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Scanned directly from my sketchbook, here’s a page of bats to celebrate Halloween. I started the page with the idea that I was going to fill the whole thing with bats. I wanted to push myself to come up with as many ideas as I could because I tend to start sketching and get lazy about it way too soon. As you can see, the …

I just uploaded a completely new website for The Rots (http://www.the-rots.com). I spent a long time getting these pages together and working. The original site was built completely in Flash (http://www.the-rots.com/old), but that was years before Steve Jobs decided the iPads he wanted to sell in the future wouldn’t include the ability to view Flash. And I, like so many …

In my last post on Tuesday I gave you an idea of the weird I am now; I have toys. Lots and lots of toys. And I’m winning. Not in the Charlie Sheen kind of way, more like the Rotty kind of way. But I wasn’t always winning. I guess to be a winner you have learn to be a loser first. …

I’ve been paying maybe a little too much attention to the release date of the new ParaNorman movie, and I think time is actually slowing down as we get closer. So to pass the time, I’ve been thinking about my own normalness and whether or not my normal would be acceptable in mainstream circles. As I was writing this, I …

Got to working on another painting on my iPad. I used the Procreate app and did a little color and texture tweaking in Photoshop. His name is Ted. The bunny’s still working out a name.

Added to my collection of studio toy supervisors: Mr. Gosh, Lenore, Ragamuffin and Pooty Applewater based on the Lenore comics by Roman Dirge. I’ve been eyeing these little guys up for a very (very) long time. I don’t usually take PVC sets out of the box, but these are so adorable, how could you not want to cuddle them?

A black cat for your Friday the 13th. I drew this with a marker in my sketchbook first, took a photo of the drawing with my iPad, and brought the drawing into the Procreate app to add color. I tweaked the colors and added a tiny bit of texture in the background in Photoshop.

Meet my supervisor. He stares at me while I work. Somewhere I also have an autographed 8″x10″ black and white glossy of Animal. Yes, somebody actually autographed it for me.

My book Twisted: Tales to Rot Your Brain Vol. 1 won two Purple Dragonfly Book Awards! First Place in the Fiction: Collection of Short Stories category and Second Place in the Interior Design category. Here’s a link to all the wieners: http://www.fivestarpublications.com/bookcontest/book-award-winners.html#2012pdbawin They sent me stickers that I can stick on the books that show that it won, but they’re …

So I’ve been messing around with the brushes and settings and gestures in Procreate on my iPad, and I’m finding out it’s a lot more powerful than I expected. I still have a lot to learn, but this is Marley. He’s the first all-out painting I finished there. I added textures in Photoshop to finish him up.

I’ll be the first to admit I’ve been slacking in the social media arena lately. I haven’t been keeping up with my blogs or my Twitter updates or my Facebook posts. It’s hard to post when you don’t have anything to show for yourself. Here’s the thing: I haven’t had anything to post because I haven’t had time to work …

Oh, man. Publishers Weekly went and reviewed my new book, Twisted: Tales to Rot Your Brain Vol. 1, and it looks like they’ve given it a thumbs up: “In stories that last only a few pages and comics that resemble Nickelodeon cartoons on acid, Thompson riffs on zombie, werewolf, and other ghoulish genres, while also finding the horrific in unexpected …