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It's Almost Halloween

Hey everyone. The count down to Halloween is on! It's my favorite holiday so I'm excited. No other holiday is as entertaining as Halloween is.

In my last post I mentioned the Monster Cereals blog. And since it is October I'm going to bring it up again. So, visit http://monsterscereal.blogspot.com/.

Also, you all should visit the Unofficial Boo-Berry page. http://www.i-mockery.com/booberry/

Boo-Berry is my personal favorite of the Monster Cereals so I figured that I'd share the link.

Also, here's an animated Halloween treat from Grickle. Enjoy.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0j3rlmqyWg

Breakfast Cereal Cartoon Culture

I love the popular cartoon art culture that surrounds the marketing, promotion and packaging of our breakfast cereals. If good old fashioned American capitalism got one thing right it is breakfast cereal. Hot diggity dog! I've got some treats for you.

I was shopping at a Target one night when I came across a retro style box of Trix. The design looked like one of "Jolly" Roger Bradfield's. I emailed him and it turns out that it was indeed one of his designs! Amazing!

Also, I found a blog that I just get lost in. It's all about the monster cereals. You know, Count Chocula and Boo Berry. They're all represented at http://monsterscereal.blogspot.com/

They've got it all the toys, the boxes, commercials, the works. Man, this blog is tops.

Anyway, enjoy, have fun and.... BE SAFE.

Here's What I'm Doing!

Hello, world. Very recently my place of employment, the Great Arizona Puppet Theater, asked me to draw a picture of one of Cinderella's mice. The reason for the illustration... temporary tattoos! During the run of the Cinderella puppet show we are going to be handing out free temporary tattoos of my mouse drawing to the kids. I'm pumped.

Here's what the image looks like.

The show hasn't happened yet but I'm already inspired. I just had temporary tattoos made of one of my fish drawings from my short Gulp.

They will look like this.

So, the economy is supposedly bad. At least that's what the hype says. And, the studios aren't hiring like they used to... I guess. Well, get off your butt, pull a drawing out of your pocket and get some temporary tattoos made. People are just dying to pay struggling young artists some pocket change for a boss awesome tattoo... I hope.

Want Christian Media For Your Kids?... Jelly Telly Has It

Earlier I wrote of the coming of Jelly Telly. Well, it has arrived! Jelly Telly is up and running. This is the big project that Phil Vischer (the creator of Veggie Tales) has been working on. It's full of delightful puppets and loads of animation.

You can check it out at JellyTelly.com. Have fun.

Animated Lives!: J.J. Sedelmaier

The Colbert Report's 'Tek Jansen' :

An interview with J. J. Sedelmaier...

In a presidential campaign filled with the cluttered, clarion sound of thousands upon thousands of words – powerful, eloquent words; mean-spirited, vindictive words – words uttered with articulation, elucidation and strength, misbegotten words mumbled ineffectively and without passion. It eventually became too much. Verbosity awash in verbosity. At the end, for the Scribe it was the images not the words that persisted and lingered in his mind. Images of the vanquished in gracious concession; of the winner in proud but reserved glory. It was the images of the Reverend Jesse Jackson stoically weeping, Queen Oprah overcome with emotion leaning upon the shoulder of a stranger, and it was the lasting faux-poignant visage of Stephen Colbert weeping unashamedly before the unyielding camera.

The Scribe always knew that images held power – from the delicate dabs of Georges Seurat’s impressionistic dotage to today’s digital artists’ youthful interstitial pixel renderings. But this knowledge sometimes had to be refreshed, to be made anew and it was doggoned Colbert that did it. Colbert was a hoot. An absolute hoot. He offered a unique and insanely well-crafted lunacy that was at once cerebral and yet somehow base. And his show had darned fine cartoons too!

What more could you ask?

Norwegian Comics

So, I went to Norway.

I don't know why either, but I am so glad I did. Oslo is a rockin' town and everyone should visit there at least twice.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to share a little piece of what Norway has to offer in comics.

I happened to find a comic book there called Pondus.

Read on if you dare.