Shark Week at Comic Con!

Shark Week is a big holiday at Pixar and my friends and I usually exchange cards. Since the world's greatest animal-themed holiday is just around the corner, I figured I'd print up a bunch of cards to share with Comic Con attendees. 

If you love cold-blooded oceanic killing machines as much as I do, swing by Booth 1943 and pick up a set!

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Camp Grizzly This Weekend at Kubla Con

THE SCARIEST BOARDGAME OF ALL TIME IS FINALLY HERE.

Camp Grizzly, the debut title of Ameritrash Games, is a horror/survival boardgame for 1-6 players. The objective is to survive a night at camp with a supernatural serial killer on the loose! If this appeals to you: first seek help, then seek us out this weekend at Kubla Con in the Hyatt Regency SFO where we'll be selling beta versions of the game!

Ameritrash is a partner of Zombiesmith Games, one of the sponsors of Kubla Con. My co-creator, Jason Topolski, and I will both be available at the Zombiesmith Games booth Saturday-Monday, running games, doing drawings, and generally indulging in all manners of mischief and debauchery!

Ameritrash Games can be round at AmeritrashGames.com and here on Facebook.

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Happy Birthday to Eric Hann and Jason Topolski

I love doing birthday cards because it's an excellent way to both roast and honor a buddy. The first card is for a pal I've known since highschool. He's a huge fan of Starbucks and Indiana Jones, but I wasn't going to do the kindness of caricaturing him as the hero himself. Plus, this scene between Belloq and Marion really captures Eric's relationship with his wife, Alexa.

The second card was for my buddy Jason, who is co-creating a horror-themed boardgame with me. Naturally, I had to make him his own player card!

That's our game's killer, Otis, preparing to kill Jason with the film stock of the very movie that the game is parodying. It's game-ception.

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Happy Birthday, JP Vine!

Happy birthday to my officemate, JP Vine! He's working on an interactive shortfilm/video game starring chickens...

 ...so naturally, I had to illustrate the inevitable Mortal Kombat crossover.

If you're looking for some inspiration, stop by his blog, JPvine.com. But beware the killer chickens.


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Larvae Flywalker

A birthday card for my buddy Darrell Watson. We created a shortfilm called "Bug Wars" back in highschool. JJ Abrams is gonna have a tough time topping it!

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Happy Birthday, Ethan Karson!

Ethan is a co-worker and fellow member of the Pixar improv troupe, The Improvibles.

It's signed from "Evil" because we have two Austins in The Improvibles, and I happen to be the more nefarious of the two.

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Happy Birthday, Mom and Steve!

While my I got my artistic talent from my dad, I definitely got my sense of humor from my mom. So you can blame her for all the puns. Eye love ya, Ma!

And one more card for my step-dad, who also has an October birthday. An avid enthusiast of fish and Jesus. My goal with his card was quite clear.

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Pennycandy

The cast of The Scotland Company decks the halls for everyone's favorite holiday. That is, Miss Pennycandy is decking the halls as the men lounge around pretending to be important.

Happy birthday to Xanadu Bruggers, our one and only Pennycandy!

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AT-AT for Atty

Congrats to my good pal and fellow Dandy, Dovi, who's son Atticus arrived late last night. For most literate folks, the name Atticus conjures the staunch integrity and courage of the hero in Harper Lee's classic. For me, however... 

Needless to say, baby Atty's already targeted the shield generator of my heart.

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Happy Birthday, Emma Coats!

At 11:59pm, made it with one minute to spare! Mirthy birthday ya Dandy!

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Shark Week!

Because there's no spray repellent for AWESOME.

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A Dire Situation

For my friends who just announced they are expecting. When I have a kid, I'm going to travel North and I'm not coming back until I have a dire wolf pup for said baby!

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Ear No Evil, Sneeze No Evil, Hack No Evil

A thank you card for a friend of a friend of a friend who is an ear, nose, and throat doctor. Unfortunately the friend (of my friend, not the friend of my friend's friend) didn't go for my first "nose" gag.

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Twenty-Somethings

Happy birthday to Ross Dickinson and Chris Chua, a couple of real Dandies!

This probably isn't the first drawing of an anthropomorphised d20 toting medieval weapons, but it's my drawing of an anthropomorphized d20 toting medieval weapons, dammit!

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Why the long fez?

Happy birthday to my pal, Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls! I've known Alex since high school and if there's one guy better (worse?) than me when it comes to puns, it's this guy!

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Hey Jude

Birthday card for my dear friend and fellow animator, Jude Brownbill. She's a Brit, her name is Jude...my task was clear.

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My Brother, the Iron Man

My brother, Andy, is always looking for ways to expand his crime-fighting arsenal. So, for his birthday, I got him Iron Man's bracelets from The Avengers (available at Think Geek).

Andy enjoys the occasional skydive, so I figured the Iron Man bracelet would come in handy under less-than-favorable circumstances...

Happy Birthday, Andy! And many safe returns!

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Hulk Crush

"You don't want to see me when I'm randy."

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Happy Mother's Day!

Nothing says Mother's Day like arboreal marsupials. This was my gift to my mom, seen here with my brother and I.

You can blame her for my sense of humor, though she's much better with puns than I am.

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Happy House Warming, Kitt!

My buddy and fellow improviser, Kitt, had a house-warming party last weekend and I wanted to give him something special to brighten the walls. Kitt is known for having some of the most amazing Halloween costumes and by far his best has been the Han-and-Tauntaun combo. His tauntaun even had removable guts to warm your hands with. So the gag above was really a no-brainer.

Kitt also has one of those faces that's fun to caricature. He even gained a little notoriety at work for bearing a striking resemblance to the Lao Ming meme. 

 Happy Friday everyone!

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