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They finally decided to finish editing and put up the latest episode of Colonel Deese. I finished it months ago. I'm pretty pleased with how the card game sequence turned out. Vote funny and all that shit.

About a year ago me and another guy worked on a pitch for Adult Swim for this writer named Andrew, who apparently worked on Robot Chicken. How many pitches for Adult Swim have I been attached to? I don't know, I've lost count.

Anyway, he finally got it up on the web, and on Newgrounds no less. Take a look if your interested:

TOBACCO MAN

Vote or review, or whatever. You run your own life.

It's gotten decent scores so far, but there have been some relatively legitimate gripes about the audio quality. I just animated the first half of it, I didn't compress or upload it. I'll probably promote it a little harder once it's up on a different site.

And now, I piss you off by reposing the other cartoons I've done recently.


This thing has been getting an average of about 10 views a day, which is pretty good considering. I hope you give it a chance.

( Deese Nuts Webseries )
( Deese Nuts Webseries, More )

Vote funny, share with your friends, blog it if you want.

Laura is at work at the bookstore, and I'm actually teaching all day (if you can imagine), so we're missing the annual "Irish Day" carnival and parade extravaganza in our hometown of Erin this year. If you're interested in just how much fun this could be, feel free to watch the last installment over at VideoBestFriends.


Also, the new (and currently final) short for Deese Nuts I produced is up:

Please watch it, vote it funny, show your moms, whatever. I need more money.

One of two of a proposed five shorter episodes I'm currently working on. (Two done, three more possible.)

Hope you enjoy. Give it a vote if you like it, I need the work(s). The longer episode can still be found here!

Animax, the studio I worked at in L.A. produced this, and it's apparently setting the FOD world on fire right now.


I think its pretty funny. Of course, this venture into pseudo-live action and puppetry doesn't really bring me any of that contract work I lay awake at night dreaming about (read: crying over), but I can't really hold it against them for wanting to branch out. And it's quite an effort!

Of course, there is always the thing I did work on that was uploaded last week:



What do you think it means when you avoid sleep because everytime you lay down with nothing to preoccupy your thoughts it feels like you're being held under water?

I think it means you really want to watch your tivo.

I don't have much free time to do comic-y stuff like I used to. In between my fun, albeit low paying freelance gigs (thanks economy!), such as my job over at Deese Nuts:


Please vote again if you already did, they had to reupload because of a snafu in the credits, so we're kind of starting from scratch again. And if you can, please share it on your blogs, or whatever.

And the music video I'm working on for a rap duo out of St. Louis:








Screen shots to entice you, hopefully I'll finish this soon. (I HAVE to finish this soon.)

Plus my adventures helping the bookstore move into the 6,000+ sq foot two story brick building we just BOUGHT, and preventing said building from flooding due to plumbing issues (THANKS PREVIOUS SHITTY OWNERS!), all on top of my semi-full time teaching job it doesn't leave me a lot of time for hourly comic day, or trying to raise money for cons, or putting together a mini. But that doesn't mean I don't want to do these things.

In fact, when I find the time to doodle, I've been trying to work out a few characters for a short comic (four - five issues) that I began to dream up afterhimynameisjamie kind of bailed on the larger project that the characters were originally developed for.


I'm trying to do two things in this. Create an appealing look for the main character, who is an older retired super hero turned private detective, simplify said look and style down into a forumla that looks good, but is very easy for me to duplicate over and over. It's a hard thing for me to do, to simplify a design down. I don't neccessarily want it to look cartoony, like my flash work, but I have to get it simpler than this. The bottom left one is based on someone else's drawing, which is why it isn't fleshed out, but it is so close to what I want. I just have to figure out a way of absorbing it without stealing it. The one about mid way down on the left, with the note about lifting the left eye is also very very close to what I want. Once I nail this guy down I can move on to the other main characters. And once I have those nailed down, I can start writing the script.

Look, you might as well unfriend me now, I'm not drawing Batmens, I'm not doing hourly doodle bops, I ain't selling no t-shirts, and I'm not going to no New York city. I just want you to watch and vote and repost and make your cool friends look at it. This is all I can bring to the table at this point.

A few months back I got a freelance job doing some character designs, library builds, storyboards and animation from a couple of guys who had just lost their previous artist. He's sold a show to Cartoon Network, so don't weep for him. After redesigning some of his characters, this is the final product. Go and vote for it if you like it. I could use some more work.

( Here are some of the designs I did: )

And ABC Family and StarsIDT/FilmRoman/Whatever finally released the second season of Slacker Cats online. The director is hoping it'll be the beginning of some wave of new found support for the show, and they'll pick it back up. I think that's kind of a lost cause, but it means I can show you this episode:

'work, work, work'

Which I did about 60% (read: "most") of the character animation on. It's nice of them to finally release the episodes online, but unfortunately they stream like shit, and so even the best scenes play all choppy. Thanks ABC Family!

I'm particularly proud of my Tabitha scenes, the hard working montage, and the ping pong sequence at the end. If you see some bits that look shoddy, I didn't animate those. I promise! :)

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