STORYBOARDING THE SIMPSONS WAY

While excavating through 

all the crap in the laboratory 

I found this packet of wisdom

from none other than

Brad Bird:

STORYBOARDING

THE SIMPSONS WAY

If you like storyboarding

(and I know you do)

then you'll go monkey bananas for this.

Look and learn:

YES!

But just to be on the record,

I'm totally cool with cutting heads off 

on over the shoulder shots.

THE 2015 PRINTLAB FREE SKETCHCARD OFFER IS NOW FULLY OPERATIONAL!

You've been asking for it.

You've been lining up around the block for it.

And you've been shouting from the mountaintops that 

you want the mighty 

printlab

to once again

offer a 

FREE

ARTISANALLY

HAND-DRAWN

SKETCHCARD

OF THE

KND CHARACTER 

OF YOUR CHOICE

(with the purchase of anything from the lab)

Well,

in the interest of preventing worldwide riots,

I think we can do that again.

It's something I totally love doing!

Here are a couple of my favorites from last year:

I have a feeling there'll be more than a couple

requests for 

Galactic: Kids Next Door

sketchcards this year.

So it's only right that this year's new print

gets interstellar:

So go ahead.

Roam the hallowed halls of the printlab,

and order a print for your 

best friend

sibling

teacher

army sergeant

religious leader

favorite pastry chef

and you know what?

Order one for yourself

because

YOU'RE WORTH IT!

And when you order,

use the box provided in paypal to

let us know who you'd like your print inscribed to

and who you'd like drawn on your 

FREE

sketchcard!

But there are rules.

OH YES... there are

RULES!

• One sketch card per person/address

• One character per card

and

• You get what you get and don't get upset

You've got until January 1st, 2016, okay?

Check out the

printlab over

HERE

CARTOONS vs CANCER

So many of you take a look at me, squint your eyes hard and say,
"I've got questions."
And they're good questions. Like,
"What's wrong with you?" and "When are you going to get a haircut?" or "What's your favorite episode of Codename: Kids Next Door?"
But then I drop a ninja smoke bomb and disappear before you can get an answer.
So wouldn't it be great  to trap me for a while  and make me answer your  questions?
Well, on December 6th,  it's happening:



The Book of Life creator Jorge Gutierrez answered your questions.
So did  Courage The Cowardly Dog creator John R. Dilworth
And now I'm doing it!
DO YOU LIKE “CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR”?  OF COURSE YA DO! ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF “CARTONS VS CANCER”,  THE SHOW’S CREATOR, MR. WARBURTON(@warburtonlabs) ,  WILL BE JOINING ME ON A LIFESTREAM  AND ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS LIVE!  JOIN US AND ASK HIM ANYTHING! NO MATTER HOW CRAZY!  OF COURSE, IT’S ALL TO HELP RAISE MONEY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER!  SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6TH AT 1:00pm (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAnX6S6fQo0  BE THERE OR BE A DORK!  (Disclaimer: If you’re not there, Gruppetstudios  will not file legal dork claims on your name.) DON’T MISS IT!
Please note that I can not guarantee I'll give  sane, intelligent or informative answers. But you never know.
Will I see you there?

SILVER DRAWING ACADEMY NI MODORIMASHITA!

OMG

Remember the we were

sitting around talking about the time

I chatted with a bunch of Japanese students

at 

Stephen Silver's Drawing Academy?

Well, it happened

AGAIN!

Mr. Silver handled the majority of the crowd,

who were artists:

But the writers, 

and fans of poorly spoken Japanese, 

hung out with me:

Fortunately,

my translator Akiko

was able to reconstruct my sloppy,

poorly spoken Japanese (and English)

into sentences the kids could understand.

So this year I brought a project for the 

students to rock:

That says,

"LET'S WRITE CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR!"

"First, think of a kid problem"

Each of the students were asked to come up 

with 5 kid issues.

So they got to thinking:

They came up with ideas like:

I DON'T WANT TO GET OUT OF BED

or

I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL

or

PARENTS WANT TO HAVE FUN 

INSTEAD OF TAKING CARE OF THEIR KIDS

"Next, make that problem into a person"

How do you PERSONIFY the kid problem?

If you're trying to stay in bed,

what if a 

GIANT ROBOT MADE OF ALARM CLOCKS 

busts into your room?!

"Now, think of an evil"

What is the alarm clock robot doing?

Trying to wake up kids to make them do more school work?

"Next, think of a SOOPER evil"

How do you make things get WORSE

for your hero?

Maybe the alarm clocks are SO LOUD

that they're causing earthquakes that are destroying the earth itself!

And what can the Kids Next Door do to stop it!

The students came up with some

KILLER 

stories.

My 

daisuke

(favorite)

was by this girl:

Her KND operative didn't want to go to school.

So she and her teammates skipped class and went to a park.

Then, from out of nowhere, a giant monster attacked and swallowed 

them all in one bite.

The next thing the operatives know,

they're trapped in a classroom in the monster's stomach.

And class will never end! 

SUBARASHII ZOU!!!

Where was this girl when we we

needed KND stories?!

Thanks to Mr. Silver for having me 

come and hang out with these fun kids!

Can't wait to do it again!

PROFILES IN SKETCHBOOKS

So a couple weeks ago 

Disney TV Animation 

treated us all to a new sketchbook.

Actually, it's more of 

a notebook or journal 

since it's filled with lined paper.

So what to do with it?

I dunno.

Maybe draw a character in profile

EVERY DAY?

Here are a couple from my first couple weeks:

The only rules are that it has to be quick:

And it has to be a profile:

It's fun coming up with daily exercises

to keep yourself drawing.

Don't worry if you don't like it.

Just move on to the next page.

It's not like you're getting graded.

Just shut up and draw something.

ANYTHING.