Pics to color

My mother-in-law recently asked me to provide a guinea pig picture for her first-grade class to color. I thought I'd pass it along...



It's a portrait of our guys at dinner. From the left: Wesley, Chumley, Sauce.

Overdue pictures

I have been remiss in updating, getting way too involved in what seems to be an endlessly frustrating and sometimes utterly futile project of finishing my chapter. But here are some new guineas.



Baby Lyra-pig loves Uncle Eddie's cuckoo clock.



Coming soon to a theater near you, Lyra-min stars as Dr. Challenger in A. Conan Doyle's The Lost World, featuring real live toxodons, ten-foot cavies from prehistoric South America!

(Update note: Doyle may have been a bit mistaken: a toxodon is a prehistoric ungulate that looks a lot like a friendly rhino; but this even more congenial fellow was found in 2003. Here's Dr. Challenger's prehistoric guinea.

And here's an image I just uncovered of a wholly new form of cavy to me, the Rock or Acrobatic Cavy. Whoopee!

Epic Fantasy Warfare Cuteness

While watching The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe the other day, Lyra suggested that the reason that this movie was better than Lord of the Rings was that there were more fuzzy animals in the battle scenes. I told her that it was too bad that the Bunny Brigade scenes were cut.

This is a view, from the design team, of what this crack fighting unit may have looked like:

Early august Cartoonitry

New cartoons this week!



Many mini-sandwiches



And Lyra-pig goes for a nice contemplative float to beat the summer heat...

Woolverton Guest Book

Just trying to keep striking while the digital iron is still warmed. These sketches were made in the guest book in Hunterdon Cottage at the Woolverton Inn, where L and I stayed the last two nights of our honeymoon.

We're back!

Hello all,

We're finally back from the h-moon, and all moved into our new place, and pretty much ready to get back to real life.

There was a bit of an accident unfortunately at the house yesterday. Sauce got one of his front toenails squished underneath the caster of a rocking chair when I leaned on it to look for him. He's okay -- a trip to the vet, some styptic powder and Neosporin and he's good to go. He's not limping or anything and seems to be in no pain.

I feel horrible about the incident. Needless to say, the rocking chair went out of the piggie room, replaced by something less treacherous. Now he's bragging to the other pigs, playing up the experience:



PS) Statcounter sez that SLGP has had 8,002 hits since its creation with 5,182 unique visitors. How about that? There were almost a whole thousand since my hiatus last month. This is serious guinea piggery going on, you guys!

Blue Skies

We are very nearly back from a wonderful, glorious honeymoon. Just packing up here at the Woolverton Inn, and then we're off to pick up the piggies.

Here's an adorable video from the Muppet Show to tide you over until I get some cartoons ready. It's face-meltingly cute, so be careful...