I went to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators conference in the Great Lake State over the weekend. During the lectures I drew people.
Did this li’l guy for my almost brand new great-nephew. I printed it on some material and had mom sew it together to make a little stuffed bear. It turned out pretty cool. Somebody needs to send me a picture of it.
Yesterday I was thinking about this dinosaur movie I’d seen when I was a kid. This was back in the days of stop motion animation and men in rubber suits. Long before computer generated thunder lizards. I couldn’t remember the name of the film, I just knew it was about four boys who travel in a boat down a tunnel and come out the other side into the past. So that’s what I Googled.

What I’d seen at a Saturday matinee was called Journey to the Beginning of Time. What I didn’t know back then was that it had originally been a Czech film dubbed into English with a different beginning and end tacked on.
This is the version I saw. There’s some pretty good stop motion prehistoric beasts in there, but men in rubber suits make an appearance too. You can find the Czech version here!
Ellie, along with her fellow Spacedock 7 compadres, had a nice write up at the home of geek culture, Geeks Unleashed! Go and check out all the nice things they said about us!
One of my favorite comic strips ended yesterday. So in honor of Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac, I drew Petey reading his favorite comic.








