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Take your pick of two different valentines: “Be My Valentine” or a just friends “Happy Valentine’s Day.” Clicking the images will only bring up low-res versions. If you want the real thing, you can download each as a hi-res pdf. Give it enough time to download; the pdfs are around 315KB each. Be My Valentine hi-res pdfHappy Valentine’s Day hi-res pdf

This cute little guy looks exactly like something that’s begging to be a Rot. I’m pretty sure his mother was a past winner of the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest (an actual competition) and his dad was a bat, probably vampire. He’s actually an “aye-aye lemur,” and he probably just needs a hug and a family to love.

I will be upgrading to a professional newsletter client prior to the next newsletter cycle, and I need current subscribers to re-submit their information. I don’t have access to email information, so I’m not able to transfer from one mailing list to another. And if you’re not yet a subscriber, feel free to jump in at any time! Newsletters are scheduled …

I’m not sure why, but all my life I’ve seen images of faces in all sorts of things that didn’t really have faces at all. Sometimes they’re in shadows, sometimes they’re in peanut butter, and sometimes they’re in the bubbles on my shower curtain. (Those links go to my kid’s illustration blog, by the way.)Yesterday I had a vampire in …

 This little guy’s name is Boris, and he’s the freshest Rot in my sketchbook. I drew him in response to a fellow illustrator who saw my kid’s illustration portfolio and told me the pictures would probably scare the children (I guess I deserved that). To get in the right frame of mind, he told me, I should be thinking more …

Been inspired lately by my place of work. Made a Rot of Diego Rivera and his lovely wife Frida Kahlo, in happier times, of course. You gotta love the eyebrows.

New URL on Facebook: www.facebook.com/slightly.irreverently.twisted. It’s all possible because The Rots got enough fans on their page to become eligible for a unique URL. Thanks to everybody who fanned them!

I have that Rots© photo album up on Facebook now if you want to take a look. It’s just a mixture of some of the stuff I’ve been working on the past few years. Take a look around, but what would be totally cool is if you would take the time to become a fan. If I can get 25 …

As some of you outside the Commonwealth may know, our governor signed a smoking ban into law (if that’s the exact terminology) a year ago Sept. 11. As somebody who frequents those affected public areas I gotta tell you, it feels incredible to be able to breathe when you eat (or sit at the bar). I didn’t realize how badly …

The Rots© have a page on Facebook. Not sure yet where that will lead, but you can become a fan. I did. Actually, right now I’m the only one. Kinda hard to advertise being on Facebook when you don’t really have anything to show on the page. Eventually I’ll get some images on there. Looks like a tomorrow job…

I had been trying to find the short film 9 by Shane Acker* shortly after it was nominated for an Oscar, but was going the “download” route rather than just the “watch” one. I have to say, both the short and the feature versions of the movie are breathtakingly beautiful, and I only wish I had figured out what I …

As many of you know, I’ve taken on a new “day job” as a tour guide at Fallingwater (the Frank Lloyd Wright house) which, also as many of you know, has taken up a lot of my time. So. I’ve skipped the Spring issue of The Rots newsletter and will attempt to pick up the next issue as scheduled. On …