HEAT

Man, it’s hot. I can’t say California spoiled me too bad because it was pretty hot there too in the summer. But nothing reminds you of the south better than humidity. Memories of high school and college have wrapped themselves around me like a moist, sweaty armpit.

Moist – what a terrible word.

In other news, we’re rockin’ away on packing and shipping books! The next batch will be hitting the mail tomorrow. As always, thanks so much for the support.

Junk Traders

Bonjour! Hope everyone is having a groovy summer so far. For us, Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time continues to crank along. The image above is a critter from the new adventure recently revealed in a recent set of marketing materials. If you’re a Ratchet fan and heading to San Diego next week, be sure to check out the RCFACIT panel on Sunday afternoon. There will be several fun tidbits announced.

Speaking of Comic-Con, we’re inching closer to our trip as we make a few final preparations. Please don’t be shy, come on by and say “Hey!” As a refresher, here are the details of the signings complete with booth numbers!

Friday, July 24, 11am-12:30pm, Booth 5022

Hosted by Creative Talent Network

Saturday, July 25, 4-6pm, Booth 5019

Hosted by Flesk Publications

Both booths are next to Stuart Ng at 5012. It’s sure to be a good time.

BoxTop #9

I like to draw robots. A lot.

Anywhose, Con is next week!!!! We can’t wait to meet up with everyone over at Stuart Ng’s booth or elsewhere in the calamity! Yipee!

The Gardener

We’re back (again)! From here on out we should be back to our regularly scheduled program of posts and related silliness. Over the last several weeks we’ve been prepping our two new sketchbooks and the army is almost complete. Like our first volume, we’ve limited the print run to 1000 for each book. When they’re gone, they’re gone! We really appreciate the enthusiasm and kind words in the previous post. Comic-Con should be lots of fun and we look forward to chatting with fellow CreatureBoxers.

As for the image, I think some gardeners are simply misunderstood.

Hiatus

Got me some Tablet PC!!! Oh toys. Expensive frickin’ toys, but it is so cool. And now I can get my work done outside the studio in the company of my beautiful wife. And on the GO!!! Which the future is boding quite a lot of it seems.

And to that end, CreatureBox is taking a month off from posting. Not from being CreatureBox, but we need some time to wrap up a couple of big projects and finish our ComicCon deadlines. It’s all very hush hush, but as always, we have been toiling away behind the scenes and can’t wait to share. Stay tuned!!! And we’ll see you in a month!

But to keep everyone busy, we are handing out a homework assignment. 300 words on what you did on your summer vacation! Nah…we want to expand the site a bit in the coming months. One part will be an FAQ. We get a lot of technique questions, professional questions, absurd questions, and a few questions we actually know the answers to. So ask away in this post. We’ll compile a list and do our best to answer what we can without giving away all our secrets.

And GO!!!! Now off to work. Peace.

SPEED

We joined the billions of others this weekend to take in the new Star Trek. The series looks to be heading in a really cool direction and J.J. gets a big thumbs up from me. I wouldn’t consider myself a Trekkie but my wife and I get a kick out of catching the original series here and there. Can’t ever go wrong with Shatner slugging a dude in a lizard constume.

Speaking of lizards, here’s one crusin’ at nearly warp speed on a space aged Vespa.