Lifehacker is one of my favorite blogs, and their make-this-into-this ideas are so great I found myself making some ink and paper into this cartoon:
BTW, here’s the actual Lifehacker posts that inspired this:
Easter Cartoons
It’s almost Easter time! And to help get you in the mood, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite Easter cartoons:
Bar cartoons are some of my favorites, and they’re even better when the patrons are anthropomorphic, so this bunny complaining to his turkey friend makes me very happy indeed.
And when you think about it, the bunny’s right. He’s gotta hide all those eggs overnight, pumpkins get all carved up, the turkey… well, we all know what happens to the turkey. But the groundhog wakes up for a few minutes, looks around, gets his picture taken, and then it’s right back to sleep. That’s the gig to have.
So when you think Easter you think eggs. And when you think eggs you think Humpty Dumpty. I’m explaining here because, although this cartoon makes me laugh, it actually makes very little sense.
What exactly would be better for Humpty at Easter? And why are there cops instead of the King’s men? And how come pictures of Humpty never show any yolk spilling out anywhere?
These and other questions are why you should never overthink a cartoon.
So this isn’t exactly about Easter, but it’s egg-themed, so I’m including it. Plus those egg parents turned out really well. (Love that tiny tie!)
I’m honestly surprised this hasn’t come to pass already. I suppose coloring the eggs is the fun part, but you just know that on Easter morning, there are going to be parents out there rushing somewhere, screaming kids in tow, that, if they were available, would pay an exorbitant price for efficiently produced pre-colored eggs.
Mark my words, this is coming.
OK, so another not-technically-Easter cartoon, but, again, egg-themed, so…
This is a take on the old “tastes like chicken” phrase which is supposedly really funny when someone eats something odd, but in reality stopped being funny in November of 1978. (Look it up.)
But when you think about it, if there was one thing that wasn’t chicken, that actually should taste like chicken, it would be eggs. But they don’t.
I’ve never really understood why exactly the Easter Bunny hides eggs. Christmas gifts? Under the tree. Halloween candy? Neighbor’s house. But Easter eggs you gotta go tramp all over the place looking for.
But now you know why. It’s rigged. Rigged I tells ya!
Well, that’s it for Easter cartoons! Happy egg coloring!
Seth Godin’s “Episode Markers” Comic
I was reading Seth Godin’s blog this afternoon, and his most recent post, Episode Markers, really jumped out at me, so I made a comic out of it!
Enjoy:
FroDOK
My addition to March MODOK Madness!
LEGO Pigeon
If you have kids at home you’re more than likely very familiar with Mo Willems’ Pigeon. In addition to trying to drive a bus, he’s found a hot dog, tried staying up late, and asked for a puppy.
Being a cartoonist with kids at home and wife who’s a teacher, needless to say, I’m a big fan. So it only makes sense that I build Pigeon in LEGO!
Designing LEGO Pigeon
Here’s the image I started with:
Pigeon’s head is basically a sphere, and his body is like another sphere with a cone attached, so I headed on over to Bram’s Sphere Generator for a little help.
I wish I could explain exactly how it works (unicorns?), but if you put in how many LEGO studs wide in diameter you’d like your sphere, it generates an LDraw file that shows you how to create 6 rounded side pieces that can be attached to a cube to make your sphere.
Here’s an example of a single side in Bricksmith:
And here’s 6 sides put together to make your sphere:
Pigeon’s head is 9.7 studs wide on a 6 x 6 x 6 SNOT core. The body is built on the same core, but it’s 11.8 studs wide. After getting the basic idea of how to construct it and which pieces I’d need, it was off to Bricklink to order parts!
It took three different orders (one from a seller in France) and about two weeks, but soon I had what I needed to get Pigeon built!
Now I’m sure you’re noticing that the color blue pictured is different that what Mo uses. The trouble here is that while LEGO has a number of blues to work with, some have a limited number of parts, and some are very expensive. So I went with the reasonably priced and part-rich medium blue.
BTW, I did play with an image in Photoshop to get him to be the exact color:
It kind of feels like cheating, but there’s only so much available in Light Aqua.
Building LEGO Pigeon
The head and neck were relatively simple builds:
But the body required quite a bit of trial and error to get right:
The head, neck, and body are attached via axles and Technic bricks and plates. The feet are anchored in a base so he can stand, and the toes are simple hinge plates.
So that’s my LEGO Pigeon! I hope you enjoy him, but whatever you do, don’t let him drive any LEGO buses, OK?