Vegetable Impossible

At an abandoned phone booth on East 4th Street, in Reno Nevada, near an abandoned Motel, next to an abandoned Volkswagen, our hero receives a call...

Good morning, Mr. Hopkins. The Destination Marketing Organization, Discover Lancaster will be at the Reno Sparks Convention Center this weekend promoting Lancaster County Pennsylvania. They're looking for a Caricaturist to draw guests at their booth during the convention. However, this won't be your ordinary Caricature Event. Your mission, Mike, should you choose to accept it, is to draw Discover Lancaster's guests as vegetables. As always, should you or any member of Michael Hopkins Event Caricatures (I’m the only member) be caught drawing guests as fruit of any kind of meat products, The Michael Hopkins Cartoons Blog Association will disavow all knowledge of your actions. This phone booth will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Mike.

Mission accepted and here are a few highlights ...

The HondaJet Caricature

The HondaJet

By Michael Hopkins 01/08/2026

I created this drawing on 11"x14" Canson Mixed Media drawing paper with (my favorite pens), Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens. My fascination with this badass little business jet began while disguised as a mild mannered Aircraft Fueler working for

The Daily Planet and watching this beauty roll down the taxiway.

Trust me, this business jet is amazing. I think I’ll purchase one as soon as I sell about a billion more of my drawings at The Michael Hopkins Caricatures Online Store (I’m waiting…) Also, I think I’ll hire this goofball to fly it for me, at least till I learn how to fly.

I know he’s taken a few flying lessons and he’s probably cheaper than a qualified pilot.…Oh..and his mom’s, well...fascinating.

You can read more about this aircraft at The Honda Aircraft Company

If you buy one, tell Honda you referred by Michael Hopkins, Cartoonist Extraordinaire

 

Simplification

We’re going to simplify some shit this year at the Ye Olde Michael Hopkins Cartoons Factory. I feel like my art output has been compromised by my chase down the Information Super Highway, in an effort to promote the art. Although I understand the need for the promotion of my art, I also need to find a way to promote the ole drawings while leaving more time for the creation of the drawings.

As such, my first step is to eliminate my website, Michael Hopkins Cartoons. Long before I created that website, I already had The Michael Hopkins Cartoons Blog. However, some wise wabbit came along and told me that I weally needed a website. Duh, that sounds like a good idea…so I created the website!

Since the website was created in early 2025, let's look at visitors for each site since the beginning of ‘25, shall we?

Michael Hopkins Cartoons - 887 views

Michael Hopkins Cartoons Blog -19,400 views

Nuff said eh? But just to elaborate…both sites have the same information and both sites direct you to my other stuff (The Michael Hopkins Cartoons Online Store, My webcomics, Missed Approach and Cosmic Fowl, etc…). Also, in my opinion, The Michael Hopkins Cartoons Blog is much more entertaining. 

Simplified.

Also,I have now directed Instagram posts to the Michael Hopkins Cartoons Facebook Page instead of those posts being directed to my personal Facebook page.

Simplified.

More simplification to come!

Michael

BLLBF

I've been obsessed with YouTube Thrill Seekers videos lately. This latest YouTube obsession was a move away from my former YouTube obsession, Las Vegas gaming channels, most of which can put you to sleep. However, there are a few good ones like, The Coin Show, Matt Bridger and Simon south. Besides the aforementioned, I really don’t pay attention to the Las Vegas gaming channels, I normally use them as background noise while I'm drawing. However, one day I made the fatal mistake of paying attention to them and I suddenly realized how boring most of these gaming channels were. As such, I switched my background noise to Thrillseeker videos (climbing mountains, Wingsuit flying BASE jumping and Rooftopping). 

What's a Rooftopping video (I'm glad you asked!)? An example of Rooftopping video is when some dumb ass kid (I call them kids however they're probably dumbass 20-something's) climbs a tall building (usually by breaking and entering) without safety gear (Safety First! Is obviously not their motto). They climb to the top of the building with just with their cell phones and/or cameras. They film their blatant disregard for breaking and entering, trespassing, other laws (and their own safety) for YouTube fame and fortune. Honestly, I'm impressed with these ballsy little law breaking fuckers skills and lack of Acrophobia. No, I’m NOT living vicariously though them. I have a major case of Acrophobia and as such, climbing to the top of a building would NEVER happen! I think the reason I watch is that I had the same disregard for rules when I was a dumbass fucking kid (thanks to encouragement by my friend Dan). We just didn't do it at dizzying heights, we kept it closer to the ground. In fact the highest we ever got off the ground was in his dad's car (I believe it was a ‘66 Buick Special) resulting in the car's engine being thrown into the radiator upon landing.

Here’s a link to one of these ballsy little law breaking fuckers, Jnkz

Next topic!

The Michael Hopkins Caricatures Online Store is having a Holiday Sale! Now through December 13th, 2025. Save 25% off all Michael Hopkins Caricatures Original art and Prints! Use coupon code 25OFF2025 at checkout Here’s the link if ya wanna check out the sale.

https://michaelhopkinscaricatures.com.

And finally

Here’s a few photos of my favorite events from the last few months. 

Boot Barn

Hello, lovers of the art of Caricature. Last weekend (August 1st and 3rd to be more specific) Michael Hopkins Caricatures was invited to the Grand Opening of the Boot Barn Reno - Summit! The new store is located at 3345 Kietzke Lane in Reno, Nevada. The store is beautiful! The staff was amazing...and those caricatures, were pretty, pretty, pretty good as well. Lets take a look, shall we?

P.S. If you're interested in inviting Michael Hopkins Caricatures to your next event, click on the link below!

https://michaelhopkinscartoons.com/contact-michael-hopkins-cartoons-1

"Boogie" from KOZZ!

Here we go again...

Hello, my name is Michael and I’m a Inkcoholic. I’ve had this affliction as far back as I can remember. My earliest memory of this humorous disease is in the 3rd grade. That memory is of putting ink to paper and writing on the side of my homework (ala *Classic Mad Magazine - see below). This of course resulted in receiving a whack on the head with a ruler by my 3rd grade teacher. 

If you don't remember the Classic Mad Magazine (1970's Mad Magazine), you’re probably one of my younger readers, you should definitely Google it. When you do, pay close attention to the art of Jack Davis, Mort Drucker and Sergio Aragonés. This is where the Artist, Michael Hopkins was born. Throw in some flavoring through later years by Bob Hale, Bob McCausland and Al Hirshfeld and you have ingredients that inspire me to this day. 

Back to my Inkcoholicism 

Inkcoholicism (INK-kuh-HAW-LIH-zum), as defined by the Michael Hopkins Cartoons Dictionary is a chronic disease in which a person craves putting pen to paper and is unable to control his or her drawing. For me, ignoring this compulsion to draw results in an overconsumption of unhealthy food, ingesting massive amounts of caffeine and falling asleep on the couch. Which leads to weight gain and eventually depression sets in when I realize how fuckin long its been since I’ve drawn anything (or written a blog… ) 

 Here we go again…Yay!

Although updates to  The Michael Hopkins Cartoons Blog have been few and far between lately, there's still some new art that I have recently created to show you.

 Shall we begin?

Aviation Caricature - Boeing 767 by Michael Hopkins

Aviation Caricature - TU-144 by Michael Hopkins

Reno Chic by Michael Hopkins

Frasier - By Michael Hopkins

Lets throw in a few of my recent Event Caricature

for good measure