Congratulations to GD from GD Konstantine’s blog for winning the second cartoon caption competition for the year!
Many thanks for all your generous entries. Click here to see the runners up and other entries.
I received this definition from a friend’s website newsletter, Talking About. It listed the results from the Washington Post’s 1998 Mensa Invitational competition, which involved the creation of new words, by playing with combinations of other words. To see the original list, click here (it also explains the interesting history behind this). If you like playing with words, the website also has an annual competition to create new words. You can view their 2010, 2011 results as well as entering for 2012.
It’s a new month, and time for another freebie. In the interest of timing, I’ve broken one of my freebie rules (freebies are on Fridays) by releasing this on Tuesday. Hey, when you’re a self employed, unpaid cartoonist, it’s one of the perks!
If you’re not prepared for Easter yet, or are trying to find a non calorie alternative, then this freebie is for you. It’s a couple of Bill and Ben Easter cards.
Click here to grab your freebie.
PS. In the interest if copyright, I found these quotes (unknown author – so as far as I’m concerned, it’s up for grabs) and adapted them to suit our little green friends.
Did you know that the Paralympics first started in 1948 when Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition which involved WW2 veterans that had spinal injuries? From there it has grown from the 1960 event in Rome with 400 participants from 23 countries, to 3806 participants and 136 countries in the Athens 2004 Olympics. Personally, I prefer watching the paralympics. You get a feeling of the true spirit of competition and I’m always amazed in what humans can accomplish.
Well, not really ‘how many jellybeans in the jar’, more like, ‘how many images in my latest release Flip toon’. I just thought this would be a good analogy.
So this competition has been especially released for those of you who prefer the ‘guessing’ type competition, versus the ‘effort’ type competition. It shouldn’t take you more than 15 seconds to enter, and there’s a prize for the winner!
Click here to be the first to enter.
You’ll have to click here to see the cartoon today – it’s on You Tube!
I’m very excited to release my very first ‘Flip Toon’.
‘What the flip is is a Flip Toon?’ I hear you ask. Well it’s a Marti’ism. It combines those hand made flip books that show an animation (remember them from your childhood?) with a cartoon. I daren’t call it an animation, that would be too brash, for what I consider to be a modest extension to the cartoon media.
I hope to make more, but first I’ll need to recover from this experience. My hat goes out to those very talented people, who rightfully call themselves animators. It just about sent me over the edge making this – but that’s another story, probably a whole new blog…but I digress.
I hope you enjoy it.
Ever done the nine dot puzzle to test your lateral thinking capabilities? The goal of the puzzle is to link all 9 dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen and without tracing the same line more than once.
For the answer, zip to wiki.
I don’t know where the myth concerning elephants standing after they die came from. Various theories are out there, but I couldn’t find any evidence on Google. Here is Tyler’s theory on the subject.
Only three days to go until the closing of the March Cartoon Caption competition! To enter, click here.