Daydreaming

Chocolates and cartoons

A fun post today, politics-free.

Many of you who have been subscribers of Seeing Things for a while are familiar with the cloud-gazing cartoons that I’ve done over the past few years. I draw the same woman lying on the ground, looking up at the sky, gazing at the clouds. Every drawing has something different going on in the sky. Admittedly it’s a device for playing with ideas and, well, daydreaming in a drawing.

Now, you have the opportunity to not just look at my cloud cartoons, but you can eat one.

For the third year in a row, I’m collaborating with my friend Jonathan Doherty, a chocolatier and fellow Earlham College alum, on a collection of his chocolates. These year’s theme—Daydreams—plays off the cloud cartoons of mine I’ve shared here in the past. I drew a new cloud cartoon that will decorate the surface of the chocolates. A piece of the drawing will be on each of the 12 chocolates and when viewed together in the box they will show the whole drawing. Plus, a number of my cloud cartoons will be in a small booklet that accompanies and describes the chocolates.

This is a fun way to communicate with chocolate. And by chocolate, I mean the really good stuff, including ones made with rare heirloom cacao. Plus, ten percent of proceeds go to a charitable organization, yet to be determined (we’ll let you know when we know!). You can preorder them at clandestinechocolates.com and best not to wait, since these are a limited edition and when they’re gone, they’re gone!

See you tomorrow. Thanks for being here, as always!