wheeeeeeee!

For the first time in a wee while, I present a new photoshop- in a blend of photoshop stylee with my old style of single panel cartoons. Click the image to biggerize it, should you be so inclined.

Coming Attractions

I have decided to dedicate time into getting the site redesign finished. I'm not sure if it will be a complete overhaul or more of a subtle improvement yet, so I can't say how long it will take. Don't expect many updates in the meantime- although I'll try and do some if it takes a while. At the time of writing, with no series ongoing and having just had to scrap my current project I am not sure what my next animation will be. The world , as they say, is my lobster. See you on the other side.

Triple Trouble

Three new wallpapers are available for the iPod Touch and iPhone format. Click the images to see full size, they can then be synced to your device and set as wallpaper

Looking to the future...

There's something I've been planning on doing for some time, but I've been waiting for the right time to put into action. With MPZ heading towards the end of it's fifth year online I'm going to shake things up a little bit and start putting more focus on comics. Not only the single-panel stuff I've been posting for years but also comic strips and full length stories. Some characters from my animations may appear in them, and some comics may end up later as animations. I'm planning big things. Before anyone worries though I am not going to be stopping doing animations- I'm not even planning on animating less often. It's just that the gaps inbetween will animations will be filled with comicky goodness and other stuff. It may take some time to get into the swing of things but hopefully you'll stick with me- and I hope you'll enjoy the ride!

New comic strip

This is the first comic strip I've produced in quite some time. Click the first panel above to read the whole thing!

Over the Zune

Our video podcast, Monkey Pirate Zombie TV is now a featured podcast on Zune.net (which is basically Microsoft's answer to iTunes). It's featured in the comedy section here. I'm not sure how we ended up on there, but a big thanks to anybody who may have been responsible!

new comic...

... old joke. Another redrawn comic added to the site. Click to see full size. You can also rate or comment on the comic on Drunkduck (you'll need to sign up for free first though)

iPhone/iPod wallpapers

Here's a new addition. If you've got a iPhone or an iPod touch then you can download these exclusive MPZ iPhone wallpapers. They are formatted to fit the iPhone/ touch screen without reformatting. Click to see them full size. You can then save them and transfer them to your portable device.

Lovely linkage

You may have heard of the site DeviantArt that allows users to share their artwork galleries online.  I'm here today to let you know that my good friend Siobhan (who's work has once appeared on this very site) has a gallery there and thoroughly marvelous it is too. You should check it out by clicking right here

Coming Attractions

2010 has started well so far, but I've got big plans for mpz in the coming months! I'm planning on beefing up my comics output and with that in mind MPZ now has a space on Drunkduck, one of the web's top webcomics communities. More info on that is coming soon. A site redesign should also be happening in the near future. A new collaboration with proving ground is in the pipeline too, so watch this space...

Lovebytes: the complete saga (sort of)

Lovebytes is now available on Youtube in HD. When I came up with the idea originally it was called UD8.tv- (pronounced you-date in case you were wondering). The plan was always to release the episodes separately and then combine them into a longer animation. Now six episodes and a name change later it's done. It was made complicated by the fact that I switched to doing animations in HD part way through, so the earlier episodes had to be tinkered with. The finished project only contains four of the episodes- I decided that the episodes featuring Lord Squiffington and Dotty were the weaker two so I thought it worked better without them. They can still be viewed here on the site.

So, that's it for Lovebytes. There may always be a second 'series' if this one proves popular (and I come up with enough ideas) and the characters may be back in other forms. But for now at least it's finished. You can check it out

HERE

Lovebytes episode 6!

Here it is the first new animation of the year, of the decade even! It was meant to be done before Christmas but stuff got in the way. This follows directly on from the last episode in that it reuses a character from the Big brother animation but with a new take on the character. The character was initially played by my lovely friend but long story short I had to recast- and was able to take the character in a new direction. It now features a fantastic performance by a brilliant actress named Annabelle Bay.

Warning: Contains adult humour

You can watch it here. (Flash version) OR watch it/download it here as the podcast.

EDITED 23.1.10

Operation Christmas Phase 3

It's still Christmas- the big day itself may have gone but it still Tis the season until after New Year's Day...Basically this is me apologising for not bringing to you earlier. I've been busy, what with yuletide and everything. But I got some time to spare so I've made a quickie animation that sees the return of a friend of the site, the fabulous Mr BD Bear. It's more an animated Christmas/ New Years Card than anything, (if you've seen BD's first appearance you'll know what to expect)

Click here to watch!

Operation Christmas Phase 2

Here are the second of my set of Christmas Designs. A very merry Christmas to all you out there in internet land from MPZ! Click to Embiggen. See you soon!

Operation Christmas Phase 1:

It's Christmas Eve so it's the first Festive post of the season ( I don't know how many I'll manage to get out, festive celebrations usually get in the way, but at least one more is waiting in the wings). Firstly here are two brand new pieces of artwork for you to check out: Click to Bigify


















Secondly: my festive animation from 2005 has been given a bit of a lick of HD (virtual ) paint and added to Youtube. If you haven't seen it before make sure you check it out. Click here to watch it!

New video

I've made a short promo for The Ontario Music Awards, which is open to Canadian music types (plus international submissions for an international category) from now til next July. I made it as a favour as the event's organizer is a friend of my Canadian buddy who you may know as the talent behind Proving Ground. Obviously it's not like my usual stuff (as it's just an info based promo) but I had fun messing around with the effects and you can see it over on youtube. I can always be hired to make promos for events or websites etc. so feel free to drop me a line. Proper MPZ type shizzle will be along this side of christmas.

New Gear updates

With the traditional present giving season nearly upon us, I will be adding more and more funky merchandising to the mpz store. In order to stop the next month being full of such shameless commercialism I'll be adding any further updates to this post by editing it. Cunning huh?

• I've added a load of new Movie Monkey 'Value' T-shirts that allow you to feed your monkey habit without breaking the bank- They're just £7.50/ $10.99
  

New Calendar available!

With Christmas coming up I will be adding some spanky new products to out store! I've just made available the 2010 Back To The Drawing Board calendar, featuring 12 of the best cartoons from the MPZ archives. This will be your last chance to have a Back To The Drawing Board calendar, as changes will be occurring at the MPZ comics section, and this calendar will not be available again! Ever! Check it out here.

Christmas stuff available from previous years can also be seen here.

just a little'un

A happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers out there! Have a good one y'all. (See, I can speak American. Sidewalk, elevator, etc.) I'm less ill now so updates are coming, but I'm juggling several projects at the moment I'm not sure what'll come out first!

Hold On to Your Hats

New stuff is coming, including a new animation which has been written and the sound recorded. However it's being held up by my being ill. So sorry, it'll have to wait a bit longer. Long time readers may observe this is about the zillionth time I've been ill lately, and this is indeed rubbish. Must stop it.

Kitten's got talent*

Click to Bigify!

* Like 'Britain's Got Talent'.... geddit? No? Your probably not British then. But it's OK, I still love you.

Fancy Dress

As you may have noticed MPZ has put on it's Halloween costume ready for the weekend. Hope you get a kick out of it! Have a good night and don't let the zombies get you!

EDIT: The normal banner has been restored , but you can check out the Halloween banner here.

Another new comic

Here's another new cartoon, once again it's a redraw of one of my favourite of my old ones, but maybe new to many of you. Click for Bigger

Guest comic!

Something I've been wanting to do for a while is bring to MPZ work by people other than me. It's been an ambition of mine to be able to bring other artists to your attention- be they cartoonists, animators, writers or whatever. So I'm excited today to be able to bring to you a picture by a very talented artist friend of mine the fabulous Siobhan Buckingham. I'm sure you'll love her stuff as much as I do. Click to see it bigger. Hopefully I'll get to bring you more of her stuff soon! More animations and comickery are on their way from me too.

A classic... reimagined!

That might be pushing it a bit... but it's not only my animations that are getting given a re-boot. As you can see will also be redrawing my favourite installments of Back To The Drawing Board - my old comic gallery. This is my first effort, that some of you may recognize. I'm pretty pleased with it.

Well if you can't plagiarize yourself who can you?

Click to Embiggen.

New T-shirt!

With a certain Popular Gifting Season only just over 3 months away, there will be more merchandise hitting the store over that time. I've just added the Pirate Kitten T-shirt, for those who loves pirates and kittens (i.e. everyone) it would be the ideal gift. It's also very reasonably priced.

Check it out

I am the reanimator!

I have an ongoing project to take the older stuff (animation and other things) and bring them up to date with HD animation and any other improvements that are needed. It's not my priority but it's something I'm working on between other projects. Following on from the remake of Leprocop, the next trailer in the series Pacman Begins was the next one to get the treatment.

So click here to watch it on HD in youtube, or watch the flash version here, or finally you can find the podcast/ mp4 version here.

the times they are a-changing

I'm trying to make browsing the site a more simple and streamlined experience. As a result the menu bar (at the top of this page- if you don't see it you may need to install flash) has been updated. Click the movies, stuff and booty buttons and you will see the most recent entries in the category, most recent first. Which makes sense really.

If you want to see the older stuff it can be found in the archive sections which you will be able to access at the bottom of the page. Or click the following links: movie archive, stuff archive, booty archive

Latest Animation is go!

The latest animation is a short music promo for the musician known as MusicisdeaD. It takes it's inspiration from comic books and I'm pretty pleased with it overall. You can check it out in one of three exciting ways

Watch in in HD on youtube (recommended if you've got a nice fast connection) or watch the flash version here. Or click here to download it in mp4 format or subscribe to the podcast. If you already are subscribed you should find it will download automatically.

A piratey pic

To mark this most piratey of all days. Um... Yarr!

Click for bigarrr

yarrrrrrr!

Yarr! Today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Every yarr on this day the scurvy dogs that run this here landlubbin' webship like to mark the occasion! So for this weekend Monkey Pirate Zombie becomes Pirate Pirate Pirate. Yarr! We've hoisted the banner. And a happy Pirate Day to all you Landlubbers out there!


P.S. Yarrrrrrrrrrr!

incoming

A new animation is imminent. All being well, should be done in the next week or so. I'll see you then (if not before)

Fancy a Quickie?

Jusssssst squeezing in by the end of the month by the skins of my teeth, here's a new Quickie animation (one knocked up in hours so don't expect too much in other words). It's short, simple and in poor taste (you have been warned) so check out our new friend BD Bear....

CLICK

Lovebytes Episode 5: the Chuckinator

Our new animation is here! The fifth (and possibly final) installment in the Lovebytes series, this features a new interpretation of the character of The Chuckinator as seen in the Big Brother animation. Watch it here or click here to get the podcast version. If you already subscribed to the podcast it should download automatically next time you log in to itunes/your podcatcher software of choice.

More animations

The State Of Things.

Just checking in to let you know where 'things' are 'at'. Well I've got numerous things in the works, and one animation is so close you can taste it. And it tastes of chicken. Mmmmmmm. So that should be hitting within days. After that I will be doing on another musical promo, plus several other things that I don't feel ready to reveal yet... but watch this space. Plus plenty of the usual nonsense will be coming your way too.

Enter the Monkey

(But you better buy him dinner first). A new movie monkey, dressed up as Bruce Lee, as seen in Game Of Death (although you may recognize the get-up better as worn more recently by the delectable Ms. Thurman in Kill Bill )


More movie monkeys

this monkey will live long and prosper

A new movie monkey is going boldly for you today. It's a movie monkey, but not as we know it. That's enough references for one post I think, just check it out!






More movie monkeys

a little picture...

...That I drew for my Niece's second birthday. Yup, it's just a straight forward picture, no joke, no hidden meaning, but hey she's only two. And She liked it.

Defiant one:Full unuct version

Today I am finally able to bring you the Proving Ground video I made, The Defiant One in it's original uncut form. The version already released is a slightly altered version to conform to the standards of Youtube and itunes. So this full uncut version is only available on this very site! WARNING: contains animated naughtyness and nuddyness and not suitable for younger viewers or the easily offended. With that out of the way CLICK to see it (if you dare).

Bonus: I will send the full HD version of this to the first 5 people (over 18's only) who email me and ask me nicely.

Who ya gonna call? This Monkey!

This Monkey aint afraid of no Ghost. Bustin' makes him feel good. Etc etc...



More movie monkeys

I AM alive!

Yeah, um so it's been far too long since my last post and even longer since I've posted anything substantial but events have conspired. I have been working more at the job that actually pays me money (good for money, less good for time), which is only the beginning of my excuses. Also I have had yet another bloody cold that meant I didn't feel like doing much of anything, which was swiftly followed by the arrival of The Great British Summer which meant sweltering heat (for about a week), which again prevents me from spending all day staring at a screen making silly cartoons. Finally I now have KITTENS. They are very distracting. And awesomely cute.

So yeah, sorry about that. But I will make up for it. You will see a couple of new photoshops attached to this post that you can see in the newly updated photoshop gallery

More stuff will be up soon.

things

Another family occasion (father's day in this case) means another in my series of photoshops for you to see today. Click for bigger. While I'm here I'll draw your attention to the poll I'm running over at the blog- you can help decide the future of the blog. Whether or not you read the blog you might wanna check it out!

Hasta La Vista Monkey

Traveling back in time to a time when Terminator movies were actually good* and Arnie was just a movie star it's a new Movie Monkey.

Wallpapers: big bigger wide. Click on them if you want to live.

More Movie Monkeys

A new animation should be ready in the near future. Whoop whoop! I'll be back....



* Full disclosure I haven't yet seen Salvation, I'm going on T3 here. But by all accounts McG's flick ain't much cop either.

Update-othon

• A couple of little things to tell you about today. Firstly our friends over at Proving ground are offering you the chance to win some goodies including the previously unseen uncut version of the Defiant One video. All you have to do it sign up to the mailing list (for free) and enter. Details here
• A selection of Defiant One wallpapers, avatars etc. are now available.
• I've added a link to our Youtube channel, which has now had a snazzy update. Why not stop by and leave us some friendly comments?
• Defiant Merchandise has also been added to the shop
  

The Defiant One

In collaboration with Proving Ground, I am finally able to bring you the finished article of the animation i've been working on for some time now The Defiant One. It's a music video- the first full length one I've produced, and it's the first for Proving Ground as well. The second single from Proving Ground's Album Through the Red Door, this video is a dark and violent look at a war between angels and demons, and the effects of betrayal. It's avaialble in lovely shiny HD on Youtube, or you can watch it in it's original flash form here on this very site. Finally, it is avaialble to download as a podcast episode. However you prefer to watch it, make sure you check it out!

We're on amazon, how'd that happen?

In 2006, I produced a little book MPZ: the bog book that I put up for sale on Lulu.com and has pretty much been forgotten about since. Oddly enough 3 years later, the peeps over at Lulu sent me an email to say that that its' been selected to be available through amazon.com market place. It's available to be seen here. If anyone wanted to buy it now It's cheaper to buy through Lulu directly but I just wanted to share the news of the book's unexpected reappearance... maybe it's time for a revised edition?


Oh and for my UK readers- it's on the US amazon only I'm afraid.....

new 'shop

A small new photoshop for ya all. That's how I roll.



[click for big]

coming soon

*hopefully

Checking in

The new Proving Ground music video (which is what I am currently hard at work at) is progressing well. It may even be done ahead of schedule but time will tell. Other stuff is in the works too. Stay tuned....

May the 4th be with you..rofl

It's the unofficial Star Wars Day- May the 4th. So naturally the first Star wars monkey is here to celebrate. (Doesn't mean I forgive you Lucas!)






















In other news, I am currently working hard at a new animation that hopefully will be ready before the end of the month. Either way I'm keen to show it to you guys and gals.

Update.

Wallpapers now available in small large wide

Podcast update

The HD version of leprocop has been released as a Podcast episode. Sadly the HD version won't be compatible with ipods (not with mine anyway), but you can play it on your computer if you can run quicktime (.mov) files.

We is 5!

Five Frickin Years Old today ! The monkey has been celebrating a little too hard. That's all for now!

Five Frickin' Years: MPZ goes HD

Monkey Pirate Zombie is officially Five Frickin' years old as of tomorrow (28th of April), which means expect all sorts of celebratory shenanigans over the coming days, weeks of months (we're five for a whole year after all). To kick off I have an announcement : that I will now be producing animations in HD. So I hatched a plan to transfer lots of my old toons into the new spanky format. Until I discovered that the HD-ness shows up the creakyness of some of the old material. So i decided I had to basically do it all again.

Which brings us to the shiny new version of my personal favourite animation from the site's history: Leprocop. It has been pretty much remade from the ground up (although the awesome voice acting remains) and is about 90% new, and very shiny looking. It's also a sneaky peak at where I'm looking at going with my trailer spoofs in future. You can check it out in HD on YouTube. (Make sure you click the HD tab to watch it in best quality)

RIGHT HERE

This may be just the first of my old toons to get shinied up so watch this space.
(You can see the flash version here)

Mad Cats and Englishmen

Just a quickie update here- it's another photoshop mashup for yet another birthday card I produced. Click it to make it go BIG!

While I'm here it's nearly over but Happy St. George's Day to all my English readers around the world!

A thing. And another thing

This is a small photshop I did for a card for a birthday. It won't be added to the photoshop gallery, not yet anyway, (it's a bit sloppy) but you can see it here. (Click for Biggy)

The last Movie Monkey Is now available as Wallpapers too- in the usual flavours
small large wide

up up and away!

New Movie Monkey. That is all.

Less boring, cartoon related update

Just to fill you in, there's quite a number of things in the pipeline. Two more episodes of Lovebytes (aka Ud8.tv) are written and are somewhere on the path to production. I am also collaborating with Proving Ground to make another animation, following the last successful collaboration. And those are only the things I'm prepared to tell you about right now!. More info soon!

Boring techie update (updated)

If you swung by here in the last 24 hours in this space you may have seen a very happy post in this space about how I had overcome the problem with the coding on this page that made it look screwy on MS Internet Explorer. Very pleased with myself I was too. However checking back this morning I have no idea how but it's screwed up again. As a last ditch attempt I'm going to scrap the template and start again. So in the meantime there may be some disruption and the look of the site may change back and forth. Sorry for the disruption but hopefully It'll be worth it in the end.

update 14.55 BST: Site maintainence has begun. Site will look different for a little while, please bear with us.

update 16.30: Now looking pretty much as it should. A few bits of cosmetic changes still to go but so far so good! knowing my luck the small changes will cause the whole thing to go screwy again!

I'm very excited today to bring you the most exciting news in the history of the site. Just hours ago we've signed a contract with a major Hollywood studio! In Summer 2011 Leprocop will be coming to a cinema near you! Based on our popular animation, it will be adapted into a full length feature. The director is already attached- and this is the best news of all.-the visionary genius behind such modern classics as House of the Dead and Bloodrayne 3. Yes folks, none other than Uwe Boll. It's too early to confirm casting but Bruce Willis has shown interest in the role of Jack Kannon, and Jeremy Irons is in negotiations to play the villain- a real coup after his tour-de-force performance in Dungeons and Dragons. More news as we get it.


UPDATE//...... Well obviously this was our little April Fools gag. Ahhahahahahah! Sure nobody fell for it, (Uwe Boll? Visionary?) but hey it was fun.

March Round-up

I'm going to try and start doing these again, so you can find easier to keep up if you're a not-so-regular visitor to the site. This will be the highlights of the last month but to see it in every single post of the month - you can click here.

• We launched the 5th anniversary celebration of MPZ, by giving the site a makeover. It looks best in Firefox or Google Chrome.
• The Flash Gallery became 'Movies' but it's still the same old nonsense. You can download most animations in mp4 format now too!
• The series previously referred to as ud8.tv is now called 'Lovebytes' and has a snazzy new minisite
• I made a promo video for Proving Ground's new album Through The Red Door. It's got zombies in it.
• The booty section was updated.
  

Ch-ch-changes again

Believe it or not, Monkey Pirate Zombie will be 5 years old on 28th of April 2009! Woo! Go us! Who wants to make us a cake? Anyhoos as part of an early Birthday present I've given the site a bit of a makeover, sort of a version 2.0 of the new look that was launched last summer, as you should be able to see. What else is new? The 'Flash' section is now called 'movies'- I felt that as flash can mean movies or interactive games (and most videos can be downloaded too now) I needed to distinguish the animations. So The page has been redesigned- it's less flashy but much easier to maintain and keep up to date. Ud8tv finally has a proper mini-site and a new name to go with it- Lovebytes. The site map has been redone, and from now on if you'll find yourself there if you stumble on a broken link as well.

Simply Booty-ful

I have updated the Booty section (a.k.a. downloads) and added some new wallpapers and avatars, some relating to our latest zombie-tastic animation. The below image is available as wallpapers in various sizes, check out the wallpaper section to find the one that suits you best.

Through The Red Door

I can finally reveal what I've been working on now. A little while ago, Paulo (you may know him as The Protector, the very talented composer of the MPZ theme among others) asked me to make a video to promote the release of his upcoming third album with his band Proving Ground. In typically overambitious fashion I set to work on a zombie epic. Eventually I had to scale back my ambitions slightly but I'm pleased with the result. It's my first action animation, and is quite different in style to anything else I've done to date, so I'd be interested to hear if you'd like to see more in the same vein. A word of warning- it contains violence against zombies.

Click here to watch the high quality Flash version (recommended) or you can see it on Youtube here (less high quality). Proving Ground's new album is due this spring, and the first single is being released on 13th of March, so if you like the music you can buy it soon! Visit their site here

This is also available as the latest podcast.

Update

I don't generally get too specific with ETAs for things I'm working on (as they generally change, often for reasons beyond my control) but I'm going out on a limb here by telling you my latest animation project is nearing completion. I intend to get it done in the next week (although it's by no means definite) so keep checking back and you should have something new to gawp at in the very near future.

Probably.

new photoshop

Here's a genuine* picture of the real life Dapper Monkey pictured outside his fine Emporium in Victorian London... Click to embiggen











*genuine Victorian Photoshop? Possibly.

Something(s) on the way...

Just to let you know that I've been quiet for a while but I wanted to reassure you I'm working on a number of things. Particularly a new animated project that I can't talk about just yet. Just wait a little while longer and something will be up soon. Enigmatic enough for ya? I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in.... um... skin.

Strangely familiar?

Waaaay back in 2005, I produced Trailer Trash IV, a little piece called Sense and Sensibility and Zombies- combining period drama with zombie movie at last. Fast forward to today when I learn (via Slashfilm) that a book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is to be released in April and that Hollywood producers are allegedly fighting for the rights. It's probably unlikely that the author of the mash up book has ever seen my animation or ever heard of monkey pirate zombie (the Internet is an awful big place) but it does seem like a pretty big coincidence. Even if I did think it was a rip-off there wouldn't really be anything much I could do about it, so I'm just going to have to assume it's a big ol' coincidence. And it would make an awesome movie. However I'll be watching out. If this guy's next project is Leprocop, there will be trouble!

New gear, Monkeys next top model?

Several new movie monkey t-shirts have been added to the store. Which coincidentally would make fantastic valentine presents for the monkey-loving loved one in your life don't you think?

Incidentally anybody out there who would like to get their hands on some MPZ merchandise for free in exchange for modeling them here on the interwebs should e-mail me. To keep costs down I'd be looking for just one lady-model (0f fairly average size and build) based in the US.

Sorry to any would-be male models but you'd probably look silly in a girls' t-shirt! Also, although I'm based in the UK, the stuff would be shipped from Stateside, so shipping internationally would add to the cost. If you are interested and in that category then get mailing! Don't forget to include a pic.

MPZTV 22:Go grey

The podcast has been updated. For detail see the below post. Click to view, download or subscribe in the usual manner. Or here to view or download previous episodes Catch you on the flipside!

UD8.tv episode 4

The latest animation is here- the latest episode of Ud8.tv It features a character you may have seen before- Dotty, albeit with a new look and a new voice (that is digitally altered to make it less hard on the ol' pipes). The podcast version will be along soon too. Click

Chin Up Chucks

The Last Monday in January (which would be today) is statistically know as The Most Depressing Day Of the Year (don't ask me how- ask SCIENCE) which is why it's known as Blue Monday. So I made a very quick rough and ready animation featuring someone who wants to cheer you up.


By the way, this isn't the animation I began last week, but a wee bonus- so there's still more animated goodness in the works already. Hurrah for me! I rock!

it's coming....

Yes indeed sirs and madams and any sir/madam hybrids that might be reading this, the first animation of '09 has been begun and will hopefully be ready before the end of the year. Or possibly even the end of the month. But let's not be too ambitious eh?

Anyway seriously it will be ready pretty soon all being well. Hope you're all enjoying the new year so far!

back to the ol' drawing board

I have been working behind the scenes on redesigning bits of the site that were left out when I did the redesign in the summer. While I gave the home page and blog snazzy makeovers I intended to do the same to the rest of the site but frankly it hadn't happened as quickly as I intended. So I'm currently making up for lost time and doing it now. Once it's done I can concentrate on making new stuff. Just as a wee taster of what I've been up to take a look at the new front page of Back to the Drawing Board

a little somethin'

The Photoshop gallery has been updated to add the festive shops I did for New Years. I've also fixed a couple of issues the page developed* last time I updated it (the links work again now for example!) Click to check it out.



* OK maybe I actually caused it myself. Even if I don't know how I managed it.

Texas Chainsaw Monkey

Completing a trio of Movie monkey icons of horror started at Halloween, here's Leatherface Monkey.

Click image for bigger.
More Monkeys

Normality resumed.....

....or as close to normality as it ever gets round here. I'm back from the festive break and have all sorts of plan for this year. To start off some left over business from last year... Movie monkeys finally have their own page. Also you'll now see that the photoshop gallery, illustration gallery and stuff and nonsense gallery can all be found from the main menu bar by clicking the 'stuff' button.

Christmas Present 2!

The second part of the Christmas animation double bill is here, following on from yesterday. Without further ado....... Happy Bunny returns for a (probably) one-off for his very own Christmas special. Click here to check it out. It is also available as a Podcast.

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New year, and thanks for all your support throughout 2008. This might well be the final post of the year as I enjoy the season, but I'll see you in 2009, if not before!

Christmas Present 1!

I wasn't expecting to be able to get you Christmas stuff in time, but I'm pleased to tell you that I will, so ignore what I said before. Not only is a brand new animation is on it's way but I've also stuck out a bonus episode of the podcast: featuring the Christmas animation I made in 2005. It's new to the podcast, even if some of you may have seen it before. Either way you can check it out here.

Watch this space, something totally new is coming too.....

MPZTV 20: best of monkey pirate zombie 2008

I've put together a little special episode of the podcast that brings together the best of the episodes from the last year or so ( Trailer Trash episode 7 is actually from last year, but lets not get too picky). Seemed like about the right time for it. Check it out here or subscribe or check out past episodes from here.

Ho Ho Ho fo' sho'

The MPZ Christmas logo is up. Watch out as it gets more Christmassy! More festive treats are coming.....

party like it's 1985

Screeching on to the site at 88mph, it's a new movie monkey, it's Monkey McFly (a Back to the Future monkey). Which reminds me, we're living in the future now, where are our frickin' Hoverboards?





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Also added to booty.

Podcast update

A bonus episode has been released of the podcast. Click to check it out, or here to subscribe. The episode is the only episode of Happy Bunny that never appeared in the podcast. Originally it was interactive- you could choose an alternate ending. Now the interactivity has gone, but you can still enjoy all 3 endings. This animation is a couple of years old, so the animation isn't my best but it's here for completions sake.

Time for Change......

I've thoroughly revamped the booty section (where wallpapers and downloads can be found) and had a good sort out. A lot of the old wallpapers are gone but there are new ones in the place. Some older ones will be returning once I've fiddled with them to get them up to the same standard as the new ones (older 'papers were saved as jpegs, whereas I now save them as the better quality png format, if you want to get technical). The selection will certainly improve soon. As well as backgrounds, you will also find a large number of new avatars for you to use in instant messenger programs or in forums. Take a look around! More content will be added later

now in widescreen

From now on, an extra size has been added to the wallpaper range, to cater for the increasing number of people who have wide screen monitors (such as yours truly). For starters all the Movie Monkeys have widescreen wallpapers- links below.

Monkey Indie wide
Iron Monkey wide
Joker Monkey wide
Triple Monkey wide
Freddie Monkey wide
Jason Monkey wide
Bond Monkey wide
Harry Monkey wide

NEW: pickles the clown

A First here at Monkey Pirate Zombie Towers today- as we present the first MPZ musical toon. It's short and there's not much to it, but hopefully you'll enjoy it!

It's online here and available to download as the latest Podcast episode. You can also see the Flash original here, but I recommend the podcast version as for reasons I can't even begin to understand the sound goes out of sync when I upload it- although it may just be my machine. Anyway- off you go to meet Pickles!

New toon coming

A brand new animation is underway! It's something completely new and not any of the ongoing series. That is all I'm telling you for now....

the name's monkey, movie monkey

Ba-ba ba ba BA BA, ba ba ba ba.... with impeccable timing here is a new Movie Monkey, for your eyes only. And thanks to pure dumb luck, this happens to be Movie Monkey number (double O) 7!

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