dobbs' cover

Hey look! I actually finished something! I'll let you know when this book is actually printed and available so you can buy copies for all your friends and relatives and for your local library, our fighting men overseas, the homeless, and don't forget - nothing says "I love you" like a book of animation essays!

My coloring of The Henbanes is THIS CLOSE to being finished. As soon as I can grab a couple of hours I'll finish and post.

paging dr. love

That's ME! Dr. Love! Come on, admit it - You've thrilled to the continuing soap opera as I've brought sworn enemies Jed and eeTeeD together without a single shot fired or a single drop of blood shed. You've marveled as that cold hatred you feel in your heart toward Condoleezza Rice has melted just a little, as I explained her true caring sexy nature.

Now bookmark this link, and follow along as I help this self-described fat loser find love and happiness! Cheer me on as I battle the haters and protect the hamster from their evil self-defeating mindsets! You can even JOIN IN and help me steer the outcome of this bold experiment toward success and ROMANCE!

What are you going to do with your life this week? Waste it watching yet another over-the-top bullshit superhero SFX movie? Or BE a superhero, and rescue the hamster from his own damn self?

You know the answer. The hamster calls. He calls for you.
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Benny said:
Have you ever thought about how much you and Mr. Peabody "favor" (as they say in the South)? See attachment under different "cover".


OK, first of all, that's Sherman I favor, NOT Mr. Peabody. Second of all, I favor my DAD so much in that photo it's eerie as hell. Third of all, when I was in about the 6th or 7th grade I'd meet my friends at Whumpus' house in the morning and we'd all ride to school with Whumpus' mom. Whumpus' neighbor had a dog named Tuffy and poor old Tuffy had some kind of dog VD or something and his penis looked like a rotting zombie penis. Everybody made fun of Tuffy except me. Being the sensitive animal lover that I am, and the dumbass that I was, I said something one day about how I didn't think it was funny and I felt sorry for Tuffy. From that day forward, every time Sherman and Mr. Peabody would go into the wayback machine while we were watching Rocky and Bullwinkle in the morning before school, Whumpus and Ferg and Monkey would all yell "THERE GOES MARK AND TUFFY, INTO THE LITTLE ROOM!!!" That's why this photo of my head on Sherman's body gives me the cold robbies!
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So where's BLOGOPERA???

Sorry, I'll get back to it soon. Probably. I'm not sure. Can't right now. Sorry.
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PD cartoons

Image searching the internet almost always results in unexpected images, but yesterday I hit a motherlode. I was searching "public domain cartoons" for Mikey's book cover. We finally decided that recognizable cartoon characters were not as important as a larger variety of cartoon styles. All of these old Van Beuren and Iwerks images make the book look more limited in scope than it is, so these guys are just place holders now. But I'll go ahead and show you the new layout. YES, the characters will get bigger and leap out more. Flip the Frog will definitely pop out in front of the title. But he won't exactly be Flip the Frog.


Anyway, back to my image search results. Here's a little montage of the best of the bunch. The Sharpton Image (get it?) came from here. The manga porn came from here, proving once again that any fetish imaginable has a website, and - HOLD ONTO YOUR HAT, MICKEY AND BONZOGAL! The album cover came from here! WOO HOO!

unknown comic

A few weeks ago I bought a copy of EVERYDAY MUTTS at a Borders book store in Bedford Massachusetts.

Last week a co-worker gave me the DVD of Avatar Season 1 Disc 1. I had never seen Avatar and knew nothing about it. She thinks it's great and wants me to see it.

So I watched the first 10 minutes of edisode 1 last Thursday morning. Then I stopped and ate breakfast. Then I picked up my copy of EVERYDAY MUTTS (which I had still not read yet) and started thumbing through it.

And the above comic fell out of my copy of EVERYDAY MUTTS that I bought at a Borders book store in Bedford Massachusetts!

I swear this is all 100% true.

Clearly we are missing page 4, and God knows how many more pages! Unknown comic, how does it end???

more

More on eeTeeD, Jed, Greg, Simpsons and stupid blogger at TCJ Board...

For those who just can't get enough of that great stuff.

I can't even remember how this all got started to tell you the truth.

BUY RUNAWAY COMIC #3!

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ramblin' man

The World's Greatest Cook is watching the Oscars and I got all my Monty Warts drawn for the day, so allow me to jabber "freestyle".


I'll throw this out first, simply because I have a graphic to go with it, and I like pictures. I hate history, and I am sick to death of hearing every side's side of the freaking Middle East situation. So imagine my surprise when Michael Oren starts speaking on C-Span's BookTV and I am fascinated for an hour listening to this guy talk about history and the Middle East. I have not read the book (I just saw him on C-Span a few hours ago) and to be honest, I cannot see myself reading a 733-page history book. But I'll listen to the book-on-tape when it hits the discount racks. Meanwhile, I hope everybody who feels passionately about the Middle East and has strong feelings about Cowboy Jingoism in the 20th Century will read this book, or at least read ABOUT it or watch Michael Oren on BookTV. Or read this interview.

I think history is pretty much like current events, in that each side will see reinforcement of their opinion in it. But at least you'll know this thing goes way way WAY back beyond - well, unless you already know why that copy of the Koran was in Thomas Jefferson's study, don't assume you know.
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The other thing I wanted to jabber about is this site that eeTeeD linked to. Just want to bring it up front here, out of the comments section, and second the motion that you check it out. It's always fun to listen to grouchy miserable people who hate their job and think that the industry they work in, once proud and noble, is now a cheap whore controlled by a rich pimp, churning out rancid product that the public devours greedily like a dog eating vomit.

HOWEVER! I must take exception to the popular sport of Simpsons-bashing! All of these elitists who say the Simpsons is crap now, and has been "ever since Season Whatever"...

I disagree.
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