Thanks to Spam, I’ve disabled comments on the blog. I get a lot of spam comments on this site and I try to stay on top of deleting them all as they come in, but over the past couple of weeks I’ve let that slide… which is why I have a backlog of 7,000+ spam comments to delete now.

Lesson learned.

When it comes to art, I haven’t done much lately due to a busy, busy schedule. One day during lunch a few weeks back, however, I did sit down and doodle for a few minutes. This is what became of that stolen sketching session: three guys and one hat. Two looking suspiciously at the third, who, after much debate I imagine, decided to sport his largest floating hat before leaving his home that morning. Of course art, like most maths and sciences, is subjective, so you are free to come up with your own interpretations of the drawing… but you’ll probably be wrong.

Here’s a quick sketch from yesterday… about glasses. The image is a bit distorted (at least on my monitor) so click on the drawing to see it the way it should be.

Here is the last of the old illustrations that I came across a couple weeks back. This one shows us the step in the Alphabetic Process when the two halves of the letter F get welded together.

Yes! Another old illustration that I recently found!
This one shows how P’s are made.

I’ve been swamped with work for the past several weeks and it doesn’t look like it will be letting up anytime soon. As much as it pains me to admit it, that means that the odds of me sitting down and drawing are slim to none. Blegh! In the mean time, I happened to stumble upon some old illustrations that I did several months ago. I’ve got a couple more that I’ll post in a few days.

So there!

So, if I understand this correctly, back in the 60’s the Southern Baptist’s Radio and Television Commission commissioned a new animated series to be aired on local TV stations around Texas on Sunday mornings. The series, called Jot, was produced by Dallas studio Keitz & Herndon and followed a kid struggling with the temptations around him. Amid Amidi wrote about the studio in his book Cartoon Modern and on his Cartoon Modern blog.

Two of the episodes have been posted on YouTube. The design of the show is beautiful… I’d love to own some of these on DVD.

Here’s a commercial for the Air Force Reserve designed by Preston Blair.

This pretty much sums up my day today.

Dear NFL,

Did I do something to upset you? Earlier today the New England Patriots and the New York Giants advanced to the Super Bowl. Excuse me for being so blunt, but, based on outcome of today’s playoff games, it almost feels like you’re mad at me. If I have done anything to offend you, I apologize whole heartedly.
This is a new year NFL so why don’t we sit down and talk our problems out. Sure, Super Bowl XLII will be an absolute train wreck of a disaster, but let’s not focus on the negative. Let’s stay positive and hope for a better playoff outcome in ‘09.
Whatdaya say?

Love,
jared.