A Skipped Day at the Very End? How Could You?

Sorry gang, no cartoon today. But I think you'll enjoy the reason. Tonight I finished all 120 sketch pages of the secret project I hinted at a while back. I've been working on it for roughly the same amount of time I've been doing the Sgt. Snookums story, at a pace of about four pages a day.

I can tell you a little about it, it's a non-fiction graphic novel, based on U.S. History. If you guessed Lewis and Clark, you were right. Although, this one isn't Lewis and Clark, it is a different historical event. I got this project on the strength of my "Bottle of Thunder" story, so I have L and C to thank, but the 120 pages I just sketched didn't involve them. This book won't come out until 2012, but, there will be two of them at launch. That's right, it's a series!

So if you can imagine true stories from history, told in the goofy, "Bottle of Thunder" style, 120 pages each, you'll have a pretty good idea of what I'm doing right now. It's been very exciting, I'm buried under U.S. History research and having a lot of fun!

I'll post more info in the future. But I don't want to dwell too much on it while I'm still deep in the process. Plus, I don't want to hype something that is still TWO YEARS AWAY.

Back tomorrow.

Sgt. Snookums: Patrol Cat part 34

Sgt. Snookums: Patrol Cat part 33

I thought I could finish Sgt. Snookums this week, but it looks like I'll need at least two more days to wrap this story up. So we aren't finished yet...

See you next week!

Sgt. Snookums: Patrol Cat part 32

Sgt. Snookums: Patrol Cat part 31

Sgt. Snookums: Patrol Cat part 30

Sgt. Snookums: Patrol Cat part 29

Happy October everyone! There's one week left in the Sgt. Snookums story, then we'll move into the October material.

If you remember, last Halloween, I had special guest/RAPUNZEL author Dean Hale in a scary Yellowbelly interview (so scary!) I thought maybe I'd have Dean come back this year--but Dean became the father of twins yesterday! Congratulations Shannon and Dean! Double babies, all the way! I vote their names should be Jack and Rapunzel even though they are both girls.

I will have another October guest, though, Rick Walton (author of 6,000 stories, including our own DINO JOKES blog sequence) will be writing two Halloween picture book parodies (also twins?) which I'll be illustrating and posting here. Stay tuned.