OLD, ULGY RESUME ALERT

Oof...

Here's an old school resume 

from when I was only a year or two into the business:

Kinda blah.

And that drawing makes me wish I was 

wearing a turtleneck  to

cringe into right now.

Evidently I didn't

follow the advice from my future self over

HERE

LUNCH AT WARBURTONLABS

I've posted about

the lunch bags I draw for my

little woodchucks, 

right?

Well, now you can keep

up on the latest lunch bags on

Instagram!

Head on over and follow

lunch_at_warburtonlabs

107 KIDS NEXT DOOR FACTS

How much do I  LOVE LOVE LOVE  that Channel Frederator just posted this video with 107 KIDS NEXT DOOR FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW?!
More than you know!
And even if you're not interested in the facts, it's a great trip though my Facebook photo stream!
Take a look:

This obviously took forever to put together  and I'm honored they took the time to dig up so many fun facts!
Although some of them might need a  minor correction here or there:
#3 = that's not my manga/anime library pictured. But I wish it was!
#5 = Actually, the friend mentioned (Linda Simensky) moved to Atlanta to become a big shot at  Cartoon Network, not LA.
Also, it's pronounced UH-sifa east. Not ASS-ifa.
#9 - It's not that the individual KND weren't intended to have fixed names. It was that their GROUP name would constantly change. One day they'd be The Deep Fryer Five the next they'd be The Apple Brown Betty Bunch.
Their name would alter depending on what kind of  trouble they were intending to get Kenny into.
#11 - I didn't originally WANT  Mark Hamill to play Professor XXXL.
But I was THRILLED when I saw he was on the  list to audition for the part.
And I was TOTALLY disappointed when he didn't  appear to be the right person to play the character. But he was ABSOLUTELY the right guy to play Stickybeard.
#17 - Just to clarify, the Beatles were nicknamed The Fab Four. Hence, Numbuh Four's name.
#18 - I don't think I ever intended Hoagie Gilligan's  last name as a reference to Gilligan's Island. As I recall, I just liked the name.
#19 - Oops. It's Ben Diskin. Not Driskin.
#32 - I don't recall it being said anywhere  that Numbuh One's mom (aka Numbuh 999) was the first female operative in the  modern KND. If so, I'd say that was planted by evil adults.
#34 - I'm also not so sure Number One was ever on the Decommissioning Squad. Was he?
#43 - That's definitely not Steve Rucker in the picture. Also, Tom Chase shared music duties  for a good portion of the series.
#44 - Correction: The song is called The Private Pain Of Techno Destructo. Not Destruction.
#49 - Rainbow Munchies. Not Rainbow Crunchies. Although they sound delicious, too.
#72 - I love nothing better than mispronouncing Mo's name. But I'm legally bound to let people know that it's WILLEMS. Not Williams.
And he left AFTER season four. To many tears. Some of joy, but most of sorrow.
#74 - While I'd love to take credit for placing Ash and Yugi in the show, it was actually the character designers, and sometimes the colorists that turned them into those characters. Much to my delight, of course.
#81 - I think it's generous to say that  Operation: KNOT was the ONLY episode of KND that ran too long before getting locked to time. There were certainly many more, especially in the first season. But KNOT was a particularly egregious example.
#95 - The KND Splinter Cell and their mission  of eradicating all adults was a ruse to distract people from finding out about the  Galactic Kids Next Door. They don't actually exist.
#98 - 1000 Times No was only made as a short film for Nick Jr. Not a series. But the original idea was to do a series of books like 1000 Times Thank You, 1000 Times I Love You and 1000 Times I Want Waffles.
#100 - Technically, I wasn't ASKED to do  a piece for the TVA art show. You just do one if you want to. Those are the ones I caught.
Maybe there are more. But honestly, WHO CARES?!
I just love that they made this! THANK YOU CHANNEL FREDERATOR for putting this together.
You rock.

A LIGHT DUSTING OF KND PILOT STORYBOARD PAGES

Check it!

After a particularly gihoogic pile of crates 

collapsed on me in the 

Indiana Jones-like

warburtonlabs archive,

I found some old,

original pages from

the KND pilot,

NO P IN THE OOL.

Most of them were cut from the episode,

or altered a bit.

But there's some fun stuff here:

Yes...

you can really see how much the characters 

changed when the show went to series.

SOOPER ADDED BONUS

PICTURE:

Here's when I was printing out the 

final draft of the sooper very first

pitch booklet of 

Kids Next Door

before I sent it to Cartoon Network!

That's back when I lived on 3rd street in NYC

(across from the Hells Angels Headquarters)

ten million years ago!

MORE KND FROM TKG!

Dear Cartoon Network,

Can we

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

do a new 

Codename: Kids Next Door

series, mini-series, special or

WHATEVER

using 

TKG's

designs?!

Because 

AWESOME:

I've posted about

TKG over

HERE

and 

HERE

but there's 

ALWAYS

room for more.

Such beautiful work!

I'm honored KND

gets so much TKG love!

A GIANT ROBOT ART SHOW

Last week

me and my family of ninjas

took a trip to Little Tokyo

to buy Japanese snacks,

visit nerd shops,

and eat mochi.

But as an unexpected bonus, there was an

Oshogatsu Family Festival

at the 

Japanese American Museum.

There was a ton of stuff to see and do,

like Taiko drumming,

candy making,

and noodle eating.

But the REAL

fun was in the museum proper where

this was going on:

I've always loved Giant Robot magazine.

It's got massive style and is always inspiring.

Although it also makes me feel kinda

old and uncool.

And not Asian.

Regardless,

Giant Robot 

knows cool art.

So I was sooper happy

to jump into the gallery!

There was some live drawing happening.

And Giant Robots:

And video:

And sketchbooks!!!

Oh, the sketchbooks.

And. of course,

tons of cool art:

I don't get out to enough galleries.

Ima try to fix that in 2016.