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Long Lost Friend Studio is my self-publishing imprint, the studio space where we work, and a YouTube channel featuring videos about art and creativity. This blog covers everything happening with me and Long Lost Friend Studio.


What Happens When The Dog STOPS Talking?
Vince Vince

What Happens When The Dog STOPS Talking?

Two lawyers, a bank president, a farmer, and a hypnotist were sitting in a jail cell, passing the time with idle chat.

“We had it all worked out,” said one of the lawyers. “Gather the family for the reading of the will, inform them they had to spend the night in that creepy old mansion to get their share of the money, then scare them off one by one until the money was all ours.”

“It was a perfect plan,” said the second lawyer.

“Almost perfect,” the first lawyer sighed. “Those kids really threw a monkey wrench into the works.”

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Giving Monsters A Bad Name
Vince Vince

Giving Monsters A Bad Name

The ghosts and monsters in the early seasons of Scooby Doo sent chills up my childhood spine. They still do if I’m being completely honest. Who could listen to the maniacal laughter of the Space Kook without tensing up? But those ghouls, as creepy as they could be, were infinitely more endearing — and enduring — than the criminal goons inside those spooky costumes.

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Clowning Around With Scooby Doo
Vince Vince

Clowning Around With Scooby Doo

Scary clowns have been around for a long time. Grimaldi. The Joker. Pennywise. So it would’ve been odd if Scooby-Doo, a cartoon that prided itself on introducing monsters to impressionable young minds, didn’t include that particular ghoul in its rogues gallery. And it did. In the tenth episode of season one they introduced a ghost clown that’s been creeping kids out for the last 55 years. This week, in a misguided effort to fix what was never broken, I decided to redesign that monster.

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The Things They Call ‘Art’ These Days
Vince Vince

The Things They Call ‘Art’ These Days

When I was a kid, toys were toys, cartoons were cartoons, and monsters were monsters. Simple childhood concepts. But, as it turns out, you can now make a posable action figure of a Scooby Doo monster, call it an art doll, and hardly anybody looks at you sideways.

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