Hope everyone had a great Christmas! We had a great time relaxing with family. Speaking of, this week’s toon was inspired by Amy’s grandmother and brother trying to figure out how to throw snowballs on facebook (with a little “Geek” joke for good measure)
Holy COW!!! Awesome.
A year ago I entered the “What Happens to Shifty Next” contest where entrants take Future Thought’s “Shifty” (from their series “Crime Time) character and create a short story with him. The contest closed, and shortly after I was notified that I won (wahoo!). Well, last night I got a message inviting me to check out the completed, animated short! To refresh your memory, you can see my animatic here. And WATCH THE FINAL HERE!!!! (Can’t embed it cause it screws up Internet Explorer…..)
THANKS FUTURE THOUGHT!
Doing warm-up tonights, here’s a 12-minuteish concoction.
As for the title of the post… I guess you could, but I have no idea where this came from, just putting the digi-pen to the digi-paper and lettin’ the 1s and 0s fly. Feel free to comment a caption (or even a brief story?) 
The title fits, both literally and figuratively
It snow yesterday…. I mean SNOW-D! Like 3 feet (if you account for some drifts…. if you account for the plow mountain in the front of my drive, it’s like twice that :D) I shoveled late last night thinking I could get a jump on it… NOPE! Not a chance. I’ll have to post some pics maybe.
In other news, I’ve semi-started my new position as Marketing/Revenue Manager at the Bangor Daily News (slowly transitioning out the department I’m in). I’m pretty psyched as you’d imagine and getting ready to tackle the challenge. In the meantime I’m still working on various freelance project (of course the biggest being Mecha Manga Bible Heroes, can’t wait for you guys to check out what we’ve been doing).
And now, why you might’ve visited the site today….the Sculpt giveaway. THANK YOU to all that have pre-ordered the book! As promised the winner of the Araknid Kid Sculpt, as determined by a random drawing… is…. *drumroll*
GEO D.!!!!
Congrats and I’ll be getting the sculpt out to you asap!
Can’t wait to get the comics back (and then sent out to you guys!!!)
Trucking along on Mecha Manga Bible Heroes. Pushing to get all the pages done by February! While I can’t post anything from that quite yet, here’s a warm-up I did the other day inspired by the awesome fantasy webcomic MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. (read it!)
Countdown to Christmas! You ready?
I mentioned last week how Tastes Like Chicken is currently under review by a syndicate. Wanting to make the most of this opportunity I put together a quick sample of what a TLC toon might look like animated. Here’s the result:
UPDATE: The YouTube video used to be embedded here. Unfortunately, for some reason, when I embed vids, it cause Internet Explorer users to not be able to access the site… so until I figure out why, see the toon animated here
(Feel free to send it as a greeting card to your friends… I think that’s a new youtube feature)
In other news, my TLC cards have been doing pretty well over at Zazzle. “You have cards available at Zazzle?” you may say. “Yes” I’d reply. “Yes I do.” If you need some last minute stuff, there’s a free upgrade to 2 day shipping. Used code “TWODAYZAZZLE”. Not sure how long that’s gonna last. Click here to shop my “not-much-variety” and poorly promoted Zazzle page.
Just a little Christmas toon:
It’s snowing here right now 
Hope everyone had a great weekend! It was a wild weather day last Friday, large portions of New England (and here in Maine) were without power (to those, hope you’ve got the electricity back!). We were fortunate that we didn’t lose power here, while towns a few miles away did….
All the rain cause the water levels to rise a bit, so it was a great time for my sump pump to stop pumping water (fortunately Amy was home to empty… but still, she was down in the basement ever 20 minutes emptying it out!). So when I got home I decided that I should probably try to fix it. Which I can triumphantly say I did (where we live, there’s a large amount of clay in the ground. Apparently over the years, said clay had clogged up THE ENTIRE PIPE system that connected the sump pump to the drain!!! Needless to say, it got a good cleaning It was messy )
And real quick, I had to mention this. Last night we had some friends over and we made pizza. Two of them had chicken on them, and I prepared it. Dare I say it was THE BEST chicken I have EVER made (Amy would also point out it was the only chicken I’ve ever made ). Taking inspiration from Ratatouille I did some experimentin’, using some of Pampered Chef’s Himalayan Salt & Smoky BBQ Rub (you can buy it from here ;)… it was, dare I say… SUCCULENT. Oh yeah, rockin’ in the kitchen (For the BBQ Chicken Pizza: Heated a bit of oil in the skillet on Med-High, put in some freshly pressed garlic and cut up some onion, dropped the chicken in, added some of the Salt and BBQ Rub, cooked till it was white on both sides, lowered the heat a bit to let it cook through… did the same for the Alfredo Chicken Pizza, minus the BBQ rub and add a bit of White cooking wine….. YUM!)
Anyway, enough of that, here’s some of the warm-up art from last week’s Outcast Studio Daily sketch topics:
Shatterstar, Thor, Blink and the Elementals.
Anyway,
First up, a big THANK YOU! to all who have pre-ordered Araknid Kid #1. Your support is greatly appreciated and I can’t wait to get these copies in your hands (you know… the ones that will be printed.)
Second, here’s this week’s Tastes Like Chicken!
My mom emailed this pic that my sister had discovered going through some stuff…. this is from High School (back when “Bugboy” was born 
you’ll notice the early variations of “Kracker & Flea”)
I had totally forgotten about the balloon guy.
In other news a second “Tastes Like Chicken” submission has been sent to one of the syndicates for review (and I’ve received confirmation that they got it). Here’s hopin’!
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