Apparently the chair just needed its back chiseled out. Quick work, once you get started.

#1573; The Threat of Doing

  — September 4th, 2025

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Roll-a-Sketches from San Diego Comic-Con!

Here are a few of the Roll-a-Sketches I did at Comic-Con this year! (Click any image for bigger.)

Of course if you’d like to get a Roll-a-Sketch coloring book, postcard set, or watercolor painting, our Kickstarter is still going on presently!

We’re doing SO WELL. Thanks to your support, we’re over 140,000% funded with 10 days still to go!

I think the potato salad dude set the Kickstarter funding record at 550,000% of his goal amount, and heck, I’d be a liar if I said I wouldn’t love to beat that. Regardless, every backer is cherished and special to me.

Okay cool! Here’s some of the drawings from San Diego!

TERMINATOR + FANTASY + JABBA + DEVIL:

ho ho ho

BANE + WHEELBARROW + GIANT + CHEF:

you have my permission to eat

PRINCESS + JABBA:

i thought i recognized your foul stench when i was brought on board

GRANNY + TERMINATOR:

dun-dun dun da-dun

CASTAWAY + MAMMOTH:

awwwwww

GARFIELD + PRINCESS:

the principality of arbucklia

My next show is Gen Con in Indianapolis; see you there!

The Mystery of Toast Shrek (Updated!)

Thanks to everyone who came and said hello at Comic-Con! I did a bunch of Roll-a-Sketches that I’ll be sharing soon (and of course, the Roll-a-Sketch Kickstarter is still happening, more than fully funded and going strong!).

But first I’d like to talk about Toast Shrek.

We found this photograph, framed exactly thus, in our rental house in San Diego:

The frame was sitting on a shelf, facing the wall. We don’t know who this man is. We don’t know if this was a raucous party night, or a particularly strange funeral.

We don’t know what the substance is on his face — we argued about whether it’s guacamole, or egg salad, or perhaps some custom concoction brewed by the terrible person whose hand is visible wielding toast in the top right of the picture.

We want to know who this is. A Google search for “passed out man toast shrek”, and variants thereof, turn up no information. In our selfless attempt to get the word out, at our Comic-Con booth we encouraged #toastshrek selfies:

Stop by booth 1229 and take a selfie with #toastshrek #SDCC

A photo posted by Brad Pipins (@cursors) on

If you know anything at all about this man, please get in touch. We want to make sure he’s okay.

UPDATE, 7/14/15: Several eagle-eyed shreksketeers have pointed out that the photo originates from this satirical 2014 Vice article.

It’s a shame that this beautiful thing couldn’t be real, but I suppose it flew too high, too fast. That said, it’s lovely that it was framed and cherished, by its prior owner and now by almost a dozen Comic-Con attendees.

Go softly, Toast Shrek, and find your own way.

Announcing: Roll-a-Sketch KICKSTARTER!

I’ll be at San Diego Comic-Con this week! Come see me at BOOTH 1229 for books and games and all the regular cool stuff!

I’ll also be doing Roll-a-Sketch (OF COURSE). BUT: if you can’t come to the show, here’s a new thing!

For the next three weeks, I’m doing Roll-a-Sketch COMMISSIONS — meaning, you can order a drawing for yourself via the mail! And you can do it RIGHT HERE:

Roll-a-Sketch COMMISSIONS at the Wondermark Goodsery

Or, for MORE EXCITEMENT in your life, I’m also doing a short, 21-day Kickstarter campaign, where you can get Roll-a-Sketch postcards, coloring books, original paintings, AS WELL AS customized commissions. Check out the video I made:

Roll-a-Sketch Coloring Book & Original Art on Kickstarter

I just got this cool email from one of my earliest Roll-a-Sketch boosters, Dr. Gatto. He’s populated his waiting room wall with drawings from the past several years’ worth of Comic-Cons. That, I must say, is SUPER COOL.

I…I’m sorry if your patients end up feeling weird while on your premises, Doc.

another brick in the wall

Both the commissions and the Kickstarter will be ending on JULY 27. Until then, see you in San Diego OR ON THE INTERNET!

Check out: Crawdads Welcome

crawdads

I came across this comic series when someone mistook it for Wondermark. It’s so lovely! And hand-drawn, which Wondermark isn’t really…I mean, someone drew it, but not me. Wondermark is A COLLABORATION WITH THE DEAD

The above is just a single panel, check out the whole series on Tumblr: Crawdads Welcome, a comic strip about animals by Ezra Butt.

Check out: Live New Yorker Cartoons

Dramatizing cartoons is hard. The cadence can be hard to nail — and sometimes it doesn’t work at all.

Voice actor SungWon Cho has done the best job I’ve heard yet (and he’s back, this week, with another delightfully narrated Wondermark comic)!

But the field is still ripe for challengers.

Enter Late Night’s Seth Meyers. Accompanied by New Yorker editor David Remnick, Seth and his troupe of hardy players have taken on the challenge of performing, in live action, single-panel New Yorker cartoons.

It’s pretty great. There are two entries in the series (so far)!


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