When Captain Bluebird-Beard had the idea of tattooing the treasure map to the back of his first mate Cannonball thirty years ago he never thought about wrinkles.
“Arggh! I can’t tell if this is a river or a wrinkle even with me bifocals yaar!”
Sorry guys this one went a bit blurry after I uploaded it for some reason, focus blogger focus.
I just read a very disturbing post about illustrators works being stolen to publish a book called “Colorful Illustrations 93°C.” Do not to buy this book! The Publishers stole the illustrations and interviews. On-line the book is being sold for an outrageous $100 – of which none is going to the illustrators that created the work. Unfortunately this kind of theft is becoming bolder and I want to do whatever I can to help fight against it.
Originally I was going to re-post the full story from Luc Latulippe’s blog, but instead go visit Luc Latulippe’s site and read his post about this whole sickening situation.
I’d like to thank Holly DeWolf for passing this along to me, and I ask that everyone please help spread the word. This is an important issue that everyone in the industry needs to be informed of.
Mr. Dressup was my favorite TV show as a kid, and it most likely my first artistic inspiration. Mr. Dressup was played by the late Ernie Combs. Along with Mr. Dressup is Casey and his dog Finnegan, who were brought to life by puppeteer Judith Lawrence.
The Mr. Dressup show was fantastic! He would tell stories, sing, and of course dress-up in silly costumes and put on plays. My absolute favorite part of Mr. Dressup was when he would draw, and I dreamed that one day I would be able to draw just like him.
One of my pet peeves – one that I am also very guilty of – is when people say “thingie” or some other nonsensical word to ask where something is. Like “honey where’s the thingie that opens the thing?!”
The thingie is a multi-tool made up of mostly kitchen type items. It measures, cuts, opens both bottles and cans. The thingie is a beater, flipper, timer, temperature gauge, and your house keys all rolled into one. It’s simply incredible.. now if you could only remember where you used it last.












