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I first heard about this from Scott Kurtz, but I’ve also followed up on Scott McCloud and some other artists.

24 Hour Comics Day is where a group of artists/storytellers get together in one location and bust out 24 comics, one per hour. (I wonder if that’s how so many Marmaduke comics get made. Can you imagine if Gary Larson had done this?)

I can predict that they’d get pretty loopy pretty quickly. Here’s my attempt at the comics:

Hour 1

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Hour 2

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Here you can see the loopiness set in. I crunched 23 comics into one. There’s a ninja dinosaur bowling, taunted by a zombie robot, while being encouraged by a manga Cheshire cat. Yeah, we moved our drummer today. I got kinda tired. Maybe next year I’ll be more prepared, with the Wacom tablet instead of a Sharpie and a piece of printer paper.

Do my longtime readers remember my stealth plane?

I guess it’s not so new of a discovery.

It also turns out that Edgar Mitchell (his July 23 tell-all here) has books out, like Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science. He’s rumored to have worked with X-Files, but IMDB doesn’t list anything.

Mike, you’ll be pleased to know that Max Payne is being made into a movie.

It was cool that my daughter was able to interpret my drawing:

“Dad, the boy is going to go play with his dinosaurs.”

Yes!

Towards the end of the year I was asked by a teacher to illustrate a children’s book. She already had the entire first draft printed out and I just needed to supply the art. (This was a weird switch for me as a writer. “What? You already have a story?”) Now that I’m done with the technology handbook for the district (once all of the publishing details are worked out, I’ll link to it) I had some time to do some character sketches. (And Scott McCloud’s book, Making Comics, is so good about the essence of comics and has very few “draw this horse - now draw a pirate” How To Comic cliches. A definite read for any art freak but also for any fan of the genre or even teachers who want to emphasize storytelling.)

So here is the main character of the children’s book (I can’t give too many details just yet but it’s pretty darn fun):

Meet Timothy. He’s now officially copyrighted and all that stuff.

Yep, Devin, you asked for it. Here’s how to figure out a predictability of how many people in the Marvel universe share Stan Lee characteristics.

As x approaches Stan Lee, x is multiplied by the 12 movies so far, rising exponentially by Life, the Universe, and Everything, factored by the amount of gamma radiation present (I find it funny that it looks like a hangman’s gallows) within the boundaries of how many movies make money divided by the 31 attempts so far. Solution: As long as Marvel movies make money, the rate of babies born looking like Stan Lee will increase exponentially. Modus ponens Excelsior! (Not counting ‘Who wants to be a super-hero?’ because, frankly, no one watches that anymore.)
(Do you like my wife’s ultra cool stationery?)
(I being an expert on cool.)

Here’s a cool mash-up of Stan Lee’s cameos:

With the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie slated for May 1, 2009:
The Good News

1. Remy LeBeau
2. Deadpool

(my obsession ever since Ultimate Alliance)

3. Dominic Monaghan

The Bad News

1. Will.i.am

(Remember a Wayans in DnD? Surprisingly, the Academy didn’t!)

And Mike, here’s your Star Wars parody. I felt like demonstrating another funny situation where real life people interact with a fantasy world:

(Star Wars being reality and American Politics a fantasy. I thought we all knew that.)

The Haiku
Math illustrated
by non-traditional means
makes it spicier!

Did you see this cool site? I always knew Jon Arbuckle was crazy, but I didn’t know to what sad effect:

The Haiku
Is there a cat here
or have we been seeing Jon’s
mental delusions?

I have decided that if I were to have an action figure made of me, this would come close:

Here are some sketches from tonight’s JV football game:

1 Peter 2:11

Stealth Plane
I’m actually pretty excited by how the Sharpie scanned. I drew both with no draft. In the rain. With wolves out.
The Haiku
For we are strangers
Citizens of another
Kingdom in the Sky

I hope this clears things up.

Here are some photo tips.