As I wrote in the mini art bio (see “By” on the menu line), when I retired from my work as a professor in a graduate school, a local businessman hired me to ghost-write a 400-page technical book for him. To lighten up the text and to illustrate some of the points, I drew over […]
Category: Cartoon
Baking Girl (Ellis)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – July 2020 acrylic 12×12 This 12×12 painting on a canvas panel was a Christmas present for our 13-year-old granddaughter, Jenna. Her current passion is cooking and baking, which she is starting to do very well. Below is the design adapted from the Internet. We changed some colors, especially of her […]
Olaf (Ellis)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – July 2020 acrylic 12×12 Our grandson, 15-year-old Simon, was involved in a community theater production of the Disney movie, “Frozen.” His favorite character was Olaf, the Snowman. I painted this as a Christmas present for him for 2020, adding his name. The original is below: Even though he’s very much […]
It’s All in a Name
by Godfrey J. Ellis This illustration was meant to show that a person’s name was not just descriptive, it was also predictive. In other words, people tend to grow into whatever stereotype is suggested by the names that were given to them. An article in Psychology Today points out the fact that, “Names matter. Whenever […]
Plumber Finds the Ring
By Godfrey J. Ellis – Summer 2019
Listen, Don’t Talk!
by Godfrey J. Ellis – Summer 2019
Tuxedo Plumber
by Godfrey J. Ellis – Late Spring 2019 The paintings of Mont St. Michel in 1994 were the last pictures that I painted as I got caught up with life. Almost 25 years passed. At the very end of 2018, our bishop, Joe Miller, hired me to ghost write a book for him on business […]
Slam Dunk
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 2019 This was the second cartoon that I drew for the book. It is meant to be a pun on the idea of increasing one’s “net” of business contacts.
Miller’s Flour
by Godfrey J. Ellis This cartoon illustrates diversity in business meetings. The book recommended that those wanting to join what is called a “networking group” visit at least six different networking groups before deciding which one to commit to. I wrote that readers needed to make their choice with at least as much proactive care […]
On “Your Honor”
by Godfrey J. Ellis This cartoon was drawn to illustrate the balance between casual informality and stuffy formality in addressing people at business meetings. I pointed out that the popular trend in the US is to try to level the field and make everyone “equal” in every way. That’s okay in many situations, but there […]