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Hope you all had a great Christmas out there!! Hope you all had all the gifts you wanted and had a good time with who you spent Christmas with!

It's been a lot of not being busy doing anything for me, out here, and that's just great!! Slowly getting ready for my next trip in a few days so I'll try to keep posting as regularly as I can even though the busyness is about to start again!


Got a few more things to post before the end of the year but for now... As promised... Two more pages of the unfolding saga that is [THE RED BOX]!! Hope you're enjoying this as much as I am!!!

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More unfolding of these terribly mysterious adventures next Wednesday!!!


Take care out there!!!!

P.s. To follow this story from the start... Check out the "RED BOX" link widget I posted on the side bar... Almost all the way at the end, between the "inform yourself" section and the Wikileaks link!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Fresh from the oven >>>>



One last round in February!



Hope you all get the gifts you wanted and an awesome Christmas this year!!

Rabbit ribs...

More tattoos... More rabbits... More ribs!!
Here's a rather recent one from this wave of ribness I've been getting lately! Apparently ribs are no fun!! It seems to be the word on the street!

Yep...

Buddy came all the way down from... Down the road... And a chick and rabbits was expected! So that's just what we did! Now you should know that the young lady here depicted, this rabbit affectionado, is obviously a hottie, definitely knows it but I would just like to make sure you all understand this... She's not a skank!! Ok? Not this one! Mhm... Ok... Here's what it looked like after 3 hours and 55 minutes!






More more more tomorrow!!! Yeah! I'm on a roll!

P.s. You don't know this yet but you can't wait for next Wednesday's instalment of THE RED BOX!!!!! Yep! True story!

The [RED BOX]

Ladies and gentlemen… No, I have not forgotten about you just yet!

Rest assured I am still here and although very busy, quite happy to see I've still managed to keep this Plog going pretty regularly for a while now! And unlike Canada to it's international environmental commitment , I'm not about to just quit you either! I got lots to blog, lots to show, many new adventures coming up, tons of pictures to put on the ANCOM and many many projects unfolding as we speak! As many projects as a phalanx of schoolgirls can have new ringtones to try out … And try them all… At the back of the bus… Stop after stop… So yeah, Many!!! However, all these projects always inevitably depend on other forces too… Money, people… etc. Therefore they do not always go according to my desired and preferred speed (NOW)! It's ok.. I've learned to be patient with time (not really), but I guess I've recently been in the mood for a little project I could completely control! I've thought about doing one of these on the blog for years now but just never got around to doing it! Well… As I was walking down the lanes of my local grocery store at 3 in the morning, trying to focus on what I was there for while the ridiculously loud Christmas music was screaming down my ears to be jolly… Cuz this was the season… To be Jolly… So yeah… It came to me! A box!!! Yep! Boxes are awesome!!! You can put things in them and I just love them and since I've been a kid have had the hardest time getting rid of them cuz you never know if you'll one day find something that will just fit perfectly in them… Judge me as you please… I've come to terms with it and live quite happily with my many boxes!!!

So hear it is… The RED BOX! (it's a working title)

It's a comic… Yeah yeah, I dragged it out a bit! I could have just wrote "Here's a comic" … But I didn't! So … Here's a comic! A web comic for the Plog! I will do my very best to give you at the very least, 1 page a week and no less! I have a few rough ideas about where I could take this but nothing definitive! This is the point actually! To see where this goes having no predetermined outcome or expectations!!! So … No rules! Just a story that will tell itself!…A little project to keep me company during my long Winter adventures in Europe and beyond! Hope you like this! Hope you get as excited as I am about the potential this has (of fun not money or anything serious like that) and hope you get as hooked as I think you'll get by this!!!

With no further delay… Here are the first 7 pages:

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To be continued next week!!! What will happen to our two friends??? How did they get in the box in the first place?? Where will they go from there?? So many questions to be answered!!!

Until then… Tats tomorrow for sure!

Oh and last call for the MANDY PRINTS!!! I'll be closing the shop on the 30th so let me know soon if you need one of these before I reopen the shop in mid February! And also before they go back up to the price and shipping they should be for!

Let me know!

Shifting the pain...

Sorry sorry I'm always late!!

Pretty busy ya know!! Shipped the last batch of rolls of Mandy prints and a few other originals today! Seems that as much as the Hong Kong Post office guaranties it will send any piece of mail to any country in the world within 4 working days that the respective receiving countries however (I will not name the worst examples given to me by the clerk) might take up to a month, specially during this holiday season! So, much of you, I'll cross my fingers, should hopefully get their prints and originals just in time for Christmas however a few of you, might not! I'm terribly sorry in advance but there's just nothing I can do!

Anyone looking to order starting from now, should however not expect to get their parcels in time for Christmas!

In other previously promised yet slightly late news...
Here's a good one!! Buddy Nic finally got his super MK madness armpit to knee EPHK piece started and what a piece indeed!! The ribs have never been this much fun!! Now, my buddy Nic might not have scored a "Jedi" title just yet, but please appreciate the none the less astonishing dedication of an 8 hour long session on this particular part of the body!! Here you have it... Thursday's previously promised yet slightly late session shots:

Black & Red >>>



Lined up 8 hours later >>>



Next session in February when I get back home!!!



In other news... Get ready for "THE BOX" !!! Yep... More about that in the days to come but just get ready for it ok!? Yeah!




Stay away from needles!!! They hurt!

Just around the corner

First of all... Thanks so much to all the people going crazy for my last batch of awesome prints!!! I can't say how happy I am about all these Mandies going all around the world to all these different walls!! You guys rock!

A few more of these left in both sizes... Just before christmas... Collect them all!!


Apart from that... It's been busy as usual… However a lot more doodle time as of late! Too bad all this doodle time comes just at the end of the year, after a long year of no doodle time caused directly by the pursuit of more doodle time! Just as I'm starting to start thinking of getting ready for my next European adventure! Hardly an adventure really but rather a long month of hard work and yet again very little doodle time!!

For all of you who like to see them tattoos I do… I highly recommend you stay tuned during January! A lot, way way way a lot of just that has been planned! Let's just hope I avert the burnout and survive this month of tattoo madness!!

I will yet again change my system for tattooing and booking these tattoos as soon as I get back home in early February and yet again, the amount of tattooing will slowly decrease on this blog in the constant pursuit of slowing down my tattooing! Not that I don't like doing it, just want to do a whole lot less of it! And that next level, I've decided, is starting this coming February! So yeah… Keep an eye out during January if that's really all you like about this blog!!

Other things are changing too! But I'll stretch that a bit longer!!

Here's my beloved HQ!!





Stay busy!
Awesome tats tomorrow!!

Tuesday night Hot Pot!

Hanging with the Beijing crew!!!




Always nice to have these guys in town!!