ACME UFO defence

Arr

2010-09-19T08:31:00.000-07:00

Unprepared, the big day passes like a Spaniard scraping the length of a reef
no plunder
arr

X-COM UFO Defense

2010-08-21T22:25:00.000-07:00

Fun to hear someone spontaneously mention how great the original X-COM UFO Defense STILL IS.

Cartoonist NW win!

2010-07-29T08:45:00.000-07:00

Two years ago I mentioned that I had been thinking about "blogging-up" my ideas behind deeply emotional politics, I was not incendiary enough to unload ALL of my politics but I was toying with the idea of letting some of my ideas filter out.

Partly as a result of Milt Prigee making a big impression on me this month, and partly as a result of the discovery that people were able to "get" my do-it-yourself-Editorial Cartoon concept, I am going to let more out of the bag.

Do-it-yourself-Editorial Cartoons allow you to "cut out" the Editorial that you disagree with and keep the Editorial comment that you want. This technique may result in dramatic Editorial Cartoons that do not generate lawsuits. This would make a low-budget cartoonist lifestyle possible.

The idea here is also to generate understanding between people of incompatible political views.

I am cartoonist of the month for Cartoonists NW. Thank you for voting, you are a great encouragement CNW.

This is NOT an Editorial Cartoonist

2010-07-25T13:07:00.001-07:00

Milt Priggee used to be an Editorial Cartoonist. By his definition, an Editorial Cartoonist is a human employed by a Local Paper for the Editorial Page of that Local Paper. (caution - Milt includes some of his banned cartoons at his site - not everything is 3rd grader appropriate that you find at www.miltpriggee.com - not the normal NSFW, but NSFW because... "wow, that was edgy")
M. Priggee was the guest speaker last month for Cartoonists Northwest, as you can see by the caricature of this smiling person (see image) it was the best kind of a cartoonist presentation.
M. Priggee not an Editorial Cartoonist. There are only 10 remaining for the entire US. You can see Editorial Cartoons here (leftish) and here (rightish), so you might think that everything is fine. It is not.
"This little Priggee" * is not currently working in his chosen profession. However he is (almost certainly) "the MOST SUED Editorial Cartoonist evaarrr". Who would have thought that you could be sued for a cartoon expressing an opinion about lawyers? (normally a free citizen living in a dictator-free country cannot be sued for having an opinion, but, if you have artistic ability, a significant number of lawyers are pretty sure that you can be sued)
I will proudly hang on to (and frame soon) my prized caricature, made by "Mr. 12.2 million". Thank you Mr. Priggee.
Cartoonists Northwest meets on the third Saturday of every month (4-6 PM) at
Daniel Smith Art Supply
4150 First Avenue South - Seattle

* Milt does not actually deserve to be called a "little priggee"- I probably should have dropped this title for this talented and important not-editorial cartoonist - please do not sue me!

Emo Phillips

2010-07-19T16:40:00.001-07:00

Emo Phillips dominates smart comedy, and rightly so, he holds 3 spots in GQ'S Top 75 jokes of all time.(numbers 44, 54 and 55)
I have loved his humor since it first dominated the college dorm that I was in when Emo's first album was released. (an album is primitive CD rom technology)
There was a good comedy performance in Bellevue this month in which Emo Phillips flawlessly presented the best religious joke of all time ... which he has been tirelessly telling over-and-over since the 1980s.

The best part of the evening is when Emo and I wrote a gag together.

I was early enough for the first show that I could stand in the fan line and get a signature on a poster. (I had been meaning to create a poster like this for years.)
Emo stared at the ink blots - and could not think of a worthy gag to accompany his signature. I enjoyed just standing near the Emo aura of funny talking about writer's block. Eventually I said, "I have tickets for your next show, that will give you an hour to think of something". Emo agreed, and I looked forward to standing in the fan line again to see what he might come up with. After the show he was still stumped, so I borrowed a line from his first album and said, "just tell me what you see when you look at the ink blot" (I think that I am terribly clever - the top ink blot is a Photoshopped inkblot-like-photo of Emo).
Emo replied "I think that this is the inkblot test for narcissism." "Then that is what you write. Perfect!" And that was what was written on my soon-to-be framed poster... along with: "Yours in Freud, emo phillips"

After the stimulation of working out a gag from my favorite comic over the course of the evening the final moments were spent confirming that narcissim is spelled n-a-r-c-i...
If you do not remember which number in the Rorschach the lower inkblot represents ... it is number 4 in the series... the upper inkblot is the test for Emo narcissism (the original inkblot reference is from a great joke somewhere near the "My Childhood, Yes" track on E=MO2)

Challenge to Emo:
Make another CD as Parent Friendly and amazing as your first.
(in the first CD there's no profanity, except when you try to unwrap it.)

Free Comic Book Day tomorrow (Saturday)

2010-04-30T05:24:00.000-07:00

Quick reminder- also - wowio is participating with free comic downloads. I always liked wowio.

The Duck at rest

2010-02-27T08:18:00.000-08:00

Florida Vacation next week. I am not good at planning vacations but I expect to excel at enjoying vacations. Unlike Donald in Hawaii, I will not be tenting.

Disney World Cruise pt 1

2010-02-14T19:47:00.000-08:00

Looking forward to a vacation. I am going to take another swipe at the Jeff Hamill script too.

Jeff Hawley and Logjam

2010-02-08T18:25:00.001-08:00

Jeff Hawley is a fine cartoonist and author of the uniquely NW comic “Logjam”
He has wowed his fellow cartoonists in the Seattle area for years. I am pretty sure that I have seen about a dozen of these ideas in-work in his sketchbook before most everybody else - One of the many benefits of showing up at a cartoonist NW meeting.

These are some of my favorites: tree humor
And my favorite trick is when main tree plays himself like a banjo
And he magically lifts himself (and others) off of the roots

NOTE:
Readers can now get Logjam comic strips delivered to their email. Go to the Logjam website to sign up!

Jeff Hawley is Jeff Hamil

2010-01-23T18:53:00.000-08:00

This week only.
Jeff Hawley is Jeff Hamill. Jeff Hamill is the correct name for the Jeff who wrote the gag for "Wasp Bait", the single-panel-adventure-winner of the Cartoonist-of-the-Month recognition for the Cartoonists Northwest cartoon club. Congratulations Jeff, and condolences to the other Jeff for not being Jeff Hamill. I may post a version of the cartoon with the correct name at some later date.

I will say more nice things about Jeff Hawley next week. Things that will swing the pendulum back into the "true" direction.

Wasp Bait

2010-01-15T14:46:00.000-08:00

I have had this idea from Jeff H for months. It took a while (and several versions over a long period of time) to get it almost right (or at least in a form that I could bring with me to the cartoonist meeting). The thumbnail that Jeff sent looked pretty good, and shows how Jeff was extending the gag to wasp puns and a wasp crowd and a lot more verbiage. I want to be true to the original so I kicked around several variations.
I finally decided that any version that I liked with a crowd would end up being a large detailed drawing. That is a good sign that, as a cartoonist, I am trying to do too much. Trying to do too much bogged the image down, became busier, and the puzzle was put on the back burner for a while.
Besides the crowd not working for me, the swarm was difficult as well. I went so far as to make a photoshop brush of a wasp. In my mind, I could shrink this to various sized, set brush controls, and have a swarm of wasps in no time. This is wrong. I really did not want to draw by hand more than 30 wasps, but the number came up to around 50 in the final image.
Even after I decided to simplify the joke verbiage, eliminated the "crowd of science" and made a swarm of 30 wasps (by hand) the gag was still over-detailed for a very small reproduction. I made one or two "close up" wasps to show my work in developing a stylized wasp. That did not work either. Big wasps look like monster wasps much more than they look like close-to-the-camera wasps.

Interesting challenge. I might come back later and try a version with the crowd. or not

The Cartoonist Northwest meeting will get to judge the simple version.

Saturday, January 16th, 2010 - 4 PM to 6 PM
Daniel Smith Art Supply
4150 First Avenue South in Seattle
Free to people reading this blog and their friends.

(and thanks Jeff, you write well)

My Cat

2009-06-25T18:40:00.000-07:00

Per J. Scalzi, a science person:
The vast majority of blogs, in fact, have nothing but the following three posts:

Post One: “Here’s my blog! This is where I’m going to share all my thoughts about life, the universe and everything! It’s going to be great and I can’t wait to tell you all what I’m thinking about everything!”

Post Two: “Hey, sorry I haven’t updated in a while — life’s been crazy. But I’ll be back soon.”

Post Three: “Here’s a picture of my cat.”

And then it’s done.

Graduate meet Real World

2009-06-11T14:28:00.000-07:00

Just Kidding - I wish 2009 graduates well.
Hiker link: here " recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear scat."

Star Trek

2009-05-07T21:55:00.001-07:00

So good.

Now, I have to watch "Wrath of Kahn" again to make sure that it is still my favorite Trek movie.

Fan Rejected Movies

2009-05-04T19:40:00.000-07:00

I was shocked at the level of dislike the fan base poured out on their movies this year. Listing from most deserving of dislike to Least deserving: "Watchmen" (there where whole blogs devoted to hating some of the scenes), "Wolverine", and last, "Dragonball Evolution". Sure, they were all bad. But, the only reason that "Dragonball" failed is that it replaced the fan-loved story with another not-as-good story. "Wolverine" was just slightly worse. Apparently super-strong adamantium is no match for super-weak-scriptium.

When a hero movie is made, there is a large group who want to see the hero. But, the movie has immature-adult-elements which remove the larger chunk of the built in audience from participating. For the remaining small group, the story is re-written in a way to directly annoy the fans. Many drop away. Finally, for the remaining small group, the story is re-worked so that it is odd enough and long enough and scattered enough to be practically unwatchable. The movie fails in many ways.

Oddly this does not matter to "Wolverine" which people rate, "pretty good" and pour millions of ticket sales into.

On the good side, "Star Trek" is up this Friday. Also on the good side: the Atomic Robo free comic was Tesla humor at it's best.

Free Comic Book Day tomorrow May 2nd

2009-05-01T17:09:00.000-07:00

Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away several select comic books absolutely FREE (with few stores that are exceptions) to anyone who comes into their stores. Linky with FAQ and a comic store locator here.

Pirate Defense

2009-04-27T19:44:00.000-07:00

I won, yes I won at Pirate Defense.

Timing is everything

2009-04-20T16:02:00.000-07:00

I think that I missed the opportunity to have a wide appeal with this Kong gag. I should have finished it closer to the time when flight 1549 made a splash. How short people's memories are.

quick recap of the Emerald City Comicon

2009-04-13T19:43:00.000-07:00

Erik Thompson who has a style that I love - sat across from me all weekend, sometimes making faces and sometimes giving me some good ideas on process. A good man.
Bruce Timm who saved Batman from obscurity in the 1990s - sat just a few feet away from the CNW booth both days
Stephen Silver is the great character designer who sat next to me, his booth was partially obscured by the huge line that was there to see Bruce Timm, so I was able to talk to him more than I would have otherwise. He is a great person as well as a great character designer, very dedicated to being a dad, I was a fan before the comicon and a bigger one after having him to myself at the comicon.
There was a crowd of people from the cartoon club (Cartoonist Northwest) there (many with their own booths) and I promoted the club with Donna, Elizabeth and Roberta.
His crowd was too large for me to talk to him, but at least I was able to see what Humberto Ramos looked like. I rabidly consume his early work with "Impulse".
Have to mention my other favorites Phil Foglio and Aaron Williams who were there and I have linked to for over a year at Girl Genius and Nodwick. Greatness in stories.

Tonight I Blog

2009-04-06T18:25:00.000-07:00

Emerald City Comicon was very very good. I sold my first magazine. Published 2 days before the con, for the con. I feel very good about my first attempt.

Puget Sound Slug Trap

2009-03-12T21:48:00.000-07:00

I have been doing some illustrations for my friends who are suddenly job hunting and the recession. Bubbles popping, flooding, crashing and such I can use. I cannot use the slug in the Beer, too obscure. Do people still put cans of beer out for slugs? I remember the slugs loving the stuff.

February Wally Wood UFO

2009-02-24T20:31:00.000-08:00

The point of the exercise is to stretch artistically and improve storytelling. It takes about 2 1/2 weeks doing 3 panels a day.

Step one - do a fairly good reproduction of the original Wally Wood example.
Step two - do a parody with a character from your stable.

You can see the original Wally Wood collection in hi res from the owner here.

Jack Bowser 24

2009-01-26T18:12:00.000-08:00

Senator Fat (played by cat)
Isn't it true, Mr Bowser, that you bit an unarmed suspect on the leg.

Two Kinds of violent people in the world

2009-01-13T21:19:00.001-08:00

Bill Whittle had an essay a while back that inpired some sketches: I do not think that there are enough Sheep Dog cartoons in the world.
Someone at the Belmont Club summarized Bill's ideas nicely:

* One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me: "Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident."
* The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, cannot and will not ever harm the sheep. ... Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land.
* Understand that there is nothing morally superior about being a sheepdog; it is just what you choose to be. ... The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day.

2009 has arrived

2009-01-06T17:40:00.000-08:00

I should speed paint more.

Hands are difficult to draw - tutorial

2008-12-04T22:13:00.000-08:00

Hands are difficult. Even if I had drawn a perfectly realistic hand like this photo of Jeremy, it would not look right. The pose doesn't look like a person would expect, and if you are like me- if you drew it you would not be satisfied.
The pressure is to make a hand that reflects the anatomy work you did (didn't you?). That looks like a hand that people would expect to see. And that does not look exactly like the way your favorite artist draws hands.

So here is my idea. If you draw a hand, and it looks pretty much ok:
1.Scan it in
2.Print out a lightened version of your almost-ok hand in a different size (usually bigger) and redraw over your original.

Writers do this all the time. You never see an author's actual writing, you are seeing the author's re-write of the stuff he or she thought was almost-ok on the initial draft.

Here is my example and a photo of Jeremy using arcane powers while on the road:

Girls have cooties - Alien Containment

2008-11-12T20:49:00.000-08:00

Science has concluded what 6 year old boys have known all along.

Women have more diverse hand bacteria than men

"A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates that not
only do human hands harbor far higher numbers of bacteria species
than previously believed, women have a significantly greater
diversity of microbes on their palms than men."

Cooties don't wash off, which goes against the 6 year old boy
conventional wisdom:

"Although hand washing altered community composition, overall levels
of bacterial diversity were unrelated to the time since the last hand
washing," wrote the researchers in PNAS. "Either the bacterial
colonies rapidly re-establish after hand washing, or washing (as
practiced by the students included in this study) does not remove the
majority of bacteria taxa found on the skin surface."

More UFO Wally Wood

2008-11-10T20:18:00.001-08:00

Wally Wood continued.

22 UFO Panels

2008-11-03T19:44:00.000-08:00

My PC is back. It was dead for a while there, but is reloaded and feeling much better.

I have decided to put the UFO back into Acme UFO Defence. Wally Wood's 22 Panel exercise is "in work" - Alien vs Space Marine style.

The point of the exercise is to stretch artistically and improve storytelling. It takes about 2 1/2 weeks doing 3 panels a day.

“Never draw what you can copy; never copy what you can trace; and never trace what you can cut out and paste up.” Wally Wood

You can see the original Wally Wood collection in hi res from the owner here.

Alex and Paddington

2008-10-13T20:26:00.000-07:00

Mr. Sava has not put out a request for quest strips in a while, but I have been toying around with a short "young Alex" story anyway.
I really like where the Dreamland Chronicles have been going - especially with the dwarves. Scott seems like a genuine good guy.

Comic Book movie wait ahead

2008-10-08T19:01:00.000-07:00

Long wait for Marvel movies: Iron Man 2 (May 7, 2010), Thor (July 16, 2010), The First Avenger: Captain America (May 6, 2011), and The Avengers (July 15, 2011). The distribution agreement also includes Iron Man 3.

"Coming off of 'Iron Man's' incredible success this summer, we could not be more excited about extending our relationship with Marvel," - Rob Moore, Vice Chairman of Paramount Pictures

Comics for Halloween handouts

2008-09-30T07:05:00.000-07:00

Chris Wilson does a good job of recommending comics in his blog (I will have to check out his Shakespeare reviews – Merchant of Venice and Macbeth). He is also promoting a good idea.

You can buy 25 mini comics in a bundle for the low-low price of $3 per bundle. This year they offer five titles. – I think that you should order this week if you want to hand out Bone, Charlie Brown and Donald Duck.

Chris says, “Our family did this last year and it was a hit. The kids were very excited about getting comics and so were the parents. We allowed each child to choose his or her own book (and only one book) and they seemed to delight in that. (Children having choice of reading in the classroom, true choice, is strongly supported by research.)”

The Graphic Classroom is a resource for teachers and librarians to help them stock high quality, educational-worthy, comics and give it a rating as to appropriateness for the classroom.

What Pyrates did greatly fear

2008-09-15T18:44:00.000-07:00

To amuse themselves, pirates held mock trials,
Mimicking what would happen to them if they were captured and came up before an Admiralty Court.
In A General History of the Pyrates, Daniel Defoe relates a sham trial that took place on an uninhabited cay off the coast of Cuba.
The judge, a pirate named George Bradley, sailing master of the Morning Star, sat in a tree with a tarpaulin over his shoulders by way of a robe, a shaggy cap on his head instead of a wig and large pair of spectacles on his nose. The officers of the ship carried handspikes as staves of authority and a hangman stood by with a noose.
The accused was then brought out ‘making a thousand sour faces’.

A pirate playing the attorney general then said:
An’t please your Lordship, and you gentlemen of the jury, here is a fellow before you that is a sad dog, a sad, sad dog; and I humbly hope your Lordship will order him to be hanged out the way immediately.

He has committed piracy upon the high seas, and we shall prove, an’t please your Lordship, that this fellow, this sad dog before you, has escaped a thousand storms, nay, has got safe ashore when the ship has been cast away, which was a certain sign he was not born to be drowned; yet not having the fear of hanging before his eyes, he went on robbing and ravishing man, woman and child, plundering ships’ cargoes fore and aft, burning and sinking ship, barky and boat, as if the Devil had been in him.
But this is not all, my Lord, he has committed worse villainies than all these, for we shall prove, that he has been guilty of drinking small beer, and your Lordship knows, there never was a sober fellow but what was a rogue.
My Lord, I should have spoke much finer than I do now, but that, as your Lordship knows, our rum is all out, and how should a man speak good law that has not drank a dram. However, I hope, your Lordship will order the fellow hanged.

The judge was scarcely impartial. From his seat in the mangrove tree he said:
Harkee me, sirrah, you lousy pitiful, ill-looked dog; what have you to say why you should not be tucked up immediately and set a sun-drying like a scarecrow?
The judge then asked the accused to plead. He pleaded not guilty, so the judge threatened to have him hanged without a trial.
In his defence, the accused said that he was an honest man who had been ‘taken by one George Bradley’ – the man who was now playing his judge – ‘a notorious pirate, a sad rogue as ever was hanged, and he forced me, an’t please your honour.’

Eventually, Bradley sentenced the accused to hang, giving three reasons:
First, because it is not fit I should sit here as judge and nobody be hanged.
Secondly, you must be hanged, because you have a damned hanging look.
And thirdly, you must be hanged because I am hungry; for know, sirrah, that whenever a judge’s dinner is ready before the trial is over, the prisoner is to be hanged of course.

Pirate Mitt's Story

2008-09-08T22:29:00.000-07:00

Pirate York Mitts made the rest of the crew happy when he stepped into the looped rope on the deck.
He was a terrible cook.
"Keep York Mitts off me grub"

11 Days to Talk Like a Pirate

Pax 2008 and Pirates of the Burning Sea

2008-09-01T22:25:00.001-07:00

I went to Pax on Sunday - I would have liked to seen the discussion on Sex and Violence for an update on over-served immature adults. Did anyone who visits this blog go to the Raven Theatre? Did I miss much? Pax is amazing btw, much better than I expected.
I discovered while there that the talk like a pirate crew might very much like the Pirates of the Burning Sea game. I played it for a few minutes at the convention and my first impression is that it is like the great game that Akella created (Sea Dogs) with the fun factor bumped upward and a cool cel-shader turned on.

One thing that I can say: they had 3 working tee-shirt cannons firing into the crowd. Good marketing, and the booth pirates were very helpful.

The Pirate fun for computers that I have really really liked so far:
Curse of Monkey Island
Sea Dogs 2 (Released as Pirates of the Caribbean)

Maybe the Burning Sea will be another. I am very picky, but I will give it a try. It may be rated Arrrr, but aye don't think so.

Pirate Cooper's story

2008-08-26T16:31:00.000-07:00

Named Dom, but called Dommer, and Dommer boy. Ironically "x" does mark the spot in this case. Dom had squirreled away enough to retire when Jon Black payed him back. Jon also finished Dom's Pirate career with a cutlass to the back.

The weed of crime bears bitter fruit, crime does not pay. The shadow knows.

Talk Like a Pirate Day countdown begins

2008-08-19T18:34:00.000-07:00

Just one month until September 19th. The site is still using last year's banner. I wonder if they are interested in a new one for variety? Plunder.

The Darwin Debate continues to be interesting even when one-sided

2008-08-16T08:56:00.001-07:00

LGF (Little Green Footballs) is not open to the great Darwin debate anymore. Even ID (Intelligent Design- which by the way, adheres to Natural Selection and Common Descent - 2 of 3 Evolution Pillars) has been linked at LGF to creationism, the worst Islamism and the recent Russian expansionism. The fun level is way down. I still go there however, and I do not want Charles to go away.

Recently LGF linked to a mock-admission of guilt from Adolf on his connection to Darwin. As if it is ridiculous to link Darwin to WW2 Eugenics.

This LGF entry falls into my list of top 10 interesting things about Darwin debate so, here is my contribution:

The original cover page from the original printing of Darwin’s life’s work with the full original title: The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.
The second image I was going to post would have been a mock up: The Origin of the Species …the Preservation for the Favored Aryan Races in My Struggle (Mein Kampf).

Between the title of the original Darwin book, and the complete abandonment of Eugenics after WW2 (after decades of increased commitment to the applied Darwinism called Eugenics) is it surprising that there is even a debate? These 2 points are compelling: Darwin Eugenics discredited by Nazi application and Darwin's connection to the racism of his clique.

This is not a debate on whether Darwin was wrong on all points. This is simply a measure of the saintlike devotion given to the founder. Fire-breathing, All-or-Nothing Evolution is currently deeply religious.

Sketch Sail for Ilustration Friday

2008-08-11T18:33:00.000-07:00

A little something for Illustration Friday this week.

Trek Sketch waiting for May

2008-08-05T07:59:00.000-07:00

Trek to come

2008-08-04T18:32:00.000-07:00

I will try again to upload my Star Trek sketch later. I wonder if the next trailer for new Star Trek movie will be out this week. I would like to be at the convention this week, if only to see the Trek Museum before it closes.

What you can expect from Monday

2008-07-28T16:27:00.001-07:00

When I started this Blog I intended regular themes:

Biblical scaled epics, political salmon,
Video Game walkthroughs from a secret UFO defense bunker,
17th century pyrates, and dangerous animals.

I have decided to stay clear of politics excepting Darwin politics, which has generated the most comments, interestingly enough. I have been thinking about blogging-up the ideas behind the deeply emotional politics, I am not incendiary enough to unload all my politics, but I hope that everyone can agree on some things. I think that this is a very cool development for example: Obama and McCain.

My revised list of expectations after one year:
You can expect more of the same, these themes seem pretty good:

The 2 entertainment themes – “all ages” and “over-served immature adults”
Talk Like a Pirate Day of September 19th.
Dangerous Animals
Projects that I may start working on with greater diligence
That “fish to ape” evolution is harder to believe than “ape to man” and no one likes to admit it
Themes on my favorite storytellers like Aaron Williams, the Foglios, and other superior independent comics.
Cartoonists NW, Illustration Fridays and animation
Shakespeare
Random thoughts on life and culture
Sketches
Similar ideas to mine on other Blogs

For example; Khylov the storyboard artist. I have been meaning to reply to Khylov who left such good comments the other day. He seems much more professional than I and has a good style to his art. He has blogged far more effectively than I on the overall hard-to-believeness of fish-to-ape. (May 12th - the fish "fin" needs to dump the lepidotrichia)

I wonder if I will ever get around to blogging big epics… with sketch illustrations…

Batman of Bruce Timm and Lego Batman

2008-07-24T19:37:00.000-07:00

Looking at my last post- I did not communicate the 2 “all ages” themes that I would like to come back to from time to time. The latest Dark Night gives a significant challenge to my proposition: the best comics/ stories are all ages.

Since I have been examining my own thoughts on this I have noticed that some “all ages” rating standards are awful, but some encourage creative people to streamline the story as they should and present a worthy story to the largest audience possible.

My other proposition is that an over-served small audience is unfairly over-catered to. The immature adults and older teens compose the group that is way over-targeted for comics and films.

To balance what may be misconstrued as prudish un-funism, I present Bruce Timm’s tribute to the censors of his 90’s Batman.

I hold up the Bruce Timm Batman as the best example of all-ages story well told. The image above shows some of the reasonable and unreasonable limits to Batman the Animated Series. From Upper Left to Lower Right: child endangerment, open wounds, gun violence, strangle/ neck grab, religion, alcohol, nudity, and smoking. This is one of the many good reason’s to check out the Bruce Timm Art of Batman book.

The commentary for the DVD seasons are interesting too. I cracked up at how Batman had to restrain himself for the sensors while fighting people, but could literally rip the head off of a robot human.

Lego Batman is the next big thing that my capture my ideal all-ages:

Collider has Lego Batman images.
Traveler’s Tales Lego games make the fun happen.

The superherohype.com / comingsoon.net link to the best image of the game’s cover to date. Apparently from the San Diego wish-I-were there fest.

Looking forward to Lego Batman

2008-07-21T12:58:00.001-07:00

Records were broken this weekend. This has been a good summer for superheroes.
I saw many kids at all the movies this summer.
My rating from most “all ages” to least:

Kung Fu Panda – Most “all ages”
Hancock
Hulk
Iron Man
Batman - Least “all ages”

The huge numbers of kids at all these films says to me that the parent’s current standard “all ages” in for my area includes the racy bits in Iron Man and the Murderous bits in Batman. I have to think about this sometime.
Lego toys seem to be aimed at the least kid-friendly kid movie of the summer.
The Batman Lego game is less tied to the look of “Dark Night”. At the lego Batman site- many new things can be found including several fun short films of the Batman.

As a result of villain choices in the Batman relaunch, I have revisited my favorite Chuck Dixon Ras Al Ghul / Joker story. If anyone knows of a better Batman storyline from Chuck Dixon (or anyone in the last 10 years), I would like to see it! I doubt that Bruce Timm and Paul Dini will make any new Batman soon, so it would seem that all the good new comics are going to come from Mr. Dixon? The Demon Laughs was inspired.

This is what she ate

2008-07-14T17:43:00.000-07:00

This is the first of the regular Monday updates!

My significant Mother celebrated this weekend. While eating out we reminisced about dad (gone 3 years now) and a poem he put to music. I did not know that the tune was made up and I wasted hours looking for A WW2 top 40 title that I thought would be called “She said she wasn’t hungry”. The poem is found in a book of collected American poetry.

That Anonymous guy can sure write well. I shortened it and added my bits.

I have a pretty good mom.

I had but 50 cent

She said she was not hungry but this is what she ate:
A dozen raw, a plate of slaw,
A chicken and a roast,
Some applesass, and sparagrass,
And soft-shell crabs on toast.
A big box of stew, and crackers too;
Her appetite was immense!
When she called for pie,
I thought I’d die,
For I had but fifty cents.

She said she wasn’t hungry
And didn’t care to eat,
But I’ve got money in my clothes
To bet she can’t be beat;

She took it in so cozy,
She had an awful tank;
She said she wasn’t thirsty but this is what she drank:

A ginger pop with foam on top
Some coffee down her throat
A malted shake washed down some cake
And a root beer ice cream float

When she called for more,
I fell on the floor,
For I had but fifty cents.

Take my advice, don’t try it twice
If you’ve got but fifty cents!

More Good Shakespeare

2008-05-11T20:49:00.000-07:00

Here Pease-Blossom addresses Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream. "you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Call’d Robin Goodfellow: are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery;... sweet Puck?"

My Niece played an excellent Pease-Blossom, and I have been reminded that when High School aged actors run a play, they truly play. It was great fun, and this was teens at play as well as good greek-toga Shakespeare.

I went right after an excellent Comic Convention, I met Aaron William's (PS238) very cool spouse. Bought some, said "hi", convinced 3 really good artists to sign some comic boards. No Baldwin appearance, but this Emerald City Comicon gets better each year.

Emerald City Comicon

2008-04-29T15:38:00.000-07:00

Busy week ahead.
WIL WHEATON has been added, as has ADAM BALDWIN, to the Emerald City Comicon. I have tickets to the early show for Iron Man and Aomic Robo has a free comic coming out. Cartoonist Northwest will be well represented as well. Good times.
shortly after that:
Iron Man, May 2nd in theatres
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, May 16th in theatres
Incredible Hulk, June 13th in theatres
WALL·E June 27th in theatres
Dark Knight, July 18th in theatres

However Lego Batman is still pretty far away - September 2008
New trailer

Expelled Movie

2008-04-18T17:06:00.000-07:00

Ben Stein opens today. Freedom to think.
Amazing. Fun trailer.

Red 5 Comics

2008-03-27T20:37:00.001-07:00

Red 5 is a great example of a publisher making comics - they are a part of a very cool trend: Creative people who made a pile of cash that they could retire on and decide to spend their time making really good comic books.

Red 5 had movie deals before they put their first comic up for sale. I followed this company out of interest- "how did they do that"
The answer is found in the creators past. Heavily connected with success and Lucas Arts.

Abyss conclusion comes out 4/30.

Atomic Robo will next appear on Free Comic Book Day with Neozoic

Red5 Comics are people who have kid- hearts (adventure, humor, great stories and heroes) but put out comics that a parent would think 2x about giving to children. I do not think that they dropped the F bomb yet but ... maybe they have. The current comic world makes all ages comics with occasional dialogue that should have read like !!$&* instead of ...

Maybe I am off here, but these great stories deserve a bigger audience, they have cut themselves off from a good chunk of it, I am not sure why.

Enough angst- I really like Kevin Rubio, and Atomic Robo, and dinosaur herds attacking cities.

Abyss especially is fun. It was made by the same team that created Tag and Bink. I have a couple copies of the Tag and Bink collection on order that I intend to hold for gifts. If you work for the distributors, get more.

Just look at the cover art for a summary of the Tag and Bink coolness: here

PS 238 Aaron Williams

2008-03-24T19:33:00.001-07:00

One of the best all-ages comics for me lately has been PS238 by Aaron Williams. I have about a dozen of his collections and single issues - more than half have a great sketch and signature. His blog is a great source of amusement for hero/adventure people too.
He seems proud to be the writer for one of the new Spider-Man Unlimited issue #13 stories. I like his work.

Kids Love Comics

2008-03-21T21:58:00.000-07:00

My cartoonist group, Cartoonists NW. has a large number of projects going on that are not intended for kids at all. (they are very original and amazing) And I have been reading a lot of Scott McCloud lately who considers the kid-comics mental association to be a very bad thing for comics. Scott goes on to say that he is not happy with current trend to only cater to males aged 25 to 40.
This has started me thinking more about the state of me, and what I want for comics.
I recently came across a kid’s comics site aimed at educators, and it reminded me of how kid’s comics are a very very good thing:

Because Kids Love Comics like no one else.

Kids Love Comics-- Promoting literacy (and fun!) through Graphic Novels & Comics! KLC aims to promote quality, age-appropriate comic books available to kids through awareness campaigns, and creator tours & signings that tie in with local education and business communities.
Comic books are a valuable resource for kids' entertainment & education!

My wife is a Public School teacher (which is an influence on me) and I always have kid sketches in my sketchbook alongside of my pirates, characters and heroes. So that obviously is one thing that I want for my comics. Kid participation.

I win again!

2008-03-04T19:51:00.001-08:00

I win again! I made it past the Editor and was given these kind words by Mark.
Even though I am now represented by Stickman # 656, I have to admit that my favorite is still #17

My 2 best reasons today to like Mark Monlux:
1.) Mark told me about some good things over the years: Cartoonists Northwest and about how art pricing works (more people see the art - over time and by distribution, more the fair pay for the creator) which I find very interesting and may have to do someting about someday.
2.) Mark also is living proof that you can turn out good illustrations, and run a business without losing your mind. He is a pro and fun. I cannot imagine that this is an accident. He must be smart of sumthin'.
BTW Mark is an active member in Seattle GAG. This is the place to get the Pricing and Ethical Guidelines book for people who may someday have a product. Mark is an artists advocate, I am proud to know the Grand Poobah.
He has a great site - love the movie reviews and the Hawaii story.

Return of Stickman entry now away

2008-03-03T22:55:00.000-08:00

Now for another StickMan adventure. Can StickMan get past the Monlux editor process.

I am a winner!

2008-03-02T20:05:00.000-08:00

My “Sunburned Pirate” entry won for the sculpture-before-dinner activity (probably because of the salad leaf that was added to simulate seaweed?- Hat tip to Jeff Hammill and my table.)
The Toonie Awards banquet was great as usual – the best so far by my thinking. Some greats were missed – Scott, and Scott and Georgia and… plenty of other people that you cannot help but like.
I have met many talented, fine toonists over my almost 2 years of participation.
If I ever do a project with Dillon Works this recognition could come in handy.

Mark Monlux (who normally takes top sculpting honor) successfully challenged me to contribute to his Stickman webcomic – look for an entry later this week?
The Cartoonists Northwest club is going through some changes. I hope that we do not lose the old website, but I like the “yahoo groups” idea. The new ties with the Art Institute of Seattle (a CNW show is in progress since Friday) have been welcome, and more people are recognizing what a uniquely great thing CNW (Cartoonists Northwest) is. (It looks like Philadelphia has something going, but too few cities seem to have what Seattle has.)

Happy to be here.

Taproot As You Like It

2008-02-24T19:34:00.000-08:00

I had a great time introducing “me Olives” to Shakespeare this weekend. We saw “As You Like It” directed by Karen Lund (read as a pdf at wowio). I think that the title is excellent 17th Century marketing. Taproot Theater is excellent once again.

"The result is good, good, good vibrations."
- Joe Adcock, Seattle PI

One of the devices in this play is that the banished Duke becomes a hippie in the woods (1960s music for transitions, but faithful iambic pentameter otherwise) which worked well for me.

As hoped, Olives loved the play and I found it very familiar – I had never seen this particular comedy before but if follows the formula: A woman pretends to be a man to test the true heart of the male lead. One of the characters says something amazingly profound in a brief monologue, and everybody gets married at the end.
As the Reduced Shakespeare Company has rightly observed – this never gets old.

BTW – you can always tell the difference between tragedy and comedy with Shakespeare:
Tragedy – everybody dies
Comedy – everybody gets married

“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”
- ROSALIND — Daughter to the banished Duke.

“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
- JAQUES — A Lord attending upon the banished Duke.

I think that Orlando Bloom should make like Kenneth Branagh and try out a film version of this play. Fittingly enough the male lead is named “Orlando”. If he does a good enough job on this he could then (when he is older) play the lead in “Midsummer Night’s Dream”… as an elf… well technically a fairy.

I toyed with the idea of traveling all the way down to Ashland Oregon to see “A Midsummer Night's Dream”. I wonder if it would have been worth the long drive, and worth missing this gem from Taproot.

Thank you to: Marianne Savell (Rosalind), Anne Kennedy (Celia) and Bob Borwick (Touchstone) for genuine enjoyment of one of my favorite things – Shakespeare.

My sketch today is a caricature of the much-used device: A woman pretends to be a man to test the true heart of the male lead.

Nintendo DS Sketch Pad

2008-01-27T20:59:00.000-08:00

I have to give honorable mention to Jens Andersson (in Sweden?). For his excellent programming for the Nintendo DS. His application reminds me of the drawing hand screensaver software which I also like. Here are two of my sketches on the go. DS conclusively beats PSP because of this.

4 Words: Pressure sensitive drawing pad
Colors! is a simplistic digital application for Nintendo DS based on modern painting-techniques developed for drawing tablets in programs like Photoshop. By taking advantage of the pressure sensitivity of the DS touch-screen it becomes a perfect portable digital sketch-book.

Current features
——————-
Hard and soft circular brush
Pressure-sensitivity can affect opacity and brush-size
512×384 image resolution with 2 stage zoom

Donald problems in work page 3 panel 1

2008-01-26T21:32:00.000-08:00

The move from sketchbook to artboard did not go well. Even simple things became harder so I am focusing on one panel for the moment. Looking back at the script - the car is all wrong and what was intended to be a final pencil did not look as good (composition) as the thumbnail that I started with. To top it all off, Donald looked a lot like Daffy. I was doing fine Donald drawings (with audience) without reference - but the panel 1 Donald... just ugg. But before hitting these problems I went to the font size problem using my math brain.

The Comic book dimensions are 6 ¾ x 10 inches. From there I determined that 300 pixels per inch figures a panel of 2025 (half 2025 is 1012 1/2) pixels by 3000.
So each panel (assuming 8 panels per page) can be worked on in a single image of a little over 1000 pixels

I was able to get a pretty good match with a 11 point comic book like font (hair larger than sample page) at 300 pixels per inch. (I used a scan of a Donald Duck like comic for comparison).

For people using prepped artboard the dimensions are: 10x15 drawing area on drawing board with bleed of ½ inch all around (1 ¼ bleed on the bottom margin)

Math brain off.

Merry Christmas

2007-12-24T15:27:00.000-08:00

I hope that everyone enjoyed "Talk Like a Time Traveler Day". I am now going back to a Donald Duck project that interests me.

A great 11 page script was written by Jeff Hamill about Donald and nephews in Hawaii. Jeff met with me and explained how a Donald Duck comic is created and provided me with some good resources if I wanted to play Disney artist. Jeff is a very good writer and deserves to have his stories published, and buckets of money dropped his way by movies, tv, and European distributors for his great stuff.

I hit a perfectionist-block almost immediately, so today's post is a sample of some of what I consider hideous (some say it looks fine... I don't), and I will post soon some of my efforts to finish some pages worth showing.

The current strategy: draw may variations - overcome bad starts with many retries. It seems to me to be a legitimate way to attack a block. We shall test this today.

3 comics posted

2007-11-29T20:26:00.000-08:00

3 Talk Like a Time Traveler comics are up, so it looks like I will have the 4th up tomorrow. I am looking forward to the December series. My next move will be to get font permission, let the koala know that I know of his time travel abilities, and make a splash with buzzcomics and topwebcomics.
Go and have a look: talklikeadventure.smackjeeves.com

Talk Like a Time Traveler

2007-11-17T09:14:00.000-08:00

I plan to post a few comics, then (as requested) let the "Action Man" font creator know that I am using his font and send him a link to my comic. Hopefully he will approve and I won't have to seek out another fontographer at dafont.com.

The hook for people voting for my comic on December 8th will be that all of the good unused time traveler ideas will be included in the vote incentive. All this presumes that I can get a following and make a splash. Should be fun.

On another note a copy cat effort entitled "Pretend to be a Time Traveler" has been detected. Apparently a Koala has begun an effort last August with ideas identical to mine except for thinking that dystopia and dress up are good ideas. I am for talk only. Costumes are fine for the Koala, but I am all about talking like a time traveler.

I can only assume that the Koala has access to a time machine, has gone forward to December 8th and then returned to last August to make it appear that December 8th was all his idea. Very clever.

Walking around video games with a camera

2007-11-17T09:07:00.001-08:00

I have been walking around the Valve Halflife games and the Roller Coaster Tycoon games with my trusty 35mm camera picking up backgrounds and images that could make a high-intensity update webcomic possible.

I know that Gordon Frohman's comic uses Halflife shots, so I know that this concept has been done very well by others.

For Talk Like a Time Traveller Day these two could be talking about time travel. and this background from RCT 3 might be usable.

Talk Like Adventure

2007-11-17T09:02:00.000-08:00

Part of the plans to put up and promote a webcomic are to achieve goal of getting many popularity votes on December 8th. I further aim to prove that even a bad webcomic takes a great deal of work. My poster child for this effort is an old acme ufo defence character seen here:

When you start drawing crates

2007-10-30T11:23:00.000-07:00

... then you know that you have been playing too many video games. At least I did not include my drawing of the companion cube... maybe the companion cube is just too personal.

Stuff

2007-10-30T10:54:00.001-07:00

Gordon Chooses a Helmet

2007-10-13T13:49:00.000-07:00

I have titled this piece - "no updates in a while"
Release Date Halo - Late September
Release Date Halflife - Early October
Release Date Portal - Early October
Release Date Team Fortress - Early October

This is just not fair.

Aperture Science "We do what we must because we can for the good of all of us except the ones who are dead" (but there is no sense crying over every mistake - you just keep on trying until you run out of cake)

Pirate Up the Captain

2007-09-19T12:12:00.000-07:00

I suspect that some of the people who make my Breakfast Cereal know about today. Limited Edition Piratey shapes were in my menu this morning.

The Captain can be pirated up with darker eyes and jaggedy teeth. ... or with special piratey shapes in the box.

Poop Deck Pappy

2007-09-19T12:01:00.000-07:00

"Who hid the halibut on the poop deck?" is an actual song title. For those who wonder about the netting on the bow of a pirate ship... I think that I can hold it until we reach shore.

Rip Post

2007-09-19T11:55:00.001-07:00

talklikeapirate.com

Talk Like a Pirate today

2007-09-19T11:02:00.000-07:00

time flies... these should put me over the 19 mark

New Counter

2007-09-15T20:48:00.001-07:00

I put up a counter this week. Who loves me?

The Send Up

2007-09-15T14:31:00.001-07:00

The Punchline

2007-09-15T14:28:00.000-07:00

Dewey laughing semi-maniacally

2007-09-14T22:05:00.000-07:00

Grog

2007-09-11T10:11:00.001-07:00

A nasty sounding beverage for long sea voyages. Water goes bad after storage. Drink Grog instead.

A big "no prize" for someone who can name where the original inspiration for this image comes from. And a bigger "no prize" for the person who provides the link to the dozens of variations on this image that LucasArts had pop up each new time you entered this area.

Answer Here

Pirate named Black

2007-09-11T09:55:00.000-07:00

The Governor

2007-09-10T19:10:00.001-07:00

Demmed Bones Pyrate Tutor

2007-09-04T21:35:00.001-07:00

An early sketch for the Latin Tutor for Fuentez. My Editor Han has since successfully lobbied for a more skeletal looking man. He goes by the name Damned Bones. His family name is Bones, and this character is named after an actual historical person who's full name was "Without Christ You Shall Be Damned Bones" which imho is an excellent pirate name.

Uncle Donald in danger

2007-09-03T12:58:00.000-07:00

I was not entirely happy with my warm up sketches today of Huey and Louie. Dewey was to be laughing maniacally, but I think that I need to do several more duck studies before I make myself happy with the nephews in pirate garb.

The pirate on top is the son of a famous pirate. His name is Fuentes de France. On his birthday on the year in which this sketch was taken he was given a Latin tutor named "Damned Bones". He likes his present from the previous year far better.

Talk Like a Pirate Day Sept. 19

2007-09-01T12:25:00.001-07:00

Good Bye Summer, Hello Talk Like a Pirate Day
The Talk Like a Pirate Web Site's Crew has a great link page.
My Pirate Name is “Cap’n Blood Bath and Beyond”
You should have one too. Pirate Name Generator
Once you have the name you should learn the lingo savvy?

You should also visit the site of a great Pirate cartoon out of Everett from the Gregory bros.
And these Great Pirate Toon Links. At least check out the Calvin and Hobbes one.

I think that I have enough pirates in my sketchbook since last year to post 19 pirates in the next 19 days. Lets see if I can meet the deadline.

Side note: Donald Duck work in process – not forgotten

Question: which is cooler – ninja or pirate?
Question: Agree, Disagree-
Best Pirate films:
Best Disney – “Treasure Island”
Best Black and White: “Black Pirate”
Best Movie Pirate ever: “Cap’n Flint”
Best Pirate Comedy: “Princess and the Pirate”
Best Errol: “Captain Blood”
Best Elf reinvented as a Pirate: “Legolas”

Best funny Pirate Game: Curse of Monkey Island
Best Swash Buckling Game from Russia: Pirates of the Caribbean

Lobster Rough Acme Ufo Defence

2007-08-28T20:14:00.000-07:00

I made it to cartoonists.net meeting this week.
Very fun group.
The meeting this week reminded me of how fun the world of Donald Duck comics is. DD is popular in Europe where original 10 page stories are still fresh duck.
After the meeting my son and I stuck around to talk to Curtis about the greatness that is xcom ufo defense.
During the meeting John Lustig and Jeff Hamill walked through the creative writing process, after the meeting Curtis inpired my son Z to come up with over 20 great storylines for an acme-com webcomic. I am amazed at his creativity. Love the man-cub.
Today's post honors a worthy adversary, the Lobster Man. Acme-com marines take position, and don't let one of these blaster holding armored beasties get the drop on you.

Side note:
Here is what I loved on the web today - Girl Genius, Dreamland Chronicles, DaFont, Cartoonists NW, finding obscure reference images on photobucket and Google Sky.

I don't want to beat a dead fish but...

2007-08-20T17:12:00.002-07:00

I have been thinking about my gorilla man post.

It seems to me that the landslide majority of Evolution adherents (not convinced about the fish-to-ape story) are not well served by the fire-eating-fish-to-ape evolutionists who run the show.

I think that ape-to-man requires less of a leap than the fish to ape. Right out of the gate the lobed-fish comes off as counter-intuitive. For the Evolution-Years that the lobes-legs are too weak to walk they will make the fish a poor swimmer. This defeats the survival of the fit fish.

If the majority of the Evolution supporters were well served by the leaders of the best science two things would happen:
1. The counter-natural-selection nature of the lobed fish would be acknowledged.
2. There would be a stated plan - "what we are doing about it" to address the doubts.

Ape-to-man people:
Did I capture in the picture above the reason that so many can buy the Ape-to-Man, but the Fish-to-Ape only appeals to the few?

Why ACME? part deux - the sequel

2007-08-15T21:26:00.000-07:00

I have been trained from a very young age by Warner Brothers that putting ACME at the front of anything makes it incredibly funny.

ACME “From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors ("Buddy's Bug Hunt/1935") to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence.”

Why ACME?

2007-08-12T14:44:00.000-07:00

I really love an old marines vs aliens game called x-com ufo defense. I will never understand why there are not more turn based games like this. http://www.xcomufo.com/
Has all the info you need - it is best to start out with ufo defense first - so you can edit your marines when the difficulty level goes through the roof. I find 2 to 4 super human marines to compensate for the amazingly tough aliens that show up 6 months into the first year. After you are the ufo-defense master then you might head over to STEAM where they have the ocean-based slightly updated version that works with my Win XP laptop.

It is my understanding that x-com ufo defense had difficulty securing the rights to the xcom name for their game for a while. I think that acme-ufo defense would have been great. Especially if more humor was injected into the already addicting game play. I also think that defense can be spelled defence in a game title.

If there is overwhelming demand I may put up some sketches from a series of ideas that would inject humor into my proposed update on this 1990s game.

Let me know if you have fun playing this game as a result of this blog.

GorillaMan

2007-07-28T11:26:00.002-07:00

I watched "Darwin’s Deadly Legacy" on DVD last night.

I agree that the insult –and-run debate is unpleasant.

But I was reminded of how interesting the actual Creation/ Evolution debate truly is.
And I was struck by how obvious the connection is.
In the book “Mein Kampf” the translator used the English word “development” for the German word “evolution”, which is unfortunate.
“Noble Evolution” as Adolf H. considered it should have been used – “natural selection” is still prominent though.

“The support which I receive from Germany is my chief ground for hoping that our views will ultimately prevail” – Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Vol 2 p 270

Although the video hit on several on my top 10 “that is interesting”
… it missed these…
TOP 10 INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT THE DARWIN DEBATE

Ota Benga - http://www.doctorhakeem.com/Congo_Project/otabenga.html
Poly Strate tree fossils
Job 40-41 dinosaurs vs man cagefight
Billions of dead things, buried in rock layers, laid down by water, all over the earth
“dem Bible dinosaurs at deh Creation Museum”
Josef Stalin tried to create an invincible army of ape-men
Eugenics - New York World's Fair, 1939-1940 (Why no Eugenics after WW2?)
DNA only loses information in mutation – no information added

And the number one point of interest:
40% believe evolution - of that 40%, the majority (60% plus) do not believe the part about fish to apes

So my question of the day – what evidence would help you make the “leap of faith” that fish became apes?

pretty happy

2007-07-15T15:58:00.000-07:00

I have a long way to go - but I have colored my line art more badly on other occasions.

Ryan with Baby cleaned up

2007-07-10T16:29:00.001-07:00

Ryan with Baby

2007-07-07T12:01:00.000-07:00

Initial Rough for changing a diaper that will fill once again in moments

POIT!

2007-06-22T11:51:00.002-07:00

This may be the best "Dad with baby story" of all time. The dad diapers the cat, sets the baby on the porch and is never asked to get up at night for the baby again.

Here are some baby sketches- lets get this baby started

2007-06-21T20:43:00.001-07:00

First Post and Hello

2007-06-02T20:24:00.001-07:00

I have high hopes of regular updates, some participation in "Animation Friday's" and my local favorite group of good looking, talented, Seattle cartoonists - cartoonists.net

More exciting still: deep thoughts, tutorial ideas and proto-graphic novel bits.
May include Biblical scaled epics, political salmon, Video Game walkthroughs from a secret UFO defence bunker, 17th century pyrates, and dangerous animals.

Being that this is a first post I will be putting up a sketch and this note.

If this does not work as expected the post will be deleted like a bad piece of code.

Settin Sail, Leaving Port