“Nite Fite” Screenshots
March 9th, 2007
I defy you to guess what the hell this cartoon is about. Ah, nevermind… just wait until you see it. “Very funny” says Eric Homan.
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Archive for March, 2007
The Kelv Enthusiast: Food
March 6th, 2007
The traditional Kelvic meal consists of cold dandelion soup, tongue-stuffed ox lung with jellied blood, pigs milk cheese, and pond greens.
A special liquor of Kelv is lzinnkö… made from warm fermented radish juice. Each bottle contains a dead albino scorpion. It is usually drank on festive holidays.
**What the hell is this all about? It’s an excerpt from my upcoming magazine piece “The Kelv Enthusiast” to be published in Mammal Magazine, Spring 2007. Tune in for details.
Meet Penalty and Lloyd
March 6th, 2007
The short cartoon I’m working on this week stars two TV commentators named Penalty and Lloyd. Without giving away the plot of the film, I wanted to show some of the sketches that led to the final character designs. I’m still debating whether or not Penalty should have a leather jacket.
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The Kelv Enthusiast: The Laszlo Project
March 5th, 2007
In 1965, there was a short-lived public uprising against the Perpendik government. The story behind it sounds too strange not to be an urban legend, but numerous eyewitness accounts confirm it.
Three Bladovak brothers in their twenties (Sandor, Nagy, and Laszlo) decided to take a stand against the strict official ban on pop-music. The youngest brother, Laszlo, built rudimentary robots that played rock music, with the idea being that the law only applied to humans. The brothers set up underground rock performances by the robots and soon most of the cities youth were in attendance.
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Channeling Jack Kirby
March 2nd, 2007
Jack Kirby is “The King of Comics” and one of my favorite artists ever. If you are unfamiliar with Kirby click here (it would take a thousand blogs to explain all the reasons he’s a genius).
For one of my new cartoons I needed an array of futuristic technology for a background. It occurred to me that it would be a funny little tribute to give them a Kirby-esque look. No one could draw strange futuristic technology like my man Kirbs, especially in his early 1970’s DC Comics period.
Here’s a sampling of some of my Kirby-inspired machinery.
Dandom Cartoons
March 1st, 2007
About a month ago, I said to Fred Seibert ,”How cool would it be if I had my own Random Cartoons show? Just 39 short cartoons with no commitment to any particular characters”
Fred replied “So do it.”
