KIDS NEXT DOOR REUNION DINNER IN NYC!

So whilst in NYC,

we put together a little 

KND crew reunion!

And where better to have it than

PHEBE'S TAVERN,

where we had the premiere party way back in 2002.

Starting from front left and rockin' clockwise:

Kevin Kobasic (character design)

T. Mackie Evans (character design)

Abigail Nesbitt (storyboard)

John Allemand (BG design)

Maurice Fontenot (storyboard)

Vanessa van der Baan (BG color)

Mike Cavallaro (BG color)

Grace Lu (color supervisor)

Erin Finnegan (production coordinator)

Bruce Knapp (line producer)

John "Quack" Leard (storyboard)

Robert Kopecky (prop design)

And somehow,

Alison Wilgus (colorist, writer, social media guru)

disappeared when the picture was taken.

Also totally missed were

Gideon Kendall (BG design)

Chrysoula Artemis (colorist)

Andy Rheingold (writer)

Rob Smith (inker)

Marcus Pauls (production manager)

Susan Holden (executive producer)

David Starr (executive producer)

and other assorted folks

who couldn't make it or somehow 

got lost in the shuffle.

It was pretty pretty emotional getting to 

hang out with what is inarguably the sooper best crew 

a show could have had.

Love you guys and miss you madly.

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!

NOT TO BE A STICKLER...

I don't wanna seem like a 

know-it-all...

But a mistake like this:

... probably shouldn't be in 

a book called this:

Good eye on my nephew Max,

who showed me this at Christmas.

SUPER RARE 7D MINI-SODE

While there weren't any new 7D episodes last weekend,  there  WAS this little treat cooked up by some industrious production elves:

Brilliant.
I vote we do all the episodes this way and spend the money we save on chocolate covered pretzels.

ONE MORE SKETCHBOOK COOKED

Well, after being on the fire for a long time

this sketchbook is 

FINALLY 

cooked:

It started slow-roasting on

May 6, 2015

with a 

Burger Turtle:

And if you think I've written some fun stories,

my chicken nugget Kelley Jones

has created a world 

where he fights bad guys 

led by the evil mustachioed

Jonny Stevens.

I made him write some of it down

because

AWESOME:

I love finding other people's drawings 

at music and mix sessions.

These are obviously by

Noah Z. Jones

I also snatch up whatever post-it doodles 

I might find in the

7D bullpen:

Remember,

a sketchbook is not only a journal of your art,

it's a record of your life at a point in time.

Fill it with life events,

like stoopid triathlons

that make you really tired afterwards:

And if you know my sketchbooks,

then you know I 

never

ever 

ever

(forever evuh?)

draw on the last page:

And then it went up on the shelf

with all the other baked goods:

On to the next sketchbook!

Let's see if I can finish this one in less than 

ten months!

LEGO MY KIDS NEXT DOOR

I think it's a well known fact that

EVERYONE

loves Legos.

And I think it's a well known fact that I

LOVE

seeing the Kids Next Door built with Legos.

Especially these by MrMinifig:

Here's a How-To video he made:

And 77legocreator TOTALLY rocked these Galactic: KND minifigs:

GAH!
SO MUCH LEGO TO LOVE!