1:03 PM (0 comments)
"To be able to have one degree of separation to someone you've been reading about your entire life is surreal."

I suppose I can say I'm only two degrees away, now that my friend Jon is directing Star Wars (in a commerical for M&M, but still, how freaking cool is that?)

Of course, it's clear from the pictures that he is now an Imperial sympathizer and will have to go up against the wall when the Rebellion takes back the galaxy.

10:27 AM (0 comments)
I must admit to taking part in an April Fool's prank at work, but I can only take the blame for these two:





Frankly, I think the first one might be a little overcosted.

5:49 PM (0 comments)
Via Screenhead, Coin Manipulation, your guide to dropping coins all over the floor for hours while you attempt to master the tricks contained within.

2:08 AM (0 comments)
Rule 7: All tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.

Via Warren Ellis, the rules of the road in the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons, according to Chuck Jones.

(On a related note, I hope one day that this exact post will appear here on OD. As I am currently suffering from mid-writing-project scruff, I am working hard on pre-building a context.)

1:40 AM (0 comments)
A three-click journey: my sidebar link to Drawn! brought me to the blog of (amazing) artist Ronnie del Carmen and from there I jumped to a page of storyboards he did for Batman: the Animated Series. Check 'em all out.

1:26 AM (0 comments)
Wow.

If there is a print for sale of the Center for Cartoon Studies' recruiting poster (as I saw it in this piece about its founding and construction), it will be mine. This I swear.

(While at the CCS website, don't miss the story of Inky Solomon. No relation to your Faithful Proprietor.)