I got some scratch paper in my stocking again this Christmas. It's awesome stuff! This is one of the drawings I've done with it. I hope you all have a safe and happy New Year.

And to those who don't celebrate Christmas but do celebrate other holidays around this time, happy holidays!

There's supposed to be a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series coming to Nickelodeon at some point. It's going to be computer animated. They have a Facebook page for TMNT here . There's also a Tumblr blog for it here . So far, nothing has been done with NinjaTurtles.com. Surely they're going to do something with it. Kevin Eastman is on deviantART, where my gallery is. He's in my "Friends" section. As you might know, he's one of the creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I'm more of a traditional cell-animation kind of guy, but the new TMNT series looks pretty good from the pictures they've shown on the Facebook fan page. The weapons are a little different, but it looks like they're basically the same ones they're known for. One of the turtles looks like he's missing a tooth, and Michelangelo is supposedly the smallest one of the group, whereas in previous incarnations the turtles all look to be the same size. I've

I planned on having the 18th issue of The Drawing Board up last weekend, but I had quite a bit of school work that kept me busy. I'm hoping to have The Drawing Board #18 up some time in the next week. I think I'm going to keep the Christmas theme going since it is of course Christmas and I feel like the comic strip should reflect that. So, stay tuned. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!