College football is finally here! And of course that means that we’re off to another season of Wolfpack game-day illustrations. We’re kicking off this first game against the Western Carolina University Catamounts.

Once again, the style’s been changed up, but we think that you’ll like where we’re heading. It’s just cute enough to be a tad sweet, but it’s been grimed and weathered to make sure that it’s still got the tuff stuff.

If you haven’t noticed by now, the free stuff section of this site’s been updated. We’ve got everything from Gmail chat icons to iPhone wallpapers.

And as always, don’t forget to join the facebook fan page. It’s the sure-fire way to keep up with the latest updates.

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We’ve been going strong for about a decade and a half in one form or another.

With the new school year engaging, it’s time again to change up the style to keep things interesting. For now, it seems that this is the direction we’ll head in for the upcoming football season.

Don’t worry, Mr. Wuf here might look reflective and calm in this cartoon, but you better believe he’ll have his game-face ready when the gridiron armor gets strapped on in a couple of weeks.

Note: Those of you who were big fans of the 1940’s Bomber Style, don’t fret. We’ve surely not seen the last of “Buzzboy Wolf.”

Also, don’t forget to join the facebook group. It’s the best (not to mention easiest) way to keep updated and informed as to what’s going on around here!

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Got a call on the ol’ telephone do this week’s Technician cartoon, so I took it as a chance to try yet another experiment in style and whip up some new free desktop wallpapers. That said, if you happen to see the version printed in the July 1 edition, you’ll see that this illustration is much more developed.

Seems once I turned it in, I realized it wasn’t done.

But that’s just part of the story.

While doing some research on past university logos and marks, I came across a 1962 Agromeck in the NC State Archives. The logo juxtaposed with the Memorial Bell Tower on the title page was incredibly striking and had that certain 60’s cool that all the kids love thanks to things like Mad Men.

So I flipped through a couple of pages to take a gander at the typography and I came across some cartoon wolves that had a swell, lean-mean attitude to them.

I’m not sure who drew them, though I did see that there was a Tom Chipley credited in the yearbook as the Technician cartoonist, so there’s a chance that it might have been him.

I Googled Tom and found out that he works as an artist and designer and lives about 20 minutes from where I grew up in the Virginian Shenandoah Valley.

Small world.

I guess I should drop him an email and see if he actually drew these little badboys.

But anyways, i jotted down some designs in my sketchbook and put it down for a couple of hours, not sure what I was gonna do with it.

After dinner, I got thinking that some of the 1962 Agromeck illustrations reminded me of the 1930’s-40’s Walt Disney and Tex Avery wolf designs. I mused on that, while I sketched out a couple drawings of this new wolf riding a giant firecracker.

Listening (as I often do) to Golden Age radio, it just sort of hit me to put all of this together into a sort of design that leaned heavily on 1940’s-50’s airplane nose art used by American military bombers and jet fighters. It also helped glue the 4th of July theme I was also working on.

And that’s the lovely meandering story about how I came up with this illustration.*

So enjoy the wallpapers and have a happy, safe Independence Day!

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* and yes, those are “sheep kills” on the left of the metal’s surface

Just poppin’ in to post a test image from a new possible style I’m working on for the Fall 2010 Wolfpack football season.

Well folks, here we are. It’s the end of the Spring 2010 semester. Can you hardly believe it? The year went by so quickly! It seemed like just yesterday we were gearing up for football season to star. But here we are, knee deep in baseball territory.

And that means one thing.

Stuff gets a little sleepy around here.

But never fear! For there’s not one, but two desktop wallpapers for you to enjoy!

As it usually goes this time of the year, we might be in and out during the summer, so remember to join the facebook fan page. It will keep you updated whenever there’s new Wolfpack Cartoons, not to mention it’ll holler out when we start gearing up for the 2010-11 Wolfpack football season!

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“Blue Steel“

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And the battle for last place continues!

“University of North Carolina  vs. North Carolina State University“

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“North Carolina State University Winter Break, 2009 “

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We’ve got a couple of different ways to celebrate the win!

Check out these three desktop wallpaper styles!

• AWESOME PUNCH!

• RADICAL DOUBLE CHOICES  (*THE BEST*)!

• HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Go Pack!

“University of North Carolina vs. North Carolina State University“

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