FUN

Unlikely Cover

50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. If cover albums for Mr. Manilow continue, would this be next?

Season's Greetings

Here's my homemade card for newsgroup friends for 2009. Wishing everyone a great new year, new beginnings, and just good things all around.

What A Mug!

I've taken a bit of a break from blogging and things are going to be incredibly busy here and there ... but figured I'd best plunk up something cartoon and Barry related.

For the calendar: May 5th is National Cartoonists Day!!!! Mark it down. Raise a mug to whoever your favorite cartoonist past or present is/was.

I'd raise mine to Charles Schulz -- and to Lynn Johnston -- though she may be declining in ranking if her Elizabeth storyline involves a pairing with Anthony.

Happy Holidays!!

Jingle Pets - A Christmas Carol Watch Video Clip

A Nose by Any Other Name....

I've wanted to cartoon something like this ever since hearing Barry was going to release a 60's cover album. Due to time restrictions, it became a Photoshop parody of the real thing .... but hopefully the idea comes through.

Holy Jumpin' (er, Exploding) Sharks Batman!

Nothing but to start the weekend with some Classic Batman and shark humor.

Cartoon (FOOB) article

One of my favorite strips is "For Better or For Worse". I love Lynn Johnston's cartooning style. My hubby and I together bought roughly $70.00 of raffle tickets at a cartoon conference hoping to win one of her original strips (and hubby won!!) (Sometimes he kids and says he'll let me see his "Johnston"). I'm sad to see the strip end, but reading the end through closed fingers. It's kind of amusing that even in this MSN article, the author mentions dislike of "Anthony". PULEESE Lynn, don't let Liz wind up with Grandthony!!!!

Doodle Fun

This is a sketch done primarily on a Wacom tablet and some color using Photoshop.

Political Cartoon

I actually sat down to do some cartooning -- mainly for politics. This deals with our Gov. race. I got inspired after seeing his "Cooperation" billboard while people were protesting for and against #6 -- which has been controversial and has divided our state. Thus, the irony of Gov. Rounds campaign billboard.

Cartooning wise, I did enjoy taking a real photo and doing work combining it with drawing and coloring with Photoshop. I'm hoping to do more work soon ... more as a riled up South Dakotan, I think.

For my bro -- (and sis-in-law!)

Hey -- when you finally do get high speed in Iraq - I found this clip on YouTube and thought of you.

Keep safe and love you -

Best appearance of all times.

This was absolutely the best darned appearance Manilow has ever done. Both Stephen and Barry were superb.

What the World Needs Now, Is

Flipbooks, sweet flipbooks. These can be found on YouTube and uploaded (and I'm assuming drawn also) by "Ben" or "Bazurawski"

In honor of Barry's appearance on Colbert Report, I hereby dedicate this week's blog entries to Colbert and Barry.

A Barry Tune!

Not the 60's, but early '70's.

In honor of the '60's ....

I love Adam West ....

I'm going to eventually have to draw a cartoon one of these days for the blog, but prior to my Barry Manilow fandom - at the mere age of 4 or 5, I was a Batman/Adam West kind of kid. I had the Batman t-shirt, the 45 record, and was a faithful viewer and at the same Bat Place, same Bat Channel every week.

A local SD resident/DJ, Wally Wingert, moved to CA - but somehow was influential with bringing Adam West to South Dakota. My pal, Aunice, and I stood in line and got to meet the Caped Crusader and get our pictures taken with him. That same year, Wally did a music parody that got quite a bit of airplay on the Dr. Demento radio show. GOT to love YouTube, when doing an Adam West search, this gem popped up.


Cartoon wise, got to love "Family Guy" - I love the inclusion of Adam West in this series as well. What a hoot!!!!

Parody Time ....

(BTW - you can download this song for FREE on Weird Al's MySpace site. Weird Al actually runs his own MySpace site.)

More ELO ...

Love the vintage videos on YouTube. This was the song/album (A New World Record) that really got me into ELO. Loved this song, thought the keyboard player was cute, too. (I had a thing for piano players back then, I guess.) ;-)

To make this Barry related - I have always kinda wished that Barry and Jeff Lynne would have somehow collaborated, though in music worlds that is putting two alpha males together -- so it could be a recipe for disaster OR something totally splendid.

Kinda neat big scale cartoonist/drawing video

Found this today -- man, I do love YouTube. Well, except that "Some Kind Of Friend" got YANKED from there. Some of us were poor, broke college kids way back when and didn't have VCRs to tape our favorite crooners. Finally get to see what we missed and it gets yanked. Sigh......

CNN 'Toon News

I wasn't alone in amusement over the Mary Worth strip and the "Aldo Kelrast" storyline. EVEN CNN found this storyline newsworthy!!!!