Choose your size: Widescreen; Standard; Tablet; Phone

Can Supes really turn back time by reversing the rotation of the Earth? Do I really need to answer that and does it even matter?

Choose your size: Widescreen; Standard; Tablet; Phone

When I chose The Empire Strikes Back as the fifth desktop I thought it would be perfect. I mean, the last week of January, snow on the ground… yeah. I’ve had 50-some degree weather the past few days. Not that I’m complaining, mind you but Hoth-like my winter has not been.

I can’t think of a good video to link today so I’ll just send you over to ThinkGeek.

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Oddly enough the fourth and final choice was the first desktop I did: Dune. I love Dune, the books, the movies, the toilet paper (oh hey, there’s another movie I should do). I was watching the Sci-Fi (or SyFy) miniseries when I came up with the idea for this project. It’s been killing me to wait this long to put it up. What do you mean you DON’T like Dune? May your blade chip and shatter.

I’ll use any old excuse to link a little Walken.

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This week, your third choice: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

No, really.

Ok, so I’m not going to go with the obvious desktop every time. Some of these are going to be fanboy in-jokes so you can put them on your screen at work. For example, the above desktop which is my interpretation of the leaky T.C.R.I. canister that turned 4 ordinary turtles into…you know the story.

Because I think you like me:

You really like me.

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I love Blade Runner. So do a lot of you apparently, since it was voted your second favorite choice. See here if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

Blade Runner was the first Blu-ray we purchased when we made the upgrade to HD a few years back. My plan is to eventually spend a day watching every version back-to-back and compare notes. Or not. In all honesty what I’m looking for is an excuse to sit around and do pretty much nothing.

Also, because I think I like you:

Choose your size: Widescreen; Standard; Tablet; Phone

So here we go, the first desktop of the new year chosen by popular opinion, Star Wars.

As you may notice the style is a little different than what you are used to getting from me, thought I would try something new. The point of this venture is to provide something interesting while not cluttering up the your screen and making it hard to read file names. What do you think?

Look for a new desktop each week. I’ll aim for Mondays because I’m hoping these will be fun little starts to your week. However, if I miss a Monday check back later in the week. I probably just thought it needed more work (or it was a holiday). But let’s face it you are probably just subscribed to the RSS feed, right.

Also, because I love you:

Pick one: Star Wars, Blade Runner, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Dune.

There was no explanation except that I didn’t feel that worrying about what version of a movie or whether I meant the book or movie mattered for my means. Just pick one. The winner by a not so surprising margin was Star Wars.

Now the reason was to pick what order the first 4 posts of my new project. What is that project?

Well… I guess if you are here and you read the title you already know the reason. I’m going to spend 2012 making weekly desktops based on various properties. They’ll be posted here and if you see one you like it will be available for download in, more often than not, 4 sizes; Widescreen (1680×1050); Standard (1600×1200), Phone (320×480); & Tablet (1024×1024).

For now, have a Happy New Year. Enjoy the night and hopefully I’ll see you back here tomorrow for our first installment, Star Wars.

I always knew I was going to be drawing something like this someday. We said goodbye to Frances earlier this week. If you were a reader of Bassetville or maybe just like the drawing click here or on the image itself for a printable PDF of the artwork.

It is back to work for me today after a short little vacation with The Wife. I won’t bore you with the details but lets just say what was sitting and waiting for me when I got to the office did nothing to increase my calm.

One of the things I like best about being a cartoonist is the ability to act out those completely unrealistic impulses in a completely harmless fashion through my drawings. However, this morning I was about a half an inch away from making the the above illustration a reality (but I’d prefer to keep my job).

I shall quickly explain away this morning’s sketch inspiration by way of a link to NPR where you can listen to Muppets: The Green Album yourself.