Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis has a animated cartoon produced by RingTales and can be found on Babelgum.
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This is a beautiful animation, but this has made me fear playing with dolls.
This is the sketch out of my sketchbook where I was thinking about the cartoon Dirty Raking. I wanted to show a sinister neighbor that would show up at the white picket fence. But then I had to find out what about a rake would make it illegal and I thought if the rake was enormous and unwieldy it would make the rake from the mobster neighbor seem tempting to the guy using the small rake.
Ironically enough this last week I read an article in the New Yorker about a movement that is taking place in Orinda, CA about noisy leaf blowers. Man my comics are really topical to the issues of the day.
This is a video I found on Mike Lynch’s blog of Liza Donnelly discussing her process and how she came to be a woman cartoonist which is rare in the industry. She’s got a book called “When Do They Serve the Wine?”
Plus .05% for getting my party and I a table near the large screen TV where the game is playing. Plus .075% for having the game I want to see on. Plus .1% for asking right away if I would like any drinks. Plus .01% for telling me I have good taste in my choice of drink. Minus .02% for not flirting with me. Plus 1.1% for bringing drinks right away and another plus .05% for putting free salty snacks on the table for us to enjoy during the game. Plus .6% for leaving us alone to enjoy the game. Plus .03% for seeing that I was out of beer and salty snacks and asking if I want more. Minus .5% for not having clearly marked signs indicating the location of the bathrooms. Minus another .4% for being too busy that I have to wait in line at the restroom. Plus .3% for having clean toilet, but minus .6% for running out of paper towels. Minus .5% since I had to wipe my hands on my jeans. Plus 1% for the great chicken wings with blue cheese. Minus .02% for the chicken wing sauce not being spicy enough. Plus .04% since my team scored a touchdown. Minus .02% since my team was losing at the half. Minus .05% when my buddy Sam spilled his beer all over the table, but a plus .75% for bringing towels and a mop right away. Plus another .3% for bringing Sam a new beer. Minus .02% for not bringing a free round of beer for the table for our pain and suffering. Minus .07% since I have to visit the restroom again. Minus .6% since there are still no paper towels in addition to another minus .05% for me having to wipe my hands on my jeans again. Minus .5% since the opposing team scored while I was visiting the restroom. Plus .5% for bringing shots for my party and I and another .75% for bringing me another one along with a beer chaser. Minus .4% since my team just gave up a turn over which lead to a touchdown. Minus .25% for my team being down by 3 possessions with less than a minute left in the 4th quarter. Minus 2% for telling me that I’ve had enough. Minus another .5% for telling me that I need to calm down, put my shirt back on and close out my check. Minus .25% for charging so much for beer, shots and chicken wings. Minus .5% because I can’t find my wallet. Minus .4% because no one has seen my wallet and I swear I had it with me. Minus .75% because Sam will have to pay for the check since someone must have stolen my wallet while going to the restroom. Minus .25% because my team lost the football game.
Yesterday I went to Art Publishing Now Bay Area. I went to Day 1 Summit where they had several break out sessions by various creators of print, online, and experimental publications talk about the industry of publication today. It was very informative at some parts of it, but I mostly enjoyed the Q and A time where an actual discussion took place. The presentations were just a big commercial for the people that are on the panel and I didn’t learn much. This even was put together by Southern Exposure. Some of the participants were Bad at Sports (a podcast), The [Un]Observed (a radio magazine), Arion Press, Electric Works, Little paper Planes, McSweeney’s, The Present Group, Gallery 16, Pop-Up Magazine, Longshot magazine and many more.
I couldn’t stay the whole day, but I think it was a great discussion to talk about publishing today. The big topics that people were talking about was obviously the effect the digital age has on the book industry which are becoming fetish items. Blogs, podcasts, video, self-publishing, digital printing, and websites are all easier than ever for anyone to do.
Click on the image to go to a special 25th Birthday page for Super Mario. I’d like to thank Nintendo for starting me on my path to a 1.3 GPA in college with out which I would have never ended up at Art School where grades don’t matter.
The Royal Exchange Sports Bar hired me to do a custom cartoon for their Facebook fan page to advertise their Monday Night Football specials. You can check it out by clicking on the cartoon and going to their Facebook page or clicking here.
60th Anniversary of Peanuts Celebration at Charles M. Schulz Museum this Saturday
on September 10, 2010 at 12:00 pmI am volunteering at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa California this Saturday where 16 cartoonists will be attending to help celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip. The Sacramento Bee is reporting that the cartoonists that will be on hand will be Brent Anderson, Michael Capozzola, Alexis Fajardo, Brian Fies, Shaenon Garrity, Debbie Huey, Greg Knight, Jonathan Lemon, Brian Narelle, Thien Pham, Lark Pien and Frank Roberson. Headlining is the creator of “Bizarro” Dan Piraro who is this year’s winner of the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for cartoonist of the year.
It should be a fun time. More information about the museum check out SchulzMuseum.org
