Studio Stuff/Influences: Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes
I'm adding a sub-category to this Studio Stuff installment called Influences. No matter who you are or what you do, someone or something has influenced you along the way. As an artist, I have many influences, but one of the biggest has to be Bill Watterson and his brilliant Calvin and Hobbes newspaper strip. My original Calvin and Hobbes collection...I think this is all of them. I let the kids have access to them, so they frequently disappear and get left in odd places...which has a certain Calvin spirit to it. If you don't love Calvin and Hobbes,
Seven…thousand…flippin’…Macedonians…
Well, I think I'm going to call this page done for now, other than some tweaks I'll do when I go back through all the pages of this children's book... Please, no more Macedonians... I don't even know how many hours I put into this page, but it's got to be close to the combined total for all the preceding pages, even with all the cut and paste "cheats" Photoshop affords me. For those who don't remember, I'm trying to illustrate a children's book based on The Announcer's test, partially popularized by Jerry Lewis, that I learned at
Just read through all the PMD strips in sequence…a fun ride to be sure…can’t wait to see what happens in the labyrinth!
Hey, did you sell another PM Ninja to somebody else???
Yes! A friend’s wife (who is also a friend. I realized it might be a gift, so I’ll avoid posting names for the time being) ordered one! (Thank you, by the way, Tami. I expect pictures…)
A beautiful, touching tribute to our parents, grandparents, great grandparents (great-great grandparents?). Thanks ever so much for that.