Wookie and Sasquatch: Chewbacca and Flink

Continuing our Bigfoot theme: last night we followed "The Beast of Wolfe's Bay" and "Iron West" with Doug TenNapel's "Flink"

Ansel is not a big fan of Star Wars (he patiently suffered through his brother's multiyear obsession) but Chewie is still appealing...well, probably for the same reason that Bigfoot is.

I'm not sure what the potential relationship might be here?  Sure, they are both tall, hairy guys with grey noses, but I don't think they would have a language in common, so they won't be able to exchange hair care tips.

Nessie Visits School Cafeteria

We read Doug TenNapel's "Iron West" in the school cafeteria yesterday.  The story includes a Loch Ness style "wingless dragon" deployed by a Native American shaman (later revealed to be an alien) to battle an army of "metal men" and a Transformer-like monster robot made from a locomotive.

There aren't too many spaces at school where one could unleash Nessie, but the lobby and mezzanine cafeteria did seem like a possibility.  My perspectival drawing is usually pretty poor, and napkin distortions make the situation worse, but the kids were at least able to recognize the setting.

Bigfoot with Skylanders Lunch

Cryptozoology is never really out with our kids, but reading Erik Evensen's "The Beast of Wolfe's Bay" last night got Ansel specifically interested in Bigfoot.

The pseudo Sasquatch on today's napkin, however,  probably owes more stylistically to Doug TenNappel's graphic novels "Iron West" and "Flink."

He's holding Ansel's Skylanders Lunch Bag.  Maybe he doesn't know how to work a zipper...

Bad Island Mo Mos Bring Lunch

While we were finishing rereading Doug TenNapel's "Bad Island" last night, Ansel requested these unfriendly little aliens on his napkin for today.

In the graphic novel, they are determined to force the parents of a human family into a lake of acid.  But I thought maybe we should put their sharp sticks to a more positive use here on the napkin. 

Or maybe they are looking to malevolently torment the napkin recipient with a healthy lunch of whole grain pasta and a fruit and a vegetable.  Our kids are usually happier to have a bagel for lunch....  Just a bagel.

Cardboard Pacific Rim Jaeger with "Cardboard" Characters

We read Doug TenNapel's "Cardboard" again over the weekend.
While we made some more cardboard stuff, we were not able to pull off the fabrication of a huge mech like "Pacific Rim"s Gypsy Danger.

Tyrannosaur, Robin and Batman

Last night, Ansel insisted we read Doug TenNapel's "Tommysaurus Rex" for the second time this week.  I think the dogs in the book might be the real draw for him (and of course the possibility that a pet dog could be reincarnated as a dinosaur)

But I was more interested in drawing the dinosaur than the dog.  Robin and Batman are riding him because someone had to, and they don't require much research.

Ansel hadn't given me a request last night, but this image almost prompted a smile this morning. 

Cardboard LEGO Batman

LEGO Batman, complete with batarang, gets the Doug TenNapel magic cardboard treatment today.

My sons were very much looking forward to the release of the latest LEGO dvd: "LEGO Batman: The Movie- DC Super Heroes Unite" is the complete title I believe.  Multiple reviews explaining that it is not much more than the cut scenes from the video game did not deter them from insisting that I should buy it.

Teen Titans Robin Made of Doug TenNapel's Magic Cardboard

Ansel was so impressed with James Grashow's cardboard version of a Bernini fountain (pictured in the NY Times), that we had to read Doug TenNapel's Cardboard again last night.

There is no doubt what sort of person we would fabricate if we had magic cardboard that could come to life.

Ansel asked me hopefully this morning if I had made an actual cardboard model of Robin in order to make the drawing.  Disappointingly, no.

Tommysaurus Tyrannosaur with Dog

We reread Doug TenNapel's "Tommysaurus Rex" last night at bedtime, so playful affection between dinosaurs and canines was on Ansel's mind today.

Ratfist and Milt the Rat

We just reread Doug TenNapel's "Ratfist" again last night.

Politically incorrect jokes, farting, arguments about religion and a talking rat: perfect bedtime reading.