TABLING IT AT MO'S HOUSE

Last weekend I made a pilgrimage to

Knuffle Manor,

home of Mo Willems,

to help on a sooper secret project.

But it's no secret that when you go to

Knuffle Manor,

you're encouraged to

draw on the dinner table.

And I did just that with an 

incredible group of creative people:

Hillary Price,

who has been writing and drawing

RHYMES WITH ORANGE

for a thousand years

did this:

Her partner Kerry,

who claims to be a science teacher

and not an artist

drew this wonderful friend:

Here's A bird by Mo

(which I totally stole the next morning)

Datsun-powered painter

Scott M. Fisher

rocked this evil beauty:

And because he's awesome he always brings 

me an artist proof of the latest 

Magic the Gathering card

he's done:

Okay...

So I drew this dumb dinosaur thing:

And then dumb ol' 

Tony DeTerlizzi

has to go and make the sooper most beautiful drawing

of a dragon drawing my dumb dragon

while Mo's dog watches:

I TOTALLY took Tony's drawing home with me because

OMG!!!

Master of marquetry

Silas Kopf 

and

mega movie producer

Adam Spielberg

(no relation to Adam from the Bible)

collaborated on drawing an entire cast of characters and 

writing a story about them, 

most of it too hot for blogging:

And if I didn't mention there were enchiladas,

there were definitely enchiladas:

It's always creative people heaven

at Mo and Cheryl's parties.

I could have spent two days talking to each person there.

But the rent at Mo's place ain't cheap.

So here I am back in LA.

But I can't wait to go back!

MAGIC THE GATHERING PROOF CARDS

I totally forgot about these!

When I was on the road for the

DON'T LET THE PIGEON FINISH THIS ACTIVITY BOOK

mini-tour,

Mo had a party!

While there,

I noticed a

shady-looking mustachioed

character sneaking up behind me:

I nearly brained him with one of

the billions of award statues laying about the house

until I realized it was

the sooper powered 

SCOTT M. FISHER!

Besides having a truly epic sketchbook to show off,

he had brought me a couple 

Magic: The Gathering 

artist proof cards

from the latest set he worked on.

You can tell they're proofs
(or printing tests)

by the white back on them:

But it's the 

OTHER

side that's

worth the look:

Aaaaaaaawesome, 

right?

But how stoopid was I to forget

to have him sign the cards?

Well,

I didn't make that mistake 

when we visited

Tony DiTerlizzi 

the next day!

He was nice enough to 

deal me some 

old school MTG artist proofs

of cards he painted.

And I mos def got him to sign them:

Drool,

nerds,

DROOL!