Looks like the AC system had more problems than just a duck in the thermostat! Good thing Abe is there to fix things. Yeah, I named the HVAC repair Yeti “Abe”.

Looks like Landon has had just about all he can take of this heat wave. Luckily the local HVAC repair Yeti is here! I figured, what better monster to repair air conditioners than a Yeti, right?

Also, I’ve got a guest strip running today for Lucas Turnbloom’s Imagine This. Go check it out!

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This week’s Spooky Sketch Sunday is of one of the all time classic monsters of folklore, the Loch Ness Monster! With all the vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and other there is little doubt that good ole Nessie would visit Renfield Square once in a while. I chose to depict Nessie here as a lovely and charming Scottish lass, a sort of giant, aquatic, pre-historic Sheena Easton, if you will.

I hope you’ve been enjoying these Spooky Sketch Sunday posts. If you have anything of the creepy and spooky nature you’d like to see me sketch, by all means, let me know in the comments below.

At last! One of life’s biggest mysteries is solved! Now, just be careful where you put your hands tonight when you go to bed. The Lepre-Fonz doesn’t like people touching his leather jacket!

BTW, you may have noticed that something is a little different around here. I have given the site a fresh coat of paint with a new header and background image. I hope you like it.

Finally, a way for Landon to deal with the heat. There’s nothing like the underside of a pillow on a hot summer day.

I bet you’re all wondering why is it that the underside of a pillow is so cool. Well, tune in Thursday for the surprising answer!

Welcome to another Spooky Sketch Sunday!

This week’s sketchbook page is my stylized depiction of the infamous Mothman, the mysterious being sighted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the mid 60′s. As part of my behind the scenes routine for Spooky Doofus, I often try my hand at drawing various monsters, cryptids, and supernatural beings in an effort to create new citizens of Renfield Square. Sometimes these character designs become full fledged characters, sometimes they show up as a cameo shopper at Dr. Vincent’s.

Clearly the heat is getting to Landon. How much more can this poor werewolf take? Will Landon ever find some small relief from the oppressive heat? Will the heat wave ever end? Will one of Ed’s ridiculous theories turn out to be true? Find out the answers to all these questions and more in the very near future in Spooky Doofus!

BTW, did you catch the return of Fan Art Wednesday yesterday? If you’ve got some spooky drawings of your own you’d like to share, use that handy “Contact Marc” button up there in the menu and send them my way. Maybe you, too, can have a Fan Art Wednesday post all your own!

Don’t forget to come back on Sunday for another Spooky Sketch Sunday!

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This week, Spooky Doofus is back to it’s regular Tuesday Thursday schedule, but that doesn’t mean I can’t squeeze in one more piece of guest art. This one comes from Brad Joyce. Brad has been a loyal supporter of my silly drawings for years now and for that alone he’s earned my never ending gratitude. Now comes this wonderful piece that just makes me smile! The gag in this piece is a nod to my daughters, Zoe and Penny. Zoe is often lovingly nick named “Zoe Monster” mostly because she shares a name with Elmo’s friend on Sesame Street, while Penelope I’ve referred to as a “hungry little monkey” on more than one occasion due to her hollow legs. (BTW, 50 points to anyone who can guess what the “Were-Human” poster is a reference to.)

If you’re on Facebook, check out Flip & Barrel, the charming little comic Brad works on (with another guy named Brad… it’s all very confusing). Flip and Barrel are a couple of brothers doing what brothers do best, get into crazy trouble! Check them out and be sure to click the mighty “Like” button!

I’ll leave you today with a little group shot of me and my girls sitting in the kitchen looking at my new Macbook Pro!

For the record, we're in our kitchen, not as many have guessed, a bathroom.

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The lesson here, kids is to be careful what you ask for when Ed is around!

New to the Doofus:

This past Sunday, I started a new feature called Spooky Sketch Sunday. Every Sunday I plan to post a new piece of sketch art of the spooky persuasion. Tune in every Sunday for a new look behind the scenes at my drawing style.

This week also marks the end of my  partial “paternity leave” as regular Spooky Doofus strips return to Thursdays! I would like to thank everyone who contributed their time and art to making my work load a little lighter while we welcomed our new baby. Dawn Griffin, Benj Christensen, Irma Eriksson, Lucas Turnbloom, and Roland Perez, I could not have kept this strip running this past month without your help. Thank you.

I also need to thank Brad Joyce, one of my longest running fans and loyal supporters. Brad also contributed a guest art piece which I will be running tomorrow as a special return of Fan Art Wednesday. I was originally going to run it as a Thursday guest strip, but in all honesty, I am seriously itching to get back to my regular schedule. I’ve had so many great ideas in these past few weeks, and drawn up some really ridiculous strips that I can’t wait to show them to you! So check in tomorrow to see Brad’s piece, then come back on Thursday for another “hot” installment of Spooky Doofus. Oh, and don’t forget about Spooky Sketch Sundays!

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Welcome to the first Spooky Sketch Sunday! I don’t know about you, but I’m a big fan of seeing other artists’ sketches and quick drawings. There’s usually a lot more spontaneity and energy in the sketches than in the finished art. Sketches really give you a glimpse into the raw creative mind of an artist. So with that in mind I decided to dedicate Sundays to displaying some of my Spooky Doofus related sketches. (If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll notice I post sketches of all kinds of things fairly regularly.)

This first on is a quick character study of Landon and Ed’s employer, Dr. Vincent. This sketch marks the first time I have drawn this character. Up until recently, I haven’t given a lot of thought to Dr. Vincent as a real character. Then came that great guest strip from Lucas Turnbloom. After seeing the way Lucas imagined Dr. Vincent, my mind began racing with ideas for ways I could bring him into the strip officially. Soon, you will get to learn a little more about Renfield Square’s famous entrepreneur.