Here you’ll find an exploration on how to make a living, by being creative. This blog gives you a little bit of a window into the day in the life of a Simpsons artist, who’s doing his own art on the side. You’ll also get an insight into what goes on in an artist’s brain. As well, as how he tries to improve his skills and his way of life with his creativity.
He also draws things that will hopefully make you laugh, or at the very least, crack a smile.
I’m a Storyboard artist on The Simpsons TV show and The Simpsons Movie. I drew Simpsons comics, on the side, for Bongo Comics for 12 years as well. Author of The Art of Draw Fu: Beginners Level. I live in California with my wife, daughter and four sons who I love very much. I’m Roman Catholic and I was born in El Salvador.
Focus Group Guy: [after showing the kids some Itchy & Scratchy cartoons] Okay, how many of the kids would like Itchy & Scratchy to deal with real life problems like the ones you face every day?
[the kids cheer]
Focus Group Guy: And who would like to see them do just the opposite, getting into far-out situations involving robots and magic powers.
[the kid kids cheer again]
Focus Group Guy: So you want a realistic down-to-earth show that’s completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?
[the kids all chat at once about it being a great idea]
So one of the greatest animation directors on the planet is Japanese and his name is Hayao Miyazaki. Today I’m going to give you my top ten Miyazaki movies.
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Intro
I got exposed to Miyazaki while working on The Simpsons. Hayao Miyazaki is said to be the Walt Disney of Japan, and he’s made movies like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, things like that. That’s kind of how some people know him for, those three movies, because now his movies are being distributed by Disney.
So I decided to make a list of my top ten Miyazaki movies. So, let’s begin.
10. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Now this is not the video, this is actually the manga, and the reason I’m bringing up the manga is because the manga is actually a bazillion times better than the animated cartoon.
The manga was actually written and drawn by Hayao Miyazaki. It is epic, and there’s like, I think of this volume, of these I think there’s like three or four, something like that.
The movie itself, the actual animated movie, it’s not my favorite. It’s okay. The manga is much better, if you want the full story, this is much better.
Nausicaa the movie felt like it was, like, act one. And it really does show you that it is act one if you read this manga series, but as an introduction to Miyazaki I don’t mind it.
It’s a little bit too dire, I don’t know, there’s something about the way it feels, but that’s why it’s on my number ten. I still like it a lot but I’d rather read the manga than watch the movie over and over.
Princess Mononoke, it’s Miyazaki doing like a PG-thirteen animated movie. Most of his movies tend to be very family friendly. Princess Mononoke is not family friendly.
There’s a lot of gore and it’s very adult, but it deals with really adult themes, and as far as adult I mean mature, not immature adult themes, you know what I’m talking about, when people say “adult” you think of the most immature high school kind of pornographic stuff, which I find ironic.
It’s a very mature theme about humanity’s desire to be industrious and nature’s desire to not be destroyed by human industry and the war between these two ideas that are both good in and of themselves, but come into conflict when one suffers because of another. And it’s a beautiful, beautiful movie.
So that’s my number nine, if you haven’t seen it, Princess Mononoke, you should watch it.
Now The Secret World of Arrietty is one of the newer Miyazaki movies. It’s based on The Borrowers and it’s fantastic.
It should go without saying that every single one of Miyazaki’s movies are drop dead beautiful. The backgrounds are always incredible in every single Miyazaki movie. Arrietty is no exception.
The thing that I like the most about Arrietty, besides the story, the story is really great, but I liked the feeling of being small, like these little people that live under this house, and the perils of everyday life living and being that tiny. Just to get a drink of water, it was really great, because you can see that it was a drop.
Unlike any other, like, Disney or even Bluth animated movies where you’re talking about something small, this one actually felt like it was small.
It wasn’t, like, a reinterpretation of the big making it look tiny and then there’s this big dolly ride or something. No, this was actually, the water, the way it looked, the props that they used, there was nobody walking around with swords, it was needles and things like that that would actually be stuff that you would actually use. I really enjoyed that sense.
So, highly recommend TheSecret World of Arrietty.
7. My Neighbor Totoro
I saw the Japanese version with subtitles the first time I saw it, and then eventually Fox started distributing it.
Beautiful family movie about two little girls living in the mountains in Japan, something like that, where they meet the spirit of the forest by the name of Totoro who looks like a big, gigantic, fluffy rabbit, but he’s ginormous.
It’s great, this movie influenced Avatar: The Last Airbender, because you’ve got the cat bus, the cat bus has multiple legs, and then suddenly in Avatar: The Last Airbender, you’ve got the buffalo, the air buffalo who also have the exact same legs, same everything.
It’s a beautiful little movie, very dramatic, heart wrenching. It makes you feel like a little kid, and that’s the best part about some of Miyazaki’s stuff, it’s just very observational, stories are very true to life, and you just feel for these characters.
No singing, no dancing, none of that stuff, and it’s not very formulaic, yet this works. Very magical. My Neighbor Totoro, fantastic movie.
Porco Rosso is the very strange story about a man who became a pig, and he’s a World War I pilot. But he has a pig face because of a curse, or I forgot, but it’s just something that he kind of did to himself.
It deals with really mature themes that are not necessarily little kid friendly, but when you watch it, and I mean, you sit down and you look at the art and the imagination and the locations, and as strange as it is, it also has this very comical story about this stuff, and it’s so, so great, so fantastic.
I love Porco Rosso. It was one of my least favorite, it was one of the ones that I was like, meh, take it or leave it, until I saw it just recently, like seven months ago, six months ago, I re-watched it again, and my jaw was on the floor.
It was so good. I must have matured, I must have finally gotten to the point where it’s like, oh, now I get this movie, it’s fantastic, oh my gosh, and the art and the airplanes, and they’re all hand drawn. And it’s just so good.
Watch Porco Rosso, it’s so good. I can’t recommend it enough.
This one was distributed by Disney. Story about a girl who turns into an old woman, and ends up in this magical castle that walks around on legs.
Yeah, totally crazy, kind of Baba Yaga-ish looking castle. It’s good. There’s something about the magic in this, I like the whole idea where the wizard, Howl, has this raven king kind of thing, he’s a wizard, and he’s got this raven motif which is a lot like the raven king, kind of.
If you’re into fairy tales and you understand about the raven and all that sort of stuff. So, yeah, highly recommend it, I don’t know, it’s a beautiful thing, it’s a beautiful movie.
The castle’s fantastic, it’s a little quirky at the end, it has a really bizarre ending, and it’s open to interpretation. It’s worth watching. I liked it a lot. Howl’s Moving Castle.
Okay, so this is Miyazaki’s first feature animated movie. Lupin was a character created by Monkey Punch. He’s a manga character, he’s a thief, he’s always getting chased by Inspector Zenigata.
One of the very first things in this movie is a ridiculous car chase where he’s chasing this girl being chased by gangsters. One of the best car chases on film. It’s just crazy awesome, all hand drawn, the cars are all hand drawn.
You’ve got to understand that this is exciting cinematic car chasing in an animated cartoon with hand drawn cars.It’s awesome.
Then after that it just gets wilder and crazy and it’s just fantastic, it’s just, you know, Indiana Jones-ish kind of action adventure, packed with the guy who has to save the princess. It’s great, and I love, love, love this movie. My number four, Lupin the Third: Castle of Cagliostro.
This fell down quite a bit. This was my number one movie for a very long time. This was one of the first Miyazaki movies I was ever exposed to and I was kind of blown away by it.
Indiana Jones action adventure style stuff, just like Cagliostro in a completely different way because this is actually looking for archaeological, you know, mythological place.
It’s an island that floats in the sky that supposedly hold treasure and everybody’s after it, and these two kids are the key to finding it. Specifically, this little girl. And it’s exciting, exciting, exciting.
You’ve got airships and sky pirates and evil, corrupt governments and it’s very Indiana Jones-ish. So I highly recommend this one, Island in the Sky.
The reason I like this, I’m really into fairy tales, I really like the motifs of fairy tales and this is very, very, very much a fairy tale.
Starting off with going into the fairy tale universe, and knowing the rule of not eating the food in there because usually when you eat the food in fairy you end up becoming a prisoner in fairy, and then things go bad for you. Well, this is very much like that.
It’s a little bit Alice in Wonderland-ish, it’s a little bit of stepping into fairy and having to deal with all these fairy spirits and how to survive in fairy land, but it’s a very Japanese fairy land. I mean you’ve got witches that are very, very reminiscent of Slavic witches, like Baba Yaga, and it’s good, it’s fantastic.
This girl has to survive in a fairy tale land. She goes in a little girl and comes out a mature young woman. And it’s great, it’s great.
Kind of creepy, but fantastic. My number two is Spirited Away.
1. Kiki’s Delivery Service
This is the strangest one out of all of these. My personal taste is strange.
Kiki’s Delivery Service is about a little witch that has to become independent on her own. She turned fifteen, and apparently in her culture, once you turn fifteen you go out on your own and you build a life for yourself somewhere by yourself.
If you’ve watched Spider-man 2, they ripped off this story.
She has to kind of find herself, she kind of loses herself, and there’s even a section where she meets an artist in this movie where my friend, my Japanese friend, told me that he believes that Miyazaki put his own voice in the conversation that Kiki has with her friend the artist, and it’s a conversation about art, and it helps Kiki with her problem at the time.
You also have got Gigi, the best cat ever. This is the Disney version, isn’t it, yeah, the Buena Vista distributed one.
The translation, the dubbed version of this, is awful. AWFUL!
Phil Hartman does the voice. Now, Phil Hartman, you know, great actor, tragic death, BUT should not have been given the voice of Gigi. If possible watch the subtitled version because they kind of kill this movie with the dub version. I really didn’t like it.
I watched it without subtitles for the first time in Japanese, and then I watched it with subtitles, and I loved it, and then I watched the dubbed version and I was like, this is awful. What happened to Gigi, my favorite character in the movie, the little cute, super black, little cute cat that you just want to squish it because it’s such a cute cat.
I highly recommend Kiki’s Delivery Service. That’s my number one.
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So what do you think? Have you watched any of these movies? I bet you haven’t.
I highly recommend these movies. Hayao Miyazaki is by far one of the best animation directors on the planet.
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If you’ve seen these movies I’d like to know what you think about it, and if you haven’t and you start watching them, let me know what you think. Leave a comment.
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When I was getting into the animation industry and trying to become an animator, I really, really enjoyed watching and studying Disney movies. Today, I’m going to talk to you about my top ten Disney movies.
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Studying Disney Movies
I couldn’t get enough of Disney movies, once upon a time. I say once upon a time because, now, I’ve studied them, I love them, they’re fantastic, but my tastes have changed so much.
I don’t mind family movies. I love family movies. I have four kids. Four kids, okay? We watch a lot of family movies. I love having something to watch with them.
But, as a work of art, for me – look, as an animator, watching Disney movies, I watch them in a very different way. I don’t watch them just purely for entertainment purposes. I watch them for a lot of different things.
Disney movies, I love to watch, because they’re always, always, always technically beautiful and fantastic. But, they tend to be very samey. If there’s a critique from me about them is that, at least lately, they’ve been very samey. They took more risks early on.
So, here’s my top ten:
10. Tarzan
Tarzan, my Number Ten. Why?
I don’t like the comedic sidekick. That stuff always bugs me, and the stuff with the comedic sidekicks in here really, really bug me. Like, really.
But the reason it’s my Number Ten is because Tarzan‘s awesome! And there’s action, adventure, and excitement. And there’s just fighting, and it’s Tarzan! It’s Tarzan.
Seeing him go through the jungle and the way that Tarzan’s drawn and animated, and the characters are great. And the foliage and the background, the way it’s painted on there. There’s just a lot of great stuff.
It’s exciting. I do enjoy this movie, and, you know, Glen Keane, what can you say? He’s the lead animator on Tarzan.
Fantastic movie. It’s a lot of fun. My Number Ten is Tarzan.
Now, Snow White was the first movie. It still holds up. It is beautiful. The animation is beautiful. It just works. And it works, and it works.
There’s a reason why this sucker is a classic.
So, my Number Nine is Snow White.
8. Fantasia
I’m going to cheat. I’m going to say Fantasia, and Fantasia 2000.
A masterpiece in just pure animation. The music is great. It’s hard to beat what an incredible work of art this is.
I sure did not appreciate this for a very long time, growing up. It wasn’t until after I got older and understood animation, and all those other things, that I really, really started opening up to this movie.
My Number Eight is Fantasia.
7. Little Mermaid
Little Mermaid: beautiful music, it’s responsible for the new renaissance of Disney animation.
Great. Fun. Very exciting. Classic. Disney formula stuff.Great movie.
Little Mermaid, my Number Seven.
6. Bambi
Incredible animation, again. Water colors are fantastic in this thing.
It’s an amazing movie. Highly influential movie, too.
Bambi is my Number Six.
5. Aladdin
I remember when this came out. It was senior ditch day, and I ditched school to go watch Aladdin.
So, I was in there by myself, freezing, while watching Aladdin. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed this movie. I laughed, I cried.
Great designs. Glen Keane animating Aladdin. It was very influential on me with that crazy mouth, that, you know, with the teeth, that Glen Keane tends to do a whole lot. And then you just try to copy it as an animator, and it looks like a copy instead of something that is you know, sort of looking like real life like you’re supposed to.
I really enjoyed Aladdin. Arabian nights, fantasy. That’s, that stuff was you know, right up my alley.
I really like the Peter Pan story. The Disney version is a fantastic telling of the story.
This is such an incredibly well animated movie. It has a great sense of magic and fun.
The character designs are fantastic. How can you not like Tinkerbell, such cute girl design.
Captain Hook is so fun to watch. His acting is dead on.
Not the most Native American politically correct movie, it makes the movie unusually funny. I love watching this movie. It make me feel like a kid when I watch it.
Pinocchio is, hands down, one of the greatest animated masterpieces ever. The Monstro whale sequence is mind-blowing. The acting, the animation. It’s creepy as heck.
When I was growing up, I hated, hated this movie. I didn’t want anything to do with this movie. This movie creeped me out.
Nowadays, when I watch this movie, I’m just in awe of how incredibly beautiful and well-animated – the story’s dark.
It’s – oh my gosh, it’s so good. Monstro the whale, like I said, is incredible. I can go on. I’m not going to.
2. Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast, what can I say? There is a reason why it won the Oscar for Best Picture. It’s fantastic.
Unfortunately, if you watch the animation now, you can see the flaws in the animation. Well, I can anyway.
Like, I can see when the animators changed, and there’s just some wonky drawings of the Beast in here, and all kinds of stuff.
Like, I can’t un-see the errors in the movie. In spite of being able to see that with my crazy animation eyes, this is a fantastic movie. It still holds up.
I hate the fact that they added an extra song. It kind of slows down the movie and messes up the pace, but, overall, it’s a fantastic movie. It still holds up, and it’s great.
1. Sleeping Beauty
Why? Because it is, hands down, the most beautiful animated Disney movie that’s ever been done.
If you know anything about animation, first of all, the backgrounds. The backgrounds are works of art, just the backgrounds themselves. This is just worth watching, just because of the backgrounds.
Okay. But then, on top of that, it’s a masterpiece of animation, and the designs of the characters are really graphic.
On top of that, the fact that the ink and paint department, which was an actual ink and paint department, it hand-inked every single line, so that it had a different color. So, like, if you looked at the colors – like, they do that now digitally, but they had to do it by hand on cells when they did this movie.
Okay. So when you look at, you know, Aurora’s hair, and it’s a yellow, and it has a yellow self in line on it, and then it’s painted yellow on top of that, somebody had to hand, with a brush, ink that hair – you’ve got to understand, it’s about twenty-four frames per second, which means the drawing has to be exposed for one or two frames at a time for the animation to work.
Insane that it was all hand-inked, every single one of those drawings. Okay. That alone is incredible.
All right, but, then, on top of that, it’s got the greatest Disney villain in it.
Maleficent, giving nightmares to little kids since 19-whatever, 40 or whenever this movie was made.
My sister, when she was little, she had the record of Sleeping Beauty, and she never listened to the second side where Maleficent showed up because it scared the crud out of her. She turned into a dragon. It’s awesome, an awesome-looking dragon.
Like, it’s – come on. Number One, the best Disney animated movie. At least, according to my personal taste.
What Say You?
What do you think? Am I crazy? Let me know. Let me know what you would have picked as your number, as your ten top favorite Disney animated movies.
I had fun doing this list.
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Then, I heard that they were going to make an animated TV show. I was like, that’s cool, I hope it looks like the Genndy shorts because that would be awesome! And if they just do it like this, it’ll be like the best animated cartoon ever.
Well, they didn’t do it like this. They ended up going CG. I mean, I was kind of disappointed because I really, really enjoy the Genndy animated Clone Wars cartoon.
My Personal Background with Dave Faloni
One of the King of the Hill alums, Dave Filoni, ended up getting hired for it and it’s really interesting because we knew him at Film Roman because King of the Hill was produced at Film Roman, which is the studio that I work for on The Simpsons, and we were basically in the same building.
I kind of knew Dave because he was a real good friend of my father, who was a background designer on King of the Hill. And, during the Halloween parties at work, he almost always did some kind of Star Wars thing, or something really elaborate with Star Wars, or something else.
But he was known to be this incredible Star Wars nerd and suddenly he is actually helping produce this show, so it’s like, that’s really interesting.
The Pilot Episode is Weak
I’m sad to say that the pilot episode which was released theatrically, I think, was pretty lousy for this is a taste of what’s coming up and how, and this TV show’s going to be awesome because of this! And then you watch this movie and it’s like *SAD TRUMPET SOUND*, you know. It’s like it wasn’t all that good.
Genndy Clone Wars vs. Filoni Clone Wars
It was CG. It kind of looks a little bit like the Genndy’s designs, but the Genndy designs were much more pushed and I like them more. The designs in this CG version were a little disappointing after watching the Genndy thing.
I keep comparing the two, and I really shouldn’t because they’re two different styles and things like that. But – I don’t know why, but I just keep going back to the Genndy, because I guess that’s my first exposure to this style.
They did push the characters, and I think that’s one of the best things about this show is how pushed and unrealistic-looking they look. It’s very caricatured, very cartoony, and that’s one of the things that I liked.
So, I watched this movie and I wasn’t impressed with the story. And, I was like well, meh, okay, but let me give it a chance because I like Star Wars and I need my Star Wars fix, right? So, I started watching the actual series.
Okay, so there’s five seasons, I’ve only watched four out the five as of the time of this recording. After watching what I’ve watched, I have to admit, I got sold.
After I watched the first season, I was like, that was really cool. Like, they had some really, really good, interesting stories in there. So, I got the second season. The second season was even better. And, the third season was even better.
The Style of the Show
They just keep building on these things, and they just keep doing all these things that I just find fascinating, and it’s incredible. Now, not every show is a hit. It’s really inconsistent as far as story arcs.
They attempt to have like three- or four-episode story arcs, where it’s just, they’re in a planet and something’s happening, and so it’s thirty minutes per episode. And by the time you watch three episodes, you kind of get like, almost like a mini-movie. And there’s like an arc, and then they just change an environment, and then something else happens for a couple of episodes, and then that’s the end of that.
I find that very cool. I like that style of storytelling. They explore the characters more. It’s amazing what they can come up with as far as stories because this is supposed to take place between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, and they fill it up with all kinds of really fantastic stories.
Unfortunately almost always, any time Jar-Jar shows up in the cartoon, it’s gonna be a pretty lousy series of episodes.
There’s some drop-dead fantastic stories. There’s one that – if you’re a fan of Dune, they totally play with the Bene Gesserit kind of thing and the Water of Life, and all that stuff, and I think that’s great.
Did you Watch This?
If you’re a Star Wars fan, you’re already watching this. I don’t even have to sell the idea of watching these cartoons, but if you are iffy about wanting to watch it or not wanting to watch it or not knowing if these things are any good, yeah. If your like that guy, you’ve got to watch the cartoon.
It’s a lot of fun. It’s a type of animated cartoon I wish they’d do more of. I like the dramatic action-adventure-type cartoons. And this is the stuff that I get drawn into more, especially because, you know, it’s arguably science fiction, it’s more like science fantasy. It’s a lot of fun.
I highly recommend it. There’s some stuff in it that’s just like, that is so good, you say, “Oh my gosh, that’s cool.”
So, let me know, have you watched this whole series? I know that’s something awesome happens in season five with one of the characters, and I’m dying to go find out what happens. I’m rushing through to watch it all so I can watch the fifth season.
Have you seen the show, do you like it? Let me know. If you haven’t seen it, would you be willing to? And why haven’t you watched it? I’d like to know actually if you haven’t seen the show, and what’s keeping you from watching it. That’ll be a really interesting conversation.
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So, more action-adventure cartoons from me, what a surprise! All right, so today I’m going to be talking about Star Wars: Clone Wars animated 2D directed by Genndy.
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What is This?
I like these. My kids love these! This is the original Clone Wars animated cartoon. It’s all 2D. It was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. Originally they were just webisodes on Cartoon Network.
And, by the way, Genndy was the director of Hotel Transylvania and the creator of Samurai Jack. So – but he’s directed quite a few things, and one of the things he directed was this.
The art, the designs for these cartoons are incredible.
The first series of web episodes, they were just flashy. You got to see the Jedi do stuff that you only dreamed – let me put it this way, the movies didn’t quite capture how awesome Jedi were in this cartoon.
But these, they’re really dramatic, and it’s really exciting, and I love the designs, and it’s really flat. This is what 2D animation can do, and how exciting it can be, and it’s fantastic. It really is a great, great cartoon.
The Second Series
Then, they were able to do another set of web episodes when the – I’m not sure when, after Attack of the Clones? The first ones where done before the Attack of the Clones live action movie came out, and the second one was after the Clonesmovie came out.
It turned out that this is just a fantastic animated cartoon, and, again, fantastic artwork. The action is incredible. I can’t recommend these cartoons enough.
My Kid’s Reactions to These Cartoons
My wife sets up movie nights for my kids, right? So, they tend to pick stuff to watch and, very often, one of my sons picks this series to watch.
To them, this is Star Wars. They don’t watch the live action, they don’t watch any of the cartoons, they don’t watch anything. But this, this, to them, is Star Wars. It’s really interesting.
Star Wars fans you’ve probably seen this already. You probably own this already. If you don’t own it, you’re missing out. This is really, really, fantastic. This is what Star Wars should have been, right, at least the first movies?
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Today, I’m going to be talking about this other action-adventure cartoon, one that is actually more martial arts based, it is incredible, and that would be Avatar: The Legend of Korra – Book One: Air, from Nickelodeon first season.
I talk about this in the video below. You can either watch it or you can read the transcription under it (which has pictures and I embedded a trailer so you can see what the show looks like down there):
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My History With the Avatar Series
I didn’t watch Avatar: The Last Airbender. I’ve heard it’s fantastic. I’ve watched half the first season. I don’t know what it is. I’ll watch it, I’ll eventually get through it, but there was something about the quirkiness of the comedy with what seemed to me, was really trying really hard to rip off Miyazaki, and I don’t know what it was, it just didn’t strike me, so I didn’t follow it.
I’ve heard really great things, and I’ve been watching the show, and I think it’s fine.
It doesn’t blow me away, I haven’t gotten to the good parts, apparently, but I’ll eventually keep watching it. I’m kind of upset that Netflix no longer has it streaming, because that’s the way I started watching it, but it’s in my queue.
Do You Need To Watch the First Series to Enjoy This One?
That said, I just went on and just straight up started watching The Legend of Korra. Not having seen the entire run of the first incarnation of The Last Airbender, I can tell you right now that you do not need to watch Airbender to enjoy this show.
You kind of understand that a lot of this other stuff happened in the past, and you kind of know that it’s in another show, so you don’t have to worry about it, you can watch it on your own time and find out the back story of some of the characters. You do not need to watch the whole thing. I think it just makes it better if you have.
Why Watch Korra?
That said, this series is incredible. The art, the draftsmanship for the characters in this cartoon, is fantastic. The designs are great.
They’re very influenced by Japanese cartoons and animation. These are actually very, very attractive, very beautifully, well-drawn characters.
It takes place years, after the Avatarseries. It takes place in a 1920s-type environment where there’s cars and machines, but then you’ve got all these incredible martial arts, fantastic fight scenes.
The story of the show, Korra being the new Avatar who can control all the elements, as opposed to all the other martial artists in the world that could only control one. It’s about her going into a new environment and having to deal with being in a new city, and the build-up and the tension and the drama starts up fast, and it doesn’t let up.
This is how they ought to make action-adventure TV shows more. This is how it’s done.
This story beats Young Justice because it’s a little bit more concentrated and a little bit more cohesive than Young Justice, who tended to be just a touch episodic.
This is rock solid. I don’t think there’s one bad episode in this series. If you haven’t seen it, if you like things like Kung Fu Panda or anything that’s even remotely action-adventure, martial arts, if you’re into kung fu, if you’re into good, high drama, fantasy, exciting shows, this is really the show for you to watch.
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Have You Seen Legend of Korra
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“Damn that Pennybags. Between him and Scrooge McDuck all the best ankle is taken.” ~ Mr. Burns
So, growing up in the late ’80s, early ’90s, there was one cartoon that I used to watch all the time because I couldn’t get enough of it, even in reruns, and that cartoon was DuckTales.
I talk about this in the video below. You can either watch it or you can read the transcription below (it has pictures and I embedded the opening credit down there):
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Now, it’s really interesting, because, DuckTales is loosely based on Carl Barks’ Scrooge McDuck comics from the 1940s, and, when they started animating DuckTales,at first, it really caught my eye because it was Indiana Jones-ish kind of adventures, but with the Disney duck.
That’s pretty much the way the comic was, except this was a slightly changed adaptation of those cartoons.
I picked up a copy of the DVD box set a year ago, maybe, just because I had fond memories.
I didn’t like the second season, what was it, I don’t know if there was a second season or if it was a third. I’m not quite sure. I know that there was a run, which is this what I own. It’s the DuckTales run I like the most.
There was a second run of the show that was actually of lesser quality.
What I Think of the Show Now
Once I picked the DVD set up, and I started watching them with my kids, I discovered they hold up so well, and they’re so well-animated and so well-written, and it’s amazing how good this show is, and it’s still fantastic.
You’ve got stuff, they riff on 1,001 Arabian Nights, they go, they fight Vikings, there’s magic in it, they go into outer space, it’s just like – it’s fantastic adventures, there are superheroes in it, I mean. It’s amazing how well-written, and how much fun this show is packed with. I’m blown away.
If you’ve got kids, or even if you don’t have kids, and if you want a really cool action-adventure, fun, family-friendly, exciting, funny cartoon to watch that isn’t the norm, I don’t think there’s anything that even comes close to matching a cartoon like this now. Adventure Time,sort of, you know, I don’t know.
This is fantastic, I mean, high quality, it still holds up, it’s really fantastic.
If you haven’t seen this, you owe it to yourself to see it, and if you have seen this, you owe it to yourself to re-watch them because they’re that good.
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Are There Any Psychological Benefits to Drawing?
There are certainly benefits to using the creative arts to express oneself. It can be used as an outlet for stress for example, which many people can find therapeutic and ultimately beneficial to their well being. Drawing is a great method of communication, and is something that anyone can do to express themselves, as everyone can be creative in some form or another and therefore hopefully find at least some small benefit from it. On the other hand, for people who enjoy drawing as a hobby or job, the benefits could be huge, with improved levels of happiness from doing something you take pleasure in, reduced stress levels, feelings of achievement and many other positive psychological effects.
Drawing with Children
Drawing is particularly good for children or simply those who don’t feel confident or completely comfortable with expressing themselves through a purely verbal means of communication. Young children generally lack the ability to articulate every specific thing they would like to say, and this can be very frustrating for them, so for them, drawing is a way of putting their thoughts, feelings and ideas across to adults. Drawing can also stimulate brain development in young children, as the process and techniques used in making diligent observations can help to encourage an eye for detail and an improved memory as well as improving handwriting and general dexterity. The importance of having art subjects on school curriculums is justified by the visual imagery links that some people find vital to the understanding of other subjects on the curriculum, for instance with subjects such as math and geography, which may require a certain capacity and understanding of visual imagery.
Drawing for Adults
Psychological benefits from drawing for adults could be substantial to the point where it affects a persons day to day living. By drawing out your thoughts and ideas, and letting your imagination loose on paper in a tangible form, you might find yourself releasing some inner tension that you were previously unaware of or you might just find the experience relaxing and refreshing, a sort of catharsis that allows you to restructure your mind and think more clearly. This could then lead you onto solving a problem that you had previously not been able to find a solution to without the therapeutic nature of drawing. Drawing ideas down on paper can also help you share your thoughts and feelings with other people that you might find very difficult to express verbally or otherwise. Self-exploration through drawing could lead you to some insightful conclusions about yourself, as well as improving your mental, physical and emotional wellbeing.
Art and Therapy
Art can be a very effective tool in the treatment of mental health disorders, because the expression it can provide helps people communicate with each other with ultimate emotional freedom, helping them to alleviate stress and help them explore different areas of their creativity. As a result of this, patients may then find that they are able to handle their behavior more effectively, which in turn helps to build their self esteem and awareness. It can also help with developing healthy coping strategies and acceptance of the challenges we face throughout life. Throughout the 20th century, doctors noticed that patients who expressed themselves in drawings, paintings and other creative mediums led to doctors being able to assess and treat patients more effectively. These methods have been used as a treatment in the form of art therapy ever since, usually in conjunction with other forms of therapy such as, behavioral, cognitive and these options on recovery.org. Anyone can use art therapy, either on their own or with help from a professional, and no matter how good as person is with the creative mediums.
Other Psychological Effects
With adults, children and those receiving art therapy alike, drawing and art therapy as an extension can help with interpersonal skills, problem solving skills, increasing attention-span, self-managing techniques and other vital life skills that we all make use of on a daily basis. If drawing was a standard, widely practiced method of managing our stress levels, and something that we could get into the habit of fitting into our busy day to day schedules, then who knows what the psychological impact on our lives could potentially be.
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ANIMATION/SUPERHEROES – Top Ten Superhero Animated TV Shows
Simpsons Quote:
Jono: Dad, can we go? I’ve watched all the DVDs in the Bentley. Marth: Jono, what’s that in your hand? Jono: Oh. Big surprise that you don’t know what this is. It’s only Everyman. The coolest comic book ever. [Marth takes the comic book and reads through a few pages.] Marth: What are his powers? Jono: All of them. Marth: That’s it! Our next big summer movie will be Everyman! OWW Films Executive #4: Uh, Marth? Ginormous Pictures bought the rights to Everyman three weeks ago. [Marth throws the comic onto the table in frustration.] Marth: Damnit!
Hi, as you know, I love animated cartoons, and I love specifically superhero animated cartoons. And today, I’m going to be doing something different. Last time I showed you my top ten superhero animated movies. This week, I’m going to tell you my top ten superhero animated TV shows.
You can either watch the video or read the transcription below. There are videos to promo spots and opening credits below if you want to get a taste of what the shows are like:
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How This Top Ten List is Set Up
All right. As I said, I’m going to start with my top ten. Now all of these shows are good, all of them. You should watch all of these shows because they’re all fantastic, but the order is: replayability, as far as my personal replayability, whether or not I like to re-watch them over and over or not and put them back in and just sit there and watch them again and again. So, let’s get to it.
I don’t own a copy because I didn’t know how awesome it was until I started rewatching all the shows on Netflix, and that is Batman Beyond. Batman Beyond, what a great show.
Batman as cyberpunk, it’s a great science fiction show. They’ve continued the story of Batman Beyond in the comics. It’s fantastic.
If you haven’t seen it, and you’re a Batman fan, highly recommend you watch Batman Beyond.
It’s Batman in the future. Bruce Wayne is old. He’s got a new protégé. He’s the new Batman. He’s a young punk that has to learn to be Batman. It’s fantastic. Great, great show, highly recommend it.
Teen Titans, talk about bringing back the catchy intro music. Great show, lot of fun, it kind of introduces you to who the Titans are in a fun way.
Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, Starfire, it’s good and it’s funny, and it’s very lighthearted. And it’s just really, really wacky, and there’s five seasons of it. Great stuff, it’s really fun.
Number seven I don’t own, but I’m planning to, but I don’t need to because it’s on Netflix. It’s Batman: Brave and the Bold.
It’s so awesome. They take, you know, you take the Dick Sprang style Batman where it’s kind of the zap, pow Adam West-ish kind of thing, but kind of mixed it up with a little more serious, but still campy. And there’s something about it that is just brilliant.
The designs are fantastic. The ideas for the shows are fantastic, the—some of the shows are just so smart and clever.
On top of that, there’s shorts at the beginning of every episode. It’s like a mini-introduction to some kind of classic silver age, golden age superhero.
It’s awesome. I can’t say good enough things about Batman: Brave and the Bold. You owe it to yourself to watch it if you’re a Batman fan.
The Bruce Timm one, I specifically, specifically like the fourth season, where they really, really made them even slicker. Not too fond of the—
this is the fourth season version of the Batman Animated Series. There was the WB version where he was a little fatter, and it was the first time that they were experimenting with the style and everything. I much prefer the fourth season, but yes, I watch this over and over. Love, love, love.
This came after the Batman animated series. This is number five on my list. This has the cleaner version style that they ended up getting with the Fox version of Batman.
Cool show, reintroduced Superman, reintroduced a lot of the mythology. Huge, huge influence on the comics. The moment this animated version came out, the comics started copying almost every single storyline from this TV show. So—
such a smart show, such a complete reinvention of Superman. They did so much good to make Superman just relatable, awesome, the bad guys in it are great.
I love it. I love it. It’s—I mean, Superman’s my favorite superhero. This is a great TV show and a great version of Superman.
The DVDs are everywhere. I haven’t got a copy. Why? Because it’s on Netflix.
Okay, so, The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the animated series. What can I say? This is like reading the comics.
It’s so fun. It’s cool. They do all the stuff that you want to see in a Avengers cartoon. It’s very similar to another show that’s higher on my list, the Justice League.
The second season’s even better. The first season’s all set-up. It’s good, introducing all the characters, and the universe, and things like that.
The second season has Spider-Man and all these other characters, and the New Avengers. I mean, it’s good. Highly recommend Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. That’s my number four.
Hands down the best animated TV Spider-Man ever. It’s so good.
It’s better than the MTV version. It’s better than the 80s version with big fat—it’s better than Spider-Man 2099, I think that’s what it was. I don’t know. He went to an alternate universe.
Yeah, I like this better even than the ‘67 version. You know, Spider-Man, Spider-Man! I like this version even more than that, better than Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends.
This is the Spider-Man that fits the Spider-Man of today.
I like Ultimate Spider-Man. This is kind of like Ultimate Spider-Man animated, but not quite. They cross Ultimate Spider-Man and the Ditko Spider-Man, and they just kind of—you end up with this. This is a really great show.
And of course, Sean Galloway designs, beautiful, streamlined, clean. Oh, it’s my favorite. I can’t seem to stop watching these shows, these episodes. They’re just—it’s cool. They’re cool.
JLA regular and Unlimited. Unlimited, way, way better. They fixed everything that was wrong with just regular JLA, especially in the first season JLA where Superman just kept getting knocked out, and then he was out for the count for most of every episode.
They fixed that in Season Two, and then they just upped the ante and put every single stinking character in the DC universe in Seasons Three and Four and Justice League Unlimited, full education into the DC universe.
I can’t stop watching these; these are so awesome. Awesome!
Hands down some of the best animated superhero cartoons ever made.
Young Justice kind of takes the elements that made Justice League and Justice League Unlimited awesome, and they’ve kind of made it just a touch more serious, and it’s all about the younglings.
So, I love this show. I just keep watching it. It’s beautiful. You look at the artwork. You look at the action. It’s amazing. It’s a great evolution from Justice League Unlimited. It steps up that kind of storytelling.
So, those are my top ten superhero animated TV shows. I hope you’ve liked it. I’d love to hear your comments. Let me know what you think. hat order would you have put these in, am I leaving something out that you would have put in. Let me know that, too. If you’re on my blog, feel free to subscribe. If you do, you get a free digital copy of my sketchbook. It’s in print on Amazon. You can buy it there, but you can get a free digital copy if you want to at least check out what you would be purchasing physically if you like print books. Until next time, bye.
ANIMATED/SUPERHERO/MOVIES – Top Ten Animated Superhero Movies.
Simpsons Quote:
Rainer Wolfcastle: Up and at them. Dialogue coach: No, “Up and atom”. Rainer Wolfcastle: Up and at them. Dialogue coach: Up and *atom*. Rainer Wolfcastle: Up and at them. Dialogue coach: [frustrated] Better.
I love watching animated cartoons. And one of my all-time favorite genres is superhero animated cartoons. There are other great animated Superhero movies out there besides The Incredibles.
Today I’m going to give you my top 10 animated superhero movies.
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The Order of the List
Today I’m going to talk to you about my top 10 superhero animated movies. I consider all of these movies good.
The order that I’m going to put them in from 10 to 1, 1 being the number 1, the highest best one, as far as replay value, as far as me sitting down and wanting to watch it over and over.
So 10 being the one that I would want to experience less of, 1 being the one that I would want to watch over and over the most.
10. Batman Dark Knight Returns (Parts 1 and 2)
Beautiful movie. Great adaptation of the Frank Miller story, too dark and brooding for me. I remember reading it as a kid. I remember loving it. It no longer resonates with me as much, but the story and the production quality and everything about it, top notch, fantastic adaptation of the comic book.
9. Batman Year One.
Again, another Frank Miller story. I love how vulnerable Batman is in this movie. I like how great the adaptation from the graphic novel it is. Once again, too dark and brooding. I kind of don’t want to live in that place all the time. That’s just me.
8. Green Lantern: First Flight.
Fantastic movie, way better than the live action movie. It moves a little bit too fast, especially with the origin and all that, but great. I love it. Fantastic, highly recommend it, a lot of fun. If you love Green Lantern, this is the movie to watch.
7. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.
This one’s a fun one. Evil Justice League versus good Justice League. Ultraman versus Superman, Owlman versus Batman, fantastic. Great stuff, very nihilistic, over-the-top ending. Great, I love it.
6. Planet Hulk.
Planet Hulk is great. Basically, it’s Gladiator with the Hulk in a different planet where he just becomes this — he just gets to let lose and fight and just — it’s epic. It’s based on a really cool comic book storyline, also, which I’d also recommend you read, but the movie, great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf13JRZKspM
5. Hulk Versus.
Now this is kind of almost cheating. These are not necessarily one movie. It’s two shorts compiled into one DVD where Hulk fights Wolverine and Hulk fights Thor. Cool. I like the designs more when he fights Wolverine. The story with Thor is a little bit better, but it’s cool fights anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJd4O2blM_A
4. Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam.
I don’t own this. It’s on Netflix. Fantastic. I love the fights. The Shazam!/Superma story is part of a showcase. A lot of those shorts came out as backup stories to some of these other animated movies. Superman and Shazam fight Black Adam and it’s just epic. There’s a lot destruction. Great, great, great. I highly recommend it. Pick it up.
3. Superman vs. The Elite.
I also don’t own this. One of my all-time favorite Superman animated movies. And it’s all about how Superman is irrelevant and nobody cares about him and how he should change and be different. It’s basically saying that to Superman’s face and how he reacts. Awesome, awesome story. Great, I highly recommend it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXUu91JrpzA
2. Batman Under the Red Hood.
Incredible. This is one of the all-time best-written Batman movies ever. It’s so good. Great, fantastic climactic moment when he has to make this really hard decision. It is incredible. If you haven’t seen this, you owe it to yourself to watch it. If you’re a Batman fan, this is the movie to watch.
1. All-Star Superman.
I don’t own this because it’s on Netflix. I don’t need to own it right now. The moment it’s off Netflix I’m buying it. I’ve seen this movie so many times like six, seven, eight times. I love it. It’s great, it’s fantastic. Highly recommend it. Best animated Superman movie. The best representation of the silver age Superman you will ever see.
Honorable Mention – Fleischer Superman.
It’s an honorable mention. Why? Because it kind of doesn’t fit as a movie. It kind of does though, because this is the very first movies of Superman ever. Endlessly re-watchable. One of the best animated superhero cartoons ever made period. But they’re not like movies. They’re just shorts. And there’s a lot of them. They’re not quite TV shows. They’re not quite movies. So that’s why they’re honorable mention. I still think that you should watch them.
So that’s my top 10 animated superhero movies. Let me know what you think. If you just watch them. If you think I’m crazy with my list let me know.
I agree with this. I want different kinds of animated movies besides JUST family movies. I don’t have anything against family movies. They’re great. My kids and I can watch them together and they’re safe for us to watch, but I’d like animation to explore beyond just those types of movies.
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ANIMATION/SUPERHEROES – My Thoughts on Young Justice Animated.
Simpsons Quote:
“Oh, there’s no justice like angry-mob justice.” ~ Skinner
I like animated cartoons. I watch animated cartoons. I work in animated cartoons. But my favorite kind of cartoons are action-adventure. And today I’m going to be talking about the cartoon show Young Justice.
You can watch the video below or you can read the transcription. Be sure to scroll down for links and other videos too:
Superhero Cartoons
I love action-adventure cartoons. They’re my favorite. I kind of wish every cartoon was an action-adventure cartoon, well, almost. I like comedy cartoons also. But today I’m going to be talking about Young Justice.
This cartoon oh, it’s so good. I love superheroes, okay? I’m a big superhero nerd. I love Superman. He’s my favorite. Second favorite is Spider-Man.
I’ve been watching these shows since the Bruce Timm era when he started his Batman cartoon and then went on to do Superman and then Batman Beyond and then Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. All those shows, love all those shows. They’re so good.
Well then there were Teen Titans. Then there was Legion of Super Heroes, which I made a video about and talked about. And I’m probably going to talk about those other shows later that I just mentioned.
Young Justice
Today I’m talking about this. This show came after The Batman. It came after The Brave and the Bold. It’s about the “sidekicks”.
So we’ve got characters like Speedy, which is Green Arrow’s sidekick. We’ve got Kid Flash, which is Flash’s sidekick. We’ve got Robin. We’ve got Superboy. We’ve got M’gann, who is the Martian girl. She’s Martian Manhunter’s niece. And we’ve got Aqualad. And it’s a very, it’s a different Aqualad.
So I mean, you’ve got all these characters and I forgot Green Arrow’s sidekick’s name. I just wasn’t familiar enough with her, but she’s totally awesome even though I don’t remember her name.
So they wanted to become part of the Justice League, but they were much too young. But they basically got together and said if you’re not going to make us part of the Justice League, we’re out.
We’re going to do our own thing, because we are grown up enough to deal with more responsibilities, which pushed the Justice League to give them rookie kind of assignments. They got their own headquarters and they’re sent on covert missions assigned to them by Batman.
It’s a great show because, I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I like kid heroes. I like teenage heroes. I like remembering how much I wanted to have superpowers as a teenager and do cool things.
So I guess it brings me back to that, not because I liked being a teenager. Not because I had a great teenage life, but that fantasy when I was a teenager was so cool that I like getting sent back to that fantasy by watching shows about young superheroes.
So they create this team called Young Justice. They are left in charge of doing secondary jobs that the Legion just can’t handle because they’re doing these other primary jobs. And they’re important jobs, they just can’t be handled directly by the main heroes.
Seasons One
So the first season is the whole getting to know you, introducing all the characters, introducing the bad guys, there’s relationships and all this angst, and it’s great. It’s a lot of fun. It’s a big soap opera like superhero cartoons are supposed to be, like teen books are supposed to be.
Teenagers getting together and butting heads and trying to find themselves and the whole bit. They just happen to have superpowers and have to deal with stuff that’s way more beyond regular teenage problems. So the first season is great. I really enjoyed the first season.
Season Two
Second season was incredible. It is so good. For some reason, they skip five years. A lot of the characters in this show are much, much olde. So Robin becomes Nightwing in this show.
And then we also introduce Batgirl and Wondergirl and the Blue Beetle.
And this is the new Robin, Tim Drake.
And relationships have been broken. It’s weird, because it starts off like, still like this and then it skips five years and suddenly like some characters are bad guys. Some characters are married.
Some characters are clones that weren’t clones before because, we’ve got Superboy over here, who is a clone of Superman. I’m not spoiling anything it’s still the same. It’s basically in the pilot episode of this season. It’s great. I love it. I love it. Cool, cool superhero stuff.
Superman, they do something with Superman in the first season of Young Justice that is really interesting, making him uncomfortable with Superboy. And it makes him very human and very, “why are you doing that, Superman?”
Can’t you see that he needs a dad, but you’re not his dad? It’s just like it’s crazy and I like it. It’s great.
So check out the show if you haven’t seen it.
The DVDs
The Young JusticeDVDs; these are actually annoyingly they’ve split the seasons in half and sell them in two part. It just drives me crazy. Just give me the whole thing.
I don’t understand why they do that. They’re just gouging, but I guess I’m a sucker because I bought them.
So I highly recommend this show, a lot of fun.
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If you have seen this show, let me know what do you think of Young Justice? Do you like it? Do you think it’s not all that good? Do you think I’m full of crap?
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Just found your page about Italy! Loved it! Lived in Italy a couple of years; just doing a YouTube video about how to get to the Sistine Chapel. Your sketches brought back so many memories (especially the “Metro at Rush Hour” type).
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Very interesting and thoughtful blog. If you are interested in Catholicism and boardgames you might appreciate “Vatican” the boardgame I designed. It has been selling worldwide and we have gotten very favorable comments
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The College of DuPage Press
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im doing a piece of it coursework and wondered if i could put your
“computer stoopid” picture on it.
I would acknowledge where it came from beneath it and in the bibliography.
If the answer is yes then could you tell me the artists name too?
thanks. keith.
I just came upon your Nephilim skeleton debunking image….very interesting.
I wish we could have met at Comic Con to discuss certain issues. Nothing that
I would want to discuss openly here.
If you want to discuss something privately, you could always e-mail me. The address is up there under the “Hi, Welcome!” about the top commentators. It’s luis(at)luisescobarblog(dot)com.
Can you give me permission to use one of your illustrations for a tee shirt. I really want to wear “there must be some way to plug this keyboard into this game” – It’s how I see the world.. and you explained everything I want to tell the world in that one illustrzt8ion.
Gina
Yes, Gina. You can make it into a shirt for yourself off of that cartoon. I’m flattered.
I’ve been thinking about making shirts off of my little cartoons but I’m not sure which ones to do. Outside of an occasional cartoon that really hits home for someone, I’m not sure if they would sell.
Hi Luis,
My name is Phil and I came across your site while looking up information about animation and voice-over work. I’m a huge fan of the Simpsons & Futurama and a big Billy West fan (Ren&Stimpy, Futurama, Ect.). It is truly amazing to me how so many individuals come together to create these animated cartoons and the quality of the end product. I’m curious from your perspective how much work you have to re-do sometimes because of the networks and the way they censor some of the work that is being done. Best of luck to you in your projects. – Phil
You’d be surprised Phil. The biggest censors of the show are the writers themselves. They often pull back a joke they think is going too far. Sometimes, some of the jokes are funny too. It’s the artists that end up complaining about it. For example, there was a joke in one of the Halloween shows that all the artists thought was really funny. It was the show where Homer goes back in time on his toaster. In one of the futures he comes back too, he finds himself married to Patty and Selma. He discovers this when they show up waring lingerie. They looked really nasty, with their flab and hairy legs. When we saw it, everyone roared with horrified laughter. It was crazy. For some reason, during the re-write, they cut the gag because they thought it was too much. It was very disappointing. They didn’t even put the scene as an extra on the DVD.
It does. Thanks for the reply Luis. That gag actually would have been hilarious! Too bad it didn’t make it. I wonder if some unnecessary second guessing happens though because the writers feel they may be going over the top? (If that’s possible.) I know there is that fine line that writers and creators have to walk probably not only with the content of the show that’s created but with the networks as well. At least from what I understand in reading interviews and seeing convention interviews. Storyboards I think really help to set the tone of an episode and I bet it probably helps to justify many of the ideas that get spun out during the writing sessions of the writers. You all do great work on the show and I’m going to continue reading through your website. Thanks! – Phil
Hello there. I was researching nephilim for a report and I foung your blog. Its too bad those pics were all frauds. If they had been real, it would have been amazing.
After I read your stuff on the pictures I hung around a little, and read your “about me section”.
I am merely curious, so if I overstep a boundary, please feel free to tell me so.
I was wondering, sir, since you state that you are in fact a roman catholic, weather or not you believed in the deity of Jesus Christ?
I myself am a Christian, but I research other religions and alternate sects of my own. You could say its a hobby. In any case, if you find my inquiry impolite, I am sorry. I mean no offense.
Heh, no Christine, your question isn’t impolite. It’s good of you to ask. Too often people just assume things about Catholicism without asking.
The simple answer to your question is, “Yes”. Catholicism, teaches that Jesus Christ is God, the second person of the Holy Trinity.
The slightly more involved answer is as follows: The Catechism of the Catholic Church (the official book that explains all that the Catholic Church teaches) in paragraphs 446-451 ( http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1H.HTM ) states the following:
446 In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the ineffable Hebrew name YHWH, by which God revealed himself to Moses,59 is rendered as Kyrios, “Lord”. From then on, “Lord” becomes the more usual name by which to indicate the divinity of Israel’s God. the New Testament uses this full sense of the title “Lord” both for the Father and – what is new – for Jesus, who is thereby recognized as God Himself.60
447 Jesus ascribes this title to himself in a veiled way when he disputes with the Pharisees about the meaning of Psalm 110, but also in an explicit way when he addresses his apostles.61 Throughout his public life, he demonstrated his divine sovereignty by works of power over nature, illnesses, demons, death and sin.
448 Very often in the Gospels people address Jesus as “Lord”. This title testifies to the respect and trust of those who approach him for help and healing.62 At the prompting of the Holy Spirit, “Lord” expresses the recognition of the divine mystery of Jesus.63 In the encounter with the risen Jesus, this title becomes adoration: “My Lord and my God!” It thus takes on a connotation of love and affection that remains proper to the Christian tradition: “It is the Lord!”64
449 By attributing to Jesus the divine title “Lord”, the first confessions of the Church’s faith affirm from the beginning that the power, honour and glory due to God the Father are due also to Jesus, because “he was in the form of God”,65 and the Father manifested the sovereignty of Jesus by raising him from the dead and exalting him into his glory.66
450 From the beginning of Christian history, the assertion of Christ’s lordship over the world and over history has implicitly recognized that man should not submit his personal freedom in an absolute manner to any earthly power, but only to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Caesar is not “the Lord”.67 “The Church. . . believes that the key, the centre and the purpose of the whole of man’s history is to be found in its Lord and Master.”68
451 Christian prayer is characterized by the title “Lord”, whether in the invitation to prayer (“The Lord be with you”), its conclusion (“through Christ our Lord”) or the exclamation full of trust and hope: Maranatha (“Our Lord, come!”) or Maranatha (“Come, Lord!”) – “Amen Come Lord Jesus!”69
Luis – my name is Luis Escobar – every now and then I Google my name just to see what pops up. Well – I often come across you. No doubt – you have discovered me too. Anyway – sure there a ton of our Luis Escobar’s out there but I thought that I would just say hello and let you know that you have a cool name. BTW – I am the third Luis in four! Grandpa, Father, me and my son. Louie’s all around!
wow – that was fast – I am a photographer, distance runner and high school cross country coach. I live in Santa Maria California. Married with three kids. Your work is great. You are very skilled. I will take some time and learn a little more about you and your work. Very cool. Well – I am off to a work with one of my running students. I will look forward to talking with you a little more in the future. Luis
Howdee Luis, if you are a real Christian then i would suggest you to do some research on your big boss (Matt Groening being a 33rd degree mason).
Loads of subliminal messages in the Simpsons, and occult symbolism.
(Even 9-11 was announced).
Greetings…. (Peace be upon you)
I would like to present to you all the sciences related to cosmogony together with its rules as per its identity which is something not similar to any of the other things and is out of any and assimilation according to the following point of view:
1. The theories of on cosmogony lack the fundamentals of the origin of things as they are mainly based on incidence and on the unseen.
2. The cosmic extension that has been taking place is the result of the range of vision through using the telescope and any other instruments because the thing being seen is determined by vision and this is one of the universe laws.
3. Knowing the within secrets of man will uncover secrets of the universe as the apparent entities of existence are of six kinds: the perspective (what is being seen), the tangible world (what can be touched and felt), what can be weighed, what can be heard, things that have flavor and things that have smell. These, in most cases, are overlapping and are counted six in number.
The origin of all entities are bare pictures of materials, void of force and readiness; it shines in debate and is complete when read. The investigation of scientists is restricted to this reading (capability and liability) where the material is with all its atoms, energy and speed and this alone is useless compared with its radiance.
The first cosmic law is that nothing can be determined unless established with what is contrary to it. And things are sometimes concrete and sometimes abstract and both are the same according to law.
The origin of radiance is the brain and by saying this I do not mean perception but the simple core of it. By formulating this equation the truth becomes uncovered.
The subject is highly complicated and can only be clarified by word of mouth or by arguments.
So, what do you have to present. (show)
بعد التحية :-
أود أن أعرض عليكم جميع علوم نشأة مفردات الكون وقوانينه وفق ذاتيته التي هي شئ ليس كباقي الأشياء خارجه عن حد التعطيل والتشبيه حسب النظرة التالية :-
1/ أن نظريات نشأة الكون تفتقد لأصول نشأة الأشياء وتحيل على ألصدفه أو الغيب .وكذلك استغراق البحث في الأفاق لم يأتي بغايته إلا بقدر ربطه بالوعي الإنساني.
2/ التوسع الكوني الحاصل هو نتيجة المد البصري من خلال التلسكوب وغيره لأن المنظور أليه يثبت بالبصر وهذا أحد قوانين الكون
3/ معرفة أسرار بطون الإنسان تكشف أسرار الكون حيث أن مفردات الوجود الظاهر على ستة أنواع (المنظور أليها ). (الملموسة). (الموزونة). (المسموعة). (ذات طعم). (ذات رائحة). وتكون في أغلب الأحيان متداخلة .وأصل الأشياء كلها صور عارية عن المواد . خاليه من القوه والاستعداد . بمناظرتها تشرق وبمطالعتها تتم . وبحث العلماء ينحصر في هذه المطالعة (القوه والاستعداد) حيث المادة ودقائقها وطاقتها وسرعتها وهذا وحده لا جدوى منه بقدر إشراقها . . وأصل الإشراق هو العقل ولا أقصد به الإدراك أنما هو )جوهر بسيط درأك محيط) وبتكوين هذه المعادلة تنكشف الحقيقة .
الموضوع غاية بالتعقيد يوضح بالمشافهة والجدل فما هو عرضكم ؟
توضيح:-
* أود أن أبين بأن وسائط الإدراك هي الحواس ألخمسه + تحسس الوزن.
* إما أحوال الإدراك ( تصوراته أي المعاني التي يلبسها ) فهي ستة أيضا ثلاثة وخلافها :-
1/ الحياة والموجود ولها صور فمثلا صورة الحياة هي الماء.
2/ الحركة والسكون ولها صور فمثلا صورة الحركة هي الهواء.
3/ الانفعال والسكينة ولها صور فمثلا صورة الانفعال هي النار.
* إما مراتب نفس الإدراك إي نفس ألصوره فهي خمسه:-
1)الجماد 2) النبات 3) الحيوان 4) الملكوت 5) الإنسان وصور ذلك كثيرة.
*** وكل هذه الصور تندرج ضمن تصورات الإدراك .منها ظاهره ومنها كامنة إي لم تظهر لحد الآن . والتوسع الكوني الحاصل هو ظهور لبعض هذه الصور الكامنة.
*وأروع إبداعات الإدراك هو العقل (جوهر بسيط درأك محيط ) ولكل واحده تفصيلاتها الوظيفية.
ووظيفة العقل هي ربط كل الصور المذكورة أعلاه بعوالمها الحسيه ألسبعه. وعالمنا هو العالم السابع وفق نمطيته الحسيه. وتجري آثار العقل على كل الصور الكونية فتصبح محسوسة وفق قوتها واستعدادها التصوري.
قد لا يفهم الموضوع بشكل جيد كونه لم يطرق بتاتا
I’m doing some onsite interviews at Mystic Dragon’s Festival of Books. Would you have time to talk with me about your work and “The Art of Draw Fu”? at 4 pm on August 15th? Please let me know (and your “Black Terror Kid” comics, along with your comic about your trip to Rome, are really fun!).
4. Peter Pan
animated cartoons. I’m not a big fan of 
, I’m not a big fan of the 
movie, and I’m not a big fan of 
, but I am a big fan of the Genndy Clone Wars animated cartoons, the 
animated 2D directed by Genndy.
and the creator of 
. So – but he’s directed quite a few things, and one of the things he directed was this.
, from Nickelodeon first season.
. I’ve heard it’s fantastic. I’ve watched half the first season. I don’t know what it is. I’ll 
or anything that’s even remotely action-adventure, martial arts, if you’re into kung fu, if you’re into good, high drama, fantasy, exciting shows, this is really the show for you to watch.
.
The DVDs are everywhere. I haven’t got a copy. Why? Because it’s on Netflix.
/
Again, another Frank Miller story. I love how vulnerable Batman is in this movie. I like how great the adaptation from the graphic novel it is. Once again, too dark and brooding. I kind of don’t want to live in that place all the time. That’s just me.
Luise,
That is a great illustration of the Podcast Expo. Sorry you did not make it to the Mass.
God bless,
Fr. Jay
Just found your page about Italy! Loved it! Lived in Italy a couple of years; just doing a YouTube video about how to get to the Sistine Chapel. Your sketches brought back so many memories (especially the “Metro at Rush Hour” type).
Dear Luis,
Very interesting and thoughtful blog. If you are interested in Catholicism and boardgames you might appreciate “Vatican” the boardgame I designed. It has been selling worldwide and we have gotten very favorable comments
Sincerely,
Stephen Haliczer Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Professor
Product Designer
The College of DuPage Press
Hey! I’ve been trying to call you for a couple weeks! I should have checked your blog sooner. I thought you might have had the baby by now! Congrats! Call me ya bum. My number…unlike yours… is the same xxx-xxx-xxxx.
im doing a piece of it coursework and wondered if i could put your
“computer stoopid” picture on it.
I would acknowledge where it came from beneath it and in the bibliography.
If the answer is yes then could you tell me the artists name too?
thanks. keith.
Sure, absolutely, go right ahead. Thanks for asking.
Hi Luise,
I just came upon your Nephilim skeleton debunking image….very interesting.
I wish we could have met at Comic Con to discuss certain issues. Nothing that
I would want to discuss openly here.
Hope to hear from you,
Den
If you want to discuss something privately, you could always e-mail me. The address is up there under the “Hi, Welcome!” about the top commentators. It’s luis(at)luisescobarblog(dot)com.
Can you give me permission to use one of your illustrations for a tee shirt. I really want to wear “there must be some way to plug this keyboard into this game” – It’s how I see the world.. and you explained everything I want to tell the world in that one illustrzt8ion.
Gina
Yes, Gina. You can make it into a shirt for yourself off of that cartoon. I’m flattered.
I’ve been thinking about making shirts off of my little cartoons but I’m not sure which ones to do. Outside of an occasional cartoon that really hits home for someone, I’m not sure if they would sell.
So go right ahead Gina. Have fun.
Hi Luis,
My name is Phil and I came across your site while looking up information about animation and voice-over work. I’m a huge fan of the Simpsons & Futurama and a big Billy West fan (Ren&Stimpy, Futurama, Ect.). It is truly amazing to me how so many individuals come together to create these animated cartoons and the quality of the end product. I’m curious from your perspective how much work you have to re-do sometimes because of the networks and the way they censor some of the work that is being done. Best of luck to you in your projects. – Phil
You’d be surprised Phil. The biggest censors of the show are the writers themselves. They often pull back a joke they think is going too far. Sometimes, some of the jokes are funny too. It’s the artists that end up complaining about it. For example, there was a joke in one of the Halloween shows that all the artists thought was really funny. It was the show where Homer goes back in time on his toaster. In one of the futures he comes back too, he finds himself married to Patty and Selma. He discovers this when they show up waring lingerie. They looked really nasty, with their flab and hairy legs. When we saw it, everyone roared with horrified laughter. It was crazy. For some reason, during the re-write, they cut the gag because they thought it was too much. It was very disappointing. They didn’t even put the scene as an extra on the DVD.
Hope that answers your question.
It does. Thanks for the reply Luis. That gag actually would have been hilarious! Too bad it didn’t make it. I wonder if some unnecessary second guessing happens though because the writers feel they may be going over the top? (If that’s possible.) I know there is that fine line that writers and creators have to walk probably not only with the content of the show that’s created but with the networks as well. At least from what I understand in reading interviews and seeing convention interviews. Storyboards I think really help to set the tone of an episode and I bet it probably helps to justify many of the ideas that get spun out during the writing sessions of the writers. You all do great work on the show and I’m going to continue reading through your website. Thanks! – Phil
Hello there. I was researching nephilim for a report and I foung your blog. Its too bad those pics were all frauds. If they had been real, it would have been amazing.
After I read your stuff on the pictures I hung around a little, and read your “about me section”.
I am merely curious, so if I overstep a boundary, please feel free to tell me so.
I was wondering, sir, since you state that you are in fact a roman catholic, weather or not you believed in the deity of Jesus Christ?
I myself am a Christian, but I research other religions and alternate sects of my own. You could say its a hobby. In any case, if you find my inquiry impolite, I am sorry. I mean no offense.
Heh, no Christine, your question isn’t impolite. It’s good of you to ask. Too often people just assume things about Catholicism without asking.
The simple answer to your question is, “Yes”. Catholicism, teaches that Jesus Christ is God, the second person of the Holy Trinity.
The slightly more involved answer is as follows: The Catechism of the Catholic Church (the official book that explains all that the Catholic Church teaches) in paragraphs 446-451 ( http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1H.HTM ) states the following:
Arianism was a Heresy that the Catholic Church fought against that deputed this belief around the years AD 250-336 which concluded in the Council of Nicea. For more info go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism or http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01707c.htm .
Hope that answers your question.
thank you. most people would out-right refuse to answer that question nowadays.
May the Lord bless you, Luis!
Luis – my name is Luis Escobar – every now and then I Google my name just to see what pops up. Well – I often come across you. No doubt – you have discovered me too. Anyway – sure there a ton of our Luis Escobar’s out there but I thought that I would just say hello and let you know that you have a cool name. BTW – I am the third Luis in four! Grandpa, Father, me and my son. Louie’s all around!
HA ha! Yeah, you have a great name too.
Wow! That’s a lot of Luisesesss in your family. Pretty cool. Love your site dude. I’ll link to you.
wow – that was fast – I am a photographer, distance runner and high school cross country coach. I live in Santa Maria California. Married with three kids. Your work is great. You are very skilled. I will take some time and learn a little more about you and your work. Very cool. Well – I am off to a work with one of my running students. I will look forward to talking with you a little more in the future. Luis
Cool. Anytime.
i like simpsons, starting watch becouse my doughter like it
I write comment but strange dropdown
Howdee Luis, if you are a real Christian then i would suggest you to do some research on your big boss (Matt Groening being a 33rd degree mason).
Loads of subliminal messages in the Simpsons, and occult symbolism.
(Even 9-11 was announced).
Greetings…. (Peace be upon you)
I would like to present to you all the sciences related to cosmogony together with its rules as per its identity which is something not similar to any of the other things and is out of any and assimilation according to the following point of view:
1. The theories of on cosmogony lack the fundamentals of the origin of things as they are mainly based on incidence and on the unseen.
2. The cosmic extension that has been taking place is the result of the range of vision through using the telescope and any other instruments because the thing being seen is determined by vision and this is one of the universe laws.
3. Knowing the within secrets of man will uncover secrets of the universe as the apparent entities of existence are of six kinds: the perspective (what is being seen), the tangible world (what can be touched and felt), what can be weighed, what can be heard, things that have flavor and things that have smell. These, in most cases, are overlapping and are counted six in number.
The origin of all entities are bare pictures of materials, void of force and readiness; it shines in debate and is complete when read. The investigation of scientists is restricted to this reading (capability and liability) where the material is with all its atoms, energy and speed and this alone is useless compared with its radiance.
The first cosmic law is that nothing can be determined unless established with what is contrary to it. And things are sometimes concrete and sometimes abstract and both are the same according to law.
The origin of radiance is the brain and by saying this I do not mean perception but the simple core of it. By formulating this equation the truth becomes uncovered.
The subject is highly complicated and can only be clarified by word of mouth or by arguments.
So, what do you have to present. (show)
بعد التحية :-
أود أن أعرض عليكم جميع علوم نشأة مفردات الكون وقوانينه وفق ذاتيته التي هي شئ ليس كباقي الأشياء خارجه عن حد التعطيل والتشبيه حسب النظرة التالية :-
1/ أن نظريات نشأة الكون تفتقد لأصول نشأة الأشياء وتحيل على ألصدفه أو الغيب .وكذلك استغراق البحث في الأفاق لم يأتي بغايته إلا بقدر ربطه بالوعي الإنساني.
2/ التوسع الكوني الحاصل هو نتيجة المد البصري من خلال التلسكوب وغيره لأن المنظور أليه يثبت بالبصر وهذا أحد قوانين الكون
3/ معرفة أسرار بطون الإنسان تكشف أسرار الكون حيث أن مفردات الوجود الظاهر على ستة أنواع (المنظور أليها ). (الملموسة). (الموزونة). (المسموعة). (ذات طعم). (ذات رائحة). وتكون في أغلب الأحيان متداخلة .وأصل الأشياء كلها صور عارية عن المواد . خاليه من القوه والاستعداد . بمناظرتها تشرق وبمطالعتها تتم . وبحث العلماء ينحصر في هذه المطالعة (القوه والاستعداد) حيث المادة ودقائقها وطاقتها وسرعتها وهذا وحده لا جدوى منه بقدر إشراقها . . وأصل الإشراق هو العقل ولا أقصد به الإدراك أنما هو )جوهر بسيط درأك محيط) وبتكوين هذه المعادلة تنكشف الحقيقة .
الموضوع غاية بالتعقيد يوضح بالمشافهة والجدل فما هو عرضكم ؟
توضيح:-
* أود أن أبين بأن وسائط الإدراك هي الحواس ألخمسه + تحسس الوزن.
* إما أحوال الإدراك ( تصوراته أي المعاني التي يلبسها ) فهي ستة أيضا ثلاثة وخلافها :-
1/ الحياة والموجود ولها صور فمثلا صورة الحياة هي الماء.
2/ الحركة والسكون ولها صور فمثلا صورة الحركة هي الهواء.
3/ الانفعال والسكينة ولها صور فمثلا صورة الانفعال هي النار.
* إما مراتب نفس الإدراك إي نفس ألصوره فهي خمسه:-
1)الجماد 2) النبات 3) الحيوان 4) الملكوت 5) الإنسان وصور ذلك كثيرة.
*** وكل هذه الصور تندرج ضمن تصورات الإدراك .منها ظاهره ومنها كامنة إي لم تظهر لحد الآن . والتوسع الكوني الحاصل هو ظهور لبعض هذه الصور الكامنة.
*وأروع إبداعات الإدراك هو العقل (جوهر بسيط درأك محيط ) ولكل واحده تفصيلاتها الوظيفية.
ووظيفة العقل هي ربط كل الصور المذكورة أعلاه بعوالمها الحسيه ألسبعه. وعالمنا هو العالم السابع وفق نمطيته الحسيه. وتجري آثار العقل على كل الصور الكونية فتصبح محسوسة وفق قوتها واستعدادها التصوري.
قد لا يفهم الموضوع بشكل جيد كونه لم يطرق بتاتا
Lol been stalking you. You’re pretty good. Not bad for a dad of many. Very talented. Don’t know how you keep up. Chat soon on twitter
An overwhelming desire to keep sane helps.
I’m doing some onsite interviews at Mystic Dragon’s Festival of Books. Would you have time to talk with me about your work and “The Art of Draw Fu”? at 4 pm on August 15th? Please let me know (and your “Black Terror Kid” comics, along with your comic about your trip to Rome, are really fun!).
Yes, absolutely. I’d be happy to.
Great, thank you! Could you email me a contact for you, at the above email link, and I’ll send you more information (and I’m ordering your book now!).