I think I may have discovered a new fetish - seductive snail drawings. But then again... knowing the internet... this fetish probably already exists. All I have done is add to the volumes of already existing seductive snail drawings out there.

I was attempting do a comic on why I didn't do a comic but it turns out I don't have the drawing ability to do what I had in mind for it. (Sorry Mr Last... I may give it another try again later but I think the comic won't be as topical by the time I do get to it.)

For those of you who are not Mr Last, part of the reason there wasn't a comic was because I was helping out building this: www.findanyfilm.com. Even if I do say so myself, it's a really cool site and I hope many people will find it helpful. I am quite proud of it as well as the people involved making it. A tip of the hat to the people over at blue barracuda.

Since then it's been snowing. Also some other stuff may have happened, I can't think of anything right now, I am pretty tired. When I get this tired my brain starts fizzing, it feels as if I have sherbet in my head.

It's past my bed time. I need to go to bed.

I think there is something wrong with my brain. I was chatting to a friend of mine on skype. This is what I came up with.

Gerard L. Petersen says: J-j-jen!

y-you're b-back!

I I d-developed a s-st-stuter while you were a-away

st-st-strangley enough o-o-only  w-when I t-type

I love it when I surprise myself. Not sure if it's normal human behaviour but I often think or do things that surprise me and make me laugh.It's one of the things I like most about being me.

Edit: Here is another conversation I had that made me laugh.

Gerard L. Petersen Says: Tell him... see if I care
Actually no.. don't..
he might retaliate...
 
Angie Says: Don't stress you know kung fu...

Gerard L. Petersen Says: The thing is, he wont retaliate physically...
He might retaliate with pee
You cant fight pee... no matter how much kung fu you know

Long time no post. Just a quick one. If you are looking for the mongol rally team space panda page, you can find that at http://mongolrally09.theadventurists.com/the-space-pandas

Just a quick one to let you know that I removed commenting from the site because I was getting loads of spam and not using any form of captcha or anything like that. I will put it back again when I can.

Also ordinarily I would be making an excuse as to why there is no comic. Unfortunately I can't really come up with an elaborate enough excuse. I really ought to treat you all better.

I am still here by the way. Space Panda still continues. It's just on a hiatus. A lot is going on at the moment. I have promised Jo over at Spark London a new site for ages now. So I have been missioning on with that. Also I the Future of Web Apps conference was just on. I met the guys from New Bamboo who also created Panda Stream. It was when I met them that I learned that it's generally not good to make a stabbing motion at someone you just met. Other that, I don't think I made too many social errors. The conference itself was loads of fun.

That's all for now. New comic soon I promise... the new Spark London site is almost done. Space Panda is next on the list... i swears ya...

Also, for some interesting comicy type stuff follow Space Panda on Twitter. Also I'm on twitter, follow me for general Gerard L. Petersen type twitter updates.

I almost forgot... it's space panda's 2nd anniversary today.

Why is there no spell check on this damn box? How the hell am I supposed to spell anniversary without a spell checker? Seriously? FCKeditor? Are you really going to prevent firefox from checking your spelling? Seriously? I'm gonna switch you out with TinyMCE the second I get a chance. And you always take ages to load. Seriously FCKeditor, you and me, we are done professionally.

So yeah. It's space panda's anniversary today. I don't feel I should be celebrating in anyway as I have not put as much effort in this as it deserves but in some way it is significant so I thought I should mention it. Space Panda came into existification two years ago today.

Good stuff...

I have always loved Genndy Tartakovsky. A name, along with other greats such as Craig McCracken, Friz Freleng, Chuch Jones, John K.,  and many others, seared into my head as a child.

Anyhow I happened along an article about JJ Abrams and Genndy doing a Samurai Jack film. I followed it to Genndy Tartakovsky's Wikipedia page. On there I saw the article "What Made Him The Cartoon Genius He Is Today?!". I wanted to read it really badly. Unfortunately it was stored on GeoCities which, if you were not aware, has recently been closed down. I really wanted to read the article so I searched the internet's various caches, eventually finding it hidden away on the wayback machine. I read it, and it doesn't include the amazing secret to being awesome as I had hoped it would from the title. It does have some insights thought, so I thought I would put the original article up here to make it a bit more accessable and hopefully easier to find for other hoping to read it too. So here it is:

Just What Made Him The Cartoon Genius He Is Today?!

Written by Paul Senior

Note: "Genndy" is pronounced with a hard "G" sound.
The supervising producer/director of Dexter's lab was born in Moscow, Russia in approximately 1970. Father was a dentist who defected with his wife and two boys {Genndy and older brother Alex} to the USA in 1977. Landing in Columbus, Ohio they eventually settled in Chicago.

As soon as they arrived, Genndy began collecting comic books {The very first one was a copy of DC's Super Friends, based on the TV show}, which he still collects to this day. His favorites were Marvel comics such as Captain America, The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, Thor, Spider-man and Daredevil. He enjoyed the typical Marvel soap opera plots, where the Guest Hero would fight the Regular Hero, them they would team up and whup the Bad Guys. He began drawing cartoons with his brother, Alex stopped drawing and became a computer scientist. Young Genndy would also spend lots of time watching television, "When I first discovered television here, I watched it non-stop,morning, after school, at night-I couldn't get away from it." Genndy picked up the English language quicky as a result. Some of his favorite cartoons were Hanna-Barbera's "Dynomutt" {1976-9} and "Captain Caveman" {1977-?} Interestingly, Frank Welker performed the voice of Dynomutt, much later he would voice "Monkey" for Genndy. Amazingly he also cites the situational 70's comedy "Three's Company" as an influence on his story-telling. As Genndy grew older his fascination with animation grew, he studied cartoons and made his own flip-books.

He decided to pursue a career an animation, beginning study at Columbia College in Chicago. He then moved to Los Angeles, California to attend Valencia's Cal Arts in 1990. It was at this time that Dexter's laboratory was born as one of his two student films. His first paying work was a two minute cartoon for a multi-media play that involved puppetry, video, animation and live action called "Stumpy’s Gang." He then found work as an in-betweener on "Batman:The Animated series","Tiny Toons", and "The Critic". His formulaic work on the latter show served to sharpen his personal style. Genndy then worked for Hanna-Barbera on "Two Stupid Dogs", for The Cartoon Network. A producer at H-B asked for Genndy's student demo tape, which included the early two-minute version of Dexter. He pitched H-B with a seven minute storyboard and they bought it for their new "World Premiere Toons" show. After a positive reaction they picked it up for 52 half-hour episodes in mid 1996, with the first episodes airing later that year. Genndy is working with CalArts compadre Craig McCracken on his show "The Power Puff girls", which premieres November 18 1998 on the Cartoon Network.

Genndy's older brother Alex is part of his model for Dexter, Genndy would foil his plans Dee-Dee-style. According to Wired magazine, he creates Dexter's adventures solely for his own amusement."I'm not being sincere if I do it for other people." he says. He is obviously fond of the "new wave" of animation as opposed to the Disney-style traditional approach. He takes a very active role in the show, as well as creating it and it's characters, he contributes story ideas, writes scripts, produces storyboards, directs the animation, directs the dialogue in the studio, all the way through supervising returning artwork and editing. He also drew the first Dexter comic in DC's "Cartoon Network Presents #1", and wrote the "Dial "M" for Monkey" story in "Cartoon Network Presents #4" He is also co-writing and pencilling the Dexter's lab mini-series.

Genndy is single and lives in California. He draws 60 hours a week in his cluttered studio in the H-B lot. He eats too many burritos and has a permanent dent in his finger from drawing. He likes the new Superman cartoon. Genndy's favorite Dexter episodes are "Old Man Dexter", and "Hamhocks and armlocks".