OKAY, CAN WE JUST BAG LUNCH?

Kids like these 

need fun drawings 

on their lunch bags

or their faces will stay like this

FOREVER!

So yeah,

I draw on their lunch bags:

But sometimes you gotta say,

"Draw on yo own dang lunch!"

Hopefully your kids' faces are normal

and you don't have to draw on their lunch bags.

KND VOICE ACTOR REUNION LUNCH!

These pictures have already

spread around the

Facebook

Twitter

Tumblr

universe

but I thought I'd post them here

with a little more context.

Last week the mighty

Lauren Tom

(aka Numbuh Three)

successfully staged a 

Codename: Kids Next Door

voice actor reunion!

Held at an 

undisclosed location, 

to keep evil adult sooper villains

from showing up,

almost all the regular cast

(and some little Numbuh Fives)

were able to make it out for 

a tasty lunch.

Pictured from L to R

First row:

Candy Milo (Numbuh Two's Mom and Grandma)

Dee Bradley Baker (Numbuh Four, Toiletnator, every monster/animal in the show)

Jennifer Hale (Numbuh 86, voice of KND computer)

Collette Sunderman (Voice director and casting)

Cree Summer (Numbuh Five and Cree)

Cree's daughters, Hero and Brave (adorable and awesome)

Second row:

Lauren Tom (Numbuh Three and Genki Sanban)

Ben Diskin (Numbuh One and Numbuh Two)

Dave Wittenberg (Numbuh 74.239, Chip and Dodgeball Wizard)

Mr. Warburton (Voice of Ridiculousness)

Totally missing from the event

because they couldn't make it

OR 

we were dumb and thought they 

were on the e-mail chain 

when they weren't:

Tom Kenny (Mr. Wink, Common Cold, Knightbrace)

Maurice LaMarche (Father)

Grey DeLisle (Lizzie, Gramma Stuffum, Crazy old Cat Lady)

Jason Harris (Numbuh 274)

Tara Strong (Mushi)

Before we left we snapped

a shot of 

Sector V 

doing their famous logo pose:

To compare,

here's a pic from one of our

very last records:

Yup.

These

guys are

STILL

awesome.

SO GREAT

seeing 

everyone 

again!

THAT'S GOOD EATIN'

It's one of the most closely kept secrets of authors.
A taboo subject that no one dares let slip.

Well, no one except ME!

Because I'm about to blow the roof off of what EVERYONE'S been dying to know.
Yeah, you know the question I'm talking about:

WHAT THE HECK DO SOOPER FAMOUS AUTHORS EAT FOR LUNCH?!

Well, I'm here to tell all.
Because I had lunch with a bunch of 'em this weekend.
You see, whenever Mo Willems comes to town,
all sorts of authors and illustrators get together to laugh, joke and eat.
And for some reason they let me come along.

So let's start with Mo:


That's steak and eggs, of course.
Mr. Willems likes to eat them when he's on tour to promote his latest sooper awesome book:


If you were at the LA Times Book Festival this weekend, maybe you got to see him read it!

And if you were sitting next to him at lunch, maybe you'd totally copy him and get steak and eggs, too.
That's what sooperstar author/illustrator Dan Santat did:


Can you blame him?
I don't blame anyone for nothin'(except awesomeness) if they wrote and illustrated this graphic novel:


Lisa Yee's secret lunch habits are a BIG topic of conversation at any party.
So what's the secret to her steak salad?


The answer: NO DRIED CHERRIES!
Lisa Yee don't roll like that.
She rolls like this:


But do you know who DOES roll with the dried cherries?

Marla Frazee.
See?


Marla, who I just met but swear I've met before, is working on a sooper secret new picture book, but you might already know her from this series:


Next up, animator/author/robot/marathon runner Bob Boyle.
You know he writes and draws this:


But did you know he eats THIS:


Yes, non-meat eaters, that there's a veggie burger.

But alas vegetarians, Bob's wife, famed animation background painter Teri Shikasho had a beefy burger.


Me?
I had the house special, Rack of Peep which I did NOT share with Marla.


Paired with a fine root beer, that's some good eatin'.

Jarrett Krosoczka's meals are harder to pin down.
He refused to even show up for fear of his lunch secrets
being leaked to the public.
Smart man.
Because obviously I can't keep a secret.

Next time:

The hard hitting dessert choices of children's literature!