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	<description>Illustrator and cartoonist Paul Fricke shares his art and thoughts.</description>
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		<title>Gotta Dance!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Dr. StrangeTroll by my Trollords pal and co-creator, Scott Beaderstadt brought about this sketch of the happy Jerry dancin&#8217;. Roughs &#38; inks were done in Manga Studio, color in Photoshop.]]></description>
		<link>http://bluemoonstudios.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/gotta-dance/</link>
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		<title>Toth Tuesday: Clint and Mac part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing some favorite stuff from Alex Toth&#8217;s Clint &#38; Mac, story pages 5-8. As always, you can refer to and read in its entirety at Michael Sporn&#8217;s splog. Page 5, panel 2 &#8211; Nice cropping, depth, blocking and composition. Even if we can&#8217;t see every bit of every character, we see all their expressions, even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bluemoonstudios.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/toth-tuesday-clint-and-mac-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Paulette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been taking stabs at capturing actress Paulette Goddard for many, many years, and have yet to do her justice. Difficult and elusive to catch her personality, that light in her eye and sparkle in her smile&#8230;but I&#8217;ll have fun continuing to try&#8230;.]]></description>
		<link>http://bluemoonstudios.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/paulette/</link>
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		<title>Wizard Monkey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, this one sure was fun! My client, Matt McCabe asked me to do up for his site my spin on a cross between Dr. Strange and the monkey from Family Guy and this is what I came up with. The image above shows the stages of work, from rough pencil, to ink, and color [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bluemoonstudios.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/wizard-monkey/</link>
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		<title>eMinis Sculpture: M is for Mermaid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emily&#8217;s Alphabeast this week is a sculpey Mermaid, done on her 12th birthday! Don&#8217;t forget to visit her eMinis etsy shop for turtles, doughnut earrings, aliens and Jake the Dog. Alphabeasts is a 26-week project, a blog where artists of all types and stripes contribute a mythical beastie any old way that suits them, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bluemoonstudios.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/eminis-sculpture-m-is-for-mermaid/</link>
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		<title>Toth Tuesday: Clint and Mac part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I blogged last week about a favorite Toth panel, so I&#8217;ve caught the bug and will feature favorite panels/pages from his Clint &#38; Mac adaptation, which you can read in its entirety at Michael Sporn&#8217;s splog. Nice opening panel to kick off the Clint &#38; Mac story. It&#8217;s a straight-on, symmetrical shot, the POV from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bluemoonstudios.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/toth-tuesday-clint-and-mac-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Toth Tuesday: Clint &amp; Mac &#8211; Close the Hatch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, sometime within the last decade, while rooting my way through the archives of scans of Alex Toth pages at the tothfans.com site, I was struck by one panel in particular: a shot of two arms coming up through and opening to close a hatch behind them.It reinforced for me the idea that Toth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bluemoonstudios.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/toth-tuesday-clint-mac-close-the-hatch/</link>
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		<title>eMinis Sculpture: Sunlight Spirit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter, Emily decided to contribute this week to the Alphabeasts project with one of her eMinis sculptures. &#8220;L&#8221; is the letter this week, so she chose Ljósálfar, a Sun Spirit from Norse mythology. If you like the looks of this, check out her eMinis etsy shop! Alphabeasts is a 26-week project, a blog where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bluemoonstudios.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/eminis-sculpture-sunlight-spirit/</link>
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		<title>Toth Tuesday: Bikini Boom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple great stand-along panels/illustrations by Toth, not sure for what he did these, but they&#8217;re cool, drawn solely with markers by the looks of it. Nice composition, figures, shadows, crosshatch tone, folds, cropping &#38; characters. Super cropping on this second, too. The clothing folds boldly rendered with thick marker &#8211; no messing around. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bluemoonstudios.com/blog/index.php/2011/12/toth-tuesday-bikini-boom/</link>
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		<title>Toth Tuesday: Villains &amp; Bats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fun one!]]></description>
		<link>http://bluemoonstudios.com/blog/index.php/2011/12/toth-tuesday-villains-bats/</link>
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