A Fun Fact About Tom

Every month or so, Tom's aunt bakes and sends to him a molasses bread the size of Peter Dinklage, and Tom devours the entire thing.



To order your own Peter Dinklage-sized loaf of molasses bread, click here.

Two Unrelated Items

Spotted in the doorway of a Jersey Blimpie shop, JP rocks for Jesus. In the street. With a mean attitude.


Unless "JP" is the one name he rocks with, then "...Jesus" is him realizing how weird that is.

Item two, Gambino fights off imaginary ninjas.

RUN!

(pictured below, Gambino terrorizes a small neighborhood in the Bronx)

That's One Tough Wrap.

Mental note: never buy Saran Wrap from a Dollar Store again.

Meanwhile, During Edit...

Judgment Day.

Larry K judged the Rolly Wrap contest at 4pm yesterday. He evaluated the entries not just on accuracy as was originally planned but on artistic merit and overall presentation.


Entry 1 by Joanne
"Close," Larry commented, "Everyone assumes that spiral." But the process of making a Rolly Wrap, Larry says, involves a little more.



Entry 2 by Brynn
Entry 2 was also close on accuracy but Larry pointed out that a Rolly Wrap is "not open on the ends." He described the bread as not starting out as a wrap, but like pizza dough that they pinch off at the ends ("like a toffee") and then bake, so that it's entirely enclosed. Still, this entry had the "best accuracy for how they make it."


Entry 3 by Tom
"Tortured." Larry K noted how the artist's anger towards a client had the Verizon Test Man inside the wrap, which was one thing, but the toothpick was "gratuitously violent."



Entry 4 by Mike Gambino
"A little ostentatious." Larry likened this entry to a kid he knew in school who could draw a little too well, being courted at 16 to draw Marvel Comics after graduation. He did, however, like the aesthetic choice to go retro with the roller skate instead of a rollerblade.

Entry 5 by Kat
This one surprised Larry. He actually thought this was from a writer because of its crudeness and being the most "3-year old."

Entry 6 by Bowen
"Avant Garde. But just feels so incredibly wrong."
Larry commends the artist for going different ("I appreciate Warholian anarchy") but he couldn't get behind it.

So overall, Larry called the entire contest "an unmitigated failure across the board," but forced to decide, he went with entry #2 for being "closest to how it's actually made." So congratulations, Brynn, come claim your free Rolly Wrap gift bag whenever.

Attaboy.

(pictured above, Michael Gambino does what any self-respecting Art Director would do while concepting at 10:30pm– draw tits)