Bag it!

A video I sent to my holiday-traveling seven-year-old, filled with seven-year-old humor.

Fotographical Friday: A cartoonist’s ornaments.

Left to right: now-defunct International Museum of Cartoon Art, Wrong Trousers, Alfred E. Neuman, Santa by Thomas Nast…I think.

Thursday is the new Sunday – Wrap it up

Sometimes you (meaning me) write a gag that only has a couple of panels and really should be a daily, but it has so many words that it just has to be a Sunday strip. That’s what happened with the three-months-too-late (or nine-months-too-early) Christmas-themed Sunday that’s rerunning on Gocomics.com today.

I’m pretty sure this is the one and only Sunday appearance of Brittney of the Squirrel Scouts. If you had asked me what color her uniform is before I reviewed the strip to write this, I wouldn’t have had the foggiest. I guess I made it brown cuz of squirrels. (Yep, sounds logical.)

The unseen-until-now drop panel above came from an idea to do a Sunday strip that was just a piece of Bo Nanas wrapping paper. Granted, it was a cop-out and my long suffering editor Amy poo-pooed right away. (I’m not sure I even got to the end of my sentence.)

Thursday is the new Sunday…on Friday

Y’know, it’s Spring Break and I’m the busiest I’ve ever been, thus I’ve been neglecting my bloggin’ chores. So to recap: the Sunday comic that should run in December but is running on a Thursday in March and I’m writing about it on Friday.

I believe this will leave a big hole in the space/time/comics continuum, so watch your step.

The Sunday strip that reran on Gocomics.com yesterday had a concept that I thought was pretty clever…until my editor told me that upside down Christmas trees actually exist. They’re artificial rather than real, but still, it popped my balloon a bit.

In the unseen-until-now drop panel above is an appropriately decorated “tail peek”…if it was three months ago, that is.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

Well, it is over at GoComics.com where the calendar is more of a suggestion than anything else. The next few weeks of strips are my take of “Twas The Night Before Christmas” starring Bo and the surly mall elves.

Speaking of Christmas cards…

About 25 FOBs (Friend Of Bo) took advantage of the free Bo Nanas holiday card, printed it out, folded it in quarters and sent it out to as many people as they wanted to. I’m thinking about making this an annual thing with a new card each year. Collect ’em all!

Ghosts of Christmas Cards Past

I was trucking around the internet and found a bunch of cartoonist Christmas cards on my friend and colleague Tom Heintjes’s Hogan’s Alley*site (hosted on my friend and colleague Daryl Cagle’s site cagle.com), including mine (above). I used this image for a Sunday strip sometime after.

For the last couple of years I’ve used the Bo Christmas art I’ve run on the blog during the holiday season. (Things were so busy this year that we just didn’t get cards done. My wife has suggested sending out Valentines since everyone likes to get them.) I dug through files and found some others that we’ve sent out.

This was the image that we used in 2004 without the type. I’m telling an extraordinaryly bad joke about our recent move and my wife is chiding me about it. (Please notice my rockin’ reindeer sweater.)

This was our card the next year. (My wife is a pianist, BTW.)

* “Hogan’s Alley” is a wonderful magazine about cartooning. I highly recommend it.

It’s beginning to look a lot like… (Part 4)

 

This year, like last, I did special artwork to count down to Christmas for the Gettysburg Times (the only newspaper in the world where Bo Nanas is still printed). I’ll run them every Wednesday until the big day.

It’s beginning to look a lot like… (Part 3)

 

This year, like last, I did special artwork to count down to Christmas for the Gettysburg Times (the only newspaper in the world where Bo Nanas is still printed). I’ll run them every Wednesday until the big day.

It’s beginning to look a lot like… (Part 2)

 

This year, like last, I did special artwork to count down to Christmas for the Gettysburg Times (the only newspaper in the world where Bo Nanas is still printed). I’ll run them every Wednesday until the big day.