Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations

With just a few line strokes when an artist is able to convey the most mundane routines and reap a white page of paper into choreographed motion , you feel like you are holding something of magic. Jeffrey Brown has cat scratch fever and he illustrates the elementary things around us and brings his lines to life. It’s amazing how the obvious eludes us and Jeffery Brown captures it with his orb like a camera.

Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids

Just when you were about to run out of lies to tell small children, the creator of the bestselling Bunny Suicides books is back with more wickedly funny falsehoods for the truly twisted. Each hilarious cartoon tells a tall tale guaranteed to trouble guileless minds and crack up the grown- ups. So, find yourself a wide-eyed youngster and ask:
Did you know . . .
• If you rub two redheaded kids together, you can make fire
• Your dad’s got one nipple and two belly buttons
• If you drop a tooth in a glass of Coke, after a day it becomes a white butterfly
• French people eat croissants—and poo baguettes
• If you cut a badger in half with an axe it turns into two chipmunks

If Andy Riley believed in wearing pants, they’d be on fire right now! For the inner child and pathological liar in all of us, Loads More Lies is truly hysterical.

Welcome to the Jungle Hornswiggle

Hornswiggle seems like such a cool cartoon created from Jerry Beck. It brings back flashes of Terrytoons. This 6 minute cartoon is loaded with eye candy for all. This is the way a cartoon should be made. Check out Jerry’s blog.

Crazy By The Letters - Mental Problems From A to Z

Shades of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, Joey Chou, brings us his weird fun art about mental illness. Joey is still an art student at the Art Center College of Design and is already on his second book. There is a lot of promise here with his new book. A little morbid for some, but others will love the original subject matter. Keep your eye on Joey Chou, he has all the tools to make a force to be reckoned with.

When Pushed, Killing's As Easy As Breathing!

Click on the image to see the carnage:

Three New Wippets Episodes:

See the fabulous sketches of Guillaume Decaux

Observe the phenomenal art of Mattias Sygg

See the divine illustrations of Krista Huot

Your Face

Send a photo of yourself to this guy's
blog and he'll draw you an post it:

CalArts Goodies

CalArts Producer's Show 2007 - You have to see this, very funny!


CalArts Producer's Show Opening 2003
- with an apprearence from Glenn Keane and some puppets


CalArts Experimental Animation Online
CalArts: 20 Years of Experimental Animation, 1970-1990 is a website that offers for viewing nearly twenty experimental shorts created at CalArts. The selections were chosen by Jules Engel who started the experimental program at CalArts, and includes works by many well known names including Joanna Priestley, Paul Demeyer, Henry Selick, Kathy Rose, Gary Schwartz and Eric Darnell. The image above is from Pink Triangle by Bob Doucette.

The Letter V

Rotating Earth from Galileo

When passing Earth on your way to Jupiter, what should you look for? That question arose for the robotic Galileo spacecraft that soundlessly coasted past the Solar System's most photographed orb almost two decades ago. The Galileo spacecraft, although originally launched from Earth, coasted past its home world twice in an effort to gain speed and shorten the duration of its trip to Jupiter. During Galileo's first Earth flyby in late 1990, it made a majestically silent home movie of our big blue marble rotating by taking images almost every minute during a 25-hour period. The above picture is one frame from this movie -- clicking on the above image will put it in motion.

Stuart Immonen

Canadian comic book artist Stuart Immonen has penned an interesting article for Comic Book Resources on building an arsenal of tools and reference material in order to make drawing comics efficient and productive. His toolbox includes everything from 3D modelling software to old-fashioned paper photo and reference archives.