Skippy the Bulldog

Saturday morning ukulele time :)

The Ballad of John Henry

Hampton Porkbottom, Banjo Pig

Just a little doodle

Scooby and Shaggy Fan Art

The classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? was one of the three most creatively influential sources for me growing up. My family didn't have cable, so any time we went traveling far enough away to mandate staying overnight in a hotel, there were only two things I cared about: does the hotel have a pool, and does it have cable so that we can watch Cartoon Network? I don't really know what it was about Scooby that made it stand out to me above all the others. I mean, even back then I knew that each episode was dreadfully predictable and full of noticeable production shortcuts (i.e. - poses, expressions, run cycles, etc. that were recycled ad nauseam)....there was just something that drew me and kept me hooked. When I was a little older, I had a Scooby-Doo throw on my bed, and my favorite deck of Scooby-Doo playing cards, in which each card featured an illustration of one or all of the gang, or a classic villain. And boy, I drew the HECK out of those cards. Almost every day after school, I would spend hours at out little dining table copying the illustrations from those cards onto cheap copy paper. I wasn't long before I'd get a headache from all the Sharpie fumes, but I didn't even care. I had to keep drawing Scooby. I didn't really think about it then, but those were my most important formative years as an artist: I was learning how to stay on character and control my lines and I was learning about dynamic posing and expressions. I probably did a really terrible job with those at the time, but nonetheless the concepts were being laid down as a foundation to be built upon. To this day, I'm still a huge fan of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You. And elements of Scoob still show up in my work, especially my Halloweeny-horror themed comics and illos. I don't know why, but yesterday I just felt an urge to give a nod to the guys that got me going, so I did this little illo:

The Tooth Fairy

I was doodling aimlessly, and this little guy came out. I thought, "What if this is what the tooth fairy looked like?" I slapped some wings on him, and voila!