Be sure to download this paper window display on Chronicle's Nutty Nutcracker page. It makes a fun holiday project for mailing! Look for the pdf download from here:
This is a piece for the online auction for charity-- Hey You Guys! Check it out, bid, and if you're in the LA area, attend the Ghostbusters screening at the Rialto in South Pasadena this coming Saturday, Dec. 5!
The first draft of this image had the wooden cuckoo sweetly in love with the moon on a neighboring clock's dial. In his downtime, and there must be plenty of it, he lyrically wrote love poems. But if he's truly cuckoo, and with a vast knowledge ticking devices' interiors, building bombs seemed so much more interesting. I may change it yet again.
A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas will be released soon, so I thought I'd show a couple of character sketches prepared for this version's equivalent to the kindly, grandfatherly Drosselmeyer. I *might* have been thinking of Wallace Shawn with that fellow in the upper left.