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Hello there!

GoComics' own David Reddick is responsible for the delightful guest strip over at PVP.

Check it out!

(where have I been, you ask? Just caught up in the power and majesty of the ICP video for "Miracles." No, I will not post it nor will I link to it here because I promised JG I wouldn't. It's a deceptively hilarious universe, folks. Some things, once seen, cannot be unseen.)

-SW

Ham Parts from Phil "Ink Pen" Dunlap

Can you name them all?

-JG 

White-hot Crossover Action

Check out today's "Rabbits Against Magic" and you may just see a fine feathered friend from "In the Sticks"? Mayn't you?

-JG

Congrats to our own, Mike "Cornered" Baldwin

 
Mike won eBay Canada's card competition to celebrate their birthday.

My review? It's a good use of eBay's corporate colors and effectively uses the iconic maple leaf to make it uniquely Canadian. All the while being clean and simple, like me.

Be sure to check out Cornered on GoComics. You'll LOL!

-JG

Happy 17th to The Duplex! And the most-winningest, most-nominated, most-luxurious cartoonist in NCS history ... Glenn McCoy

We love you, Glenn! And not in a weird way! At least it doesn't feel weird to us, it feels very natural. Maybe some small-minded people would think it was weird, but not us! Not after 17 years!

Go check him out! The Duplex

-JG 

iPad Storytelling

-JG

Now this was very enjoyable

 http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf

  -JG

Words have the power to change the world, Eric*

I cannot confirm the validity of this, but it made me laugh nonetheless. -JG

This is the essay that Hugh Gallagher wrote to get into NYU in the early '90. 

IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET TO KNOW YOU, THE APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON?

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard.

I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a travelling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prize winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.

* If you'll recall my post from last week, I'm going to go by the name Eric when I refer to myself in the third person in this blog. I would ask that you still call me John or "Johnny Highpockets" and let your mood decide which works best that day.

 

The funny things you learn in this business

So just yesterday, one of the cartoonists I edit tells me he's got a blog too. And I'm all like, listen pal, if you're trying to make a move on my readers you can forget it, I've earned all 16 and I won't go without a fight. 

And he's all like, what? 

Anyway, please check out Phil "Ink Pen" Dunlap's blog Fall of TV which he interestingly subtitles "watching better TV since the 70s." Now I don't know if he's "Face" or "BA" but I will let his promotional photo do the talking.

 

My goodness, what a handsome fellow. He's a like a modern day Harrison Ford. 

-JG

Here are some blind items/funny things I've heard about cartoonists. In the interest of privacy I won't name names.

1) Which successful cartoonist actually sleeps with a life-size cardboard cutout of Delta Burke -- much to the displeasure of his/her spouse?

2) Which long-time cartoonist has the phrase "cartoonists do it on the page" hand-stitched into the left foot of each pair of his/her socks.

3) Which panel cartoonist wears shoes four sizes too large to book signings so as to impress fans?

 

So just yesterday, one of the cartoonists I edit tells me he's got a blog too. And I'm all like, listen pal, if you're trying to make a move on my readers you can forget it, I've earned all 16 and I won't go without a fight. 

And he's all like, what? 

Anyway, please check out Phil "Ink Pen" Dunlap's blog Fall of TV which he interestingly subtitles "watching better TV since the 70s." Now I don't know if he's "Face" or "BA" but I will let his promotional photo do the talking.

 

My goodness, what a handsome fellow. He's a like a modern day Harrison Ford. 

-JG

Here are some blind items/funny things I've heard about cartoonists. In the interest of privacy I won't name names.

1) Which successful cartoonist actually sleeps with a life-size cardboard cutout of Delta Burke -- much to the displeasure of his/her spouse?

2) Which long-time cartoonist has the phrase "cartoonists do it on the page" hand-stitched into the left foot of each pair of his/her socks.

3) Which panel cartoonist wears shoes four sizes too large to book signings so as to impress fans?

 

Check out the McGarry Bros. at Yahoo Music

Steve "Biographic"  McGarry's sons' band -- Pop Noir -- going big time.

And to think I saw them perform way back at the Scottsdale Reubens. Now some will try and say it was the 100 degree heat that had the place sweating, but before the Bros. McGarry hit the stage, it was only 73 degrees according to my Casio watch/thermometer, I checked. That's the kind of music we're talking about here.

-JG 

http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/