September 19-20th, two of my original comics will be on display at Toonfest in Marceline, MO(Lardy’s Jr. will be one of them). I will be there too, and would be happy to do sketches. Marceline is in northern Missouri near Kirksville and Brookfield. It’s also the boyhood home of Walt Disney, and the reason for Toonfest. Main Street USA was inspired by that very town.
There will be some big-name cartoonists there too, but the only one I recognize is Jerry Scott of Baby Blues and Zits. Ooo, gotta take my Zits book up there! Other artists speaking include Dave Coverly(Speed Bump), Jan Eliot(Stone Soup), and Greg Evans(LUANN). There’s a parade on Saturday morning with the cartoonists as the grand marshalls. RIght after noon, join us at the theater where the cartoonists talk about their work, their life, and cartooning in general. Very informative talks there. I especially recommend it for other cartoonists.

More information on Toonfest can be found at Toonfest.net. My photo galleries of past Toonfests can be found here. I’ll be updating you as the time gets closer.

wikiHow has a WIDE variety of how-tos, and when I saw this one, I decided I should know how to do this, just in case I have to kill a snake in self-defense.
HOW TO COOK A SNAKE

Working on a new template for the Kenny Chronicles comics and character design for a friend of Kenny’s. The final design will likely look different from this smiling freak.

As I was waiting to clock in yesterday, I drew this little guy in the style of those crazy critters from Pinkerton Park. He was originally supposed to be Buckley from said comic, but I hadn’t drawn him before and I didn’t have reference material, so it’s a mouse!

Today’s Foxtrot comic made reference to 2 of my favorite webcomics, plus one that I’m not gamer enough to get, and I think one I’ve never heard of. That’s right, FOUR webcomics in total! Hmm, I wonder how this would translate to foreign papers, seeing as these webcomics aren’t in any other language. In fact, I think most newspaper readers wouldn’t get the references because they get their comics in paper form. I found out about this mention through Scott Kurtz’s Twitter feed, in fact.

Update: Here are the comics being parodied:
Penny Arcade
PVP
XKCD
The Joy Of Tech

(Thanks to PVP for revealing who that last one was)

Recently, we finally bought our digital TV converter boxes*, and are really enjoying the THREE PBS stations we’re getting with it. We’re really enjoying the Create channel. While I was eating my mac & cheese & hot dogs, I decided to see what was on that channel. They were showing how to make pies, and the first one used vegan butter. Hmm, never heard of that. Looking online, it’s basically normal margarine. I figured vegans had found some plant that simulates butter well. They did well with soy milk(as long as you don’t expect it to taste like milk).

Then they had a segment called “Boomer Fitness”. My first thought was kangaroos. Aussies call male kangaroos “boomers” because they make a loud booming sound with their feet to warn their mob of danger. Yes, a group of kangaroos is called a “mob”. Then I realized they were referring to baby boomers(i.e. “old people” …just kidding). I always hear them called “Baby boomers”, so without “baby”, “kangaroo” is what I think of. Add to that, that we’re getting a “Kangaroo Gym” nearby(youth fitness center), and it’s no surprise that “Boomer Fitness” got me thinking of kangaroos.

*(On digital converter boxes: In February of 2009, United States TV stations are switching to 100% digital. Cable & Satellite subscribers won’t be affected, but people who use antennas will have to either have a digital TV or a digital converter box. One nice advantage of digital TV is that it shows the name of what you’re watching, like satellite has done for a while.)

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