This Week's Caption Contest

Here is my entry in this weeks New Yorker Caption Contest. Each week they provide the image and you provide the caption.



"They really need to update the speed limit around here."








Here are the leftovers...

This is where all the great sequels ideas came from.

These ruins are far too numerous to contemplate.

Remember we parked in Roman Numeral ten.

They have very high speed limits around here.









Here's this weeks nominees...




“So, which one of you varmints is mine?”
Submitted by Mark Esche
Leesburg, Fla.

“I've got to stop advertising for posses in the classifieds.”
Submitted by Jonah Parkin
Toronto, Ont.

“I reckon that rounding up the usual suspects just ain't what it used to be.”
Submitted by William Feltus
Colonial Heights, Va.

I entered...

"I'm gonna close my eyes and whoever stole my gun can put it on my desk."

Bettered!

Here's a fun thing... Next time you see a homemade sign at a local store, design a better version using as many of the original elements as possible. Send it to the store, tape it over the original, or email it to me and I'll "Better" it for you, and then you can proudly call out, "BOOM! You just got BETTERED!"

I saw this one in the raining month of January at Sketchfest.


BOOM! You just got BETTERED!!

If you're in the San Francisco area in January and you like sketch comedy, be sure to look up Sketchfest!

This Weeks New Yorker Caption Contest

Here is my entry in this weeks New Yorker Caption Contest. Each week they provide the image and you provide the caption.



"The court rests."





Here's the leftovers...


And what is the court's position on same sex marriage?

I'd like to address Supreme Court justice "Grumpy"














Here are this weeks nominees...



“The revolution has begun!”
Submitted by Jim Peterson
Petaluma, Calif.

“I finally got that desk job I’ve been looking at.”
Submitted by Carolyn Thon
San Mateo, Calif.

“I am telling you this guy is a micromanager.”
Submitted by Albert Ortega
Chapel Hill, N.C.

I entered...


It’s amazing how far blackmail can get you around here.

"Tracy" Screening March 6th

Our live action comedy "Tracy" will be screening in Detroit Michigan Saturday March 6 at 6 PM at the Burton Theater as part of the Detroit Independent Film Festival. If you live in the Detroit area stop by and check it out! Click here for info on how to get to the Burton Theater.

Dan

Covered

I did another comic cover for the website "Covered". It's a great site created by Robert Goodin, where artists do covers of old comic book covers.


Click here to see my take on X-men 94 on the covered website.

You can also click here to see my first edition to covered, X-men 1.



- Dan

Comics from Tracy

In our film "Tracy" we had a scene featuring one of the characters secret comic book collection. We created over 30 original comic book covers, most of which go completely unnoticed in the 3 to 4 minute scene.

Well, I'm sad to say we've reached the end. I think there are one or two that Brian Fee did that I can't find, so if I find them I'll post them, but in the mean time I think this is a fitting way to end. I did this one based on what I imagine the sad, lonely life of a real boy millionaire might be.



This would explain why Richie Rich killed himself and became Casper the Ghost.

Mo' money mo' problems...

Thanks for giving these props their moment in the sun! If you get the opportunity please check out our film, "Tracy".

- Dan

Comics from Tracy

In our film "Tracy" we had a scene featuring one of the characters secret comic book collection. We created over 30 original comic book covers, most of which go completely unnoticed in the 3 to 4 minute scene. For the next few months I'll post one a week so that they can finally get their due.

I did this one based on the comics from the 70's that I loved as a kid. They were already ten years old when I was reading them, but their shittiness was still relevant!

This Week's New Yorker Caption Contest

Here is my entry in this weeks New Yorker Caption Contest. Each week they provide the image and you provide the caption.



"I'm gonna close my eyes and whoever stole my gun can put it on my desk."







Here are the left overs...



Is this the best posse we could roundup?

I knew one day the four of you would come looking for me.

We don't have enough shot guns for everybody, so the baby's going to have to bring a knife.

You got a lot of nerve showing your adorable faces around here.








Here are this week's nominees...



“I’m going to give you something for your humanity.”
Submitted by Anthony Griffin
Riverside, Calif.

“There’s a cure—but it’s light-years away.”
Submitted by Cody Walker
Ann Arbor, Mich.

“You won't have to drive to this clinic. Just wait in your cornfield.”
Submitted by Mike Jewett
Ashland, Ore.


I entered...
"You should schedule an abduction at least once a year."

F U Money

In honor of the Super Bowl, I'm going to debut a new series called F U Money. The idea is what would you do if you had so much money that you had loads of left over cash to blow on stupid stuff and say a big old F U to the world.

I'm not a sports fan, but if I had me some insane F U money, I would buy a professional football team and I would change their name to "The San Francisco Home Runs". I would make their mascot a crying baby with a diaper full of shit, they would have the ugliest cheerleaders central casting could find, and their outfits would be pink, glitter covered dresses with tiny ladies hats on top of their helmets.

At first all San Francisco football fans, and the team would hate me, but in time they would be so mocked, that they would learn to fight for their dignity, and eventually become awesome, thanks to my Johnny Cash approach to management. Wait, didn't somebody already do this?

A Dan Scanlon is on Twitter!

Hey everybody, Dan Scanlon is on twitter...

...not this Dan Scanlon, but a Dan Scanlon, and that's good enough for me!

I don't know if, or when, I'll ever get around to tweeting myself, so in the mean time, it's easier for me if you just go to this Dan Scanlon's twitter and pretend that everything he writes is being written by me.

Against my better judgment, I take full responsibility for everything he tweets and will go ahead and assume that all of his opinions will be totally inline with mine! Enjoy!

Comics from Tracy

In our film "Tracy" we had a scene featuring one of the characters secret comic book collection. We created over 30 original comic book covers, most of which go completely unnoticed in the 3 to 4 minute scene. For the next few months I'll post one a week so that they can finally get their due.

This is about as close to straight parody as I get, that being said, I still like it.