Seattle residents Lindsey and husband Mike met Doug at the April 4-5 Emerald City Comicon but decided to get their personalized copy of Unpublished Sneyd during this first visit to Comic-Con.
Alison and George - Doug told Alison the cowboy hat really gave her attitude.
After the 6-9 p.m. preview night, Doug, our friend Craig from England (left) and I thoroughly enjoyed a quiet dinner at Donovan's Steak & Chop House, 6th and K St. in the Gaslamp District. The food was delicious; Jeremy's service "impeccable."
Craig attends Comic-Con every 2 years; so we had a lot to catch up on concerning our travels, his art collection, etc.
Allen, a free lance illustrator originally from Atlanta, Georgia, enjoyed talking with Doug while he sketched his signature bunny profile.
While Doug was personalizing Unpublished Sneyd for Ashleymarie, an illustrator/student, they discussed art technique as well as watercolor and pen preferences.
Doug has been a cartoonist for Playboy magazine since 1964.
For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-60's, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into cinema: in 1993, he wrote, produced and directed "Black-eyed Susan," an educational movie-drama about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Thirty of his full-page color Playboy cartoons are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969 he moved his family north to Orillia made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. He works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.