LeBRON JAMES vs THE KND!

Sooper pal Van Partible (creator of Johnny Bravo) was digging through his vast underground archive and found this sooper cool Cartoon Network promo from way back in 2004: FYI... the KND would have totally kicked his butt IRL. LOL!

NICE ACTIVITY BOOK BLURB

Did you know that 

Disney Television Animation 

has it's own blog

with great little blurbs about 

what's going on in all the 

different productions? 

OF COURSE YOU DIDN'T!

It's just for employee's.

Duh.

But if you don't tell anyone,

I'll share this post about 

the activity book that Fish Hooks 

Post Production Ninja

Kimberley Stover 

wrote and took pics for:

Tom Warburton’s New Book

Fish Hooks congratulates Tom Warburton on the release of his 

newest book for kids titled “Don’t Let the Pigeon Finish This 

Activity Book!” Tom collaborated with Mo Willems on

this exciting and fun activity book based off of Mo’s best selling

“Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.”  The book released on 

Oct 2 and is full of 270 action packed activities for kids ages 4-12. 

The book is now available on Amazon.com and if you’re lucky 

and swing by the Empire Campus Tom just might sign the book 

for your little kiddos. Congrats on this wonderful achievement Tom!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

PRINTLAB SKETCHCARDS

I had fun drawling this

sketchcard of 

Numbuh 60

this morning!

In fact, 

I've been having fun drawing 

ALL 

the sketchcards 

for the holiday

PRINTLAB 

orders!

BUT
I've got a couple orders where 

folks have forgotten to let me know 

who they want their prints 

inscribed to and which character 

they'd like drawn on their sketchcards!

I sent e-mails asking but haven't heard back.

So if you ordered 

form the PRINTLAB in the last couple days,

check you're paypal-linked e-mail address
and/or spam folders!

REMEMBER:
The one-per-person
free sketchcard
(with any printlab order)
is only available until January 1st!

Check out a sooper
satisfied
customer
over
HERE!

DREAMWORKS PICNIC!

I love this time of year.

Not only is it the holidays...

but since award season is sneaking up on us,

all the animation studios

are cuddling up to say,

Hey, you!

Have you seen our film!

We love it and you should to!

So they send us free DVD's and invite us to screenings!

What's not to love?

Dreamworks 

had an especially nice screening on

the Paramount Studios lot.

They showed

Madagascar 3

and 

Rise of the Guardians

with a

really fun picnic inbetween!

(never mind how odd it is for us 

former East Coasters to have a

 picnic in a balmy December)

They had a tree and and costumed Christmas carolers:

LOTS of food:

and elves:

But my favorite part of the event

was sneaking off to the Paramount Studios 

New York City set.

Sure it looks like a real urban street:

But inside it looks like this:

SO COOL!

And it's a great place to play hide and seek

with your kids!

THANK YOU, DREAMWORKS!

What a fun event!

KUBRICK AT LACMA

Did you go to the 

Stanley Kubrick 

retrospective

at the 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art?

He's the guy that did all these movies:

Impressive, right?

But in the interest of full disclosure,

I'll come out and say it:

I don't love Kubrick's films.

I totally respect him as an artist

(because that's what he is)

but the pacing of his films

makes me sleepy.

That said,

Mr. Kubrick

is tough to beat visually.

The man absolutely pushed his craft 

past whatever limits were in his way.

His sense of the epic was

GIHOOGIC!

But no matter how I feel about an artist,

(love, hate or meh)

I adore getting insight to their process.

And this exhibit did a wonderful job

of knitting together the threads that built 

Kubrick's breadth of work.

There were scripts:

Storyboards:

(I LOVE storyboards)

Models:

Costumes:

And other stuff:

Love Kubrick or not...

it's a great exhibit that makes you want to run home 

and watch his films.

Check it out if you get a chance.

Bonus 

artsy-fartsy 

art:

LOVE

LOVE

LOVED

this installation by

Walter De Maria

KIDS NEXT VROOOM!

I wish I had better pictures of this,

but 600 years ago there was a 

Cartoon Network contest where they were

giving way this car:

I've never seen it driving down the street.

I wonder who won it?

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!

KND TURNS 10!

Can you believe it?

It was 10 years ago today that 

Codename: Kids Next Door 

premiered

on Cartoon Network!

Operation: I.S.C.R.E.A.M

and 

C.A.N.N.O.N

were the episodes that kicked things off

and we ended up going for 6 seasons,

2 specials,

a TV movie,

toys,

video games,

etc

etc 

etc.

Who woulda thunk it?

Sooper big huge thanks to

ALL

the KND operatives 

out there

who never grew up!

I love you all

AND...

I

love these shots of the

KND voice actors
(clockwise) Ben Diskin (Numbuh One and Two) Lauren Tom (Numbuh Three) Dee Bradley Baker (Numbuh Four) and Cree Summer (Numbuh Five) Taken at Cartoon Network many moons ago.

And if you're looking for some mad KND love, check Twitter over  HERE!

PIGEON'S ACTIVITY BOOK HITS THE INDIE BESTSELLER LIST

So

this totally 

happened 

last week:

Debuts for the week:
Hardcover Fiction
#8-Notorious Nineteen, by Janet Evanovich (9780345527745)
#11-The Forgotten, by David Baldacci (9780446573054)
Hardcover Nonfiction
#12-The Patriarch, by David Nasaw (9781594203763)
Children’s Interest
#11-Don't Let the Pigeon Finish This Activity Book! by Mo Willems (9781423133100)

Yup...

Pigeon's activity book hit the 

INDIE BESTSELLER LIST!

How cool is

THAT?!

The reviews on Amazon have been sooper great, too.

Check out this one:

This activity book is a great addition to the Pigeon book series! 

When we ordered it, I thought it was just going to be a coloring book. 

I can tell you that it is SO much more! Not only are there coloring pages, 

but there are cutouts for a puppet show, reading activities, and games! 

All of the pages are perforated for easy tear-out, 

so you can display your works of art. 

I cannot wait to finish this activity book 

(neither can my pigeon or my duckling)!

So like, yeah.

I'm a 

BESTSELLING AUTHOR 

now.

Never mind that I did so by surfing the coattails 

of a sooper bestselling author and his already existing,

sooper bestselling characters.

But I'll take what I can get, darn it!

Anyway,

here are a couple pages from my sketchbook

when I was in the early stages 

of beating out the story with Mo.

Don't be shy to pick up a couple dozen 

copies of the book during the holidays

It's the PERFECT gift!