Spaghetti

This looked neat I thought

Dino dancing

They're not dancing in one of the images, but they sure look like having a good time!

More Buttons in watercolor

I like the drawing a lot. In pen, brush, watercolor.

More Buttons

I think at some point very soon, I will start delving into writing comic stories more about Buttons or something else. I have been itching to working in color.

The Pioneer of Pterosauric Aviation

That'd make a GREAT! children's book title.

Dino Awesomeness!

When I was a kid, I read these dinosaur books that I loved reading over and over again. Each book focused on a certain dinosaur and had many colorful illustrations each page. I loved the bright colors and the drawings. I learned about brontosauruses, tyrannosauruses, stegosauruses, and triceratops. I especially loved brontosauruses. In that book, I remember to this day, there was fabled to be a HUGE sauropod called an ultrasaurus that was rumored to be the largest dinosaur ever.

Fast-forward to today. As of now, I have this idea for a picture book that centers around a pterodactyl learning to fly and early flying machines. To prepare for this picture book, I had to start doing research on dinosaurs. It was like being a kid again. I have forgotten how cool they were. Apparently too, since those childhood books of yesteryear to today, a lot about the understanding of dinosaurs has changed. These are the top facts which surprised me when I researched:

1. Pterosaurs (pterodactyls and other flying thingies) are not considered dinosaurs. Only related.
2. Though many dinosaurs died off, some saurischians were considered to evolve into birds. Those closest related to them were raptors and t-rexes. An archaeoptyrx is considered a link between the two.
3. Dinosaurs could have possibly had fur and/or hair. Most likely to have hair were smaller dinosaurs that needed insulation to keep them warm during the seasons.
4. Lots of scientists agree that dinosaurs were warm blooded or a stage of between cold and warm blooded animals. Though the climate was considered much warmer during the Mesozoic Era, the amount of energy needed to move and be agile for dinosaurs requires warmer blood.
5. The ultrasaurus of my childhood was an incomplete skeleton found in Utah and is no longer considered the largest dinosaur ever. Rather, it was considered a large specimen of a brachiosaurus. The largest considered though was found in Argentina called an argetinosaurus believing to weigh at 100 tons (only a partial skeleton was found though).

Now some drawings. Note: I know that ankylosauruses are much bigger than raptors. I wanted to use the entire page.

Political Cartoon for the Day

I like how it came out.

Boys Love Too!

There's a recurring theme in my work for a misbehaving brat that thwarts authority and parenting. This little kid I think is the opposite of me for he has "joie de vivre." He is spontaneity, the id to my ego. It is perhaps in the rattlings of my mind I do find a voice that wants to continuously life to the fullest and/or rebel against constraints. For one reason or another, I identify myself not to be this little kid, but the opposite. Stolid, calm, subdued. I think somewhere in the middle of this dichotomy falls who I really am.

I wrote a new story focusing more on the kind of love that boys know best using this boy as a vehicle. How I picture it, all the writing and the colors of the picture book would be quite dainty, elegant, girly, and VERY PINK. I figured it's time to make a pink book that boys will read. That's my aim at least.

New Comic

Just click on it to view it bigger. Hooray.

Buttons is a Scaredy Cat

A preview of many many new comics coming soon! I love how the watercolor came out too. Shazam!