The rights to develop The Fog Mound as an animated feature film have been optioned by the film production company Animal Logic. This doesn't necessarily mean that a film will actually be made. It is said in Hollywood, we are told, that an option is like a first kiss -- nice enough, as far as it goes, but still a long way from walking down the aisle. But, still, that is better than not being kissed at all!

ROCKS WITH FACES!

About twenty years ago we did a book called SPACE ROCK, about a kid on his way home from school who finds a rock that looks like it has a face. It turns out that this rock actually is a rock-creature from another planet. Ever since then we have kept an eye out for rocks with faces while walking on the beach, or hiking in the woods, or strolling wherever rocks with faces are likely to be found lurking. By this time we have a couple of dozen of these rocks (as well as a few shells), which we keep in a metal tin that once held a selection of Harrods chocolates. This collection has always seemed one of the more useless of our possessions, until the perfect use for it occurred to us recently, which is that we could put it on our website! HERE IT IS!

KUSTOM KOMIX

This is the title of the comic book produced by the kids in the Cartoon Workshop sponsored by the Customs House Museum in New London. The course was taught by Jon Buller, or at least he was the one who passed out the paper and drawing materials. Each kid in the class contributed three pages to the book, and a little bit of insanity to the cover.

OUR FIRST GRADUATE!

Nina Hill, of Pittsburgh, is the first one to complete our HOW TO BE A CARTOONIST course. This is a short course for kids in the art of cartooning. Nina aced her final exam, and her diploma has been sent to her in the mail. You can see Nina's final-exam cartoon here. You can begin the course here. All you need to get started is some paper and a pencil (the pen comes later).

THE FIRST EVER SCHOOL VISIT TO MASSACUSETTS

This took place on March 17 at the Leverett Elementary School, in Leverett, Massachusetts, and was lots of fun. Karin Gravina, the Library Media Specialist, composed a flier about the visit, with some beautiful photos that she shot during the event. This flier can be seen HERE.

Webmeister: Jon Buller