Penguin sketches from a year ago.

Monica’s latest party had a fun “super star” Hanna Montana theme, and I made her this electric guitar piñata. We had a lot of fun making it, because of the shape there was no need for balloons or any messes with flour. I basically just used a box from one of my RC airplanes, cut the shape with one face of the box and traced the bottom part with the other side. The corners were just slices from the same box folded to form the necessary shape. Lots of tape was needed for this.

Because I was using a box and no paper mache, I was afraid the kids were going to have a hard time breaking it but no, it stood its ground and then broke when the bigger kids started hitting it.

One fun little detail where the knobs and the cords made out of colorful threads. Also added a little Hanna Montana sticker to keep up with the theme of the party.

BTW one of the top searches I keep getting is for “transformer piñata”, which almost makes me try to do one (Starscream or Optimus I guess). Too bad my girls are not really into the Transformers, but maybe I could do just for fun or give it to a friend.

Hope everybody has a happy thanksgiving. After a long year of working, we’re finally getting to the holidays, so I’m really looking forward to spending to more quality time with the family. That and of course eating some turkey tonight and my favorite, leftover turkey sandwiches.

This actually happened to me recently in real life. It was so bizarre I just had to capture it in cartoon form.

Click on comic strip to get the (readable) larger version …

Just to clarify, the last panel showing me being attacked is not literally true, but in a funny way very close to the actual “exchange”. Needless to say, I did not take the mouse in question, although I wish I had. Would have made the whole thing funnier in the end.

Haven’t done much with some of my software projects outside of work lately, been kind of busy at work. Also took a nice little break over the 4th of July week, the family and I really needed that. I’m hoping to get back to blogging soon in a regular basis. In the meantime, here’s a drawing I’ve been working on recently, it didn’t take long to draw but I spent way too much time cleaning up the pencils and the line work. I think it’s time to invest in a graphic tablet.