On January 14th, I was so privileged to be invited to display my cartoons at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall for the Sunshine from Darkness Symposium. It was a FREE COMMUNITY EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM OPEN TO THE PUBLIC for friends, family, health care professionals and those personally diagnosed with any form of mental illness.

I was there last year and had a blast. A local printer printed up my cartoons and I gave them away to my peers. This year the printer could not help out.  I had to print them myself. My end cost was $250.00 — OUCH, but I knew that they would get into to the hands of people who could appreciate them.

Boy did they! My table was so swamped with peers grabbing my cartoons and samples of BP HOPE and Esperanza Magazines that I could not take many pictures.

I added a few things to my table this year… On the right side, I found the very first display the kids and I made in 2008…On the left is my newer folding display with my banner I got printed up. I also had my Share Care Now #4th place ranking printed up and framed.  Also added a donation jar with my new motto: “Donate CENTS to help others find their SENSE of Humor.”

I want to thank the crew at Port Charlotte Staples for printing up the cartoons and cutting them for me (Oh and making a small error and then being willing to print them up again to make sure they had a happy customer).  That is Chato, Jr working on the tablet adding peers’ e-mail addresses to our newsletter…or playing Angry Birds?  Oh, yes and this year on all the cartoons had a label with a QR code on the back of each cartoon.

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