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I went to see ParaNorman last Friday (on the day it opened, of course), and it was fantastic. It was well written, well animated and well paced. It brought up the subjects of bullying and mob mentality, and addressed them without hitting you over the head with a sermon. Norman also solved the main problem of the movie by confronting it rather than …

I don’t like getting junk snail mail. It’s annoying and not very earth friendly. But I got a piece of junk mail the other day that’s a little worse than annoying. First, here’s the front and back: It looks like a legitimate bill, doesn’t it? Except for that print in the middle of the front page that says “THIS IS …

When I grew up, I remember thinking my mother and Shirley Jones were equals. She (Shirley Jones, not my mother) grew up in a small town (Smithton, Pennsylvania) that was pretty close to where I grew up (although my mother grew up in a town that was even closer), which I thought was terribly exciting and made the two of them practically sisters. …

I submitted this and a few other drawings to a certain industry newsletter (I won’t mention names) over a year ago, and I’m getting the impression they aren’t interested. I found all those submissions lying around recently and realized I’m a little proud of the work. I think she’s cute, and I think she wants to be seen. So here she is. Her name …

No, actually I wanted to love you. But it was me. I just couldn’t do it. When Hunger Games first came out, I was reluctant to hand over my money for a book that I thought was about kids killing each other in a futuristic reality TV show. People kept telling me, “No. It’s not like that.” Eventually I caved …

I just ran across a couple drafts for blog posts this morning, and realized they’ve been sitting around for over a year waiting to be posted. They each included a sketch of a clown without any other explanation. The first sketch hasn’t gone anywhere. I wasn’t very satisfied with it for some reason. I had planned on making a painting …

Ooh. I do have one more page to show you from my Sketchbook Project sketchbook, and here it is. It’s what you might consider the end papers. Also, they’ve digitized my book, and you can flip through the whole thing on the Art House Co-op site: http://www.arthousecoop.com/library/6123. Or, if you’re in the Brooklyn area, you can see it for real …

And here’s the last drawing my Sketchbook Project sketchbook. The quote is the title of the song by The Hives (who happen to have a really cool website, by the way). I loved the song when I heard it on the Cartoon Network (see the embedded video), but it was really hard to find a copy at first since it was a bonus …

Here’s the final sketch from my Sketchbook Project sketchbook. I think I’d like to paint him biggie-size some day. Maybe add a crow somewhere and a corn field all around him. And a yellow brick road around front. Scarecrows can’t exist without yellow brick roads, can they?

Last December I had had about enough. When I built my first Web site, it was 2001 and getting up and running on the Internet wasn’t the easiest thing to do. I chose GoDaddy to host because, at the time, they were the easiest thing I could find. For some reason I thought their name and logo meant they would …

Well, we all survived the book signing at the Frick Art & Historical Center over the weekend, and I’m terribly happy with the nice turnout! I thought I would be quite embarrassed by the lack of people in my line, but it turns out people are more willing to admit to liking the twisted stuff than I had originally thought. So, no, …

For my book signing this weekend, I bought myself a new iPad so I could accept credit cards. Yay! Exciting and scary, but yay! The app and hardware is from a company called Square. The app is called “Square Register” and works like a little register on your iPad. I can upload inventory—including images—and prices, and then all I have …