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Not sure where this came from. Kind of a bizarre mutation of a Richard Scarry/Busytown pickle truck or pencil car (except that this one eats you).

If anything positive came out of this ill-conceived, poorly managed and all-around cluster of a proposal, it’s that I brought King Cupcake to life. He was part of a whole world inhabited by sentient food. Kind of creepy? Maybe. But fun.

I did manage to get to a vector version, and I’m fairly pleased with the result. Should reproduce well and look good on a t-shirt; we used the same color scheme for my dear niece’s (award-winning!) shirt design for her Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation fundraising walk, and it was sharp on a white shirt, so I thought, why not?

Robyn’s cousin Angie contacted me about a t-shirt design for the Chicago Rock ‘n Roll Half-Marathon, and this is what I came up with (the participants, all nurses, all apparently have kitty-cat nicknames. Or something). Eager to get to a vector version, if I ever have time…

Yeah, so I’m a nerd. But also a nerd with three little ones at home, so I doubt I’ll be seeing the upcoming Green Lantern movie in the theater. Still, it’s on my mind (obviously). I sketched this out super-quick during a meeting; it made me think of Bruce Timm and how awesome that guy is.

The presenter discussed the popularity of Spongebob across the kid age spectrum, so I took a few liberties. Who wouldn’t want to be assimilated by this sweet little guy? I did screw up the left hand and phaser, but what are you gonna do.

I don’t know why I was on a knight kick, but I went right from robots to this guy—both are made of metal, maybe that’s the connection. If not for the Thundarr-style energy sword, he would be almost plausible.