Just ask Adam Dunn. The ball looks a bit like this each time it comes at you. And the harder you try to knock that silly little grin off of the little monsters face, the harder it becomes.

In terms of creative exercises this is a good example of when NOT to censor or edit yourself. I almost did that, initially throwing it aside in my mind. Years of being edited in a print environment can do that to you. But the more  I thought about it, the  funnier I thought the image was. Almost like my forked goalpost cartoon of long ago. So I drew it, the editors at the Chicago Tribune loved it and here is now in all it’s haunting glory.

I told you the other day about my new syndicate home, but I think I might have gotten the link mixed up. Here’s the one I think is the one to see http://www.gocomics.com/drewlitton . Please feel free to subscribe there as well. The better my numbers, the more likely they are to keep me!

I’ve given my blog on Creativity, the Creators Incubator a total makeover as I try to ramp it up in the weeks and months ahead. I’ve kind of made it a lot less about me and a lot more about, well,  creativity.

Note: The video stops at the 1:55 mark. So hit the stop button then.

This was the very first attempt I made at an animatic I did while at the Rocky. This one was done in the spring of 2008 and never got published. So you’re seeing it for the very first time. An animatic is the first rough stages of action and sound combined to give an animator the structure to base the finished art on. This one never got completed for several reasons. It runs long (1:55) and the pacing needed to be tightened up. And at the time I was still trying to figure out a way to make the finished art look like my style, because when you draw in Adobe Flash it smooths out the line quality quite a bit. The roughs in the animatic were done in blue pencil on animation paper , scanned and imported into the film. The soundtrack was done as one long sequence, which was the wrong way to do it. So this was really a lesson in what not to do. But I still think it’s funny. So here you go. I hope you like it.

The Cubbies have had to place two pitchers on the DL already. Needless to say, that’s not the way you want to start a new season. This one is from the Chicago Tribune.

How about your teams? Hot or cold?

It’s now known as the missed call heard round the world. It will live in infamy for all of the wrong reasons. In a way it is the simple statement about all that ails America’s pastime. A game wedded to statistics like none other, no longer seems to care what is true and what isn’t. It was a PERFECT game. Naw. Even if the Ump blew the call. Bonds holds the home run record even if he did do a bunch of steroids. Baseball has become a sport devoid of integrity. In this case, Those numbers that baseball clings to, the ones that make their world go round, just don’t add up.

One of the perils of doing freelance work is there are times when you find yourself buried beneath a lot of deadlines. It’s where I find myself these days. Thanks for being patient. I should have myself dug out any day now and able to get back to some BRONCOS and TEBOW toons. Here’s one for all of the parents of the world who find themselves having to confiscate the kids cans of Red Bull.