Fake dog doing the robot

A glimpse of what might have been for my doggy project, out tomorrow

Sneak Peek 2

Return of the dog

Today's odd thought

I really don't know what was happening here. My shirt may have affected things.

Funniest thing this week

From the dusty Files: Catface and Boffin pt3

The last almost-forgotten-to-post installment of the non-legendary Catface and Boffin.
Copyright: The New Paper/ SPH LTD

The BIG match

Real Madrid v The Mighty Liverpool on Thursday morning S'pore time.
Can Former Spurs coach Juande Ramos Beat incumbant Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez. Its the battle of the Spaniards.
I hope Liverpool decimate them. After an unconvincing draw against Man City, my team needs to hammer Real to prove themselves to both leagues. Well thats the news in cliche terms anyway

Sneakpeak

\This is a test for an upcoming piece for the paper.
That's me in the dog outfit, and Kel from Rocketraygun is the one telling me off.

Mo birthday graffiti

starring the ubiquitous Jimmy Chumfatty

From the dusty files: Catface and Boffin pt2

Second week of the run. From 8th-13th August 2005. Thought that might be it so it ends on a cliffhanger of certain death. But as Mr Pacino says in Godfather 3 "Just when I thought I was out..."
As before
Copyright: The New Paper/ SPH LTD

From the dusty files: Catface and Boffin pt1

These were strips that appeared in The New Paper in 2005.
Made me realise just how hard it is pushing out a strip on a daily basis.
Even harder making it close to amusing. Amusing is great, funny is a miracle.
This is week one from 1st-6th August 2005.
Copyright: The New Paper/SPH Ltd

From the dusty files: Its an Ape Ape Ape Ape World

From a Sunday strip for the paper from waaaaaaaaay back.
The cricket one is still my phone picture, though the Kane one gets more reaction

From the dusty files: Football managers of the Premiership

From a feature on managers and their special techniques.
Tried a Sean Philips style here.

From the dusty files: Atomik Mike poster

Od one this. Basically put this forward for the indie title Atomik Mike (its about a space monkey, I was naturally attracted) after a request for posters of the character.
Think this was the first fully digital painting I did.
They said they'd send me a comp copy of the book, but it never got here. Ah well. Tempted to get a copy from Amazon just to see if it made it.

From the dusty files: Chewy and Homer

The grandest collaboration ever.
Look how earnest Chewy is. Whatever he's singing, he MEANS it maaan.
Homer has a look of angelic beatitude, as though heaven itself was blowing a trombone of love through him.
How could you not want to hear this.

OUT NOW

NB. That Homer has been with me over a decade now. He has 'SCIENCE' written across his tummy Thug Life style

Batman 3 redone...

Almost screwed this one up. Not the art but just the timing. Almost busted a deadline. Thank the Lord for vector illustrations. You may welll recognise the batman from a couple of posts down. Yep, Adobe illustrator saved my bacon.
Batman 3 rumours and speculation. Came out just intime to catch Christopher Nolan revealing that he'll be working on Inception, sci-fi film coming out in 2010. That means absolutely no Batman till 2011 at the earliest.
Anyway the piece was about that, the realism of Batman begins and Dark Knight (which i cant help pronouncing Kiniggit, like the knights that say Ni) preventing a super crossover, and finally, specualtion over the prime roles.
Thanks to a previous version not saving properly this, along with the text which can be found at the TNP website, became literally all in a days work.
See if you can guess who's who. The clue is, I've met one of them

Little Jethead and Twitter

That was Little Jethead, which was invented while trying to create my good friend STewart's birthday card. Sadly, the card was on Facebook graffitia and combination of fate and firewalls robbed Stewart of his card.

Anyway. I'm also on Twitter now. Trying it out, though it's only really interesting to see what Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross are up to. Care to see what I'm thinking? Follow the link on the right, under Twitter bix

Why so serious about Batman and Bale

This week Christian Bale got in the news for getting very angry at a guy who was ruining the scene he was in. Bale is often portrayed as very intense, very method about his work.
Yeah, well if more people took their work seriously then the world would be wonderful. Bale does take it a bit further than is probably good for everyone but I kinda admiore the dedication.
When I (get ready for the clang) interviewed Mr Bale for Batman Begins he was a laid back personable chap. Able to take a joke, have a laugh etc etc. But it was also clear he takes his work seriously, like how he keeps up whatever accent he's doing on and off the set (his rant does fluctuate accents wildly like Richard Harris at the end of his scenes in Unforgiven).
Anyway, in related news I'm working on a piece about what next for Batman 3 (or Dark Knight 2 if you like) and what villain will Christopher Nolan, if its him taking the reigns, will go for.
And that's the reason for today's scribble.
Here it is again with an outline... No reason, just scribbling.

The Dark Side of Hanna Babera

Yep. Finally the Draw-Off was completed. Fuzz's Captain Caveman is my favourite just for sheer Steadmanese-explosiveness alone. Also like Kel's Penelope Pitstop. Looks like her main peril there is meth addiction.
Next one is...Possibly presidential, or possibly not

Speaking of Hanna-Barbera characters having a dark side, none of us realised the true darkness. The Flinstones used to push cigarettes.


Have to thank Ivan for alerting me to this and other cartoon darkness

Look at this: Neil Gaiman flash story

Not a lewd parkland dirty mac tale of Singapore's favourite author but the first installment of the "Look at this" installments.
I found this sweet little version of Neil Gaiman's "The Day The Saucers Came".

Go read it here . Just press the arrows to flip the page

Sweet is the best way to describe it, but the concept is one that I reckon could be explored further (Spoiler: Various invasions clashing with each other, the petty squabbling between invaders, the anger at being double booked.)

Abraham Lincoln is JuJitsu Jo

Abraham Lincoln goes to Washington

LOCKE returns

Second Lost post in as many days, but with a spare moment I decided to colour my previous scribble.


SO given the extra LOST celebration here's what would be be lovely to be solved
What is the smoke monster?
What was with the food drops and why have they stopped?(though I think that has to do with the islands time/space skipping that brought Ecko's brother's plane and the Black Rock)
Who was/is Libby? Why was she in hospital with Hurley. Why did she give Desmond the boat ?
How did they get Locke's dad to the Island?
Jack's dad. Christian Shepard's connection. Is it him or an island creation?
Who/what hell is Jacob?
Russo's story. I'm guessing she was mind-wiped. But what's the real deal. Is her story of the team gone mad real?
What happened to the stewardess and the kids? And all the Others that made like the Pied Piper and went into the mountain.
Who built the four toed statues

STOP PRESS
I was going to ask what is Widmore's fascination with the Black Rock. Then it all came together. Sun confronted him and said they both wanted to get back to the Island. He's been there, and I reckon that he was one of the English/Aussie soldiers from episode 5.1 that threatened to cut Juliet's arm off.
I have some days off after tomorrow. I plan to watch every episode of Lost to date. Not the webisodes, that would, of course, be too geeky.

LOST returns

These scribbles were done in pen in a new art pad I received from Barcelona.
Trying to do more straight to the pad pen work


Anyway, Mr Locke and Smokey (not a floating turd despite looks) is in honour of Lost returning for a 5th season.
It's been an up and down ride with Lost.
The first season started with one of the greatest openings in TV history and pull off more OMG and WTF twists than an armada of Shamalayans could ever hope to. In fact it was a great season finishing off with a cliffhanger that spurred so many fansites spewing speculation
Then the second got a bit stuck in the bunker, but it pulled through. Three was a bit poor taking too long to do enough. I was close to leaving it alone. It was, in a word, boring. Too boring for what I'd come to expect. I was hoping that season 4 was going to be its last, just to get to a conclusion. I was right at the time. It was floundering, but to the producers credit, they turned it around.
But last season (4) was back to strong, twisting, sandwich dropping, tea spraying form.
It's amazing just how far the story has come. For all the cries of "more questions than answers" Lost has grown into a creature of a tale that is now just a pleasure to watch it unfold.
In the great 'tradition' of Lost season openers, the show started with a bit of music. We had the wondrous "Make your own kind of music" by Mama Cass, the cheesy "Downtown" by Petula Clark, And now Shotgun Willie by Wilie Nelson. As itstarted skipping in the episode (just like time), check out the Ear Junk box to the right and listen to it there.

Lost is better than ever and some of the boldest popular television theres ever been. Kinda don't want it to end now.

Smell like BHO himself

Barack Obama is currently the hottest brand on the planet right now. Thousands of companies are trying to get a piece of that 44th Presidential action. Which while it shows just how much folks are pretty much in awe of the coolest president EVER (and he is folks)it also goes to show how much business are willing to cheapen any achievement if theres money to be made

Cooler than Obama himself

Obama toys available in Japan. For such an erudite President, naturally he comes fully armed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4324639/Barack-Obama-a-plastic-president-ready-for-action.html?image=2

The dark side of Hong Kong Phooey

Another office draw-off - The Dark Side of Hanna-Barbera. Always like Hong Kong Phooey when I was a kid so gave him a Shaw Brothers maniac style. You might also notice Snagglepuss who was caught in the frenzy and exited this mortal coil (stage left, even).
And here's the B/W and individual colour piece also

Best/Worst commercial placement ever

SPOILERS if you havent started to watch the latest Battlestar Galactica.
This is a key scene from the latest episode followed by, like the title says, the best/worst depending how you look at it commercial to follow that scene. images and lyrics so perfectly misplaced.

Here shomes... Miss Ugly

This glamourous image that comes from one of the sunday supplement covers I did. One that got less criticism anyway. It was originally against dark blue but white, which given the paper we use is never white, gives it a crispness

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