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Cartoon caption: "Chocolate happens, dear."

I’ve done cartoons on chocolate from the very beginning of my cartoon career, even before chocolate became acceptable, healthy, and girly, instead of some shameful vice I had to hide. (Or was that just my family? )

So I had a nice stash of cartoons on chocolate to show the editor of my proposed book on the subject.  However, once I counted them, there were only about 30 or 40. And I needed 120 cartoons for the book, which is a fat hardback! Even when I included any dessert that had chocolate as an ingredient, not just straight candy, which was always my intention, anyway, still not enough. That meant a cake plate of new cartoons I had to do.

This is one I did under the high pressure-cooker deadline of  a new book, but  it turned to be one of my favorites, in spite of my anxiety! I like the simplicity of the solid black and white, with just enough detail to make it interesting. I love the little plants in the window to get the morning sun! And the cookbooks on the shelf behind her. Plus this was SO much fun, drawing little miniature versions of all these dark delicacies.  

His expression is priceless. You know he really has no interest in the food, but he is tolerant, and realizes these will probably be on the dinner table for a while. Plus, this caption – chocolate happens – is so much more pleasant than that other nasty one, – you know the one I mean. (Hey, great slogan to kick off my not yet set up Cafe Press store! What a t-shirt this would make!)

And because a book can’t contain my interest, obsession and fascination with everything chocolate, this blog begins.