I drew this goofy guy in Humza's sketchbook on the 2nd of June, and last Friday I copied him onto a piece of loose paper to scan him here :)

Hmm, not sure when I drew this chicken, but it was in a little sketchbook.

Oh boy! :)

I'm speaking at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival (http://www.auff.org and http://myspace.com/auff) and got several other animators to speak too.

*And* Joe Peery, President of ASIFA-Atlanta, is speaking a little also!

Short notice I know, and I also know nobody really reads this, but come if you can :)

Thanks! :)

Eeeee!!!

I couldn't believe it, I got to meet John K. Wow.

He drew this super fast and gave me some good advice about my own drawings ("Learn to draw with construction"). I was rather nervous (perhaps understandable- he's a hero!!) but I just *loved* listening to him talk all about old cartoons and whatnot (did you know that Clampett was so intuitive he couldn't really articulate how he did what he did?).

I took lots of notes during both events (the meet and greet at the Cartoon History Museum and the screening at the Castro) and plan to post them here assuming I can still decipher them, hahaha.

So much to say about the event. I made three friends immediately and they were all really nice and cool. One of them, Leigh, draws beautifully and might draw for John someday, who knows!

I also got up the courage to leave John a copy of Chickenheads! I see about a zillion things about it I want to make better (it's really flat, it's got twins, there's almost no full body motion), but it's before I started really looking at the Preston Blair book and it was the best I could do at the time.

Anyway it was incredible to meet him: thanks for all the laughs and inspiration, John :)