Hey how ya doin'? So for the last ten months or so, I've been working on a cartoon by myself (with help from my friends); Dr. Rock! I wrote and storyboarded this cartoon shortly before my mother got into a car accident, and I think some of the humor reflects that, making the cartoon very personal to me. I want to thank @HabaneroTadpole and @ambsomething for helping the cartoon progress while I was working on other shit. I wanna thank @cCuntu and @Wandaboy for recording with me despite the corny one-liners (and the fact that i was very intoxicated when we recorded lmao.) I want to thank @psychedelicsamurai and @goobee for doing backgrounds, it made my life so much easier and they looked fantastic! I want to thank @ColeDawg for the music, and creating such a prolific credits theme that was received very well. And finally, I want to thank @TheOGGriper for making the creature sounds and editing the cartoon, that shit really pulled the room together ;)
And now I want to feature some fanart I've gotten related to the cartoon, and feature them prominently. The first piece is from @Ner0Flare, a dear friend and fellow artist drew Nurse Casbah! This shit is my phone background as of writing this, and I really appreciate the support! Check out her twitter: https://twitter.com/Ner0Flare
The next piece of fanart comes from my friend Tyler, also known as PixelPouch. He drew the grotesque (albeit broken) Mr. Peco. I was really inspired by John Carpenters The Thing, and wanted to do something inspired by that when designing Mr. Pecos inner demon. Check out his Twitter: https://twitter.com/PixelsPouch
Before I finish talking about this cartoon, check out my friend @ColeDawg's cover of Dr. Rock, which I used as the credits theme. It'll be on Spotify sometime soon!
In other news, I made a comic dub. I decided not to upload it to Newgrounds out of courtesy for other people uploading real cartoons as of today, so I uploaded it to YouTube (and soon TikTok and Instagram.) I made this comic a few months ago for a zine, which at the time of this blog post has not been uploaded yet. I always hated how academically perfect kids got away with so much during my time in public school, and this comic is meant to relate that in the form of a young boy named Nelson Deboyd. The comic is also available in high definition in the art section of my Newgrounds page.
And finally (thank god), I reached 600 followers! I was a bit surprised by the cartoons reach, seeing as how we didn't get featured or dailyed, which is fine cuz the cartoon didn't need it! As I've said, I'm very grateful to everybody who watched Dr. Rock as well as all my cartoons (whether you follow me or not.) Thank you! I have some other stuff planned for later this year, so stay tuned!!!
See ya around, like a donut!
-- MIKEL