It’s my nieces birthday so we made this fortune box to celebrate!!

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I have no idea how old I am. No idea. Everyone should forget how old they are. It is the most liberating feeling one can imagine…except maybe buying milk in one’s underwears. That would be pretty liberating too.

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Today we close the chapter on “Toasted” and Agent W’s exciting adventure. It was fun to do something a little different here with the comics than my standard format and I appreciate all my readers for indulging me as I tried something new and experimented a little with the comic strip. I hope you enjoyed seeing Raccoon Toons in a slightly different way. And if you did maybe we’ll see more of Agent W, Dr. Maybe, and Goldenpaw sometime in the future.

While today is the end of the massive March updates, you still have until the end of the 31st of this month to enter our contest for a chance to be drawn into a future comic strip. The winner will be randomly selected and announced shortly thereafter in April. Good luck! And thank you for reading!

~M

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Have you entered our contest yet?? Winner gets to be drawn into a future Raccoon Toons comic strip!! Make sure you follow ALL of the rules below and do it THIS month. (If you did it in Feb. it doesn’t count.) Good luck to all of you!!!

1. Like us (if you’re a facebook person). Or follow us on your favorite social media platform. Or subscribe to the site by RSS or email. If you’ve already done that, great. Now you get to go to step 2.

2. Share your favorite comic strip or post with your friends! Post it! You must do this during THIS month (March 2013). If you did it last month or last year it doesn’t count. Gotta be this month.

3. Tell me. Seriously. If you don’t leave a comment or email specifically telling me that you have entered the contest, you will not be entered. Also must be done this month.

4. Eat a cookie. You know the rules. There’s no getting past it.

So there you have it! Once you have accomplished ALL of these 4 steps during this month you will be entered into our contest for a chance to be cartoon-ified!

And once you’re cartoon-ified, I have you right where I want you.

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Happy Wednesday! In case you missed the news, Raccoon Toons is updating 4 days a week for the month of March!! Whoo!! We’re also holding our annual “Who Wants To Be In a Comic Strip?” contest! One lucky winner will be featured in an upcoming Raccoon Toons comic strip! You have until the end of the month to enter, but it only takes a minute or two, depending on how fast you can click your mouse. I know you’ve been working out those clicking muscles. I bet you can click so fast.

To enter simply:

1. Like or subscribe or follow or whatver.

2. Find your favorite comic strip, cartoon, or post and share it with your friends.

3. Leave a comment on the website or on one of our social media sites to tell me that you’ve shared your favorite.

4. Eat a cookie.

It’s so easy, even a small baby with internet access could do it! That is, assuming they have parent supervision. Because small babies shouldn’t be fiddling around on the internet without parent supervision. Seriously. What kind of a parent are you?? Gosh.

Now you know the rules. Enter. Go forth and conquer. And maybe you’ll be our next contest winner!

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My goodness how time flies. Here we are again. Where is the time going?? Where is it flying to?!? What the heck time?!? I thought we were friends…

In years past, I have made my stance on resolutions abundantly clear. Just to refresh your memory, I think they’re dumb. I think this holiday is dumb. And I think you’re all dumb for celebrating it. Stupid, dumb holiday.

But I digress.

Believe it or not, I actually have made some resolutions this year. Yes, I know what you’re thinking; “but Matt, you’re so wonderful, humorous, and attractive! Why would YOU need to make New Years resolutions?!?”

And yes, well, while all of that is most certainly true, turns out there’s still plenty of stuff I need to work on. So without further ado, here is a list of some of my resolutions for 2013:

1. Do more sleeping at regular sleeping hours of the day. Do less sleeping and non-regular sleeping hours of the day.

My body used to have no problems working with it’s own unique sleep schedule. But it seems that’s no longer the case. Time to start waking up with the sun. Like a farmer. Or a rooster. Or a farmer’s rooster.

2. Eat some vegetables.

The key word here being “some.”

3. Go outside.

One of the downsides of working so much from home is I don’t always get as much sun as I would like to, particularly during the winter months. (Yes. We DO have winter months in California.) The sun is good. The sun makes people happy.

4. Read more good stuff. Cut off tv shows that I don’t like anyway.

First of all, I am not one of those people who thinks television is terrible when compared to reading. Good television has good writing, and beautifully crafted narratives. It’s a different medium. And as a former film student, I feel the need to defend it against people who claim that the visual arts of film and video are poor forms of entertainment and therefor a poor substitute for reading. I disagree. But they are different. And while I do limit my television watching only to specific hours of the evening, I am discovering that I am often watching shows I really don’t even like that much, simply on the basis of: “well, I started it, so I guess I should finish it.” Well, no more of that. Pay attention tv writers. I will no longer wade through years of bad television writing just because your first couple episodes were halfway decent.

5. Finish my screenplay.

Yes, I have a half finished screenplay. Yes, it is awesome. Yes, it is going to enable me to finally break the shackles of my meager income and live the high life before buying my own island in the Pacific and retiring to a life of peace, solitude, and island living with my hot little wife who will magically come out of the woodwork as soon as I actually have disposable income. But first I gotta finish that screenplay.

6. Make more animated Raccoon Toons.

That was always the plan, but life has gotten in the way. Let’s use all the extra time from those stupid tv shows I won’t be watching and use that for animated Raccoon Toons goodness. You want them. I want them. Let’s make it happen.

7. Increase the number of visitors to this website.

The site has grown much over the years. There are hundreds and hundreds more readers than there were when we started this ride 10 years ago. But the last year or two has plateaued a little bit in terms of growing that audience. And that isn’t going to help us all achieve a world in which I make cartoons for a living and you get regular comic strips, animated cartoons, and movies as a result. Nope. We must expand. We must build this world together. I’ll keep working on it. You invite your friends.

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I’m not that old… I’m not that old… I’m not that old…

Last summer I was teaching a Photoshop/Digital Arts class in one of the local schools when I got particularly excited about the subject and exclaimed that the topic of what we were discussing was “rad.” The class started blankly at me for a moment while I wondered what was going on.  Finally my shoulders slumped in resignation.

“You have no idea what ‘rad’ means do you?”

…They didn’t. My soul was crushed. Like so many before it, the language of my generation had died. I might as well have been teaching Latin.

I’m not that old… I’m not that old… I’m not that old…

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I’m not really in denial. I mean, I look in the mirror in the morning and I just don’t see a guy who is…um…near 30 years old. The guy in the mirror looks much younger. Not only that, but he looks like he deserves to have a fancy job with a high paying income and a hot little wife. He looks like he should win the lottery too. Yup. Totally not in denial.

So I’ve decided to do what most people who are…um…near 30 do. I have officially decided to start lying about my age. After all, I can totally get away with it. Most people who meet me for the first time think I’m only 22 anyway. I’d hate to embarrass them by having to explain that I graduated high school in the previous millennium. Really, I’ll be doing them a favor, saving them from all that embarrassment. It’s the right thing to do. I’m such a nice guy.

I will of course have to study up on the younger generation to really pull-off the youngification of myself. Let’s see…what are 22 year olds into these days? Um…let’s see. Reality television. Texting. Texting with poor grammar. Poor grammar in general. The Kardashians… (see what I did there?)

Now that I think about it, this shouldn’t be too hard. I can see myself easily lying about my age and getting away with it for at least another 10 years. The only way I can really see myself getting caught is if I get seriously involved in a baseball discussion. Once I start relaying game statistics from memory from the 1980′s people may start to catch on…

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I know I’m not really dying. Not really. But I’m not going to be 29 much longer. And 29 is significant to me. For me, 29 is really really lucky. Kind of like the lucky underwear that you wear during the playoffs. Yeah, that’s right. I know about your lucky underwear. So I’m a little saddened this year as my birthday looms nearer. Not because I’m entering a new decade that in my still adolescent mind is reserved only for old boring people who don’t play dodge ball, but because my lucky year will be expiring. And it has been a good year. One of the best actually. I finished school. I paid off some debts. My baseball team won the World Series. This website was relaunched. It’s been a pretty rockin’ good year, and I shouldn’t complain. But I’m going to miss being in my 20′s. But that’s ok I suppose…because I fully intend to pretend that I’m still in them. I’m pretty sure that’s part of being in your 30′s.

In case you hadn’t noticed, Raccoon Toons is doing comic strips 5 DAYS a week for this month! So be sure to check back M-F for the next several weeks!

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Planning is a critical part of any vacation. Without it, you could end up in a big city with nothing to do but go to the Justin Bieber concert. I’m not speaking from experience, that’s just one of the worst possible outcomes I could come up with.

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