Draw Every Day For a Year. That's An Order.

My old pal Albert Calleros, whom I worked with at Rough Draft Studios back when I was a design coordinator and he was a storyboard guy, has a fascinating blog called Draw Everyday For a Year, where he does, in fact, post a new drawing just about every day. Albert is an animation director now, working on Fox's American Dad, and he's really just a phenomenally talented artist, able to work in a tremendous range of styles. He's up to Day 300 now, and it's hard not to admire what he's done. How I hate him.

Albert is also one of the creators of the yearly anthology comic Hot Mexican Love Comics, co-published and edited-in-chiefed by our mutual friend Ira Sherak. (Other Hot Mexican Lovers deserving of a shout-out include co-creator Larry Reynosa and the world's angriest Canadian, Bob Bowen. An entertaining blog detailing the convention exploits of the Hot Mexican Love crew can be found here.) The anthology features stories by some of the finest talents of the animation industry, some of whom happen to be friends of mine. Others are mortal enemies. Check it out!

-EB