TAGS Apr. 5 & 6, 1993

Featuring: Edie (red squirrel) and Carolyn (Raccoon).

With their offerings of seasonal work shifts, themed amusement parks are generally known to be the employers of eager young students. Sometimes academic and work commitments clash. Write joke here.

Although presented here with as a female stereotype, many male college freshmen too find themselves sucked into the occasional daytime drama between classes.

Oh, Crazy Chicken, Why Are You So Tasty?

Atlanta, GA finally gets El Pollo Loco!
Technically there aren't any in "Atlanta", but at least 5 in the area: Chamblee, Lithia Springs, Lithonia, Marietta and Roswell.

Unfortunately, these are all OTP (Outside The Perimeter). If you drew circle, Atlanta would be the area inside the circle, the circle would be the 285 highway designating the "perimeter", and outside the circle would be all the various suburban communities.

Is 6 miles too far out of the way to get delicious flame-grilled chicken marinated in savory lime and spices? I got the greasy bag didn't I?

120 [m ] - Rescue Recess

a) Ben, b) 2 Blooregard poses, c) Jake, d) Tamika
All pencil on copier paper

An adjunct or supplement to the Get Animated program, is the Rescuing Recess campaign which is in response to the loss of recess time in some schools' curriculum due to budget cuts. The icon for this has been a red playground ball - conspicuously adorned with telltale logos of course.

The refresh of the visuals consisted of character silhouettes and more balls. Here are Ben (Ben 10), Blooregard Q. Kazoo (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends), Jake Spidermonkey (My Gym Partner's a Monkey), and Tamika (Class of 3000).

120 [m ] Getting Animated

a) Ben on bike: Pencil with digital color
b) 2 poster concepts: pencil and ink with digital color

Cartoon Network's campaign to get kids up and active, Get Animated, gets refreshed every year with new characters and design. For 2007, Ben 10 was added in the form of original art of Ben on a mountain bike. The final art was handled by Darren Hunt.

Here as a couple of unused poster concepts. The Get Animated poster would be used as advertising space announcing the touring carnival of fitness activities. It would also serves as the design basis for all associated materials like mailing labels and premiums.

120 [m ] Fall Guy, pt. 1

Red and blue pencil of copier paper.

Together with designer Matt Crouch, writer Clint Carruth and illustrator Darren Hunt I worked on six conceptual drawings for the FusionFall page/month of the 2008 Cartoon Network calendar.

FusionFall is or will be a Massive Multi-player Online Game (MMOG) kind of like, as it's been described to me, World of Warcraft and City of Heroes. Players will create an avatar that interacts with alternate-reality, Manga-styled versions of Cartoon Network characters.

The calendar page would be in the style of a Russian propaganda poster. I also wanted to have something catchy reminiscent of WWII U.S. propaganda posters - like "Loose Lips Sink Ships." In all of the drawings, there is a play on the idea that there are things in the game, "Fusions", which should be avoided.

We proceeded with the bottom design of the three presented here with the line-up of large characters at the bottom.

Maybe I'll post the final image when the game officially launches.

120 [m ] Fall Guy, pt. 2

Red and blue pencil on copier paper.

Three more concepts.

120 [m ] Month of Ben

Color pencil on copier paper placed in template.

Every year as long as I've worked at Cartoon Network, my group has assembled a calendar. 12+ pages of cartoon inspired wackiness... more or less.

Above are three conceptual drawings for the Ben 10, Alien Force page/month. The third is heavily inspired by a poster for Escape from Witch Mountain, an visual inspiration sited by show producer, Glen Murakami.

The second design was chosen and finished by Brian McGee and Matthew Crouch.

120 [m ] aarrgh

Pencil on copier paper.

You know what? I don't remember what this job was about.

Plainly, I had designed a couple of caricatures in pirate garb in the style of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. And to fill out the line up Blooregard as a buccaneer captain.

Supa Zuda Girl

Supergirl © DC Comics

Here is a second Zuda postcard I sent in that got posted. It's page 267. The reason it only fills half the box is because it's been turned 90-degrees from how it was drawn and reduced.

It has recieved one favorable comment as of this writing.

Curiously, you can zoom in quite a bit on the images. Oooh paper grain and ink bleed!

I doubt my third postcard will get posted, as it is of Marvel characters, Kitty Pryde and Lockheed.

Wonder Girl

"Tire Swing" Tufgrl © Bryan Mon

Here's some thing I drew, that can be found on zuda comics.com.

When I did attend Wonder-Con in San Francisco February of this year, DC Comics as part of their marketing of their new online comic community site, Zuda Comics, had blank postcards upon which folks could write and draw. Most postcards returned to Zuda get scanned and posted on the web site. With posts beginning in November 2007, Zuda apparently started this at a fall 2007 comic convention; San Diego or Heroes Con perhaps.

This image above I drew and sent back in the mail. It only just got posted in April.

If you are interested in what else is posted, then you can "explore comics".
This is image/page 263.