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For all those Sheldonistas coming out to Long Beach Comic-Con October 2-4, here's the o-fficial Sheldon guide. Click HERE for the full-size, printable file, or click the image below.
I wanted to take a second to encourage you to go see "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs". Not only because it's a fantastic movie, but because my friends Chris and Phil wrote and directed it as their first feature. Their first full-length feature. Their first animated, full-length feature. Their first animated, full-length feature in 3-D.
(I write it that way because each one of those is a massive challenge in-and-of-itself, and these guys tackled them all in one project.)
I've never seen anyone work longer or harder on a single creative project...just shy of six years. Six years of long nights and continuous re-writes and editing rooms and voice casting and co-ordinating over 500 people and studio hassles and all the rest. I remember talking with Chris when he first took the job and thinking "Wow, it won't be out until 2009! That feels like decades away." Such is the nature of animated film...but these guys' enthusiasm was unflagging throughout.
The good news is, it looks like it's going to be the #1 movie this weekend at the box office, which makes me so, so happy for them. They deserve every success that comes their way...they are immensely talented and hard-workin' dudes.
GRAMP: Aw, dangit. I got water all over my shirt.
...be right back. ARTHUR (sitting in swimming pool)
OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)
garden hose
swimming pool
2
ARTHUR (eyebrows hovering, sitting in swimming pool)
OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)
swimming pool
3
GRAMP: There: that's better. ARTHUR (sitting in swimming pool): How is that better? That shirt has a pasta stains all over it.
OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)
swimming pool
4
GRAMP: Well, sure. But you know how it works for dudes. ARTHUR (sitting in swimming pool): NO. Enlighten me. How does it work for dudes.
OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)
swimming pool
5
NARRATOR: HOW IT WORKS FOR DUDES
A stained-but-dry shirt
TRUMPS
A clean-but-uncomfortably-wet shirt
TRUMPS
Any shirt found in a gym locker*
*Theoretically a "clean an dry" shirt trumps everything, but that shirt doesn't exist in the real world. It's more a platonic ideal of "shirt" for dudes.