Toby and his Magic Pants

This long out of print story first appeared in the long sold out Bug Nut #1. I only printed 127 copies and sold most of them at the 1999 Hanover Tomato Festival. It also appeared in the Eisner nominated anthology Brainbomb of that same year.....

Go buy one....

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=8514342

not affiliated with me but I found it on the net and thought it was cute....

Early Christmas Present

I know Disney is great, but I have always LOVED Hanna Barbera!! My Creative Writing teacher in high school always used to tease me about liking "inferior" cartoons.... but I've always loved their character designs, names and goofy gags. If you've ever read any of my books you've probably seen the influence. This book is wonderful....

corny

12 doodles

Spy Kids

Just A Drop (dot) Net

Please buy my new book....

HERE

it's true

Did a lot of writing this weekend in me ole sketchbook and also lots of doodles. Kristy was given a surprise baby shower today from the middle school girls in her sunday school class. She brought home this amazing blanket that hand the girls handprints on it.......God is so good.

more notes

Inside Front Cover Of My New Sketchbook

Don't worry kids.....

...I haven't sold out! This is just a doodle from my sketchbook....now it's back to drawing sappy ole love stories :)

another page....

Double-Dare Hare!!

To Do List or Father and Son night....

1. Play Samurai Jack on Gamecube (maybe Animal Crossing too)
2. Read comics
3. Draw comics
4. Build a sock ninja
5. Watch Polar Express
6. Eat junk food

The process

I am "writing" my next book in a 5 x 7 hardbound sketchbook using very tight thumbnails. I have around 14 pages mapped out so far and this particular scene also happens to be a Christmas scene. Bonus!



And here is how it looks "somewhat" polished. I say "somewhat" cause there is still a deliberate aesthetic choice I am making and will always make whenever I draw my comics. I like it to look simple and uncluttered. I am most concerned with simplicity and the way a page flows. Like for instance I really like the first panel in this page but may go back and change some of the other panels later as the swirlies and such clutter it up a bit.....I was constantly redrawing panels from MTS.

Out to Lunch

Friends, I have been posting comics everyday (for the most part) for a little over a year now and have had an absolute blast doing it!! But now I really need to focus on "This Is How We Met" and I don't want to be torn between putting something online and finishing this book. This was really always supposed to be my next book and like More Than Sparrows - the writing has taken a lot longer than I had anticipated. I contemplated putting some of the pages online (I shared the introduction already) but just decided that I would save everything for the book. My goal is to have this out by the end of January 2008 - I'm talking about xeroxed copies that will be available directly from me. I plan to submit this to a publisher that has produced some high quality children's books and most recently announced plans to publish graphic novels. Fingers crossed. I haven't completely given up on blogging :) just don't look for something everyday......thanks again for hanging out with me for the past year!! Read through those archives!! I'm proud of a lot of those strips :)

Introductions

Work on "This Is How We Met" is coming along swimmingly! I hope to have everything together by the end of Jan.....this book is - well, it has a lot more words than my usual stuff....Hopefully it will have been worth the wait.....and then Lord willing "This Road" and "The Fearnots" will follow....next year could be exciting!!

decorating the tree

I love watching Elf...

after eating turkey....

Happily Thanklesgivingston

2 covers...

...2 pieces I submitted to a local newspaper...

something else

gift ideas

Thanksgiving

Today at church the Pastor asked the congregation what they were thankful for....one by one people stood up and gave some pretty wonderful heartfelt testimonies. All I could think about was Kristy and Tyler and Ava...who should be here any day now. I just kept thanking him over and over again for my family. My family means everything to me. Now keep in mind this is just before I was supposed to sing "You Have Been So Good To Me" a song written by Paul Baloche and Matt Redman. I stood up, the music started and I proceeded to blubber like a weenie. Sheesh. I did manage to get through the song (with a major league shakey voice) but whatever. You practice a song over and over again and then the "meaning" of the song hits you and it's instant waterworks. HE has been so very good to me.

I need a name for mad zombie scientist pony?

tight thumbnails

two pages from "this is how we met"....yes, it is taking me forever, why do you ask?

movie night

few

When All Else Fails?

Sparky

been thinkin' 'bout Sparky ever since that PBS special from a couple of weeks ago. He was the best....