Haha, someone tipped me off that the author Eric Nylund was wearing a shirt of mine in an interview for the new Halo Waypoint on XBox Live.

Went and checked it out and...yup, he's wearing Monster Battle from designbyhumans!

www.designbyhumans.com/shop/detail/3781?page=1



Much thanks to vicioussuspicious.deviantart.com/ for the tip off!

Pretty cool! :D

( Games, manga back here! )

Just comment with what you want. Dont' have an LJ account, lurkers? Just email me at missmonstermel @ Gmail.com with what you want in the subject line :)

For Sale on Etsy

Also! Visioluxus/Elisa Lazo de Valdez is having a print sale, including a bunch of the photos I've posed for!

Trust me, as beautiful as her pictures are online, they are even more vibrant and lush in real life. I have a small collection of her work and it is just breath-taking.

I'm always amazed at the detail I can see in these macro shots that can't be seen with the naked eye. This yarn looks totally smooth without magnification!

( +1 )

I think I just wanted to draw sharks.  Cause they are messed up, dude.

Another animal I like is cats!  I have two.  One named Louis and one named Buster, they are both girls.  I know of an awesome cat named Paisley that has a website and livejournal.  She does an auto-bio diary strip.  It’s fantastic.

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Making a Krampus design. My festive holiday contribution.

The final will be available as Christmas cards, haha. Probably print on demand shirts too. Thanks for the card idea, Fryda....

OMG I HAS TAILZ?


sorry, that was nerdy.

( hey look it's the last catcow! )

HEY someone made a pumpkin with my art on it! It looks rad!!!!

I also collected some photos of DIY masks that customers painted up. If i forgot anyone please send me the link to your photos!

So exciting!

In other news, thank you to the folks that commissioned sketch cards! I will be finishing the rest of them tonight. I REALLY appreciate it, i needed something to loosen up/relax with. I'm still down to do 'em so just let me know :)

I'm also going to be doing another house cleaning....so that means ONLINE YARD SALE! I have more stuff that i love very much but never use. I'm going to sell it for cheap so look here tomorrow!

ALSO Someone bought a R.A Salvatore book from me at the last yard sale. I can't seem to get ahold of you to get an address. Can you please comment or email me? The book has been waiting to go home for a long time!

Always Sunny on Philadelphia tonight! FILIBUSTER.

New Art Doll on Etsy:A Old Blanket and a Withered Garden I should also be listing her on my website soon.
She is up for sale on my etsy here http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33907701
TITLE: A Old Blanket and a Withered Garden
MEDIUM:Paper clay,ceramic,clear glass eyes,cotton,string and a wooden base.The costume is made from one of my rotted childhood blankets which I allowed to decay in my garden where my pets who have passed on are buried.
SIZE: 16 X 12 inches.
STATUS: For sale 500.00
NOTE: Doll portrays the way we sometimes feel choked up and tied down to certain situations.The doll comes with it's base and is sitting on a latched,hinged trinket box that can be open and closed with the doll on top.The box also contains a secret message pasted on the inside only the buyer will see.There are also trinkets inside the hole in the dolls head.
Because of the eyes being clear glass depending on the way the light hits her,her eyes can sometimes look like they are following you.
Payment Plan is available:Doll is available for a payment plan.For around 80.00 each consecutive month,with a down payment of 50.00.A payment must be made EVERY month or you forfeit your item and are charged a 30.00 relisting fee.Also if you skip 3 months of payments you forfeit what you have paid on the time.I hate to be so strict about it but past experience have demanded it.E-mail me for info if you wish to purchase her on a payment plan.

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Tomorrow night I'm off to the opera. I'm going with an actress from the Twilight movie. This world is crazy. Someone should give it therapy.


At the same time I'm working on two projects that have no home. One is a kid's book that isn't for kids and the other is the bible for people who aren't religious. Yep. I'm a marketing genius. And by genius I mean idiot.


Waiting each week to hear if the New Yorker buys a cartoon is stressful. We send (ie. fax) off our stuff on Tue and usually hear back by Thur. Relative to other magazines they're amazing. Still. Stressful. I did feel like I had two good comics this week. Last week was weak. Apart from the discipline of banging out 10 cartoons a week and the subsequent improvement in my cartoons, my favorite aspect of the gig is making friends with the other gag cartoonists.

Last night I was at a bar drawing cartoons and some artist guy started talking to me about cartoons. I couldn't bring myself to say that I was cartooning for the New Yorker. I told him that I drew the cartoons and then tried to sell them to various magazines. He wanted to be a cartoonist. I didn't want to sound like I was bragging and I didn't want to make him feel bad.

Finally, one I don't have to hide behind a cut!
For Sale on Etsy

Well, I already broke one of my guidelines for this project-- that the picture should be completed within one hour of getting to the studio. This one was at least one-and-a-half if not two. It was all those stupid little suckers! :|

They're not teeeeeeribly exciting, but here's the only two pictures that actually turned out alright from yesterday's adventure to Sock It To Me.
( Sock It To Me )

I spent this week totally re-organizing and cleaning out my studio, so I'm sorry I don't have a proper comic for you guys (but I've started one). Instead, I thought I'd share some of the work being done by my 10-year-old comics students, and some of my thoughts on teaching comics to kids. (Also, if you'd like to see the first five handouts I made for the class, you can read them here)

( My students are just brilliant. I have nothing to do with it. )

Man, kids comics are absolutely the best.

Seriously though, don’t forward political things unless you are 100% positive the other person agrees with you.  It’s FAR more annoying than any other kind of spam.

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Some character sketch commissions....

Got a late start to the day, so the morning drawing is more like an afternoon drawing.


( a naked lady )
Why was my day so late-starting? Because Dylan and I tagged along with Rich and Meredith to visit the Sock It To Me warehouse! Wow. So many socks.

As mentioned yesterday I'd like to take a few inked sketch commissions! I need something fun. I am opening for 4.5" x 6 1/4" off- white cardstock ink and grey toned commissions to be finished ASAP. Similar to the Old Gregg you see up there.

Yes, the Old Gregg card is for sale for $20. Just comment if you want it.

Iam charging $20 including shipping with in the US. Outside the US is an extra $2.00 to ship. Use the button below to order one! PLEASE include your reference or sketch description in the PAYPAL notes so i can keep track easier.

EDIT: If you can't access the notes, then leave reference here in a comment or in an email ( missmonstermel @ gmail.com) . Please tell me your paypal name though so i can keep track of handles/real names and who paid for what :)

US/ International orders

U.S $20.00 International $22.00