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!

SOMETHING WILLEMS THIS WAY CAME

It takes a special kind of person to run

TOWARDS 

Mo Willems

when he's in town.

I always do.

But I'm a glutton for punishment.

I don't know what's wrong with the

 rest of these guys, though:

From left to right there's

Mo 

New Yorker cartoonist Matt Diffee

Cartoonist and Seinfeld/Simpsons writer

Tom Gammill

The handsomest man in the world

Mad Magazine art director

Sam Viviano

And 

writer/illustrator

"I Want My Hat Back"

Jon Klassen

With this many sooper talented people

in attendance

(and me)

I just HAD to start passing around the pen and paper:

And I gotta tell you...

Getting to sit and talk with these hyper creative people is

truly one of the best parts of knowing such hyper creative people.

I'm a lucky guy.

VICTOR NUNES DRAWS WITH STUFF

Okay, like

this is you:

OMG 

I don't know what to draw!

And then

Brazilian artist

Victor Nunes

walks up.

And he's like,

Dude, just grab a 

PIECE OF LETTUCE!

And you're all confused because

you don't speak Portuguese.

So Mr. Nunes takes a piece

of paper, a pencil

and some lettuce

and 

BOOM:

Mr. Nunes

does it

with bread 

and other stuff, too:

Go 

LIKE

his 

Facebook page

to see more

of his 

sooper

clever

sketches!