Tastes Like Chicken: Hiking

This week's toon inspired by last weekend's events:


Last Saturday, a few of us had planned a hike up Mt Katahdin, but cancelled due to potentially inclement weather (40% chance of rain. FORTY! Flip a coin ten times and 4 times it'll rain... I'm not bitter, I'm just sayin'). So... in lieu of the 12+ mile climb, we got together and made a HUGE breakfast (scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, french toast, blueberry muffins, grits and strawberries.... yes I tried grits. Yes, I tried them willingly). Since it wasn't raining (just some clouds... and nice and cool... which would've been AWFUL climbing conditions) and blue sky was peeking out (again, who wants blue sky when they are climbing a mountain) we decided to do a smaller hike, so we headed out towards Gulf Hagas to see Screw Auger falls:


Long story short, we hiked. And just in case there were any bears, I'm glad Zach was the one who had spent the morning cooking the bacon. The end.



(we didn't see any bears... just a few chipmunks... and a deer)

Brainstorming this week's toon

Wow a post! And so soon!

Kidding aside, thought you might like to see some sketches from last night's TLC brainstorming session. Coming up and creating a toon all in one night is fun(he says, exaggerating... usually I have my idea days in advance). The thing that got me last night was that every idea I came up with, I had that little feeling like "I've seen this somewherebefore!" (I know there isn't really a such thing as an original idea, but I like my toon to be as original as possible). I had it narrowed down to 3 ideas, one of them I didn't think was as strong (Raccoons holding up a bunch of hikers), and the other two I thought might've been done already.... but since I couldn't specifically nail down where I saw it (I have a decent memory) I went ahead with one of them... what did I do? Find out tomorrow. In the meantime, here are those sketches:

This post is gonna be big....

Man! I have dropped the proverbial blogger ball big time! Sorry for the length between posts... things are busy (to be expected right?) First, here are the last three Tastes Like Chicken toons.

This one's inspired by one of my favorite comedians, Demetri Martin:


Here's one based on the theme "Summer Camps":


And this week's! How to guarantee rescue off a desert island:


Last week "Last Comic Standing" premiered. The bad news was I wasn't good enough to be on. The good news was I wasn't bad enough to be on (hopefully... watch me show up on some "Worst of the worst" episode ;) ) I did however recieve about a second of airtime. If you looked hard enough, you could've seen me freezing in line:

If you want to see it, head over to NBC's site and click on Video and watch Part Six of the first one.

Speaking of comedy, Abbracci: Bakery & Espresso Bar is hosting a comedy night on June 30th. I'm planning on trying out some more stuff there (more along the lines of my brewer performance) and I believe Chris Quimby (the guy waving in that LCS pic) will be there too.

On the "More art" side of things, here's a pin-up I've created for Mark Melton's Angeldreams comic. He's hosting a contest and the winner's pic will show up in issue 2! Here's my entry:


I've been experimenting with a different approach, going with a animation "Cel Style". While this image is far from perfect, I do feel like it's a definite improvement, so that's good.

That all for now. I'll try to post a bit more frequently... but I can't promise anything....