Run Spot Run

Or maybe sometimes comics, but not always. Definitely a drawing everyday, though. I sent this one of a cute yellow robot playing the drum to Grenoble, France.

I drew this for Oppy’s Big Team Scribble, but I’ve pretty much decided to use these robotz in my commitment to drawing comics this year. Humor me. I’ve always wanted to draw, so I’m taking Michael Nobbs’ 20 minutes a day challenge. Sure, my comics will be rough hewn. I don’t know if they will be good, or funny, or anything really, but I figure I can carve out 20 minutes a day – on the bus, at lunch – for practice.

Oh yeah, and today I started writing morning pages, too.

Hello. You may be wondering what in the world this picture is. It is a picture of the most important place in the universe. This place is called Loomiter. Loomiter is located right before Jupiter. You may also be wondering what is that weird thing that is all squiggly? It is that Lopinsta, and it collects pieces of the sun.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “What in the world is that tree and what are those flowers doing there?” Well that tree is no ordinary tree. It is the sun’s source. What I mean by that is when Lapinsta takes the sun away, it is going to add up and eventually the world will go black. But this tree prevents exactly that.

Let me explain in deeper detail. Do you see that one of the apples at the very bottom of the tree is actually full of sun? So it feeds energy to the sun to make it lighter. Now, the flowers are an entrance to the lab. If the flowers know that you’re allowed to go in, they will open when you touch their middle.

This is all I’ve got for you today.

I did this drawing for a drawing mission in Anorak Magazine.

This drawing was for Anorak Magazine.

Pachyderm postcard goes out to my new pal in Peking.

This monster looks deadly but it’s harmless. You can easily trip it; its legs are as small as a paperclip, and its jaws are so heavy that it can’t open its mouth.

A while ago I came across Postcrossing.com, a site that facilitates the sending of postcards to complete strangers. You send a postcard to a man in Bangladesh, and someone else in Rotterdam sends you one back. The postcard you send is a selfless gift from which you expect nothing in return. It’s not about reciprocity. It’s about connection.

I sent this drawing to a 52-year-old German woman. I hoope she likes it.

Griffin’s “battle yard” in which he and his friend, Sully (the tiny stick figures at the page’s bottom) have to get past the bad guys and get the crystal (top of page directly above them – cut off). The dangers include the spiked hammer, the karate guy, the armored soldier with his sword, and various giant monsters.