Maddy's Favourite Toys

Every year I like to draw something special for my daughter's birthday (you might remember last year's illustration featuring Maddy soaring on the back of her Alphapup over a city of blocks). This year I thought it would be fun to create a yearbook page featuring her toys. Just like classmates, some of them will be forgotten immediately, while a select few may be a special part of her life for a long time. I created this print so that she could look back on her toys later on and say, 'I wonder whatever happened to that guy?'.

If your kid has any favourite toys, send me a photo at the Land of Le Beef Etsy shop, and your child can have their own illustrated version.

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As you have no doubt noticed, this special 'mass extinction' episode of the Land of Le Beef is breaking the Beef format in a couple of ways. Not only is it one of the rare Beef cartoons that contains a speech balloon, it is also rare occurrence of a Beef two-panel comic. I hope you are all savouring the magnitude of what you are witnessing here - it may not happen again for another 65 million years (or it might happen again next week; only time will tell).

On an unrelated topic, some people might be surprised to learn that I used to work at a palaeontology museum (as a designer), and I would like to take this opportunity to give a shout out to all of my dinosaur enthusiast friends - I hope you like my version of a parasourolophus and pachycephlosaurus; I apologize for any inaccuracies).