Mike Milo’s Journal

After I graduated Art School, I went to work off and on at a small studio in NYC called Broadcast Arts which made animated commercials. I was luckily enough to work on a Honey Nut Cheerios commercial, a Flintstone’s Pushups commercial, a Battleship commercial as well as a TNT commercial and a Indonesian seasoning ad. trouble was there was not much work in NYC and from what I’ve heard there still isn’t so I could not work steadily and began to think that I had to find another job. I was kinda depressing because I had just gone to school for three full years to learn how to animate and there was no work to be had. At the time I was living with a girl who as none to happy about my lack of employment and we broke up as a result which is ironic. I had gone to the school I did in Jersey to stay with her (I had wanted to go to a school called Cal Arts in L.A.) and now that I had graduated we were breaking up. Funny how life works out.

Anyway, my lucky break came in the form of a call from our school principal (more…)

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This is something you should be
aware of so you don’t get blind-sided.
This is really going to catch a lot
of families off guard. It should
make you worry. (more…)

I’ve been on vacation in Cabo San Lucas for the last two weeks (more on that later) and haven’t had time to post. We went swimming with the dolphins (which is better than ’swimmin’ wit da fishes’), we explored some beach caves on Lover’s Beach back where I helped save a family: and lived to tell about it… we braved a tropical storm… we saw a huge tortuga ( turtle) which swam alongside our water taxi, and got really sunburned… we sawa  dead pelican, we caught our hotel maid sneaking some rum from us…  but best of all we swam in the ocean and it was wonderful. I can honestly say I didn’t do a stitch of work these past two weeks and if you know me that’s unheard of. It was great!

I’ll post some pics when I get them sorted out…

I hope you’re all well and I will be posting some new stories and some art and some pics from my trip soon so please check back with me!

I am truly amazed at the talent of some people!

Mr Flint explaining to Woodrow how to raise the sun.

Well, I’ve managed to finish my pitch storyboard for CN’s shorts program and I’m pretty happy with the result. Of course I haven’t shown it to many people for the simple reason that I have no one to show except my family.  So, because I need to practice pitching and because I value their opinion, I pitched to my brother, wife and kids.  My wife said she really liked the story and that it was funny, which is good and I believe her because she does not pull punches. My kids also liked it and said they thought it was funny. I think they did not get all the jokes but that’s cool as I have heard that CN is trying to skew older with these shorts. My best review however came from my brother who said he loved it. Even better, he said actually liked it better than Flavio which I take as a compliment simply because I really liked how Flavio came out. He laughed at all the right places and thought the whole thing was good.

Here’s a few more panels from the film…

Woodrow realizes he’s destroyed the sun.

Mr Flint. chastises Woodrow.

The Ironwoods ‘curling’ cows.

Woodrow gets blown up.

Woodrow not behaving.

Woodrow flipping out because he can’t be on the Force of Nature

Woodrow feeling a little ‘beat’

On the left side is Lover’s Beach and the right
side is Divorce Beach.

This one is about saving a man instead of almost killing myself…

About 5 years ago my wife and I bought a time share down in Cabo San Lucas which was where I had proposed to her about 9 years prior to that. Now something I did not know about Cabo at the time we bought the time share was that because it sits on the edge of the Baha peninsula it has extremely strong currents from both the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean. The first year we went down there the beach was nice and the waves wer small. Apparently that winter a hurricane came in and destroyed much of the beach and when we next went there for a visit (and bought the time share) there was not much beach at all. Still we thought nothing of it because it was still the same beach. Or so we thought. Somehow the hurricane had changed the tide there and as we soon found out it was not the calm beach we had known in previous years. (more…)

I love puns. They’re so clever. Who thinks this stuff up?
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Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The
ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent.

2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘I’ll serve
you, but don’t start anything.’

3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted.

4. A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

5. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm, and
says: ‘A beer please, and one for the road.’ (more…)

Every year I make my wife a custom birthday car. Here’s this year’s…

Sometimes life has a way of nudging you to show how lucky you are. One day on Hwy 101 I got shoved.

I was driving my friend James home one evening after some jamming and drawing and we were gabbing it up having a good ol’ time. I got onto the 101 freeway and started the long trek to his house. In L.A. a trip to the market is a long trek.

Trust me on this.

Anyway, so we’re driving along in the fast lane and I cracked a joke which James found particularly funny and he got the giggles. For some reason I turned to look at him and it was then I noticed right past him out the window two lanes away,  a tractor trailer was just beginning to jackknife and come towards me!

No I’m not kidding.

Suddenly time slowed down…

You know how in movies when an important moment happens and the film switches to slow-mo?

I can tell you that there’s a reason for that. It does actually happen in real life or at least it appears to happen.

At least to me. (more…)