THE FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY AUCTION

While I was busy telling you tales of the

Galactic: Kids Next Door,

there's been all sorts of stuff going on.

Stuff like the

Family Services Charity Auction

at

Cartoon Network:

I warned you it was coming up

over here,

but I had no idea how much fun it was going to be!

It was quite the honor to be one of the three featured artists

(with Nan Rae and Alice Asmar)

I got a nice big area to display some of my recent work.

Apologies for the lack of close-ups, but

on the left are some original paintings from my

picture book

1000 Times No

Along with some copies to sign, of course:

On the right are 

The 7 Dead

I did for the 

Disney TVA

Zombie Art Show

Along the bottom is 

the 18 foot line I did for the

Disney TVA

Disneyland Anniversary Art Show

The sooper giant TV in the middle had a loop of 

underwater animation.

Why?

Because 

FISH!

They were all over the pool table!

WHY?!

Because we were 

FISHING FOR DONATIONS!

I wanted to create a way for people to 

be guaranteed a piece of artwork to take home

in case they didn't win 

anything in the silent auction.

So we did this:

It was fun watching people pick their fish.

I don't know how many people pulled me aside to

tell me that they got 

THE BEST 

one of the lot.

And I had made a

LOT

of fish.

Too many in fact.

But I've got an idea what to do with the leftovers!

(I'll tell you in a later post)

Regarding the

silent auction,

there were well over a hundred

pieces of artwork,

by tons of great animation artists like:

Pen Ward (Adventure Time)

JG Quintel (Regular Show)

Chris Battle (Teen Titans Go)

Pete Browngardt (Uncle Grandpa)

Mike Wetterhahn (Courage The Cowardly Dog)

and the list goes on!

But there wasn't just art by

gross animators like me and my ilk!

There was 

fine art

graphic art

photography

sculpture

jewelry

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!

But I'm an idiot and didn't take pictures.

(in fact, I've stolen quite a few of these pics from 

Nan Rae's much-better-than-mine blog post!)

In bidding news,

Mo's Pigeon sketch went for $500

after a serious bidding war!

My KND drawing went for either 

$2 or a cool $1,000,000.

Either way,

they paid too much.

The rooftop dinner at sunset was 

glorious

delicious

and 

held a special treat:

Sound Effects Master

Glenn Oyabe

(Fish Hooks, Billy and Mandy, etc)

just happened to be playing the event with his band

Little Ghost

What a perfect night!

Thanks, FSA!

Thanks, Cartoon Network!

And thanks Zita LeFebvre

for inviting me!

Oh, and here's a nice

bit about the show from

The Burbank Leader!