Boy, all this hitchhike storytellin’ must be tirin’ you folks out. Let’s take an art break!

There’s my logo entry. I think it looks pretty solid. A little fascist, but hey, that used to be a hot style around these parts. I hopes I win the pirate gold traysure!

The other interesting thing of note is this genius of a webcomic project: Arbuckle. It is not funny, it is sad and strange. It is an open project. Cartoonists are invited to take one of the thousands of Garfield cartoons and redraw them, stripped of any thought balloons. This allows us to see the true life of Jon Arbuckle, a sad and significantly disturbed individual.

I remember a discussion my senior year of high school in the most excellent Cartooning & Animation course the department was awesome enough to have. A number of us all agreed that Garfield was a horrendously lame strip. Garfield is the thing Bill Watterson had nightmares about, worrying that if he let Calvin & Hobbes get commercial, it would become the abomination. Sure, the fat cat can be amusing, but usually he’s just lame. Tailsteak’s project is a bold vision, and I will be contributing to it often. Gives me a bit of a sense of drive to draw on my own time, for such a worthwhile cause.

So I invite any of you with artistic talent to contribute. There’s a LOT of strips out there, and we need your help.

Here’s my contributions so far. Hopefully Tailsteak doesn’t mind my image-thiefing, but I’ve more than credited the website. Please check it out there yourself!

My first contribution. Just getting a grip on drawing in Flash, and just drawing in general. Had to come up with my vision of Arbuckle, as well.

This one’s more in line with the nausea I have of Garfield… illustrated by decrepit surroundings, and a hint of madness.