metro monster

Here’s another watercolor experiment, really just an excuse to draw more plants. This monster is gazing at her planted aquarium. Many people are surprised to learn monsters keep pets that they never eat. Oftentimes, pets are poisonous to prevent accidental consumption by their monster owners. All the fish in this aquarium are beautiful, but highly toxic.

Here’s another one of my watercolor experiments. This depicts a scene from a longer work in progress. The little orange one is the mail carrier for the monster world. She’s also highly poisonous thanks to her diet of glowing toxic pears which enables her to deliver mail to other monsters without fear of being eaten. The pink monster is a a secret admirer. It sort of came out looking like a blacklight poster but that’s ok.

I’m a novice at watercolor so lately I’ve been making people elaborate birthday cards to practice. Here’s a recent watercolor experiment from a friend’s card. As you can see, I messed up the big fish in the upper left corner so I cut it out and re-did it, then I told my friend that part was a texture experiment.

Looks like they’re not getting off that island anytime soon, but at least Amelia has some company!

This is the last of my Rhymes with Orange strips, the big Sunday color strip. When I was a kid, this was the best day for reading the comics as everything was big, colorful and in the special section I felt they deserved. I’d lay on the bright orange shag carpet in our kitchen (yes, our kitchen, this was long ago when no one knew any better) reading the comics section over and over for hours. Back then, I never thought that I would actually be a part of such a thing, so taking over Rhymes With Orange for the past week has been a really cool experience for me! I’d like to again thank my editor at King Features, Brendan Burford and Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price for making it all possible.

This strip is also available on the Rhymes with Orange website and newspapers across the country.

If you look closely, the bird is seems a bit skeptical about this information, and who could blame her, as birds and cats are natural enemies. And the dog doesn’t help matters when he boasts that he makes every snow cone himself, with his own secret formula! When it’s finally her turn, the bird decides to get blue raspberry, just to be on the safe side. This comic is also available on the Rhymes with Orange website and in newspapers across the country!

Everyone knows someone like this. You’re both going out the door, then they suddenly remember they wanted to get some music off your computer. Argh! Then they spend 45 minutes criticizing your collection and finally take the dumbest stuff ever that you only downloaded to play as a joke once at a party. Find this comic on the Rhymes With Orange site, and in newspapers across the country.

They say you shouldn’t count your chickens before they hatch, but that’s actually part of the job description! I hear they don’t pay too well though, just chicken feed. Too bad, that guy could use really the buck bucks. So, I guess the yolk’s on him. Ok, that’s enough. These jokes are getting really fowl. I guess I really laid an egg. Ok, seriously that’s enough. This strip is also on the Rhymes with Orange website and in newspapers across the country.

Oh, Steve. He just doesn’t know. Some silly wordplay in my third Rhymes with Orange strip. Find it on the Rhymes with Orange website and in newspapers across the country.

Here’s my second Rhymes With Orange strip which focuses on dog costumes. In our litigious society, even dogs need representation and who better than Lloyd Crimple, Dog Attorney? I drew my two dogs as the dogs in the costumes, Mischa is the larger one and the little one is Bucket. I apologize to anyone actually named Lloyd Crimple. You can also find the strip on the Rhymes with Orange website and in newspapers across the country!

This is the color version that’s on the Rhymes With Orange website, the black and white version is in the newspapers. Man, that table was hard to draw. The hardest thing for me to draw is a straight line. My mother-in-law laughed so this strip is officially funny. Also if Ikea wants to send me some free stuff, I won’t turn it away.