Lost Monster - Moe Finds a Home

Hooray!  Moe isn't homeless any longer.  He was found by local artist J. Kirk Richards (who incidentally happens to be a friend of mine.)  Kirk tracked down Moe the monster and gave it to his son, Bryan.  Awesome.

Then he blogged about it.  Thanks Kirk, you rock.  You rock too, Bryan.

What do you folks think, should I do this again?

Lost Monster Experiment - MOE *UPDATE*

Yesterday I sent Moe out into the world.  All by himself.  I hope someone takes him home.

If you live locally in Provo, Utah then you can find Moe behind one of the cool, old buildings on Center Street.  See you later Moe, I hope.

*UPDATE* I went by to check on Moe today.  He's still there.  If nobody picks him up in a couple of weeks then I'll move him to a more noticeable spot.

And The Winner Is..

"A Problem Involving a Megalomaniacal Mustache (A Tommy Pugmire Story)"

Second Place goes to "There's An Ocean in My Bathtub."

Honorable Mention for these ideas (they pretty much tied for third place):

Thanks for voting folks.  I had fun with this.  And I was sort of surprised at the outcome.

My Friend Jake...

... is selling prints of his illustrations to help with the relief effort in Japan.  More info on his blog.

Lost Monster #1 - The Experiment

A few days back I was inspired by this cool post on this great blog.  And I wanted to do something similar.  So I made this guy:

Now I need to find a good place to hide him.  I really hope he finds a good home and I get the picture back.  If this works then I want to do it again.  (And yes, that is my foot.)

Thanks for the inspiration Isaac, Gracie, Lily, Elijah and Aaron Zenz.  You folks rock (get it?)

Vote for You Favorite PBM Idea 2011

Okay folks, I'm curious to see which of these ideas you liked best.  I added a poll to my blog on the lefthand side.  (If you're reading this in Google Reader you'll have to visit the actual blog to vote.)  If you want to persuade others to your favorite feel free to leave comments to that effect.

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Vote for as many as you like.  And tell your friends.

Need a reminder of your choices?  Here you go:

 Cock-a-Doodle-DON'T

My Great Aunt Fanny's Bottomless Bag

The Groblets Came to Visit

Francis & Maxwell: Brothers in Orbit

Groundhog Quits

Gumball Machine

Lonely Lenny the Valentine's Carrot

Ice Cream Man to the Rescue!

Monkeys Don't Do Math

There's an Ocean in My Bathtub

Purple Space Cows from Quasar Beta Prime

Samantha Who Never Says Anything

Something in the Fridge is Growing!

You Are Sooooooooooooooo BUSTED!

Monsters Love Clothes

Training Wheels for Francis

A Problem Involving a Megalomaniacal Mustache (a Tommy Pugmire story)

We Can Eat 10,000 Cookies!

Who Stole My Lucky Blue Car?

You may have noticed a few choices missing.  I took the liberty of removing the entries that were jokes, or sequels, or things I'm already working on.  These are the real story ideas above.

Picture Book Marathon 2011 - Day 25

One more day to go folks.  Tomorrow I have something special planned for the finale.  Come on back.  It's going to be fun.

Plot Synopsis:

Magic gumball machine.  Kids float.  Yeah.

Picture Book Marathon 2011 - Day 23

I think I'm bending the rules on this one, but technically this isn't a new picture book idea and I didn't write it.  It was actually written by Rick Walton, a buddy of mine.  But I am illustrating it.  So I figured I would use it for the marathon.

I'm still in the planning stages of the book, so these are really just some quick compositional sketches that I colored.

Plot Synopsis:

There is a little girl who is afraid of monsters but she figures that monsters are not very scary if she just calls them bunnies.  Then she races all around the house checking out all of the places that "bunnies" usually hide.  In the closet, under the bed, in the attic, in the basement, etc.

She runs into the backyard and there finds a cute little bunny (a real one.)  She sees it and cries, "Monster!" and runs away.

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It's more involved than that but that is the gist of it.

Look for more info on "I'm Not Afraid of Bunnies" coming soon on this here blog.