Ladies and Gentlemen! As you may well know, CLAW is hosting this June’s 100th Monkey on June 23rd. As such, Talons of the CLAW were tasked with creating the tiles. I was assigned tiles #40-50 and #98. My tiles contain everything from a cameo by a famous cartoon character to ancient deities to motorcycles and female nudity.

To whet your appetite for what’s in store at 100th Monkey, CLAW is offering sneak previews of our hand drawn tiles. All of my tiles are drawn with 100% REAL India ink and a nifty red paintbrush from Tacoma Art Supply. How can you get more local than that?

Tile #46 above is your taste of what the warped mind of Thorax O’Tool can conceive… and yes, that hard-rockin’ monkey is a southpaw.

Want to see the rest of my tiles? Come to the show on the 23rd and buy a tile or seven!

UPDATE:

Space Invaders the Summer Blockbuster (winning entry by Mark Monlux)

Stowe – Second Place

Adam – Steam Punk Mario Brothers (Second Place)

Mark Brill –

McWars by Thorax –

Anique “Moby Dick and Monster Trucks”

SpeedRunner! (Junior Guest CLAW Cadets)

Jihadfield by RR

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Join the CLAW tonight at 7:30 PM at Mandolin Cafe’s back room! This week’s OPEN SWIM cartoonists game activity will be to REBOOT any intellectual property; making it appealing to today’s audiences with their cynical, post post modernist world views AND pitch the TV show/comic/movie to the group who votes on the best one.

ACTION STEPS:

1 . split into teams

2. pick your character franchise that could really use a reboot.

3. DRAW DRAW DRAW! (Transformer Babies? Lego Garfield Video Game? Family Circus with Zombies? Fraggle Emo?)

4. Make your pitch.  Sell it!

Please welcome Adam M Botsford. He is our first Young Cartoonist of the Future Scholarship winner way back from 2009, fellow Frost Park Chalkie, and now a full fledged member of CLAW making him FEZ NUMBER ELEVEN!   Here are some photos from tonights secret initiation ritual:

see more of our cartoonist absurdity in our flickr pool.