You Sure Are A Lot Uglier In Person
Update: My children’s book, Fred The Coconut, is now live on Amazon, and available for purchase. 
You can find it here.
What’s it about? Here’s the blurb from the back cover.
It’s a fast-paced picture book suitable for ages 3-9, with plenty of jokes for both kids and parents.
Fred’s getting some great 5-star reviews– like this one:
Oh, my goodness! “Fred the Coconut” really is one of those books that you and your kids will read and reread again and again, delighting in the story as well as the illustrations. You’ve got to love our hero, Fred: he takes his wild, unexpected experiences in stride, staying curious and finding the best in each situation.
The entire storyline and text are light, fast-moving and wonderfully surprising. Mark has cleverly illustrated all sorts of creatures with endlessly funny and apt facial expressions and body language, as well as hilarious quips and thought bubbles.
This book is obviously a labor of love, including a love for making kids and their parents laugh and connect with each other and with our amazing world. You’ve done it, Mark! Thanks for a terrifically original and delightful book.
Need a great gift for a child or grandchild? Head on over to Amazon and pick up Fred The Coconut! 👍🥥😊
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Inside Counsel Magazine has a humor feature called Strange Suits. Each month they send me summaries of four oddball lawsuits. I sketch out ideas, the editors pick the one they like best.
And the winner is: Subscribers are suing an online matchmaking company, claiming many of the site’s profiles are inactive or fake.
They claim the bogus profiles are used as bait to get people to join and pay a monthly subscription fee.
Scroll down to see the sketches for all four cases.
IHOP, the International House of Pancakes, decided to drop a suit against the International House of Prayer, a church using the same acronym: IHOP.
The pancake house had originally claimed trademark infringement, and argued that the public might associate the pancake house with a particular faith.
A suit involving rival kitty litter manufacturers. An ad campaign claimed that cats prefer one brand to the other.
Arm & Hammer is arguing that Clorox’s independent study– which involved cats choosing between two litter boxes– was flawed.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich is suing a Congressional cafeteria over a “dangerous” sandwich wrap it sold him in 2008.
Kucinich is suing for $150,000, and claims the sandwich contained unpitted olives which caused dental injuries, pain and suffering. 
And here’s the original sketch for the matchmaking site with the phony profiles:
