Google Earth helps me prepare for my own death
I live in a strange and shabby stretch of north Oakland. I’m not far from a BART station, an over-priced coffee shop with poor feng shui, a decent Peruvian restaurant and a bar that would be pretty okay if the proprietors would just turn down the lights [...]

The previously blogged John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren and Stimpy, and Katie Rice, cartoonist of the finest order have just announced their new line of cartoon t-shirts and undergarments! Check out their new cafepress.com store, HAPPYTIME.

Have you seen/heard of any/all of these electro/disco/house/noise/punk/Art/nintendo/acid/bands coming out of texas???
http://www.awthum.com/
Holy shit it’s like they stole the semen off my kleenex and stuffed it into some magical forest hippie chick’s wombs and had babies. Then incubated and raised
said children on awesome 80’s cartoons/pop culture, old school nintendo and psych/electro/techno/folk music [...]

I haven’t seen much of the talented Mister Zachary Baldus since he began his wide, Odysseian wanderings across the globe a few years back, but I keep up with him through frequent trips to his website, which is chock full samples from his professional and personal portfolios. Zach has recently redesigned, retrofitted and rejiggered his [...]

Marko from boonika writes to let us know about his artist community: “Boonika’s mission is to support talented artists & designers and art communities. First of all, artists & designers (full members only) can add news about their work on our home page when ever they feel like it and use their gallery as well. [...]

Mu and I made this St. Patricks game for Gem Studio. A now defunct storyboard house we worked at with Tom Herpich a couple years ago. -Jim

London’s Foyles book store now carries a whole shelf’s worth of Meathaus and Meathaus related books. “The World’s Most Famous bookshop” is in London’s SOHO. Meathaus master Tomer Hanuka has been in personally to inspect the goods and he reports back that he was met with friendly faces and a welcoming book store. Get into [...]

Long time student and producer of fine animation, Stephen Worth is currently heading up the creation of a massive project to digitally archive animation and related cartoons and illustration materials for the benefit of you and I and the people of the future. There are several things to understand about this: 1) He is putting [...]

Last summer I did the end credit drawings for Sean Bloch’s color 16mm short film “The Milky Way”. The short is about a boy who draws the women his single father brings home.
During the end credits it shows a lot of his previous drawings, charting his progression over the years. The goal being [...]

If grandparents, long-defunct hardcore bands, hip-cat twelve-year olds, sports bars and pornstars can have Myspace pages, why can’t we? We here at MH HQ West spent a bit too much time this afternoon uploading pics, writing cutesy tootsie blurbs and thinking of all our friends’ bands. So c’mon, social network the crap outta us at [...]