{"id":7708,"date":"2012-05-06T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:37:07","slug":"sleepy-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/05\/06\/sleepy-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Tina and I are working on finishing up Chapter 2<\/strong> of Monkey & Bird<\/strong><\/em>.<\/a> This was a sketch I did in my sketchbook looking for a comfortable and humorous sleeping position for Mickey the Monkey<\/strong>. It’s a fun sketch, but it won’t fit in the panel I had in mind for it. I needed more of a supine sleeping position. So here is a sketch of a prone chimp catching some Z’s.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Stay tuned for MORE Monkey & Bird!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Want to read more? Monkey & Bird <\/strong><\/em>is available HERE!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tina and I are working on finishing up Chapter 2 of Monkey & Bird. This was a sketch I did in my sketchbook looking for a comfortable and humorous sleeping position for Mickey the Monkey. It’s a fun sketch, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":[49,53],"tags":[17,8,12,312,9,27,43,5,3666,1551,1550,3663,25,1549,6],"class_list":["post-7708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-monkey-bird","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-co2-comics","tag-comic","tag-comics","tag-digital-illustration","tag-humor","tag-joe-williams","tag-monkey-bird","tag-prone","tag-reclining","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-sleeping","tag-tina-garceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-20k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2004,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/11\/the-boaring-details\/","url_meta":{"origin":7708,"position":0},"title":"The BOARing Details","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the pencil sketch of the boar character (sorry - I haven't named him) from our most recent installment of Monkey & Bird. 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My favorite mechanical pencil with the fabulous 0.9mm indigo blue leads didn't do me any favors as far as breaking through my mental\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "It Came From the Sketchbook"","block_context":{"text":"It Came From the Sketchbook","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/descending-monkey.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/descending-monkey.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/descending-monkey.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":277,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/27\/still-more-origins-of-the-species\/","url_meta":{"origin":7708,"position":5},"title":"Still More Origins of the Species","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again we are looking in to the prehistory of Monkey & Bird with another drawing from the '80s. 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