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After living with breast cancer for the last four years, my wife passed away on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 9:35pm.

As a result, I’ll be taking a hiatus from Bankruptcy Bill and related work until….well, until whenever it is that I’m ready to start again I guess.

Below is a photo of Wynne helping me with the recording of the “Bankruptcy Lover” song on which she provided some of the background singing.  She is a classically trained pianist, for the record, but she also has a wonderfully goofy and fun side as well.  (Thanks to Lee for providing the photo.)

Click here if you’d like to read her blog about her experience with cancer along with the updates I’ve been posting in recent days for the benefit of friends and family.

Bankruptcy Bill’s Cartoon Punchline Contest

Special thanks to our sponsors:

• Turnaround Underground (www.turnaroundunderground.com): Networking events for midlevel restructuring professionals – and NEVER a membership fee! – Cinco de Mayo Event on May 5, 2010 (http://turnaroundunderground.tix.com)

• Bruce Weiner (Rosenberg Musso & Weiner) – NYBankruptcyNet (Brooklyn, NY)

• Russell A. Demott – Charleston Bankruptcy Blog (Charleston, SC)

• Nancy Rapoport (nancyrapoport.blogspot.com), the Gordon Silver Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law (UNLV)

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  BMC Group - Chapter 11 Claims & Notice/Solicitation/Rights Offerings/Preference Data

  • Oliver Zurbel, Business Development – ozurbel@bmcgroup.com

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To Enter the Punchline Contest:

• Submit a punchline for the last frame in the cartoon below (Bankruptcy Bill #26:  Anxiety Dream) via e-mail to bill@bankruptcybill.us. (Make sure to put “Punchline” in the subject heading of your email, and include your name along with any other relevant info you’d like listed in the final post if you’re a winner or runner-up.)
• Deadline: Friday, April 30 by 4:00 pm EST
• The winner’s punchline (as judged by the creators of Bankruptcy Bill) will be included in the final version of the cartoon, and the winner will receive their choice of one t-shirt from the Bankruptcy Bill Zazzle online store.
• Top runner-up punchlines will be listed with the cartoon in a future post along with the entrants’ names and any other info or hyperlinks that they’d like included.  (It’s ok to submit multiple entries.)

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Bankruptcy Bill #26:  “Anxiety Dream” (unresolved)

E-mail your punchline submissions to bill@bankruptcybill.us.

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*WE DO CUSTOMIZED CARTOONS… Click here for more info.*

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*To see more of Gideon Kendall’s work go to www.gideonkendall.com or http://www.gideonkendall.com/blog.  Or order yourself a copy of Dino Pets or (coming soon) Dino Pets 2, the wonderfully illustrated children’s books written by Lynn Plourde and illustrated by Bankruptcy Bill’s favorite illustrator, Gideon Kendall.

Here’s another Overruled! cartoon by Joseph Aronds, Esq., Assistant Vice President at Hartz Mountain, whose cartoons have been running for the past two years in the New Jersey Association of Corporate Counsel’s monthly publication ACC Focus on the New Jersey Chapter. Joe was also recently appointed Vice President of Communications for NJCCA, which ran a nice profile of him here.  Joe can be reached at joseph.aronds [at] hartzmountain.com.

Also, thanks to Joe for mentioning Bankruptcy Bill in the Member Notes section of their February 8, 2010 issue.

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Time for a plain old regular Bankruptcy Bill cartoon.  (FYI, I had to go back to October 22, 2009 (Fantasy Bankruptcy #2) to find the last time we posted an independent, non-sponsored, non-special edition Bankruptcy Bill cartoon.)

Click here to see Bankruptcy Bill’s attempt at online dating.

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*WE DO CUSTOMIZED CARTOONS… Click here for more info.*

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*To see more of Gideon Kendall’s work go to www.gideonkendall.com or http://www.gideonkendall.com/blog.  Or order yourself a copy of Dino Pets or (coming soon) Dino Pets 2, the wonderfully illustrated children’s books written by Lynn Plourde and illustrated by Bankruptcy Bill’s favorite illustrator, Gideon Kendall.

Note:  This site is best viewed using a Mozilla Firefox, Chrome or Safari browser.  If you are viewing this site using Internet Explorer, you may not be able to view items in the sidebar (plus your download speed is likely slower).  Clicking on any page or post will cause sidebar items to appear.

Bankruptcy Man continues his epic battle against the ominous and powerful Mortgantua. Click here for a refresher on ongoing the BAPCPA Man vs Mortgantua saga.

• Click here for an informative post titled “Reflections on Bootcamp“ by bankruptcy lawyer Andy Winchell on his Clean Slate blog.
• Also, in the Wall Street Journal’s Bankruptcy Beat Blog there’s an article on the most influential bankruptcy lawyers of the decade and an interesting comment by bankruptcy lawyer John Cantrell questioning the lack of inclusion of O. Max Gardner on the list.

For more information on Max Gardner’s Bankruptcy Bootcamp, go to MaxBankruptcyBootcamp.com.  Click here to see the ABC News Nightline feature on Max Gardner’s Bankruptcy Bootcamp.  And click here to see the Wikipedia entry on Max’s eponymous grandfather who served a term as governor of North Carolina from 1929-33.

For additional information on mortgage and foreclosure, here are a few blog posts:

Bruce Weiner (Rosenberg Musso & Weiner) – NYBankruptcyNet (Brooklyn, NY)

• No Mortgage Cramdown Bill for Christmas

Haines & Krieger (Las Vegas, NV)

• Haines & Krieger’s Las Vegas Foreclosure Round-up
• Capitalism, bankruptcy, foreclosure and hell

Eugene Melchionne, Esq. – ConsumerBankruptcyTips.com (Waterbury, CT)

• Attorney Melchionne featured in NYTimes article on family’s fight against foreclosure in Connecticut

Here’s another Overruled! cartoon by Joseph Aronds, Esq., Assistant Vice President at Hartz Mountain, whose cartoons have been running for the past two years in the New Jersey Association of Corporate Counsel’s monthly publication ACC Focus on the New Jersey Chapter. Joe was also recently appointed Vice President of Communications for NJCCA, which ran a nice profile of him here.  Joe can be reached at joseph.aronds [at] hartzmountain.com.

Also, thanks to Joe for mentioning Bankruptcy Bill in the Member Notes section of their February 8, 2010 issue.

Time to “restructure” your social life again for Bankruptcy Bill’s favorite new event to hit the underground bankruptcy scene… Turnaround Underground.  (Here’s the Reuters article about the event.)

Gideon Kendall (the guy who illustrates all of the Bankruptcy Bill and Bankruptcy Man cartoons on this site) has redesigned his blog (www.gideonkendall.com/blog) and has rededicated himself to posting a new work every day (weather permitting).

He is currently posting, among other things, sneak peeks at just-completed paintings from Dino Pets at School, the forthcoming sequel to Dino Pets (which can be purchased on Amazon by clicking this link:  http://www.amazon.com/Dino-Pets-Lynn-Plourde/dp/0525477780).

His Electric Sex series is also not to be missed.

To see more of Gideon’s work, go to www.gideonkendall.com.  He’s also available for weddings, opulent bar mitzvahs and other religious ceremonies that could benefit from a cartoon or two.

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Here’s another Overruled! cartoon by Joseph Aronds, Esq., Assistant Vice President at Hartz Mountain, whose cartoons have been running for the past two years in the New Jersey Association of Corporate Counsel’s monthly publication ACC Focus on the New Jersey Chapter. Joe was also recently appointed Vice President of Communications for NJCCA, which ran a nice profile of him here.  Joe can be reached at joseph.aronds [at] hartzmountain.com.

Also, thanks to Joe for mentioning Bankruptcy Bill in the Member Notes section of their February 8, 2010 issue.