Gustav the Goose!

My pal Drew is an absolutely SICK writer. He and I have been working on ideas together since we were 12 years old. The ultimate goal is to have at least ONE book on the shelves for kids to enjoy - Kind of a cosmic pay back for all the fun we've had growing up looking at all the great books as kids. He writes them, I draw them.

Drew has been in a children's book writing class for a bit now, and he's pumped out hundreds of great ideas. Trick is - Can I draw it? A couple ideas pass by me and finally he sends me an email: 

"An unwitting German goose who gets into all sorts of mischief. The title: 'Silly Gustav'

Goose-Tav

Fowl in lederhosen. What could be funnier? I'm not sure what his ultimate goal is, but he keeps trying different - outlandish - ways to accomplish it. And at the end of each page, it says, 'silly Gustav,' so the kids can  repeat it as the parents are reading."

Immediately I saw Gustav in my head. And immediately I saw Gustav wearing a radio as a hat. And the text would say, "That's not a HAT, Gustav! That's a RADIO! Radio's are for listening to music - SILLY GUSTAV!" 

Then the most ridiculous thing I could think of was taking a FISH for a walk. And I always thought long titles were funny, so I added the "and other impossibles" part.

At this point, why not?

Ladies and gentlemen, after all that we've seen and heard, I'm nominating two new candidates...

And they prolly have a lot more fun sound bites than Palin and Bush put together!

cCc

Kiddie Cartoon Porn

I'm just at a loss for words.

No, no... I can say [between bowel jolting laughter and amazement], I'm actually angry that I didn't think of this myself and do it. 

...er, draw it.

Puts a whoooooole new meaning to the "rusty trombone" and "tickling the little man in the boat" metaphors. eh hem. 

Enjoy.

PS :: Thank you T-Fanny!

Got Hursley?

I don't always get man-crushes, but when I do it's usually for a good reason.

This time it's because the fella is funny as hell. You probably know him as White Gold of "White Gold" the "Band" that is on all the Milk commercials as of late. Ladies and gents - Joe Hursley.

I actually met this guy when he came to San Diego for some goofy reason. OH YEAH, he played a show here in his ACTUAL band called "the Ringers". Think Stone Temple Pilots on crack.

[ http://www.theringersband.com ]

The guy was actually stealin' my heart when i first saw the commercials produced by Goodby, Silverstein, and Co. Honestly though. Watch some of those WhiteGold commercials online and tell me that's not some funny shit.

[ http://www.goodbysilverstein.com/main_site/main.html ]

You bug me!

I hate drawing bugs. They're waaaaay too detailed for me to pay attention to - and how often do you get down on you hands and knees with a magnifying glass to really understand those little buggers.

Well, until an old friend of mine who runs a magazine called Living In Style here in Sandy Eggo asked me to draw her some bugs for a Children's Care program her mum is starting up, I never thought I'd see the day either. Thanks to the magic of the internet, I didn't have to hit up any ref books! But it was fun.

Glad life throws you challenges!

The Last Starfighisequel?

Okay, so there actually ARE chats about making a sequel to the fantasmical Disneyland ride of a movie, The Last Starfighter [I say Disneyland because you can't have an Obi Wan character be the Music Man].

...You think I'm kidding, but I'm not. It's tentatively called "Son of the Last Starfighter", and will, of course, be about the son of a guy who zombied out and couldn't walk away from a g'damned video game.

...you're tellin' me he got ass?

The son better look like the guy from Enemy Mines, that's all I'm sayin.

Otherwise, how's my idea for a sequel instead!?

Fun With Unicorns!

Okay, so there's not a whole lot you can do in these times of political nourishment but pay attention to the talking heads and ridiculously funny blogs out there.

However, one CAN do a lot with a funny photo of a stallion in a lighting storm found online.

Oh yeah - I should also mention that there REALLY IS a new Metallica album coming out. And the new song I heard ROCKS ASS.

cCc

Where are the wild things?!

After a clip from the screen testing footage for the live-action Where the Wild Things Are film was leaked online and created and an uproar of disappointment from the "fans" of the book, the studios freaked out as well and pulled the clip from every source online...And also the movie entirely.

It'd be a shame if they pulled the plug on a movie they already spent time on, but maybe they need to have someone with a more "magical" sense of direction [Del Toro, of Hellboy and now the Hobbit] handle the project?

The live action movie joined hands with the Henson family to embody the monsters themselves, while cgi created the expressions and mouths for the monsters, added later. The clip showed how this would work, having Sean Penn's voice over the big monster, but no one seemed to really enjoy it when they saw it. It looked a little bland and frankly a tad cheesy.

Ah well... I guess we should start filming Go Dog! Go! now?

cCc

Heath's daughter's ledger just got bigger...

Turns out there actually ARE bigger hearts out there than we expected. But, then again, you can't deny there's a gaggle of just kick-ass brotherhood of actors out there in holywood that think of more than their sagging chins and gray hair.

I'm impressed though.

Do you see what I see?

I pulled an all-nighter working on a Facebook app for a company called SocialWise. It's going to be pretty cool if they go with their gut on this stuff.

That' neither here nor there...

So since I've been downing coffee all night, I've been peeing like a race-horse. I turned around and saw this image from god upon my shower curtain of broken dreams.... I didn't know if I was just hallucinating, loosing my mind, seeing what I wanna see, or maybe a little of all three. But I wanted to get to the bottom of this!

I think I was right to have seen the image of Mr. George Abraham Joseph Weatherby Bush II.

Crazyness. It's like big brother right now. Bush has seen my bush!

cCc

Draw with your hands!

Sci Fi never looked so cool...

The Wacom Tablet's got NOTHIN' on this little bugger. The Tactiva "TactaPad" is incredibly funny looking, but after watching the demo videos, I want one just to have it. The last time I saw something LIKE this was after watching Minority Report, and thought that was "hilariously out of bounds of reality." Man was i wrong.

I just want somebody to stalk me, is that so wrong!?

So you think your life is dull. Who doesn't?! But, what are you gonna do about it?

My pal, Miss Jennifer Terry, found this amazing example of what ONE guy would do, and pay, to add some spice into his life...

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Nemesis required. 6-month project with possibilty to extend

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Date: 2008-05-07, 2:49PM

I've been trying to think of ways to spice up my life. I'm 35 years old, happily married with two kids and I have a good job in insurance. But somethings missing. I feel like I'm old before my time. I need to inject some excitement into my daily routine through my arm before its too late. I need a challenge, something to get the adrenaline pumping again. An addiction would be nice, but, in short, I need a nemesis. I'm willing to pay $350 up front for you services as an arch enemy over the next six months. Nothing crazy. Steal my parking space, knock my coffee over, trip me when Im running to catch the BART and occasionaly whisper in my ear, "Ahha, we meet again". That kind of thing. Just keep me on my toes. Complacency will be the death of me. You need to have an evil streak and be blessed with innate guile and cunning. You should also be adept at inconsicuous pursuit. Evil laugh preferred. Send me a photo and a brief explanation why you would be a good nemesis.
British accent preferred.

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All things old are new!

Look, I'm not trying to be a google monger, brag about how cool I think it is, but man alive Google just keeps ripping out cool new apps and software for you to use...for free, like I rip out stink bombs. 

I don't get it. How are these guys so cool!? They're seriously taking over the web. They're not flashy, cool, nifty, neat in their design approach. Just bare-bones, straight from the hip kick-assyness. And I love it!

Take Picasa for example. Super cool, super easy, super sweet. Kicks flickr's ass, and why wouldn't it. Isn't that owned/operated by Yahoo? Not that Yahoo sucks, they don't. Someone else is just making them look bad. 

And de.licio.us is a good thing too, isn't it? Well they got a new look now too and it's awesome! I don't know. I'm very happy with my google monsters.

Thanks google. Thanks for taking my time away from stupid MySpace!

cCc

No WAYNE! Out on Bale!

If you hadn't noticed, Christian Bale has gone from being a Brit to a Jersey Boy in almost 5 years. I dunno if Gotham has gotten to him, or if he's just tired of being stinky with bad teeth. Either way, he's still got that temper he's had since god knows when.

It's true! Ask his mum and sis.

Apparently it's England's policy to arrest first, ask questions later. So, in cases like these [ where no info has been released yet ] the drama just flares up sky-high. Bale allegedly "lashed out" at his mum and sis on Sunday at London's Dorchester Hotel where he was camping out before the premier of The Dark Knight in the UK. Well, not everyone can be a saint. I guess he was on a news show that morning, or maybe the next day and the reporters said he was "grumpy". But I saw this kid, without the English accent, on the Today Show and he seemed grumpy as HELL! I guess he's pissed that everyone keeps asking him about Heath. I would be too if I were batman.

The Joker doesn't have his own Joker-Signal like you do. So just calm down, Mr. Wayne.

cCc

You had me at "exacerbate"...

Simon Pegg wasn't all that famous before 2004's Sean of the Dead came out.

...scratch that. He wasn't all that famous in the STATES before then. Back back on the BBC, he killed Britain's funny bone with a little show called Spaced which happens to be coming out on DVD tomorrow [Tuesday July 22nd].

Spaced isn't hard to watch. But it's kinda hard to explain. If you've seen Sean of the Dead, you'll recognize a LOT of familiar faces that show up on that show. Moreover, you'll recognize that dry, freaky sense of humor as well. The show is, if nothing else, genius in its ability to mock without being offensive. It's homage mockery. There's really nothing all that original about Sean of the Dead's "zombie" movie motif. But it was that they took it to a "human" level and made a "What Would You Do If Zombies Really Attacked" film out of it.

Spaced does just that. I've only seen two full episodes and was angry immediately after viewing 'cause I knew there was no way in hell I'd ever see these things in America unless i stole them online. But the fellas behind the camera and crew in this show are just making things spin and spin in some crazy kind of fun-circus.

If you haven't watched the DVD extras on the Sean of the Dead disc, check them out. Especially the anatomy of a storyline that Pegg and Wright walk you through. They basically worked through the entire story FIRST with each other and wrote the bullshit in between. So, even if you didn't SEE the characters in the film, they knew where they were going, what they did, and how long they were gone.

They spare no details when they work on Spaced together either. But it's fun watching their growth as a creative team.