Giddy Santa 2019

THIS JUST IN:
It's that time of year when Santa is getting a little too giddy.

That time of year where I play around creating new character versions of Santa.

Inktober 2016: Slow (#23 of 31)

For some reason, I immediately thought of my previous Inktober image for Day11's TRANSPORT when I saw the word for Day23 was SLOW. My thought was to have Elmer the Elf suffer again. This time Elmer has to transport back from the location, he was going to on Day11. (Apparently, there is a return policy on fairy dust.)

A callback cartoon that has Elmer the Elf having another bad day (drawn with brush pen and markers.)

For those wanting to see Elmer's prior cartoon, click here: TRANSPORT

The original pencil sketch for the word SLOW.

Inktober 2016: Tree (#14 of 31)

 . . . catching up on posting for Inktober. This one's for the word TREE on Day 14.

Thinking of trees, I came with several jokes, but couldn't see a good way to execute a cartoon.
For example, I wanted to do a cartoon where a tree is falling in the woods, a setup for the saying, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" In the cartoon, the tree would be screaming for help while all other trees are pointing and laughing. Pretty hard to properly set that joke up . . . So instead . . .

Inktober image #14 for the word TREE

I thought of the old Keebler tree. Growing up there seem to be a new Keebler cartoon commercial every few weeks and the commercials were everywhere. As a child, I always thought the tree was way too small to actually house a factory of baking elves.

What better joke to make than a lame reason why did the elves picked that specific tree?
It was easy to think of a very low brow and immature answer.

Original pencil sketch of Inktober Day 14 TREE

Inktober 2016: Transport (#11 of 31)

Have to catch up on posting the Inktober sketches to the blog, but it's very time-consuming posting to all the social media sites. This cartoon uses one of my favorite characters I have created for a children book concept called, Fwog. It's a funny spin on the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Ugly Duckling, which in my version may be a little too dark for a children's book. Bwahaha!

Day 11 for Inktober - Word of the Day is Transport

You may also want to see the follow-up cartoon to this image that was made several days later for the Inktober keyword: SLOW

Original pencil sketch of Elmer the Elf