Just a little tip of the hat to Chris Van Allsburg, one of my favorite illustrators from his book The Polar Express.
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Remember how Peaseblossom told Kevin to stay on the Koala Road no matter what? Well this is why. Anyway that’s the Christmas Story for this year. Hope you all enjoyed it… Now on to the New Year.
To start the holiday season I decided to go with films that were of the season but not actually seasonal. This led to a rather interesting selection of two films that have absolutely nothing in common. In Bell, Book and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Better Late Than Never
Well Kevin was late for the beginning of this year’s Christmas story because Peaseblossom and Hilda couldn’t find him but at least he knew a short cut to get there… of more accurately a shortcut knew him. This is going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Peaseblossom is very excited about her incredible epic work place and is more annoyed by Kevin’s lack of interest. When I was in the throwing ideas at the wall stage the first thing that occurred to me was a Game[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While when thinking of a wall as one of the main settings in this story my first thing I had thought of was the Wall from Song of Ice and Fire but the second thing I thought of regarding freaking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Monster Reformatory
The idea of a reformatory for monsters came fairly easily when you think of all of the various demons and boogie creatures that serve as the stick to Santa’s carrot in many Christmas traditions… They had to have the light shown[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The old rule about explaining jokes aside, when Peaseblossom says Siberia she’s talking about Tunguska… In other words being forced to lock away all of those things would be bad. I really wanted to do more with the giants out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Receiving Instructions
Kevin gets his instructions for Christmas and suddenly being an orderly at a supernatural mental hospital begins to sound pretty good. On a side note I think I did a pretty good Night Gaunt.
