Courtesy of the blog Drawn, I came across this excellent short “Time & Again” by Jacques Khouri. It’s so rare that I find sequential art (comics) successfully (and interestingly) incorporated into sequential film (movies) — but this does it beautifully.

It’s filled with melancholy, but whaddya gonna do…artists are nothing if not filled with melancholy. 🙂

time & again from jacques khouri on Vimeo.

Hey! Whoa! Tomorrow!

…Tickets go on sale Tuesday for the 2010 Festival of Cartoon Art at Ohio State. It’s the big, triennial shin-dig in the cartooning world, and I’ll be speaking at this year’s event along with a host of cartoonin’ dignitaries…like Matt Groening (Simpsons), Roz Chast (New Yorker), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), Art Spiegelman (Maus), Dan Piraro (Bizarro) and more.

Tickets are super, super limited, so head over to the registration site on Tuesday if you were hoping to go!

It’s Saturday, which means it’s time for our sci-fi serial, “Drive”!

As a reminder, you can read the full Drive archive in order here!

And, since it looks like we’re headin’ to Nosh’s homeworld, why not read a little refresher on Veeta and Veetans.

Good news! From now until June 1st, there’s free shipping to anywhere in the world on Sheldon Original Art!

New York? Free! London? Free! Deepest Siberia? Free!

As you know, every Sheldon strip is hand-drawn and hand-lettered on acid-free Bristol Vellum paper, using archival inks…so they’re crying out to be displayed on walls. For dramatic purposes, let me use all caps for that: GUYS, THEY’RE CRYING OUT FOR IT. 🙂

Anyway! Underneath every Sheldon strip on the website is a bit of blue text that reads “Buy Today’s Original Art.” So if there’s a strip you’ve had your eye on, that’s the button to click. And when you do: BLAM-O, free shipping.

Looking for a specific strip? Try using the site’s search feature to type in keywords or punchlines from that strip. Or, barring that, drop me an e-mail to ask me directly!

Dan T., who you remember from yesterday’s AMAZINGLY PRODUCED, student FX video of “Drive”, also sent along a big, HD-version of the emperor’s ship, La Invencible.

Check out the much bigger image by CLICKING HERE.

Guys, you have to check this out. Visual FX student Dan Taubert has created this incredible short based on “Drive”. (Here’s a reduced-size embedded player…but watch it full screen if you can, by clicking the four outward-facing arrows on the lower right.)

Dan, this is incredible! …Incredible, incredible! Thank you so much for this. I even love how the Continuum ships are at the Denny’s, as well. Ain’t nobody can resist a little “Moons Over My-Hammy”.

(And for those interested, here’s Dan’s write-up of the process along the way.)

It’s Saturday, which means it’s time for our Saturday Sci-Fi Series: Drive.

The Drive site is still being worked on, but the full archives can be read over in the place-holder site. Swing by over HERE.

Heads up! The sale on Sheldon Book 2: The Good, The Bad & The Pugly ends this Friday, May 21st!

Scoot yer rump over to the Sheldon Store and treat yerself to 33% off.

In light of the recent Twitter toons, I thought I’d post one of my favorite strips from yesteryear…on Facebook.

(Hopefully Arthur will not throw a wet frog at you.)

I should start by thanking everyone who came out and said “hi” in Seattle at The Comic Stop on Monday — Gloria and I had a lot of fun meeting you all. And a big internet high-five to Jim, George, and all The Comic Stop staff for welcoming us there. And if you took pics — and six or seven of you did — send ’em along and I’ll post ’em!

Next, I should mention Twitter…since that’s the topic o’ the day in the strip. And I’ll be honest, here: For all its faults, I’ve become addicted to Twitter.

Facebook, I’ve never really gotten into. I mean, I guess I log in every once in a while…but it’s not really my style. It’s a big elaborate hook just to show me your vacation photos.

But the bare-bones style of Twitter I really respond to: It’s the substance without all the window-dressing.

If you’re a Twitter user, feel free to listen to my blatherings over at
http://www.twitter.com/davekellett.