The Mockingbird Song should hooooopefully be fixed and ready to go shortly after Easter. I’d hoped to finish it by this weekend, but I’ve been out of town, under the weather, and had other priorities. AT THE SAME TIME. But worry not! It’s coming soon.

Would you like a snack while you wait?

Shawnee Jenkins' pantry

Because True Blood isn’t on yet.

Update 2/14/10: Technical problems. I know. Again. The day I can publish a cartoon without issue is the day the Earth stands still. But I’m working on the problem and will post Mockingbird just as soon as I’m able.

Update 2/17/10: This has been one doozie of a technical problem. I’ve sent the file off to someone who’s good at figuring out why things break, and I hope to have a mended animation to show you soon. My apologies!

Two days until The Mockingbird Song! It’s been a couple of years since my last long cartoon (Ida’s Luck Part 2), so I’m very excited to show it off. I’ve been getting a few questions about it since I initially announced it, so here are a few of those answers:

• I’m narrating it this time.
• It’s based on a Sixcast episode I wrote and recorded a few months ago; many of you may already be familiar with it. I’ve taken the recording down for now so that you’ll have some time to forget it!
• As mentioned previously, there are a few slight changes in the story. They are minor, but they’re important without drastically changing the one you already liked.
• It’s ten minutes long! Whew!
• It’s very different from a typical Skary cartoon. Still sad and spooky (I hope), but Shawnee Jenkins is a fairly normal Kansas eight-year-old considering that, well… you’ll see what I mean. ;-)
• Those of you with young children who are also fans (yay!), I would hold off on showing them this one until you’ve seen it first. There’s some violence and gore. Granted, it’s very stylish gore with a retro look to it and all, but vintage entrails are still entrails.
• Can anyone embroider? I would love a throw pillow that said “Vintage entrails are still entrails.”

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

The past few months have been insanely busy for me, as you may have guessed, and that’s meant delaying a very important project for me: my next long cartoon, The Mockingbird Song. But your wait is finally almost over. It’s finished!

I’m  not posting it today, however, as it’s Super Bowl Sunday, and you’re probably all at parties and throwing Cheetos at each other or whatever it is that people who take an interest in sports do on important game days.

Mockingbird will be posted next Sunday, Valentine’s Day. Then you can tell your date you’re crying because you saw a really sad cartoon, not because he smells like raw onions (which, incidentally, he does. You should really talk to him about that, but not on Valentine’s Day; that would be rude!). In between now and then, I’ll just tease you all by talking about it a lot and making vague references that you won’t understand until you’ve seen it. It’s what I do best.