Looking at some of the weird things in my gallery, perhaps you have had longings for similar art for your very own. Well, that's easily fulfilled—I am indeed taking commissions! They start at just $25.00 for a one-character color digital drawing. The scale goes up with additional characters, backgrounds and stuff. A color comic page starts at $50.00! Wow! I take PayPal. Please send note if interested. (The art-teest reserves right to not accept subjects he can't stand.) Thank you. Please resume looking at art.

No particular reason for this journal entry—it's just that the previous one had been up almost a year now! I will say that I've begun the initial stages of a new Flash thing, a simple "trailer" for a Fission Chicken movie. (No, there's no movie, just makin' a trailer!) More later...

Ahh, here it is... yes, it's The Collected Fission Chicken, Vol. I, recounting the first adventures of the Chicken of Wrath! The sample copy just arrived, and boy does it look great. A handsome, glossy cover wrapped around 70 pages of such thrilling tales as The Creatures from Ineptune, The Real Awful Terror of Boogog, the big 3-part Marketing Experts from Beyond (which introduces the Vortoxians), Holiday Cheer - Musical Fear, and Head Games, where necromancer P.U. Evolcraft and the Vortoxians team for quick profits! And there's a bonus gallery featuring all the appearances of FC and his friends in the Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Specials! (And you get to see the very first published image of FC - even before his Critters days!) All this, available as a trade paperback, here: [link]

I just thought I'd point out this great blog entry by Mark Mayerson on the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie (and the Horton Hears a Who one, too). Amen, Mr. Mayerson... amen!!
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Speaking of animated films (and we weren't) -- what is it with the seemingly endless parade of cruddy CGI funny-animal feature flicks? It's like all the movie studios were required by law to produce and release CGI-critter movies that are (1) obnoxious, (2) loud, and (3) replete with fart and crap gags. (Before this, of course, such films were allowed to be 2-D, i.e. "Home on the Range.")