Andertoons Cartoon Blog

Can't Talk, Grilling...

Just had this delivered yesterday:

Oh Mommy... Who needs a brat?!

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Airplane! & Zero Hour

I'm watching Snakes on a Plane this morning while I'm up early sketching out some ad work for a client. While taking a coffee break and reading through some flagged blog posts, I ran across this one from Mark Heath regarding another blog's side-by-side comparison of Airplane! (my favorite movie of all time) and Zero Hour, the move Airplane! was based on.

I knew Airplane! borrowed heavily from the original, but I had no idea just how heavily. Wow! Check this out:

I'm not gonna get into credits and all that, but I'm really curious now to see the just released Zero Hour.

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Leggy!

I've been working on my walking LEGO bot again recently and ran across this while cruising over at NXTasy. Love the POV shot!

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iToons

With the iPhone coming out tomorrow, and that big screen looking like a good place for cartoons, I thought I'd take a look at everyone's favorite cartoon site through the eyes of Steve Jobs:

Not too bad really, let's look at the cartoon close up...

Nice, actually. Sideways?

Hmm... May have to do some resizing down the line...

Anyway, looking forward to seeing how/if this thing works!

(BTW, thanks to iPhoney for the preview!)

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Andertoons On Papyrus

Just a heads up that my first card for Papyrus has been released into the wild:

Lemme know if you see it out there!

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Hulk Lame!

Lately I've been visiting the local comic book store every Wednesday and picking up a few things. But I gotta tell ya, I'm thinking that's going to be a more occasional visit, what with the dreck I've been seeing lately.

Case in point: World War Hulk #1:

First off, I'm a latecomer to this whole "shoot Hulk into space/gladiator" thing, and I guess maybe I'm just not a fanboy, but if the best you can come up with is an outer space Conan-ish story line, maybe you need a nice long break.

And dressing him up in chrome spikes, leather and a shiny headband just screams "Hulk like musical theater!"

Also, words like "worldbreaker," "warbound" and "oldstrong?" Mark no like badspeak! Pretentio-logue make me angry!

My favorite gripe, though is this. Note the inside back cover ad:

OK, I'm as big a fan of leggy trailer trash as the next guy, and Old Spice obviously needs to advertise as I was surprised to find it even existed any more, but upon closer inspection of a number of pages of the story itself, I noticed this:

See it? Upper left? Lemme close up on it...

I dunno when product placement started in comics, but... ICK!

Listen, I know this isn't great literature and all that, but to be honest this type of comic is so boring and typical and uninteresting, that I'm really looking forward to digging into my recent first purchase of manga.

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Brickworld 2007 Video

Video of LEGOs in action at Brickworld 2007! Enjoy:

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"It's Hard to Comb a Grass Toupee: A Spot the Frog Collection" - Review

Disclaimer - Mark Heath is a good friend and I'm going to give this book a great review because it's great. So there.

It's Hard to Comb a Grass Toupee is my son's favorite book right now. He asks to go get it from my office every day and have it read to him over and over. When you consider the boy has memorized the complete Seuss canon, and is well into Pooh, this is no small compliment.

His favorite so far is the strip where Kiri eats the kleenex from the snow. He literally giggles himself off the couch.

OK, so a soon-to-be four-year-old loves it, but I love it too, And so does the Mrs.. In fact it's pretty much the hot book throughout the house right now. And if my one-year-old daughter could chew on it, I think she would.

Listen, Mark's latest is filled with the laugh out loud, goofy, and gently sweet cartoons that you just don't see often enough. And the art is just beautiful. Also, did I mention every cartoon is in full color?!

Go buy this right now and keep it hidden from the family until you're done with it. You'll thank me!

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Brickworld 2007

I'm officially an AFOL. (That's Adult Fan of LEGOs for those less hip out there.)

Yes, and to celebrate my newfound nerdhood, I attended Brickfest 2007 not too far from me in Wheeling.

It was... how do I put this... AMAZING!

I took the boy and my father-in-law and we had a tremendous time! My father-in-law commented on only on the sheer abundance, but the crazy creativity, and I have to agree. Some was silly, some was beautiful, and a lot fell in-between. A sampling (I'll put up a Flickr group later):

Most of these skyscrapers towered above even me!

Gotta love this moonbase:

Just one of many many LEGO train sets:

Cityscape within another train display:

This fellow made beautiful models of famous buildings. WOW!

Look at that reflecting pool! (Note - NOT a mirror!)

Things do not bode well here:

A sobering sculpture:

On the lighter side, gotta love the mosaics!

And look at this one. Again, WOW!

Impressive. Most impressive.

This dragon was just incredible:

For Lynch:

This is a mousetrap, and it's actually caught two mice. Ick!

Dunno what this is, but it's freakin' cool!

Many of the displays had wonderful funny details if you cared to look for them.

This poor fellow never found the exit:

SpongeBob's in for a probin'!

Love the donut accident with all the cops!

Note how many are watching and enjoying a beverage:

That's not to code!

Oh my...

From SpaceBalls:

And this is George Lucas being led away for his crimes against sci-fi. Hee-hee-hee...

Some custom minifigs:

And my faves, the bots:

What a fun day with the guys! Video coming soon!

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Walking Bot 1 - Will It Even Work?

My next LEGO bot is going to be a sort of walker, and I wanted to test out my concept before I built a bunch more.

Check it out:

Here's some pics of it:

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