A rare screening of Mr Gasaslaska Makes a Friend will be at Mukpuddy's next Flip Book animation evening. Fordes Bar, 122 Anzac Ave, Auckland July 23rd 7pm.
Tomorrow will be my birthday again, don't forget I have a amazon wishlist, in fact it's right HERE. People who I share my birthday with include Dan Aykroyd, Princess Diana and Pamela Anderson.
Toot toot! FOT has been selected to play at the worlds biggest comic book convention Comic Con in San Diego and in Los Angeles at LA Shorts. Did I mention was involved with the writing?
Coloured and completed. Better start another one... oh oh and big thanks for colour assistance from super talent Shoo! Go look at her blog now...
One year later and I've finally completed the pencils and inks for a new 2 page comic strip, it doesn't sound like much but I'm doing 15 panels a page here (and it's meticulously inked). Now I just need to get this thing coloured...
The 2 page comic strip for Hot Wire #3 (Fantagraphics) is almost done now (already on borrowed time), a few panels to ink and colour. Also in the works a new publication titled On the Origin of Drawings will be ready very soon, only 50 copies will be printed and available through this site, put your name down for one now. It will be very expensive and small.
Alex Dron's animated short 'FOT- the next big thing' has won best comedy short and collected their "Golden Flamingo' at the South Beach International Animation Festival. Did I mention I was a writer on that?
The Hollywood sign from the Griffith Observatory, the polluted air helps filter any good lighting out of photographing anything at a distance.
I thought it was cool to see the house where they filmed Six Feet Under.
Pretty grumpy that we arrived just a little too late to eat at Dr.Hogly Wogly's BBQ resturant. If there's a better named resturant anywhere in the world I've never heard it.
A "siesta" in the shaded doorway of Klasky - Csupo, a famous animation studio that made Rugrats and Duckman
The incredibly cool Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax, part owned by cartoonist Sammy Harkham.
Another favourite tourist destination, the La Brea Tar Pits.
LA has been lot's of fun for the most part, lot's of sight seeing and shopping. Above is me driving the Batmobile at the Skirball (a Jewish arts and cultural center), they had a great exhibition about the Golden Age of comic books on, lot's of original artwork on display. 
Outside the New York stock exchange... 
From last nights HUMBUG talk at the Strand. The camera I had always shoots out an orange beam for light detection, this isn't a good idea when your subject is 20 feet away, it's dark and there are about 50 people wondering what the hell that is. I only got the one photo. Was an interesting event, it's always good to hear even these top illustrator/cartoonists struggle to balance art and commerce.
A friendly panda near Wall St. he didn't even seem to be selling anything or promoting anything, just a guy dressed in a panda suit.
Chinatown has the best crap in town. My $5 umbrella felt like light aluminium and regretted the purchase minutes after the 'bargain'.
The bumper stick reads $10,000 Reward for arrest and conviction of shooting a police officer. 1-800-COPSHOT to report it!
