A long time friend and cartoonist left this cartoon on my desk the other morning after spending the night in my B no B hotel home. It pretty much says it:

The next day, he sent me this one:

I first published Charlie Loving's cartoons over 40 years ago. Back then, he was doing a Nuncio Narc 13 cartoon series in the RAG, our underground newspaper. Nuncio was an incompetent DEA agent who was always finding himself in laughable situations. Since those days, Charlie has been a weatherman, a sportscaster, a mud salesman, a TV station builder, and the list just goes on.

Most importantly, I rode with Charlie the first time we drove to Real de Catorce where he lived for a few years. It was Charlie Loving who turned me on to Humberto, and Ed, and Charlie and Cora, and all my many friends in that enchanted town 9000 feet high in the state of San Luis Potosi.

Now he lives west of Leakey, Texas with his wife Rae, oddly enough in Real County.

And he still draws and paints everywhere he goes, at every time of day or night.

You can reach him on facebook as Charles Igor Loving.