ARE YOU KIDDING ME? It looks like you are not kidding me. Thanks so much for not kidding me! Our team for Sam Hiti’s excellent Fistacuffs contest has won the finals! Our team, pictured above, was the victor in an extraordinarily close race: I think we won by two votes, maybe? Out of 86. Whew!

Most of the credit must obviously go to my teammates, who drew respectively (from left): DANGERLINE MELEE, by Javier Olivares, the winner of the very first Fistacuffs, lo these many months ago; KILLY MELEE, by David Rubin, who has one of the best lines I’ve ever seen by a cartoonist; and of course I drew the little general. I’ve got a full run-down on the contest, which until now was anonymous, over at my new Flickr page: check it!

Okay, so I’ve been planning this for awhile, and I need to go ahead and cross it off my “to-do” list. I’ve moved the entirety of my site’s images, which is comprised mainly of drawings and such, to my new Flickr page. This is the first part of a pretty fundamental shift away from a single site, relying instead on a loose network of other sites, all of which are far easier to use than hand-coding a bunch of html, and most have other benefits

For instance, Flickr has a pretty groovy social networking thing built in, except without all the porn-chicks and bands on MySpace. So when people you dig upload new art or photo’s, you get a little e-mail–almost like an RSS feed (although they have that too). Anyway, my blog will stay here, although it’s going to shift away from art posts and (ewww!) toward more opinion-based stuff. My number of opinions has been increasing lately. Flickr will become the warehouse for any art.