It's Only a Matter of Time

Ok, I have to admit, I like most of Michael Bay's movies....most. But I think I like making fun of him more than anything, because, well....it's fun. I did this one this week as the new Ninja Turtles movie came out the other day here in Australia and everytime I see another trailer for it the worse it looks. Even the last Transformers movie looked cool in the trailers, and apparently it was a massive pile of shit, so that says something. I was a big Ninja Turtles and Transformers fan as a kid. 

This idea came from my mate Scotty, who I work with and we often make lots of Michael Bay jokes at work. One day we were joking about the fact that Michael Bay is planning on ruining everything from our childhood's, I joked that he'll make a Biker Mice from Mars movie next (one of Scotty's favourite shows from his childhood)....god I hope he's not reading this.....

So I wanted to make a joke about Michael Bay wreaking my favourite childhood things and how would he do that? Yep a giant explosion of course, how else?

Enjoy!

Mike

The Bay Birth

Ahhh, I so love making fun of Michael Bay, I mean he makes it so damn easy! Oh, here's my previous Bay joke: http://brinkscartoons.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/dont-bother.html

This idea is another example of one of those ideas where I get the basic joke fairly early, but it takes me ages to figure out exactly how to do it. In fact, even the initial sketch I did looks completely different than the final product. It had Michael Bay sitting in between the couple looking quite pleased with himself and the husband was facepalming and thinking something like: "Why did I get Michael Bay to film our birthing video?". But in the end I decided to streamline it more and just have the couple and one speech bubble. 

The joke was always going to have the "Is that an explosion coming out of my vagina?" line in it, as that was always the initial idea I had. But in the beginning it was Michael Bay's own child's birth, but that ended up getting too complicated, especially as I had no idea how to get across that it was Michael Bay. So it did take quite a lot of refining here and there for this one, but I glad I finally go it out in the end.

Enjoy!

Mike

Don't Bother

Welcome again to another Monday cartoon!

This morning I was happy with the cartoon I'd brainstormed last night, all was good with the world...until Google shot me down and I discovered how much of an idiot I am. Let me explain, love him or hate him Michael Bay movies are often over the top massive, big movies with not much substance. Hence the joke on this one that a Michael Bay would look pretty awesome but be full of crap, like most of his movies. Strangely enough I actually like most of his movies, sometimes I just like to switch off my brain and watch big shit blow up, what can I say, I'm a dude, it's what we do. Now up until today I always thought that you got food from a 'Bay Marie', so the original idea I had was that there was this huge Bay Marie with lights and signs and everything way over the top, but inside was just a few shrivelled potatoes. In doing my visual research this morning I've typed in 'Bay Marie' into Google Images. Panic set in as I discovered I'm a complete idiot and that it's actually a "BAIN Marie". Still not sure what I'm talking about? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain-marie All these years I've been calling the stupid things Bay Maries! It was such a damn good idea too! So I did panic for a bit, then I calmed down and thought, "No, damn it, it's still a good idea I just need to change it". So I referred to my best friend Goggle (I use Google search and Image search to develop ideas all the time) searched for 'Bay' and I got pages and images of Bays, in fact the first Image that comes up is of Byron Bay, which I used as a reference for the background of this cartoon. So all I did was adapt the idea using an actual Bay instead of a Bain Marie, which wouldn't make much sense really. I'm so thankful I checked otherwise I would have ended up looking even stupider! Now the real challenge is to come up with a idea about a Bain Marie......

Last week I asked if you guys can throw some subjects my way as a challenge for cartoon ideas.....I only got one response, oh well, thanks Ben! I'm working on it. I didn't think I could do it, but I came up with something, the basic idea is there but I just need to brainstorm it some more, it's not quite there yet. But seriously people throw me some more idea suggestions! I love a challenge!

It's coming up to the business end of the year, I have to work on the Monday the 26th as it's Boxing Day here in Australia, the biggest shopping day of the year, so I'll try and do 2 cartoons next week in preparation so you don't miss out, I'll try and do some Xmas themed ones! Wait Xmas is 2 friggin' weeks away!! Holy shit! I've got nothing ready! AHHHHHH!

Ok, until next week!

Mike