I often refer to my style as Cartoonism, a term I have been using to describe my artwork, beginning with my first public exhibit in November of 2002.I had already completed fourteen pieces for my premier show, but I still felt like something was missing. I needed a title piece to pull it all together, which would require the incorporation of all the elements present in my works: things like checkerboards, teeth, tongues, and fingers. My pictorial pyramid lacked a capstone, if you will.
I started thinking about past movements in art, and the superfluous usage of the suffix, "ism". It was this line of thought that yielded "cartoonism".
I consider Cartoonism more like a cool joke; it's not really meant to be taken seriously. You won't find any forty-page manifesto written by me explaining some underlying political agenda or the movement's relevance in the art world.
