{"id":4488,"date":"2011-09-30T06:17:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T11:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2019-11-25T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:17:08","slug":"monkey-bird-enchanted-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/30\/monkey-bird-enchanted-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey &#038; Bird &#8211; Some Enchanted Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Monkey &amp; Bird - Some Enchanted Evening by willceau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.co2comics.com\/pages\/co2_monkey_and_bird_2.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6153\/6196183375_6d39bd82e5_z.jpg?resize=512%2C274\" alt=\"Monkey &amp; Bird - Some Enchanted Evening\" width=\"512\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.co2comics.com\/pages\/co2_monkey_and_bird_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Monkey &amp; Bird<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by <strong>Joe Willams<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Tina Garceau<\/strong> continues TODAY at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co2comics.com\/pages\/co2_comics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CO2 Comics.<\/strong><\/a> Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co2comics.com\/pages\/co2_monkey_and_bird_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> to see how <em>Mickey<\/em> and <em>Sylvia&#8217;s<\/em> starlit rendezvous is going!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more-->If you are a regular reader of <strong>Willceau Illo News<\/strong>, you may have read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/08\/31\/pixels-or-pigment-make-up-yor-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article<\/a><\/strong> where I wrote of my back and forth struggle with traditional versus digital inking. This installment of <em><strong>Monkey &amp; Bird<\/strong><\/em> was inked digitally using a Wacom tablet. Of course, the sketches were all done traditionally with pencils and paper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.co2comics.com\/pages\/co2_monkey_and_bird_2.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4490\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/30\/monkey-bird-enchanted-evening\/ch2-12-sketch\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ch2-12-sketch.jpg?fit=640%2C492&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,492\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ch2-12-sketch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Shank of the evening&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ch2-12-sketch.jpg?fit=640%2C492&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4490\" title=\"ch2-12-sketch\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ch2-12-sketch.jpg?resize=640%2C492&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ch2-12-sketch.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ch2-12-sketch.jpg?resize=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Putting the word balloons in this one killed me because I loved the colors and the backgrounds so much. I was tempted to keep it silent, but I didn&#8217;t. As an added bonus, here&#8217;s the cartoon without sound:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.co2comics.com\/pages\/co2_monkey_and_bird_2.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4491\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/30\/monkey-bird-enchanted-evening\/mb-ch2-12-nowordz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MB-ch2-12-nowordz.jpg?fit=640%2C409&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,409\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MB-ch2-12-nowordz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MB-ch2-12-nowordz.jpg?fit=640%2C409&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4491\" title=\"MB-ch2-12-nowordz\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MB-ch2-12-nowordz.jpg?resize=640%2C409&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MB-ch2-12-nowordz.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MB-ch2-12-nowordz.jpg?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Interested in a printed copy <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/monkey-bird-mini-comic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Monkey &amp; Bird?<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Get the <em><strong>Mini-Comic<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/monkey-bird-mini-comic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>HERE!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Monkey &amp; Bird Mini-Comic by willceau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/monkey-bird-mini-comic\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6157\/6144422186_aef5d3b7bf.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"The Monkey &amp; Bird Mini-Comic\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkey &amp; Bird by Joe Willams &amp; Tina Garceau continues TODAY at CO2 Comics. Click HERE to see how Mickey and Sylvia&#8217;s starlit rendezvous is going!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,4],"tags":[17,8,12,312,9,27,43,3661,5,834,3666,64,6,212,3660],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkey-bird","category-news","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-co2-comics","tag-comic","tag-comics","tag-digital-illustration","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-jungle","tag-monkey-bird","tag-romance","tag-tina-garceau","tag-webcomic","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1ao","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1592,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/08\/27\/telecommunication-monkey-bird-continues\/","url_meta":{"origin":4488,"position":0},"title":"Telecommunication! 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