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Who Watches (Me Color) The Watchmen?

I colored these personal sketch cards live on my Ustream channel tonight:

You can watch a recording of me creating these cards on my Ustream channel!

These personal sketch cards measure 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches each and were drawn with micron pens and Prismacolor markers/pencils.

I have 40 blanks left, all going to one client (my pal George), so stay tuned for further live webcasts featuring me working on them, because I hope to finish all 40 by May or June so they can all be featured in my 2009 convention sketchbook.

-Otis

The Words & Pictures Podcast Episode 3

Episode 3: Writing Stuff is now online!

Go get it!

-Otis

iTunes, Baby!

The Words & Pictures Podcast is now available on iTunes!

Go get it!

-Otis

The Words & Pictures Podcast

What's this?  Words & Pictures?  Marc Deering?  The number "one"?

Go here to learn all about the new sister site of otisframpton.com!

-Otis

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-Otis

The Return of Eye Candy

I used to make blog posts that linked to good stuff to look at around the web.  It's time I started doing that again . . .

The Art of Pixar - The copyright issues may be iffy for this site, but I sure do appreciate that the author went to the trouble of posting this great imagery from behind the scenes at the magic factory that gave us this year's best picture (IMHO).

The Art of the Title Sequence - A great blog that breaks down movie title sequence graphics and even posts clips so you can see the work in motion.

Erwin Madrid - A great artist I stumbled upon.

Creature Box - Amazing fantasy artwork from Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin.  I'm soooooo jealous of the talent on display here.

View Master Memories - A blogger at What My Dad Saw has posted images from the old View Master slide gizmos.  I actually had the Flintsones slides shown here!  Ah, memories . . .

-Otis

Snoopy Flying Ace

Coming in 2010:

As soon as I saw this, I immediately became 5 years old again, spinning this 45:

Speaking of Peanuts, you can now view the last 50 years of the strip for free online.

And you should.

-Otis

URLy?

For the time being, the follwoing two URLs with forward you to this blog:

fignationentertainment.com

digitalfigments.com

For the time being.

Stay tuned.

-Otis

Oddly Normal Artwork Contest!

Hey, all!  It's time for a contest!

I'm inviting everyone with a deviantART account to create a piece of Oddly Normal artwork.  Every piece will be featured here on my website and at my deviantART page (with appropriate links, of course). 

AND . . .

The creators of the five pieces I like best will receive a signed copy of the Oddly Normal Vol 1 graphic novel (or the second book, if you prefer) and will have their artwork featured in the gallery section of the third Oddly Normal book, Oddly Normal: Fignation Times, to be published in 2008!

If you're interested in submitting artwork to the contest, you can find plenty of reference material HERE and HERE. 

Here are the official contest rules:

-The contest is only open to deviantART members.
-Create all artwork in color at 300 dpi (in case it gets selected for print).
-Post a link to this DA journal entry with your deviantART submission.
-Send me a note or e-mail with a link to the submission so that I know it's out there!
-The artwork can be of any character or situation from the series.  It can be one character or many.
-All submissions must be all-ages appropriate.  No mature/adult material.  I will not feature any artwork that has inappropriate material in it and it will be disqualified from participation in the contest.

The deadline for entering the contest is 11:59pm US Eastern time, October 16th, 2007.  No exceptions!  The winners will be announced on October 18th here at my website and at my deviantART page.

So fire up your pencils, tablets, paint brushes or 3D modellers and work up some Oddly Normal art!  I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

-Otis

Oddly Normal Production Journal

I'd like to start this journal update by thanking everyone who wrote to me about Oddly Normal Volume 1 being named as one of the American Library Associations Top 10 Graphic Novels For Youth.  The outpouring of support has been great!

Next I'd like to announce that the official Viper Comics site for Oddly Normal: Family Reunion is up and running!  You can now read the first two chapters there and also find links to recent Oddly press.  Thanks to Jim Resnowski for all the hard work on getting the page up and ready for viewing.

Now on to more recognition for Oddly Normal Volume 1 . . .

The kind folks over at Needcoffee.com have nomination the book for a 2006 "Goldne Chazzie" in the category of "Best Graphic Novel/Collection!  Needcoffee.com has been very kind to Oddly, making 3 out of the 4 original comics their "Comic Book of the Week" in 2005.  Thanks for the nomination, guys!  I'll let you know when they announce the winners.

And finally, some new reviews!  Four reviewers at Indy Comic Review gave the book 4 out of 5 stars.  Thanks, guys!.  Here are the reviews.

-Otis