Election night BINGO!

Download it here: http://www.monkeyminionpress.com/electionbingo2008.pdf

OKAY. New Bingo Rules for Election Night!

Here's what I'm doing:
Play two boards. One Board is the McCain Board the other is the Obama board. Write the states you think each one will win in the boxes on each one. Now, you can play traditional bingo rules or Blackout, depending on how late you're staying up.

Here is a List of the States:

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho State

Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri

Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania

Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

redbubble!

Approximately 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States.

Wow, what a downer, yeah? Well, that's reality.

Why do I mention this? Let me tell you. This Sunday (10/26) is Wonder Woman Day here in Portland. Wonder Woman Day is a part of National Domestic Violence Month, and is a big event that raises awareness of the issue of domestic violence, as well as raises money for some women's shelters and hot lines.

So, why am I telling you this? Well, besides the fact that this a good cause, and everyone should support it, I'm donating art to the event.
























It's 9 inches by 12 inches done in Marker on Bristol Board. Hopefully, it will help to raise some money for the cause.

For more information on the event and on other artists that will be at the event and who's art will be up for auction, please go here:

"I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.” - Stan Lee

This Saturday is the Tri-City Comicon in Pasco, WA.
thetc3.org

I'll be setting up there in Artist's Alley along with my wife, Ashlie. I'll be selling prints, sketch cards and greeting cards as well as Original Drawings and commissions. If you happen to be in the Pasco area Saturday, swing by and say hi!

One of the new things that I'll have for sale at the con will be these prints:













This is the first in a series of Superheroes and their transportation illustrations that I'm planning on doing. they are 8.5 x 11 and I'll be selling these for $10.

Another new piece that I'll have available will be the final piece in my Oz series: The Wizard!


























See you there!

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. - Barack Obama

So, the debates.
You know, not often am I going to tie my work in with politics, but after watching the debate Last Friday, I got to thinking, "You know what would make this more fun? BINGO!" So, I decided to design a bingo card for bored debate-watchers to make it more interesting. So, this is what it looks like:

Download it here: http://www.monkeyminionpress.com/electionbingo2008.pdf

Now, I'm assuming that anyone who downloads this will know how to play bingo, so fill in your own cards, but make sure that they are different so that you can have a winner. If you need a starter on words to use to fill in the cards, here's a list my wife and I compiled.

• Reagan
• Terrorism
• Terrorist
• Veteran
• POW
• Maverick
• Palin
• Biden
• Liberal
• Conservative
• Doesn't Understand
• Oil
• Thanks, but no thanks
• Safety
• Economy
• Golden Parachutes
• Roe V. Wade
• The Bush Administration
• Foreign Leaders (you can use this one as is, or whenever a candidate mentions meeting a specific one)
• Russia
• foreign policy
• Catholic
• bridge to nowhere
• Alaska
• Delaware
• Illinois
• Arizona
• Houses
• Earmarks
• middle class
• wealthy
• tax cuts
• taxes
• war
• Gen. Patreus
• Rove
• History
• spending
• experience
• voting record
• lobbyists
• • Newspaper
  • Tina Fey
• CHANGE
• Nixon
• 911 (or September 11)
• bipartisan
• nonpartisan
• pork barrel
• bailout
• upperclass
• Iraq
• Afganistan
• Iran
• Georgia
• greedy,
• Wall Street
• my friends
• mainstreet

If you think of some that I missed, please let me know, because I'll be playing this Thursday during the VP debate. Play by any house rules that you like (BINGO or Blackout), you could take a shot every time you get a word on the board, etc.

Good luck and play fair!

Last Thursday!

Tonight is the Alberta Arts District Last Thursday along Alberta St.

I, with my wife, will of course be setting up my booth out there. Swing on by and check it out, if you're in town!

So, recently I held a Pirate Trivia contest in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day last Friday and gave away 2 pieces of original art. So, I figured that I'd post those here today.

First up, here's what the first winner asked for:
"Tell me if this Commission'll fly. Since I'm a huge Tusken Raider fan, how 'bout a Pirate Flag(Skull and Crossbones), but with a Tusken Head with Gaffi Sticks crossed behind it?"

So, this is what I gave him:
















The other guy asked for something a little more complicated:
"I can't believe I won! I think that's what I'm suppose to say. I was going to google for the name of the extra toe cat but figured if I did I'd get beat to the punch!

Pirate themed... I don't want to have to do a ton of work on my account, but I sure do appreciate you donig this. How about Red Skull, of course, and he's sorta piraty - with the traditional captains pirate hat and all that happiness with a black cat in there somehow. A Polydactyl would probably be too hard to show easy.

I trust ya, ye scurvy dog!!!"

So I gave him this:
































Anyway, LAST THURSDAY. TONIGHT. BE THERE, or BE SQUARE (oh yeah, I went there!)

It cost 75¢ to kill a man in Caesar's time... - Homer T. Bone

Hail and well met, fellow travellers!

I have completed the task set afore me of drawing 75 Marvel Masterpieces cards. I will post them now for your perusal. Let me know what you think of them in the comments section below!