Good day yall! Happy 2009!! This is sure to be a good year for Moo Cartoon, as I've got a lot of good things on the horizon! Probably the most important of which is moocartoon.com.

So just a quick progress report, moocartoon.com is near completion. If it's not up by the end of the month, I'll eat my hat (and I really like my hat, so I've got a lot on the line here.) And, of course, with the launch of moocartoon.com I'll finally show the world the first "true" Earl the Talkin' Pie cartoon, as well I hope to update Art & Lit more frequently. Plus, got a couple other animated projects I'm cookin' up, but I can't talk too much about them...in fear if they might crumble around me....

Can you feel the excitement peoples!!

- Moo

Yeah, I know you don't want excuses, neither do I. But hell, I gotta have some reason for not updating as much. Not to mention the lack of a certain talking pie.

Well, to start us off, I'm still learning how to build a website, which means moocartoon.com is still a little bit aways until launching. Earl the Talkin' Pie will be launched along with moocartoon.com, mostly to drive some initial traffic to the site, so that's why no pie. Not the best excuse, but hopefully it'll be worth it in the end. Also, I'll be updating Art & Lit more than once a week once the site launches, which will allow me to build actual story arcs. There are some new characters I want to introduce, but feel that they need some sort of arc to do so. So, fun this ahead!

Lastly, I'm getting ready to move out of my home town for the first time! It's both exciting and terrifying! But most of all, time consuming! So finally when I'm all settled down, then things will begin to get a little serious (but not too serious, mind you.) But when the hell is that, you might say? Well, it's hard to say at this point, but I'm aiming for the end of the month...seriously...

So stay tooned! I'll be sure to tell you when moocartoon.com makes it's grand entered down the stairwell to the prom of cartoon websites.

- Moo

Well! First order of business, I got done graduated! Yes sirry, my undergrad degree is now complete! And the celebrations continue to roll! I also got a sweet graduation present...a brand new MacBook Pro! It's definitely the sexiest computer I've ever owned. Of course, having such a thing would have been VERY beneficial at the beginning of my university career rather then after...but whatever. I have it now.

Now, to the main point. It's now June, and some of you are probably wondering "where the hell's my talking pie?!" Yes, I'm wondering that as well. I don't want to give you a ton of excuses, cause that'd just be lame, even though I am quite a busy guy at the moment with tons of other projects on the go (Oops! ...ok that one just kinda slipped out...) But there is another more practical reason Earl the Talkin' Pie isn't up here yet. I'm trying to get myself a Moo Cartoon website off the ground, and I think Earl would be a great way to launch the site and get some attention. So I'd rather wait till the site is finished before I post Earl. The problem is, this is coming from a guy with zero site building experience. It's all a first and is quite the learning process for me. That said hopefully everything will be as I want it once the site is up. And there will be more frequent Earl updates, and hopefully a new Art & Lit comic on a more than weekly update (I haven't decided how many Art & Lits I could do a week yet.)

So yes, there must be more waiting to be done, but hopefully I'll become a fancy website building pro once this is over. And hopefully I'll also own a rocket sled and live on the moon with hot moon chicks.

- Moo

So the end of the semester is upon me, and with such is all the stress I've come to know over the years. I'm agonizing close to finishing my degree program, I can almost taste victory over this wrenched beast called "education."

But I digress, with semester ending, so too will this year's run of the campus newspaper "The Brunswicken" which was so kind to feature Art & Lit. See the last printed strip here.

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Last year I took the summer off with comics. While Art & Lit will take a short break while I finish all my papers, projects and exams, they will return...on a brand new site! That's right, my main project for this summer is to get a Moo Cartoon site off the ground, and expect new Art & Lit comics more then once a week updated! More on that as time goes on...

In the meantime, I'll be updating my profile with some things like projects I've done over the past school year, including my senor project (biiiiig thing in the work.) Plus there's also a little thing called Earl the Frickin' Talkin' Pie!!! Remember that's hitting the internet tubes in May!

I'll see you guys when I recover from the extreme school work lack of sleep, and then after my extreme partying lack of sleep!

- Moo

Sorry to say, there won't be any updates this week. And Super Smash Brother Brawl may, or may not be the reason why...mostly may...yeah, I know it's not the best excuse in the world, but Captain Falcon is just beggin' me to play him! I have to show him my moves! I just unlocked Sonic today, which is amazing for me. Sonic was the first video game I ever played, and the character pretty much sums up my childhood. It was every fanboy's dream in the 90s to see Sonic and Mario fight to the death, and now it's come true! Plus it's also nice to see the Hedgehog in the game that doesn't suck. That's a plus.

I'd also like to extent a Happy Pi Day for this Friday, to everyone out there! [link] Yes, that's right, Pi Day. On 3/14 we celebrate Pi. What can you do? Well how about watching this video? [link]

Or maybe hear this song? [link]

They're both excellent time wasters.

Anyway, that's all. More updates next week!

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- Moo