Signing Posters at Comic Con, this really happened.

This is not what the new Scooby Doo show will look like.

Mr. Fuzzums...

is looking pretty old:(

One of the nice things about doing work on animated movies is that once every 7 years when the movie comes out you get to put a drawing on your blog. Believe it or not, I was asked briefly, ever so briefly, to do a couple of designs very early on for the "How to Train Your Dragon" Movie that Dreamworks just released. Imagine my surprise when they called me, imagine their surprise when I came in with these drawings, imagine how quickly the phone stopped ringing. Oh well... back to TV Land. The dragons are supposed to look like the kids who own them.

I also had some ideas for dragons...

as my final service for them I offered the paradigm that anything you put

fangs and wings on becomes a Dragon, see examples below.

I haven't seen the film yet but I assume they took full advantage of my theories. 

5 weeks later this is what she looks like.

So here's something even more exciting that happened a week ago today, something I'm not likely to forget... ever. Oh ya... Rachel was there too.

Welcome to the world Mia Josephine Slowinski-Krall! Born in excellent health 7:48 am February 5th, 2010. 9lbs. 6 oz.

Today is a very exciting day for me, my new book and first author credit "Absolutely Beastly Children" a rhyming ABC book in which each letter of the Alphabet corresponds to a detestable child, has it's ISBN# and is on pre-sale. Actual release date September 28. A very special thanks to Abigail Samoun of Tricycle Press who took an interest in it and saw it through and is not afraid to attach her name to a book that shows a child pulling the wings off of flies. Thanks Abigail!!!

AVATAR. I can't believe my luck!!! If there's 2 things I love in this world it's ASIA ALBUM COVERS and FURRY ART and now they're together at last in one $240 MILLION MOVIE!!! I think James Cameron must be my soul mate. Goodbye Robert Zemeckis and BEOWULF, I'm sorry it had to end like this, but I'm with someone new now.

Here's a piece I did for the blog Seven Impossible Things before Breakfast which is a cool Children's Book Blog. They suggested the subject matter which was great because I've been wanting to re-illustrate some old classics. If anyone has any ideas how to make that happen I'd love to hear them.

So here's a Newsflash that will catch most people who know us off guard. Rachel and I are attempting to enter that territory which has been so well forged by so many of our friends yet remains a total mystery to us known as Parenthood. Stay tuned and watch me try to document things everyone else figured out ages ago as their kids head into college and we're expecting a newborn baby in January. It's a girl.

I just finished reading Little Lord Fauntleroy. It was thoroughly disgusting and I enjoyed every minute of it.

Rachel read me this fantastic character description from a book she's reading. "Barchester Towers" by Anthony Trollope.

Our cat could use a belt.