From the Sketchbook (Volume 3)
I’ve been wanting to post the last of the scans I made from the purple sketchbook, but this has been the first chance in awhile. The wife is sick with a fever – in bed since before I got home at 4 today. Ida and Mae are asleep in their new bunkbed – complete with...
From the Sketchbook (Volume 2)
Here are some more scans from my purple sketchbook. I’m starting to get excited about starting a new one – a feeling I haven’t had in awhile. Writing these posts, I’ve decided on the need for two simultaneous sketchbooks: a hardbound book for “free” drawing; experimental stuff to keep my brain and hand loose and...
From the Sketchbook (Volume 1)
I haven’t kept a sketchbook consistently for a very long time. In college, they were like little illuminated pamphlets shared between friends – packed with different styles, trying out new things on every page. The year after I graduated from college, I started a company with friends, started calling myself a “Creative Director” and all...
I am pretending to be a Science Fiction writer.
I’m simultaneously working on two stories set in the future. One way way ahead and the other really close. Is that a bad idea? Two totally different worlds, with absolutely different tones and formats and stories to tell. This is true: the one in the distant future takes place in Brooklyn and the one in...
Heroes of Animation: South Park
For consideration in this esteemed canon, I submit the first episode of this past season of South Park (Season 15, Ep 1). Most every episode of South Park has a beautifully loony balance of thought-provoking and thought-retarding scenes. This one is batshit crazy, extraordinarily gross and TRULY FUNNY. And stupid. So nice. Season 15?! These...
People of America…
For many moons, I’ve been meaning to add to my post about America (the Animated Series). Since I can’t share the shorts themselves, I thought I’d at least put up stills of the credits and thank (by name) the people that contributed… especially since none of them have even seen these things to know that...
Pitches is crazy.
Even though I haven’t yet been able to trick a network into supporting an idea past the pilot phase, it’s been fun trying. I admit freely that I’ve pitched some truly half-baked nonsense to some very patient professionals – certainly in the beginning. My old producing partner and I had our web series Miss Muffy...
