ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bert Silva currently lives on the central California coast. A former smoker, he feels blessed sailing his sloop through the tobacco-free air that blows over the Pacific Ocean. His cartoons have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post , Playboy Magazine , The National Enquirer , Western Boatman , True West , Technical Stocks & Commodities , Research Magazine , Woman's World , and regularly in The Nameless Newsletter , a local publication on addiction.

Mr. Silva smoked for 20 years. He worked in animation at Disney Studios and later freelanced cartoons to magazines in New York laboring over a drawing board with a pencil or pen in one hand and a cigarette in the other. He almost burned to death in a tobacco-related fire.

Silva considers himself very lucky and maybe fated to do this little book.