Oh yes, here we are at last. This changing time zones is for the birds. Or the bears. Okay, maybe not bears.
Be sure to check out last weeks’ posts if you are still catching up!
I don’t know about you, but I think this document is VERY suspicious!
Mr Wu observes an interesting detail….
Mr Wu is still skeptical of Babette’s story…
Sorry to panda and run, but I’m still catching up on sleep. Bears…hibernation…you know the drill.
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Oh boy, PanDaWriMo (the event formerly known as 31 days of Pandas) is about to begin on December 1st!
Huzzah!
I can now reveal that Bob and Babette’s top-secret mission to meet with another set of international pandas has reached it’s successful conclusion. The dynamic duo paid a visit to Hao Hao and Xing Hui of the Pairi Daiza Zoo in Belgium’s beautiful countryside. You can even follow them on Twitter @XingHuiHaoHao How cool is that? The top secret meeting went well, other than the fact that Babette got a little huffy because she is French, and well, that’s just what Babette does, nes’t pas?
And now, on to the next re-cap of The Case of the Picturesque Panda (see yesterday’s post for the re-cap beginning!) (pretend you are listening to noir detective music intro now)
…and so the story begins…
…of a young panda’s arrival in France, and all that followed…
Why DOES Mr Wu have a piece of tape on his right ear?
Let’s see who stayed awake during art history classes!
Oh boy! this is really getting exciting now! I can hardly wait till PanDaWriMo begins! Huzzah!
Be the bear,
Bob T. Panda
…for 31 days of Pandas, and we thought that we would start the daily panda-ing a little early, so you would be up to date with the story so far….
So, let’s start at the very beginning of…
If “trouble” ever had a proper name, that name is Babette de Panda…
When a panda has a problem, you know where to turn…Inspector Panda, I presume.
Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda
We could save you all the trouble of going out to the Black Friday Sales, but then you might miss this experience:
pass the beans!
We could be completely self serving and suggest you head over to our page of books and buy copies of The Panda Chronicles or Pandamorphosis for all your family and friends. We could do that, if we were a different sort of panda. Oh wait…we are that sort of panda.
Be the bear,
Bob T. Panda
More from the “Panda Beware” series of encore presentations!
We really need to more thoroughly check the panda kindergarten’s reading list.
pass the cookies, okay?
Huzzah! Misery bear!
To the moon, Alice!
Hey, and while we’re at it, check out all the take-home-your-own-pandas goodness on our book page. It’s never too early to start shopping for the holidays! Black and white Friday is right around the corner.
Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda
Here’s one more project that I did at the illustrator retreat. This time, Sergio gave us five lines of a story, and we had to do a short, five panel story using his text, and our ideas for characters. Here it is, in all it’s ink smudged glory, and hey! There’s a panda!
Bob and the magic slipper….
Sergio didn’t like my ending and questioned how i knew the slipper was magic. I thought the little “magic lines” in panel three were obvious, as well as the unpredictable nature of what can happen when you put on magic slippers. It’s not always a prince charming kind of deal. Oh well, you can’t please everyone. :o)
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda
A couple weeks ago I attended an illustrator retreat/workshop, jointly put on by the Western Washington chapter of SCBWI (Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) and our compadres in the Portland Oregon group. Putting on an event like this is not a small feat, and the organizers did an excellent job.
We had two wonderful instructors form the world of children’s literature, Kelly Murphy and Sergio Ruzzier. I learned a bunch of great techniques, as well as some strategies for getting a story moving, which I am absolutely going to put into practice…um…really soon. The following drawing (no pandas!) was the result of one of our exercises that we completed in Sergio’s class.
I think I was trying to channel Bill Watterson’s snowman cartoons in Calvin and Hobbes when I did this one.
I don’t want to leave you without any pandas, so…
Always read the directions…
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Wait…is that right? Daylight losing time is almost here!!!
Fabulous Furry Friday KNOWS that this is one of your favorites!
And while we’re at it, here’s another one of my favorites!
Just because….
Have a Fabulous Furry Friday!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
I mean, do they dress up as a red panda? or maybe a tiger? This is serious, people! Pandas need to know what might be the best costume so that people give them the most stuff. Halloween is important to panda culture. who knew?
Princess Pinky really needs to know!
Darn those Meihems!!!!
I do want to mention that I drew this cartoon before I read the Cub Confidential post from Zoo Atlanta suggested that the twins were going to dress up as the other twin. Just saying. The Institute of Contemporary Panda Satire has their finger…er…paw on the pulse of the panda community.
And Pinky has asked me to mention that her book is out, and you could just flip really fast through all the cartoons about the Meihems, so that you could just read the ones about Pinky. Hey, I just do what Pinky tells me to. Word to the wise, and all, Pinky must be obeyed.
It’s Pink, but still kinda, um…dangerous!
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda
Fabulous Furry Friday seems to roll around faster and faster, doesn’t it? Hmmmm. we seem to be in a Pinky and Meihem twins mode this week, so lets just continue with that line of thought.
This cartoon was inspired by one of my friends (now in real life) Judy Young, of the infamous Pinky fan club, who gather sometimes daily at the National Zoo to observe the actual Bao Bao Princess Pinky panda, mostly climbing up the dreaded hemlock, but sometimes frolicking for the pandarazzi. The photo that inspired this was not of Pinky, playing with bubbles, but a group of children having a blast blowing gigantic bubbles and chasing them over the grass. I though Pinky would enjoy this activity.
Oh dear….are you going to leave her there?
The next cartoon was inspired by an internet quiz, “What Kind of Cuppycake are You?” That’s easy. One that’s got lots of …um…frosting.
I have extra frosting!
Pinky will be back on Sunday! Don’t keep her waiting!
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda