The Beginning of Chocolate Arts, Formerly Known as Dark

Last updated on December 21, 2019

Why I started this website

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

So I had a nice stash of cartoons on chocolate, and eventually I pitched them to some publishers. 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! I stretched the definition of “chocolate” to mean anything sweet, but I still needed more cartoons. That meant a cake plate of new cartoons I had to do.

This is one I did under the high pressure-cooker deadline of the new book: What Do Women Really Want? Chocolate!, but  it turned to be one of my favorites. I like the simplicity of the solid black and white, no shading, and all the details. Plus, drawing little miniature versions of all these dark delicacies was fun.

I’m thinking I should make a T-shirt for Cafe Press with this on it.

(As a sidenote, I wouldn’t mind being married to the guy in this cartoon.)

In any case, because a book can’t possibly contain my interest, obsession and fascination with everything chocolate, I started this blog.

EDITED: When I started this blog, I called it Dark. I still love that title, but to be honest, milk chocolate is my favorite.