Here’s my word day theme for Tuesday through Friday! Ya’ll! It’s 16-bit party time!

I just finished this cartoon for my friends at Dogopolis. They wanted some art to promote their twitter profile on the placeholder page for their site as they prepare for launch. I’m looking forward to seeing the site when it goes live.

This piece was created with Inkscape, the fabulously cross-platform, open source scalable vector graphic drawing program that makes me very happy on a regular basis.

It was super-lucky that I was asked to draw a dachshund, because I love them immensely.

I’m a big fan of Puffin-Cat and I thought it’d be fun to re-imagine him in more high-budget style. For Puffin-Cat, The Movie, I’d cast the voices of: Jada Pinkett Smith, Suze Orman, and Kenny Loggins. “With over two-and-a-half hours of original music by Barry Manilow.”

This is really funny. Don’t read my notes until you’ve watched and had a good laugh.

The first episode of Puffincat got featured on the front page YouTube a couple days ago, and I became instantly obsessed with it, and everything else originating from Diet of Worms, an Irish improvisation group I’d never heard of previously, and would never have if they hadn’t made a cartoon and gained astounding visibility.

I’m a strong believer in the achievement of a desired aesthetic, and I don’t care what that aesthetic is — I always judge the success art by whether or not it has achieved its own evident goal. If the goal is not evident, or the goal is evident but not achieved, I judge art to be less successful.

The goal of Puffincat is evident and achieved. If Puffincat were any “better” it’d be worse. In fact, as the series progresses to the fourth episode, and the handling of the production becomes more honed, the product declines. It hits it’s stride at episode two, where the cheesy post-production image degradation effects are ditched, but the remaining elements are still as crude as before.

File this with Sifle & Olly, Bevis and Butthead, and other more well-known shows that succeeded by setting their sights low and running further than anyone anticipated.

I love a good cartoon, but I adore a good bad cartoon.

Knowing that the brilliant Eric Shcwartz is still alive and kicking, and making cartoons with his Amiga, actually made me cry today. I remember being about nine years old, and wiping the sweat off my palms as I waited for friends to come over with new floppy discs containing his animations.

I’ve written Eric a couple times, and never heard back from him, but that figures. I’m sure he gets nostalgic mail all the time from former little brats like me, saying basically the same thing, which is: “ERIC, YOU INSPIRE US!” He probably has an email filter set up just to deal with that.

Anyway, Eric, you inspire me, and I wouldn’t ever have decided to make cartoons without that inspiration, so from the bottom of my heart, thank you for ruining my life.

Does everyone know I’m moving? Yeah. I’m moving. Not very far, but it’s still moving, so I’ve been distracted. Watch how amazingly well I weather this. If there’s anything you should know about me it’s that things like this don’t bother me. I barely care at all, besides that I’m excited about my new location, and the studio room that I’ve always wanted/finally get. Oh completely. It’s a big deal.

Cut me some slack for a minute and let me distract you with my current favorite pop video, from Annie’s forthcoming new record. This is the video for her single, I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me.

It’s the dance shots and the way everyone looks in those black dresses that knocks me over. Read more

I’m listening to The Nolans a lot as of… now. As of today. As for a couple hours ago, I’m listening to the Nolans. They go really well with that EP from Black Kids (who I similarly adore, only more so). Read more