MO'S RIPPLE!

HEY, YOU!

Yeah, YOU!

Wanna get your hands on an ORIGINAL Mo Willems sketch card?

Yeah, you do!

Then head over to the RIPPLE BLOG today, July 7th at 6:30 EST!

He's made 9 (count 'em) NINE cards that'll be available for $50 each.
Here's are a couple:





You can see the rest on his blog over HERE

It's first come first served so get on over to RIPPLE at 6:30 EST and on, state your intentions to buy, and then donate to help wildlife affected by the big yucky oil spill going on in the gulf right now!

NEW BLOGGER IN TOWN

So did you know that this guy:


Created this guy?:



Yup. That's Van Partible and Johnny Bravo!
(I'll leave it up to you to figure out which one is which)

And Mr. Partible has recently taken up the time honored sport of blogging!
He's just getting started so get in on the ground floor and read up on what he has to say over HERE.

And don't be shy to stroll the grounds of his website, too.

Oh, and did I mention that Johnny Bravo Season 1 just came out on DVD?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand pardon me whilst I show off the awesome JB sketch Van did for me years and years and centuries ago:



Now c'mon ya'll-- Do the monkey with me.

PLUGGED!

Lots of people often stop me on the street and say,

"Hey, sooper fabulously rich Mr. Warburton... what do you DO with all that CASH you've got lying around?"


And that's a very good question. It IS a bit of a nuisance but I've found a couple great ways to get rid of some of the stuff.
For example, I can:

1. Drive my money powered car around the world five times.

2. Build a 1:1 scale replica of Mount Sillymanjaro.

3. Give authors enormous bags of cash to plug my book, 1000 TIMES NO!

One such author is the mighty Jarret Krosoczka. I spent a LOT of cash on him and he spent a LOT of time blathering on about other Lunch Lady-ish stuff before FINALLY getting to my book at the
end of his appearance on DAD LABS.
Check it out:



Awesome, right?!

But UGH... there's that Willems guy again! Can't he find his own authors to give payola to? And I've got NO IDEA who that Hop on Pop guy is! Probably some newbie who'll never make it.

Anyway... sooper special thanks to Mr. Krosoczka. He might have laid it on a bit thick with the, "It's the first book that made my daughter laugh" schtick, but hey... big money requires a big plug!

Please Note: To be honest, absolutely no authors were paid off.
Unless, of course, Mr. Krosoczka's daughter paid him.
There's also no cash just lying around.
Sigh...

RIPPLE ON!

As previously mentioned HERE, Kelly Light's Ripple Blog is selling $10 sketchcards to help clean animals affected by the big yucky oil spill.
And now she's decided to make July "Great American Illustrator" month!
Check out the schedule:

Thursday July 1st Tom Warburton @ 7:00pm (note: all times EST!)

Friday July 2nd Janeen Mason @ 6:30pm
Susan Miller 7:00 pm

Monday July 5th Aaron Zenz @ 6:30pm
Vanessa Brantley Newton @ 7:00pm

Wed July 7th Mo Willems @ 6:30 pm - 8:30pm 4 cards available: 1@ each half hour.

Friday July 9th Stephen Silver @ 7:30 pm

Monday July 12th Stephen Marchesi @ 6:30pm


Wed July 14th Mo Willems Strikes Back @ 6:30pm - 8:00pm 4 cards:1 @ each half hour

Other artists to come: Dan Santat, Jarrett Krosoczka, Jeff Newman, Pascal Campion, Corey Godbey, Don Tate and many more surprises...

Obviously there's been an error sine I was supposed to be included in the "So-so American Illustrators Over 6 Feet Tall That Have Moved From New York To LA Within The Last Year" month, but hey-- being listed under the GREAT category works for me!

Remember-- All cards are first come, first served, so if you want my set of cards... get THERE tonight at 7:00pm EST and donate as quick as you can!

GUESS WHO?

I can't (and won't) tell you nothin' about this no matter how much you beg.


All I'm sayin' is that me and Sean 'Cheeks' Galloway had a lot of fun coming up with some ideas a buncha months ago.

Nothin' ended up happening with those ideas...

But fun is fun, ya'll.

Man, can that Cheeks kid draw or what?

NEW SOOPER PAL!

I'd often heard his name bandied about.

Especially by his fellow Art Institute of Philadelphia alumni Maxwell Atoms (Billy and Mandy) and Greg Miller (Whatever Happened to Robot Jones).

And just like those two... he's had his own show:


Uh huh...

Yes...

A show that never got as much attention as it deserved...

Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!

So now you know I'm talking about Ciro Nieli, right?
We friended over at the ol' Facebook thing and later realized we grew up in the same part of Northern Philadelphia!

We even went to the same comic shop!
R&B Comics in Montgomeryville---
Man, I used to love that old comic book smell when you walked into that place!

Anyway, we decided to grab some lunch and chat about cartoons, skateboarding, his parent's pizza place and a thousand other things.

And, of course...

I got him to draw me something:


ROCKIN'!

Mr. Nieli's got a TON of sooper amazing stuff in the works that I can only tell you about if I promise to kill myself. And I'm waaaaaaaay too busy to kill myself so you'll just have to keep it locked to see what he's got in store for ya'll!

It'll be worth the wait!

RIPPLE

We don't have to feel helpless.
We can help.
Our small actions together will ripple outward.

That's the mantra written on illustrator Kelly Light's new blog that she's created as a way to help the animal victims of the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil Spill.



"But sooper handsome Mr. Warburton," you say, "How can a blog help clean up animals soaked in oil by irresponsible corporations?"

Answer: SKETCH CARDS!

Uh huh...

Hundreds of fine folk have been drawing, painting, gluing, pasting, charcoaling and doing who knows what else to little sketch cards and then posting them up on the Ripple blog.

And each one...

Every one...

Is selling for ten bucks.

$10!!!

Take a looksie here at some of my favorites:











Fun, right? And ANYONE can post one. You don't have to be famous. You don't have to be an illustrator, graphic designer, cartoonist or anything.
All you have to do is want to help.
And, of course, make a card!
Then e-mail a scan of it along with a little bio of yourself and maybe some words about how this whole yucky spill thing is making you feel. And there ya go:

You're in!

But okay... so you don't want to make a card.
Why not buy one?

They're only ten bucks each and will look great on your wall.
Believe me.
I've seen the art you've got hanging around your house.
Yuck.

Aaaaaaaaand better still...
every dime... every dollar... goes to The Institute of Marine Animal Studies and The International Bird Rescue Research Center.

So what did I do?
You know me...
I'm a pain in the butt so I made THREE cards that'll be sold as a set.
Check it out:

Sorry it's so small.... I can't seem to get blogger to make it any bigger.
(suggestions, oh ye blogger geniuses out there?)
If ya click it you'll get a better look.

Rumour has it that my cards are going up on July 1st!
First come, first served!
And I hear another rumour that July will have some pretty awesome cards coming up by folks like Jarret J. Krosoczka and Sean "Cheeks" Galloway.

So then... on your way.

Make that ripple spread as far as it'll go HERE. And check back often!
New cards go up EVERY DAY!