Thursday, May 31, 2012

A TISKET A TASKET...


...Mo Willems in a basket!

My son's school is having their big 
silent auction fundraiser this weekend
and each class has put together 
a themed basket for the event.

P's class decided to make theirs all
kinds of Mo Willems themed!

And I just so happen to 
know someone who
could help us with that!

MO!

He was sooper generous and gave us a 
some window decals,
and a sooper exclusive not-quite-out-yet
Duckling plushie!

Oh... and this, too:




Add in a whole mess of books signed by Mo and
I'm pretty sure this basket will pull in at least 
eleventy hundred thousand dollars--
enough to solve Los Angeles Unified School District's 
money problems forever!

HOORAY!

Thanks, Mr. Willems!



Tuesday, May 29, 2012

SOOPER WARBURTON BROTHERS



I don't know what it is,
but my current sketchbook
is going 
reeeeeeeeeeeeally
sloooooooooooow.

Actually, I DO know what it is.
I've been trying to finish up a
 sooper new
(and sooper secret)
 project 
these last couple months 
and that's taking up all my non-Fish Hooks time.

But I still try to get some sketchbook action when I can.
Fortunately, my wolf cubs are always eager to log in some
drawing time with Dad.

The latest theme?

SUPER MARIO BROTHERS!

K
(age 5)
 needed a little help getting 
started drawing Luigi on a motorcycle:



P
(age 8)
needed no help
rockin' Yoshi:



P also found that one page simply 
wasn't enough to contain
Mario's awesomeness:



Love this sketch of
Diddy Kong in his car by K:



But ya gotta go crazy for
P's Super Mario Brothers item collage:



Me?
I didn't do anything
nearly as cool as my boys did.






Hey...
why PLAY video games 
when you can draw 'em
with your family!




Thursday, May 24, 2012


TKG stands for Total KND Goodness!




Utsukushii, zou!!!

Love this Japanese
KND fanart!
The artist goes by the handle 
TKG
and was counting down the days
until KND came back on the air
in Japan!







Watashi wa totemo suki desu you!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!



And as an added bonus
there's this:


Check out even more of TKG's art 
over


SO
rockin'!



Monday, May 21, 2012

RANDY PILLOWSON

In her ongoing quest
to achieve 
supreme dominance
in the art of
Pillow-Making,
Fish Hooks assistant editor
Carmen Woods
created this for fellow editor 
Ted Supa:

Randy Pincherson
never had it so comfy!

Check out some of Carmen's
other pillows
back 

Thursday, May 17, 2012

WHATCHA SAY, TVA?!




So what's going on at Disney TV Animation?

Well...
Like...
EVERYTHING!

We had a mega-big all-staff meeting at the Burbank AMC movie theater 
where we got to see got to see artwork, clips and even full episodes 
of 
EVERYTHING 
that's going on at TVA
And we got to see it on the sooper giant huge big screen!

So what's going on?

Nothing.
Nada.
I can't tell you.

Or I'd have to kill you.
(and I can do it)

But, of course, there is SOME stuff that's common knowledge:

We got to watch the entire first episode of TRON: UPRISING!

Perhaps you heard that you can download the first episode 
for all kinds of
FREE
over 



Yeah.
The show looks like 
eleventy billion bucks.
It's like a feature film on TV.
Director Charlie Bean and crew killed it!

We also got to see a full episode of this:



Created by Alex Hirsch,
who helped develop Fish Hooks and remains as 
the voice of Clamantha,
GRAVITY FALLS
is a really fun comedy/mystery show.
Keep an eye out for it.
It's coming to Disney Channel before you know it.

We also got to see a lot of pilots 
in various stages of development.

Stuff by Craig McCracken... 
(POWERPUFF GIRLS, FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS)

Matt Chapman...
(HOMESTAR RUNNER)

MOTORCITY by Chris P and the Titmouse Posse.
(the first episode is also FREE over HERE!)



etc 
etc
etc
and 
MOAR!

How inspiring to see so much amazing stuff
by so many amazing people.

Big ups to Disney for getting behind the creators
and making things happen!

Keep it locked on
Disney Channel
and 
Disney XD!

Big stuff's goin' down!

Monday, May 14, 2012

SNEAKY ADULT BRINGS THE FAN ART!

As most of you know...
adults can be pretty sneaky.

They make you eat cauliflower so they don't have to.
They tell you it's bedtime when all the good shows come on.
And then they have a dance party while you're sleeping.

But sometimes their sneakiness 
can TOTALLY 
bring the 
awesome.

Case in point,
a recent inquiry by an adult
regarding an order
to the mighty 
included some KND 
fan art his son had done.

Which is pretty cool.
(for an adult)

Check out KND operative
Scott's 
sooper
triple
block
rockin'
drawings:






Uh huh.

Awesome.

Thanks for sending these,
sneaky adult.

And thanks for being such a
loyal KND operative
Scott!





Monday, May 7, 2012

RIP Buzz Potamkin and MCA






Right on the heels of my mentor Vincent Cafarelli passing away
comes the sad news that Buzz Potamkin 
has moved on as well.

Buzz was, 
of course,
the namesake of 
Buzzco,
the company he started and later sold to
Mr. Cafarelli, Candy Kugel and Marilyn Kramer
and renamed Buzzco Associates.

The studio was famous for animating 
the first, iconic MTV spots...






and the Berenstain Bears TV specials...







And the Hawaiian Punch commercials...






Buzz later made the move to LA where 
he worked for Disney
and Hanna Barbera,
where he oversaw the What A Cartoon shorts program.

I only got to meet him once or twice,
but heard many stories via Vinnie and J.J. Sedelmaier,
who Buzz gave his first animation job to.

You can read more about Buzz and his career over HERE.

And while we're on the topic 
of artists passing on,
I gotta shout a big RIP to Beastie Boy
Adam Yauch
aka MCA







His music has kept me company while
 I've drawn, doodled, illustrated, animated, and designed 
for as long as I can remember.

I never got to meet the man,
but there was a day when we 
shot each other a 
"YO"
as we skateboarded past one another 
on the streets of NYC.

That kinda made my day.

Big ups to ya, MCA.




Thursday, May 3, 2012

KND vs POWERPUFF GIRLS

The Kids Next Door as Powerpuff Girls...



And the Powerpuff Girls as Kids Next Door.


Any questions?

(and to whoever it is that drew these...)
(...you rule the universe!)