Alex Heberling

The temperature spiked at about 85 degrees on Thursday when mom and I were driving through Iowa to get to Okoboji.  It cooled off the rest of the weekend, but spiked up again on the way back on Sunday and Monday, with it being in the low 80s on Monday when I was driving back [...]

Wow.  What a weekend. I spent last weekend (the 24th-26th) in Okoboji, Iowa at the Toon Award Exhibition.  My mom and I drove from Toledo, Ohio, which took us about 12.5 hours on Thursday.  I’m really glad we did it the day before and not overnight (which is how I usually drive to Connecticut every [...]

The reference for this badge art is the Satoshi Kon movie Paprika, which is about a doctor who uses super dream therapy technology to help psychiatric patients under an identity she assumes while in the dream world; the titular Paprika. The beginning of the movie depicts Paprika jumping from place to place, usually from billboards [...]

Trigger Warning: This art references Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, which is a dark comedy about a suicidal teacher. So this is the Despairing Teacher badge.  As I said above, the reference is from Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, a pretty hilarious anime with a unique visual style.  I tried to capture some of that in this piece, which is most [...]

My second AP badge is Dai Gurren Dan, a reference to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan.  Unsurprisingly, I have not seen TTGL either, but after watching a bunch of clips of it when I prepared to draw this badge, I think I might actually have to check it out.  I don’t generally like mecha series, so [...]