PICTURE THIS AT FEDERAL BAR FUNDRAISER RECAP!

Perhaps you've heard that every 

Tuesday and Thursday morning,

bright and early,

I swim laps at our local

YMCA.

So when they asked me to help 

out for a fundraiser I was all like,

BLURBLE BLUGGA BLUB BLUB!

Then I got out of the water and said,

"Heck, yeah!"

The event was at the Federal Bar in

North Hollywood,

which has an awesome upstairs party space.

And what were they using that space for?

Picture This! is a live comedy show with stand-ups, voice actors 

and more performing while they are drawn live 

by some of the best animators, cartoonists, 

and other artists in the biz! The comedians don’t know what 

the animators are drawing and the animators don’t know how the comedians will react.

It may be weird.

It may different.

But it will be FUNNY!

We got a great crowd:

And a great line-up!

I was lucky to be teamed with

Grant Lyon

who is really funny 

and a really nice guy!

I met some awesome artists like

Jenny D Fine

Ashlynn Anstee

and 

Kati Prescott.

Here they are warming up.

Mike Mayfield 

was

KILLING IT

on the Wacom tablet,

drawing really funny stuff on the fly while

Brandie Posey

was on stage making the audience laugh.

Jenni D Fine 

was on point with her drawing,

totally making

Melissa Stephens'

already hilarious routine

at least 573% hilariouser!

Katie Prescott was drawing for her sister Julia

and both had the crowd howling.

(Their Mom Suzanne works at Disney and rocks pretty hard)

And 

Mike Hollingsworth 

ALWAYS

makes me laugh.

So you know he was gonna make the 

audience crack up when he

went to bat.

Here he is in action:

Mr. Lyon and I waited patiently for our turn...

And then it was time for us to go on.

I think we did okay

for a coupla rookies.

I would have preferred a Cintiq over a Wacom,

but ya get what ya get and ya don't get upset,

amiright?

Such a fun night!

Get on out to a 

Picture This

event 

if you can!

IT'S A WRAP, 7D-STYLE

Just before the New Year

we were told that 

The 7D

was going to finish up after it's 

second season.

And once a production starts winding down,

there's a slow and steady procession of folks leaving.

First it's the writers.

Then the storyboard artists.

Then design starts disappearing.

And some production folk.

Etc etc etc...

Eventually all that remains is a handful of 

post production ninjas

(like me)

who ride the train until the bitter end.

In our case, that's September 2016.

But it'd be silly to have the wrap party then.

Most people will be on new and exciting projects

and not even remember 

working on

The 7D.

So last Wednesday,

production manager 

Jennifer Nelson

and her merry band of

production elves 

threw a killer party!

There were handmade party favors:

And treats:



And almost
EVERYONE
that ever worked on the show
was there!

Here's me with
killer voice actor
Kevin Michael Richardson (Happy)
and sooper awesome designer David DePasquale:

That's
Executive Producer
Tom Ruegger
in the middle there!

And here's the card everyone signed for him:



And here I am sandwiched between
Stephen Stanton (Sleepy)
and
Dee Bradley Baker (Numbuh Four)
I mean... Dopey!

Of course,

Mr. Ruegger

gave a great speech to the crew:

One of the most fun moments of the night was a staged
reading of some of the 7D's favorite lines:



Here's a piece of it:

=

And a signed script:

And what's a party without a photo booth? Here's me and my post production team, Frame Slashin' Samurai  Brad Rozman and  Rookie Sensation Retake Rocker  Val Petrone 



And don't worry 7D fans. Even though production is winding down,  there's still a lot more 7D coming! We're only halfway through post production!
SPECIAL BONUS!
After  SIXTY TWO YEARS in the animation industry, timing director Joanna Romersa is retiring with The 7D as the last production  to be blessed with her presence. (Her first job was doing ink and paint on Lady and the Tramp!)
She is uncannily young, both physically and mentally... Whip smart... Superbly talented... A joy to be around... And most likely a vampire.
Big love to Joanna and to this drawing of her by series director Alfred Gimeno:

IT'S FUN TO STAY AT THE YMCA FUNDRAISER

Hey.

Whatcha doin' this Saturday night?

Wanna see some comedy?

Wanna see some drawing?

Wanna help raise some money?

Then come on out here:

I'll be drawing to the comedy stylings of

Grant Lyon!

HOORAY!

TILT BRUSH

Guys!

I just totally did the future!

And

OH EM GEE!

I got to do it when the folks at

Disney Interactive 

were dumb enough to 

leave their door open.

That's when I snuck in and said,

"Hey!  What're you guys doing?"

They groaned and tried to get me to leave,

but I'm annoyingly persistent.

So to keep me out of their hair,

they strapped a virtual reality helmet on my head

and fired this up :

AND MY HEAD EXPLODED!

There's nothing I can say or write that
can explain the experience

It's like a virtual reality

Photoshop.

You're in a virtual room
drawing on air.

I was jumping up and down,
laughing and shouting how
THIS!
CHANGES!
EVERYTHING!

But don't take my word for it.
Listen to animation legend
Glen Keane:

I wish everyone could try this. The applications are endless.
There's a cool new world coming. And I can't wait to draw on it!

D.G.A. JELLY JEH JOHNSON

I don't do a whole lot of 

Kickstarters.

A couple years ago

I got this

Castle Crashers

Necromancer 

statue 

as a gift for

Maxwell Atoms 

because I'm the best friend in the world.

And I think I once got some sunglasses

that were okay.

But last week I received my

Vita Aquatic!

The boys have been asking for a fish for a while.

So I thought this would be a fun way to do it.

It's a planter

AND

a fish tank!

So we got it set up and went to get our Betta.

And everyone knows the most 

IMPORTANT 

part of having a pet is

NAMING IT.

And my woodchucks are experts

at naming stuff.

So please meet

D.G.A 

Jelly

Jeh Johnson!

D.G.A

stands for

Don't Get Attached.

Because,

you know,

fish.

And Kelley just wanted 

part of the fish's name to be

Jelly.

And this is 

Jeh Johnson

He's the current 

United States Secretary 

of 

Homeland Security.

(like, duh)

While waiting in line for security at the Atlanta airport,

he was on all the TV screens over and over again.

The boys thought his name was the best thing in the world.

So yeah...

Now we just have to wait for the plant to grow!

G:KND-- ONE YEAR LATER

It was one year ago today

that we launched the 

grand experiment that was the

Galactic: Kids Next Door.

We wrote a story.

We drew a storyboard

(well, guy moore did)

Recorded voices

(well, david guerrero and the voice actors did)

An animatic

(well, Dave Courter did)

Made new music and SFX

(steve rucker and lou esposito did it)

Built a website.

(rob eberhardt did that)

We got hacked.

And then made ANOTHER animatic.

And all the while the G:KND hype train 

ran rampant, threatening to crush us all in its wake.

Man, that was 

FUN!

Unfortunately, 

Cartoon Network 

wasn't interested.

Which is a shame.

Because there are lots of stories to tell

in the G:KND universe.

And since it's been so long,

I thought I'd let slip a bit more of that universe.

Or at least one of my favorite characters.

Meet Numbuh 9L.

one of Numbuh One's 

teammates in the G:KND.

She becomes very protective of Numbuh One

as her planet was destroyed by the 

G:KND after it was completely overrun by adulthood.

She's huge.

She has two tails.

And a lot of cool weapons.

And that's all I'm sayin'.

So let the fan art begin!

And if by some chance you're new to what happened,

you can read about it 

HERE!

And thanks to everyone that's 

STILL

signing the 

GREEN LIGHT GALACTIC: KIDS NEXT DOOR SERIES petition

that Trevor Isaacs started last year.

I don't know if it means anything to Cartoon Network.

But 70.5 THOUSAND 

signatures is pretty awesome.