A TISKET A TASKET...

...Mo Willems in a basket!

My son's school is having their big 

silent auction fundraiser this weekend

and each class has put together 

a themed basket for the event.

P's class decided to make theirs all

kinds of Mo Willems themed!

And I just so happen to 

know someone who

could help us with that!

MO!

He was sooper generous and gave us a 

signed Pigeon match game, 

some window decals,

and a sooper exclusive not-quite-out-yet

Duckling plushie!

Oh... and this, too:

Add in a whole mess of books signed by Mo and

I'm pretty sure this basket will pull in at least 

eleventy hundred thousand dollars--

enough to solve Los Angeles Unified School District's 

money problems forever!

HOORAY!

Thanks, Mr. Willems!

SOOPER WARBURTON BROTHERS

I don't know what it is,

but my current sketchbook

is going 

reeeeeeeeeeeeally

sloooooooooooow.

Actually, I DO know what it is.

I've been trying to finish up a

 sooper new

(and sooper secret)

 project 

these last couple months 

and that's taking up all my non-Fish Hooks time.

But I still try to get some sketchbook action when I can.

Fortunately, my wolf cubs are always eager to log in some

drawing time with Dad.

The latest theme?

SUPER MARIO BROTHERS!

K

(age 5)

 needed a little help getting 

started drawing Luigi on a motorcycle:

P

(age 8)

needed no help

rockin' Yoshi:

P also found that one page simply 

wasn't enough to contain

Mario's awesomeness:

Love this sketch of

Diddy Kong in his car by K:

But ya gotta go crazy for

P's Super Mario Brothers item collage:

Me?

I didn't do anything

nearly as cool as my boys did.

Hey...

why PLAY video games 

when you can draw 'em

with your family!

TKG stands for Total KND Goodness!

Utsukushii, zou!!!

Love this Japanese

KND fanart!

The artist goes by the handle 

TKG

and was counting down the days

until KND came back on the air

in Japan!

Watashi wa totemo suki desu you!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!

And as an added bonus

there's this:

Check out even more of TKG's art 

over

HERE!

SO

rockin'!

RANDY PILLOWSON

In her ongoing quest

to achieve 

supreme dominance

in the art of

Pillow-Making,

Fish Hooks assistant editor

Carmen Woods

created this for fellow editor 

Ted Supa:

Randy Pincherson

never had it so comfy!

Check out some of Carmen's
other pillows

back 

HERE!

WHATCHA SAY, TVA?!

So what's going on at Disney TV Animation?

Well...

Like...

EVERYTHING!

We had a mega-big all-staff meeting at the Burbank AMC movie theater 

where we got to see got to see artwork, clips and even full episodes 

of 

EVERYTHING 

that's going on at TVA

And we got to see it on the sooper giant huge big screen!

So what's going on?

Nothing.

Nada.

I can't tell you.

Or I'd have to kill you.

(and I can do it)

But, of course, there is SOME stuff that's common knowledge:

We got to watch the entire first episode of TRON: UPRISING!

Perhaps you heard that you can download the first episode 

for all kinds of

FREE

over 

HERE?

Yeah.

The show looks like 

eleventy billion bucks.

It's like a feature film on TV.

Director Charlie Bean and crew killed it!

We also got to see a full episode of this:

Created by Alex Hirsch,

who helped develop Fish Hooks and remains as 

the voice of Clamantha,

GRAVITY FALLS

is a really fun comedy/mystery show.

Keep an eye out for it.

It's coming to Disney Channel before you know it.

We also got to see a lot of pilots 

in various stages of development.

Stuff by Craig McCracken... 

(POWERPUFF GIRLS, FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS)

Matt Chapman...

(HOMESTAR RUNNER)

MOTORCITY by Chris P and the Titmouse Posse.

(the first episode is also FREE over HERE!)

etc 

etc

etc

and 

MOAR!

How inspiring to see so much amazing stuff

by so many amazing people.

Big ups to Disney for getting behind the creators

and making things happen!

Keep it locked on

Disney Channel

and 

Disney XD!

Big stuff's goin' down!

SNEAKY ADULT BRINGS THE FAN ART!

As most of you know...

adults can be pretty sneaky.

They make you eat cauliflower so they don't have to.

They tell you it's bedtime when all the good shows come on.

And then they have a dance party while you're sleeping.

But sometimes their sneakiness 

can TOTALLY 

bring the 

awesome.

Case in point,

a recent inquiry by an adult

regarding an order

to the mighty 

printlab

included some KND 

fan art his son had done.

Which is pretty cool.

(for an adult)

Check out KND operative

Scott's 

sooper

triple

block

rockin'

drawings:

Uh huh.

Awesome.

Thanks for sending these,

sneaky adult.

And thanks for being such a

loyal KND operative

Scott!

RIP Buzz Potamkin and MCA

Right on the heels of my mentor Vincent Cafarelli passing away

comes the sad news that Buzz Potamkin 

has moved on as well.

Buzz was, 

of course,

the namesake of 

Buzzco,

the company he started and later sold to

Mr. Cafarelli, Candy Kugel and Marilyn Kramer

and renamed Buzzco Associates.

The studio was famous for animating 

the first, iconic MTV spots...

and the Berenstain Bears TV specials...

And the Hawaiian Punch commercials...

Buzz later made the move to LA where 

he worked for Disney

and Hanna Barbera,

where he oversaw the What A Cartoon shorts program.

I only got to meet him once or twice,

but heard many stories via Vinnie and J.J. Sedelmaier,

who Buzz gave his first animation job to.

You can read more about Buzz and his career over HERE.

And while we're on the topic 

of artists passing on,

I gotta shout a big RIP to Beastie Boy

Adam Yauch

aka MCA

His music has kept me company while

 I've drawn, doodled, illustrated, animated, and designed 

for as long as I can remember.

I never got to meet the man,

but there was a day when we 

shot each other a 

"YO"

as we skateboarded past one another 

on the streets of NYC.

That kinda made my day.

Big ups to ya, MCA.

KND vs POWERPUFF GIRLS

The Kids Next Door as Powerpuff Girls...

And the Powerpuff Girls as Kids Next Door.

Any questions?

(and to whoever it is that drew these...)

(...you rule the universe!)