I love Disney movies so of course if I look at a running basset I think of one of two things: Either Toby from the Great Mouse Detective or any scene of Dumbo flying. This panel is one of the first four I drew when I was trying to figure out if I wanted to wander back into Bassetville or not. It works well enough, not necessarily funny but cute. I like cute. I think I do it well.

I have had quite a week. Here are a few things I’ve learned.

1. only a handful of you followed Broken Muzzle over to the new site. (link withheld on purpose)

2. this blog’s traffic has actually picked up (guess you like the doggies)

3. riding the metro to and from work can be an interesting experience. Y’all I’ve been riding the subway to work everyday since I moved to Maryland and this week has been by far the most…eventful? Did you know PSPs could play porn? Yeah, learned that little nugget this morning.

Ew….

There is more to the week but I’m done numbering. Yeah, lazy. Anyway… “Bassetville” got some serious shots in the arm this week from a number of different sources. It’s still sore BTW.

There are still things to work out and new skill sets to learn so I won’t say much. What I will say is that I’m reigning in the horses (I hope that was the right word/phrase). I am also committing myself to once again being an all-audience cartoonist so broken muzzle is done, kind of.

The broken muzzle cartoons will be coming back to this blog. There are still quite a few left it is just that quite a few of them won’t get posted. I’ve been a bad boy.

As for the new Bassetville panels, they will continue but I will have to see where they go. What you will see along with them is a little more of is prep work for the new direction. Character sketches, redesigns maybe some style experimentation. Good stuff.

I am so flippin’ excited!

I’m not really sure what influenced this panel. Maybe it was purely from the new home my wife convinced me to buy the real Zulli. He had been living in an outfitted under-the-bed storage container. Now he has his own big ol’ terrarium. He is much happier now but Frances can no longer stick her nose in.

Maybe that is why he is happier.

Here you go. As Colleen requested a few weeks back, here are my versions of Harry Tang and Morgan from the show Chuck. I had this sketched out about 15 minutes after I saw the request. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

Well, what else would you call the day after Thanksgiving?

Happy day before Thanksgiving. Turkey vs. hound… no contest.

Since the Broken Muzzle comic has moved over to its own site I’m going to be a little more freeform with the Bassetville 2.0 comics. Some weeks I’ll be uploading more than others. I’ll try to make sure I don’t upload less than 2 per week.

In the coming weeks before the end of the year I a going to have some questions concerning the future (and to an extent the past) of Frances and her friends. If you know of anyone that used to read Bassetville and isn’t visiting the site, please tell them to swing by. As you can tell by the fact that I’m even drawing these characters again, I listen when readers answer my questions.