+1 Pancake Mastery

So we had some leftover waffle mix from the weekend and it pours and flows much smoother than standard pancake mix. You don't get as many of the weird ridges you do with pancake batter thats a bit thicker. While we like waffles the kids usually want pancakes and I have slowly been getting better at my pouring techniques. I think I'm really hitting my stride now.

 Lately they have been asking for dinosaur pancakes. If I pour right they are usually in pretty good proportion.

 Had to make this one for bubba, he didn't want a pancake until it was a batman pancake.

 My signature pancake :)

 Finally the nice batter gave me some ideas and I was able to to make this baby.

 Which flips over to be...an Arc Reactor!!!

Comic Strip Legends

So I found this post today, linked on news sites and though it would be awesome to talk about.

Bill Watterson is the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. He is somewhat of a different character when it comes to how he handles himself in the industry. Though Calvin and Hobbes is his creation and he has every right to their likeness he has never produced any copyright material for profit. That's right, all those stickers and shirts you see are technically not legal, but he allows their use anyway.

Besides his unwillingness to market his characters due to his personal believes (according to articles, I'm not sure we can say that for sure as he does not do interviews) he does NOT do public or even private appearances. He is famously reclusive and notoriously hard to find. After he ended Calvin and Hobbes as a series he left the public eye and became something of a legend.

Stephan Pastis the artist behind Pearls Before Swine was one of the many people to attempt to reach out to Bill Watterson, and like most expected to not hear anything in return. The response he got was something out of an artists personal fantasy and of course he wanted to tell everyone, but he was sworn to secrecy until the project was complete. Well today he is allowed to talk about it and it is an awesome story.

Here is Mr. Pastis' blog post about the exchange and some links to new artwork done by Bill Watterson.

Lots of people don't normally follow artists or care much about them beyond their artwork but I have found that it is far more interesting to follow how an artist develops over time and how their stories change. I've followed a great many web based comics over the years and read about and watch artists grow over time and it makes their work more substantial to me. Perhaps that is one of the topics I will try to cover in the future.

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Frozen Secrets

Sometimes there are things you look for in certain movies that are shout out to fans. This is especially true in Sci-Fi and comic films anymore, but it's always fun to see them in other movies too. I didn't catch any of these myself when we went to see it in theaters but here are some Easter eggs from Disney's Frozen.

 

Remember this couple? Looks like they got invited to the coronation in Arendelle. Check out the guests in the bottom left below.

Check out the candies Anna and her sister love. Look kinda familiar?

That's right Sugar Rush candies from Wreck-It Ralph

Hidden Mickey :)

 And this little tidbit isn't so much a catch as a fun fact:
Artist Lisa Keene’s painting—completed during the development phase of “Tangled” and based on “The Swing” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard—made such an impression on “Frozen” filmmakers, it became part of Anna’s signature song, “For the First Time in Forever,” when she leaps into the air and mimics the painting’s pose.