FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF BURBANK AUCTION 2016

Last year I had the distinct honor of 

being one of three featured artists at the 

Family Service Agency of Burbank 

art auction!

And

THIS YEAR...

I won't be there.

I'll be in Mexico City for 

Creativa Fest 2016!

But that doesn't mean I can't drop some

sooper fun artwork

like this:

If you happen to live in the LA area,

definitely try stopping by this event.

There's a ton of great artwork by all

your favorite animation artists

and 

REAL artists, too!

(haw!)

G:KND-- ONE YEAR LATER

It was one year ago today

that we launched the 

grand experiment that was the

Galactic: Kids Next Door.

We wrote a story.

We drew a storyboard

(well, guy moore did)

Recorded voices

(well, david guerrero and the voice actors did)

An animatic

(well, Dave Courter did)

Made new music and SFX

(steve rucker and lou esposito did it)

Built a website.

(rob eberhardt did that)

We got hacked.

And then made ANOTHER animatic.

And all the while the G:KND hype train 

ran rampant, threatening to crush us all in its wake.

Man, that was 

FUN!

Unfortunately, 

Cartoon Network 

wasn't interested.

Which is a shame.

Because there are lots of stories to tell

in the G:KND universe.

And since it's been so long,

I thought I'd let slip a bit more of that universe.

Or at least one of my favorite characters.

Meet Numbuh 9L.

one of Numbuh One's 

teammates in the G:KND.

She becomes very protective of Numbuh One

as her planet was destroyed by the 

G:KND after it was completely overrun by adulthood.

She's huge.

She has two tails.

And a lot of cool weapons.

And that's all I'm sayin'.

So let the fan art begin!

And if by some chance you're new to what happened,

you can read about it 

HERE!

And thanks to everyone that's 

STILL

signing the 

GREEN LIGHT GALACTIC: KIDS NEXT DOOR SERIES petition

that Trevor Isaacs started last year.

I don't know if it means anything to Cartoon Network.

But 70.5 THOUSAND 

signatures is pretty awesome.

WHEN THE KND BRAVED ATLANTA

Millions of years ago while the 

Earth was still cooling after its creation,

I took a trip to Cartoon Network in

Atlanta to do some promotion 

for Codename: Kids Next Door.

While there, our highly 

powerful executive

Khaki Jones 

took me to 

Turner Field,

the home of the

Atlanta Braves,

She said there was something 

I just HAD to see.

When we walked into the stadium,

I could see,

just beyond that statue of 

Abraham Lincoln

(or whoever that is)

a treehouse.

Then I got closer and totally pooped my pants.

<GASP>

A sooper huge 

KND TREEHOUSE!

And the KND wearing

Atlanta Braves hats!

There was also a sooper huge

Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends:

But the 

REAL

thrill was going into the 

playspace inside.

It was a massively interactive playspace complete with a 

KND Treehouse to climb around in!

GAH!

Exoskeleton Dexter!

SO COOL!

The shadowy foliage really made it feel like a treehouse!

I have no idea what's in the stadium now.

But back then,

this was one of the coolest things in my life!

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.

TRICK OR TREATING WITH THE KND

Halloween is coming up!

And if you're a true Kids Next Door operative

then you remember when the KND

had the honor of being all over

UNICEF's

donation boxes.

THAT

was pretty cool.

There was even a fun little game you could play on

Cartoonnetwork.com.

And guess what?

It's STILL there:

It's a little less

KND-centric than it was originally:

But you can still find

Sector V

lurking about the game:

Hit 'em up for some candy over

HERE!

GHOSTS OF CARTOON NETWORK T-SHIRTS PAST

There once was a time,

at a long lost

Comic Con,

where 

Cartoon Network 

gave out 

sooper cool

t-shirts

to those who

came to signings

by the creators/:

I always loved this KND shirt,

designed by

Guy Moore!

So cool!

CARTOON NETWORK FANART ON DORKLY

 A couple operatives have

tipped me off to a post on

DORKLY.COM

with

30 sooper awesome

pieces of fanart based on

Cartoon Network shows.

And there's some really fun stuff!

They hit virtually every show ever made including:

POWER PUFF GIRLS:

SHEEP IN THE BIG CITY:

COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG:

CHOWDER

ED, EDD and EDDY

THE GRIM ADVENTURES 

OF BILLY AND MANDY

DEXTER'S LABORATIRY

SAMURAI JACK

FOSTERS HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS:

And yeah,

CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR:

Take a look at the rest over

HERE

and see if you can name a 

couple shows that are missing.