey Heilbrun ‎”Did I say that out loud?”

6) Erin Michaud Engenhart “‎*sigh* Did I just say that out loud?”

7) Jessica Woloszyn “oh and of course good will and all that……wait no I’ll stick with my first one.”

Phill Becker ‎”and that the pelican is at #occupythanksgiving”

9) Debbie McMerty Brew ”….and since we’ll all be asleep in an hour, you’re welcome and Goodnight.”

Contact:
David Leonardis
dlg@howardfinstervisionhouse.com
312-863-9045
1346 N. Paulina St.,
Chicago, IL 60622

“FINE TOONED:” An art exhibition by syndicated cartoonist, Tony Rubino, whose work appears, daily in the “Chicago Sun-Times”
To be held at the Howard Finster Vision House Chicago
May 6 — June 1, 2011
Reception: May 6^th and 7^th, 6:00 PM — 9:00 PM

Cartoonist & “Sun-Times” contributor Premiers Art Exhibition in Chicago

You’ve seen his popular comic strip, “Daddy’s Home,” in The “Chicago Sun-Times,” where it is featured, every day. Now, New York artist, Tony Rubino comes to The Howard Finster Vision House Chicago with his premier fine art exhibition.

Tony Rubino is the creator of the Internationally Syndicated Comic Strip, “Daddy’s Home,” which appears in more than 200 newspapers and websites and is read by 15 Million people every day. www.gocomics.com/daddyshome

“I started cartooning in junior high to impress the chicks,” says Rubino,  “a strategy that failed epically.”

In addition to his syndicated comic, Tony has contributed writing and art to publications such as: “MAD Magazine,” “National Lampoon,” and “Cracked.” He’s written “nine or ten books (I forget),” he says, including, “Why Didn’t I Think of That, 101 Inventions That Changed The World By Hardly Trying,” and the pop culture classic, “Life Lessons from Elvis,” Tony’s words and designs can also be seen on product lines, including calendars, posters and apparel, sold in stores and catalogs like: Bloomingdale’s, Lord and Taylor, Wal-Mart, Spencer’s Gifts, Signals, and Wireless. He is also an accomplished creative director and art director for the advertising and marketing industries. www.rubinocreative.com

This eclectic range of disciplines is immediately apparent in his exhibition.

“I love this medium,” says Rubino. “It allows so much freedom, and gives me the opportunity to punctuate what I do. I’m able to focus different forms of my art on each canvas. In some pieces I pick up where my cartoon leaves off on the printed page. I extend certain premises or themes from the comic into a more abstract arena. So, you’ll recognize some of the art from, ‘Daddy’s Home.’ But in other cases I go off in directions that have nothing to do with cartoons and comment on pop culture, celebrity, nostalgia technology, or whatever else is rattling around in my head.”

Indeed, Rubino’s fusion of humor, wit, cartooning and graphic design make for an impressive debut. Twelve pieces are on display at The Howard Finster Vision House, and when you see them, you immediately know you’re looking at something new— something different.

“It’s Pop Art with a twist.”

The show runs from May 6th through June 1.
Opening reception is May 6^th and 7th from 6-9pm.
The Howard Finster Vision House Chicago is located at 1346 N. Paulina St., Chicago, IL 60622
312-863-9045
http://www.dlg-gallery.com/index_2.html
For more information and images please contact David Leonardis at 312-863-9045 or dlg@howardfinstervisionhouse.comTony Rubino can be reached at:
Email: rubinocreative@aol.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/daddyshomepete
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Daddys-Home/175279239689?ref=ts
Show Preview: http://www.flickr.com/photos/41309261@N04/sets/72157626472443684/

www.rubinocreative.com

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Contact:
Tony Rubino
rubinocreative@aol.com
“FINE TOONED:” An art exhibition by syndicated, cartoonist,
Tony Rubino, at the Howard Finster Vision House Chicago
May 6 — June 1, 2011
Reception: May 6^th and 7^th, 6:00 PM — 9:00 PM
Howard Finster Vision House Chicago1346 N. Paulina St., Chicago, IL 60622

Syndicated Cartoonist, Tony Rubino, Debuts Art Exhibition in Chicago

Rubino is debuting his first fine art exhibit at The Howard Finster Vision House in Chicago, where his cartoon strip, “Daddy’s Home,” appears, daily in The “Chicago Sun-Times.” www.gocomics.com/daddyshome

“I started cartooning in junior high to impress the chicks,” says Rubino,  “a strategy that failed epically, so I figured I’d try something else.”

In addition to his syndicated comic, Tony has contributed writing and art to publications such as: “MAD Magazine,” “National Lampoon,” and “Cracked.” He’s written “nine or ten books (I forget),” he says, including, “Why Didn’t I Think of That, 101 Inventions That Changed The World By Hardly Trying,” and the pop culture classic, “Life Lessons from Elvis,” Tony’s words and designs can also be seen on product lines, including calendars, posters and apparel, sold in stores and catalogs like: Bloomingdale’s, Lord and Taylor, Wal-Mart, Spencer’s Gifts, Signals, and Wireless. He is also an accomplished creative director and art director for the advertising and marketing industries. www.rubinocreative.com

This eclectic range of disciplines is immediately apparent in his exhibition.

“I love this medium,” says Rubino. “It allows so much freedom, and gives me the opportunity to punctuate what I do. I’m able to focus different forms of my art on each canvas. In some pieces I pick up where my cartoon leaves off on the printed page. I extend certain premises or themes from the comic into a more abstract arena. So, you’ll recognize some of the art from, ‘Daddy’s Home.’ But in other cases I go off in directions that have nothing to do with cartoons and comment on pop culture, celebrity, nostalgia technology, or whatever else is rattling around in my head.”

Indeed, Rubino’s fusion of humor, wit, cartooning and graphic design make for an impressive debut. Twelve pieces are on display at The Howard Finster Vision House, and when you see them, you immediately know you’re looking at something new— something different.

“It’s Pop Art with a twist.”

The show runs from May 6th through June 1. Opening reception is May 6^th and 7th from 6-9pm.

The Howard Finster Vision House Chicago is located at 1346 N. Paulina St., Chicago, IL 60622, 312-863-9045 http://www.dlg-gallery.com/index_2.html

For more information on the show please contact David Leonardis at 312-863-9045 or dlg@howardfinstervisionhouse.com

Tony Rubino can be reached at:
Email: rubinocreative@aol.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/daddyshomepete
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Daddys-Home/175279239689?ref=ts
Show Preview:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41309261@N04/sets/72157626472443684/

www.rubinocreative.com

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“Okay son do you have an app for this?”

Way to go Jessica!

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2)
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Voting ends 11/12/10

FINALISTS:

(1)  “Okay son do you have an app for this?”
Jessica Woloszyn, Ottawa

(2)  “I wish there was some way to get rid of these hiccups!”
Dave Kalsch, Chicago

(3)  “How long did you say it takes cured meats to get bad?”
Yigael Ben-Natan

(4)  “I found the eyeballs, but were are the meatballs?”
Rob Moran, Milwaukee

(5)  “Isn’t this the dude that used to be under Eliot’s bed?”
William Franke, Bismarck, MN

(6)  “Why is it always MY turn to feed the Ocelot?”
(yeah… just because he said “Ocelot”)
Gregory B. Gregory, Milwaukee

HAPPY Voting!

Tony

Once before a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and bleary,
Over many a volume from yonder Comics store,
In my bed, but not napping, suddenly there came a flapping,
As if something wildly slapping, slapping at my chamber door.
`’Tis my mother,’ said I, `Vexing at my chamber door –
Only this and nothing more.’

Startled I let slip my tome down upon my bedroom floor,
Sincerely I felt sorrow, because this magazine, I did borrow,
Must give it back upon the morrow; give it back to Sidney Shore -
Sid has had, since School of Grammar, “Explicit Content” comics of every manner -
Good for this and nothing more.

If my mother spied my shame, surely the Devil she would blame,
So thinking fast I hid “Ye Old MAD Magazine” behind my chamber pot on the floor,
My heart beating, senses heightened I stood repeating,
`Surely I locked my chamber door, Mother will not catch me like before,’

My booty exposed no longer, my confidence then grew stronger,
`Ma,’ said I, `A moments peace, please, I implore!
Mother, the fact is I was napping, when you came so gently rapping,
Soon your gums they will be flapping, flapping at my chamber door,
Why must you be such a bore’ – and here I opened wide the door -
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Deep into that darkness peering, squinting I stood leering.
My eyes examining the empty spot where my Mother was not standing on the floor,
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
Then I heard one word spoken, a whispered word, `Lenore.’
This I whispered, to myself and wondered, ‘Who the hell’s Lenore?’
This I muttered, nothing more.

Once again sly and crafty, my thoughts returning to Al Jaffee,
Soon again I heard a flapping somewhat louder than before,
`Ma,’ said I, `Why must you hover? Hover by my door?’
Let me learn of what she seeks, her meddling I’ll explore -
Then I saw him stagger slightly – swagger toward me on the floor,
‘Twas a Raven that had rammed, slammed into my bedroom door.

Cringing somewhat with a shudder, when, with many flirt and flutter,
Entering Raven found me wonder, ‘What the hell is he here for?’
With beating wings true and pure, he perched above my chamber door -
Perched, and stared, and nothing more.

This ebony bird beguiling set my young face to smiling,
By the grave and stern expression of confusion that he wore,
`Why are you here my friend,’ said I, ‘Why do you perch above my door?’
The Raven seemed annoyed and croaked,
‘Like I said before: Lenore!’

Not expecting fowl, ungainly to speak so very plainly,
Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore,
For we cannot help agreeing, young or old, no human being,
Ever yet was cursed with seeing a speaking bird above his door -
Not in this nor days of lore.
And what was this about Lenore?

But the Raven, sitting lonely upon the frame, spoke only,
That one word, as if not sure I was the one he should implore.
Nothing further then he uttered – not a feather then he fluttered -
‘Til I scarcely more than muttered, `I know no person named, Lenore.’
Curtly consulting scrap of paper, as if to confirm his night’s caper,
He looked upon me as before,
Quote the Raven, Nevermore????’

Our confused stares unbroken, by reply so aptly spoken,
`Bird,’ said I, `Of this place you visit, are you certain, are you sure?’
He scratched his head and said, ‘Young Master, this surely is a disaster,
I’ve been down this block three times or more – is this not number 504?’
Said I, ‘you want the house next door.’
Quote the Raven, ‘Are you sure?!’

‘Yes,’ said I, ‘Odd raven, if I may be so brazen,
I am in the right, perhaps you had too long a flight,
You must be cursed with vision poor, for of this one thing I am sure,
The Allen Poe house next door is 504. ‘Tis 502 on this, my door.’
Asked the raven, ‘The house with the Sycamore?’
‘Yes,’ said I, and nothing more.
Quote the Raven, ‘Son of a whore!’

‘Damned directions!’ he did utter, and some curses did he mutter,
As his wings began to flutter, landing him back on my floor,
Out went he into the night and quite frantic was his flight,
Until completely out of sight – no longer at my chamber door,
But not before he left a gift, and not a pleasant one was this,
I rolled my eyes and thought, ‘what more -
Now, too, I must clean the floor?’
This I thought and nothing more.

As I stood, I conjectured, ‘At Poe’s house this bird must be expected,
And if there too he rejected, of this abuse he’ll take no more,
For whether he be Crow or Grouse, his quest this night for proper house,
Will end right there forever more.’

Raven gone, I was glad and too at once, a little sad,
For that silly bird was not so bad, when he perched upon my door,
Then all at once I felt a shiver and trembling I did quiver,
For by now he was at the door of the Poe house with the Sycamore,
And surely speaks the word, ‘Lenore,’
Though to my ears this had no meaning in recollection,
Edgar next door may be gleaning darker meaning in this word,
‘Lenore.’

For with Raven’s errand interrupted, his intended task disrupted,
Now in most bad of moods, this once lost bird now surely broods,
And if at first he, more or less, wished to bring happiness,
From this lost soul called Lenore,
Now so flustered and so shaken, his message may be mistaken,
I fear this fowl in foul of mood will come across as bleak and rude,
And poor Poe in the house next door will be the same, no more.

Though not completely to my taste, to me this time was not a waste,
For a lesson I did learn and to the night impart in turn:

‘When a demon comes to visit before engaging ask, “Who is it,”
Before he causes you distress, be sure he’s got the right address.
If he belong there you determine, and entry gain you let this vermin,
Beware! For, right before he may have darkened the wrong door,
And come to you with mood effected, of his intentions he not sure –

Before you think his message crude; believe he be of Satan’s brood;
This bird with manner bleak and lewd;
Might just be in a “lousy mood.”’

This I’ll say… nothing more.
And with that I closed my door.

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SEE: “Daddy’s Home,” 10/31/10:
http://www.gocomics.com/daddyshome

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Didnt-Think-That-Inventions/dp/144050010X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4

See, “Daddy’s Home,” 10/18/10: http://www.gocomics.com/daddyshome

Ever watch a television show or movie that has a birthday party scene and notice something missing? There’s the cake and balloons and even sometimes a little Pin the Tail on the Donkey, but usually they never actually sing “Happy Birthday.” (Watch for it next time.) Why? Well as it turns out, every time the melody and lyrics are used in a broadcast, royalties must be paid to Warner Communications. That’s right. Someone makes money off of that little ditty. The company bought the rights to the song from Burch Tree Group, Ltd. in 1988 for . . .  $25 million! I know! Especially when you consider that the melody was originally crafted as a morning sing-along for school children. As it turns out, “Happy Birthday to You” started as “Good Morning to All” in 1859. Written by schoolteacher Mildred J. Hill, the classroom greeting switched it lyrics to celebrate growing a year older in 1893. It wasn’t copyrighted until 1935. Although it’s used conservatively, the song still reportedly generates $2 million per year in royalties.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Didnt-Think-That-Inventions/dp/144050010X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4

It’s a lot of this:

And some of this:

A good bit of this sort of thing:

Occurrences of this:

A decent amount of this (which is nice):

A little bit of this:

Some of this:

But mostly this:

http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/

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It’s super-fantastically, easy to enter. Simply write the winning caption in Pete’s dialog bubble above and see your cartoon published in newspapers and online. Remember, space is limited so you have to be funny in 82 characters or less (including spaces and punctuation).

How to Enter (3 easy steps):

1) Become a Facebook fan by clicking “LIKE” on the “Daddy’s Home” Facebook page. Connect here (or click the Facebook link on my homepage).

2) Send an email to daddyshomepete@aol.com and answer the following questions in your email (you can simply paste the following questions into your email and answer each one (the ones with an asterisk are required):

*NAME (FIRST AND LAST)

AGE

*E-MAIL

PHONE NO. (OPTIONAL)

*WHERE DO YOU READ “DADDY’S HOME”?

*WRITE YOUR CAPTION (82 WORDS OR LESS, INCLUDING SPACES AND CHARACTERS)

YOU MAY WISH TO CHOOSE YOUR BONUS PRIZE NOW (GIVEN TO THE TOP 3 FINALISTS) AT: www.cafepress.com/daddyshomestore

3) VOTE for your favorite captions between 11/2/10 (of course) – 11/12/10 at: http://www.daddyshomepage.com/

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

Tony and Gary will narrow down the entries to a final three or six or whatever. From there, fans, friends, peers and you will take over and vote for their/your favorite. The winner will be announced on 11/15/10, at www.daddyshomepage.com. Check back frequently for updates at: www.daddyshomepage.com.

PRIZES:

Second place will receive the “Daddy’s Home” product of their choosing. See: www.cafepress.com/daddyshomestore.

The grand prizewinner will receive the autographed original cartoon strip with his or her “gag” in Pete’s dialog bubble, and a Pie! Thaaaaat’s right… A pie. The winner will also see their name and caption published worldwide.

TIMELINE:

• SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY NO LATER THAN: Midnight, 11/1/10

• CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THE WINNING CAPTION BETWEEN: 11/2/10 – 11/12/10

• WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON 11/15/10 at: www.daddyshomepage.com

THE WINNING CAPTION WILL RUN WITH YOUR NAME ON THE CARTOON, WORLDWIDE IN NEWSPAPERS AND ON WEBSITES, DECEMBER, 2010.

Good luck, Mr. Phelps.