The phrase “SIP SIP” is a colloquial term commonly used in the Bahamian dialect and vernacular, and the meaning is BIG JUICY GOSSIP.

Gossip so ear tingling, hot and juicy, that you’d take out a second mortgage just to hear it. Sip Sip was the title of my daily editorial cartoon features that were published in The Nassau Guardian. 

When I started out drawing my first editorial cartoon in September of 1983, I never thought that the simple act of putting pencil and pen to paper would take me this far.

I will always remember the worried look that my mother gave me when she saw my cartoon on page two of the Guardian. “Can you afford to pay them to print these drawings in the paper every day?” she asked. When I told her that I was getting paid, we both had a great laugh.

Cynicism is not just my tool of choice, I believe in my heart that it is a tool of necessary global circumstance. As David used the insulting sling and stones against the giant of his day, I sincerely believe that the current socio-political atmosphere around the world demands abrupt, abrasive, hardcore cynicism in order to address the imbalance in power within our communities.