This post has nothing to do with owlbears

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 3:08 PM

I think it works out best for me to do daily posts without a set format, though I’d like to include art and sketches as often as possible, and talk about various worldbuilding things along with whatever’s going on.

Except nothing is really going on.  I’m just working a ton on getting myself where I want to be on my art list, before December starts up.  Today I’m tackling more of the icons, and the last bit of another commission.  I’m also working on sketches for new art, which is really fun.

I want to do Griffon Day next, but I had a really fun idea for a Day I want to do some time.  The theme could be all kinds of things, or it could be mostly open, with a few guidelines to give it some structure.  I like the idea of a theme, because those have ended up being pretty cool.  No one else could see these prompts, though.  I draw art cards from all the prompts, shuffle the cards, and mail them randomly to everyone who participated.  Everyone would get a surprise card!  I need to figure out how to do it so that I get paid enough for my time with it, though, because art cards plus shipping for everyone is a little more than I can tackle for free.  I will have to think about it.  I suppose I could do it as a sale instead of for tips.

I figured out how to make simple papercraft bobbleheads.  I was sitting around bored, when I first moved in to the new place, plotted out the design, and made some prototypes.  I haven’t done anything with it, since, because I’ve been lacking my light box, which I had to leave back home.  Well, I broke down and bought another one.  As it turns out, it’s half as bulky as my old one, which is a serious convenience for taking it along to cons.  The lack of this equipment has been putting a serious slowdown on my productivity, and I’m really happy to have one, again.  I’m going to use it to fine-tune my template, and then make some bobble-headed critters!  Not today, though.  Today’s for work!

Ekwara stuff!  I’m thinking about the grevians a lot, lately, because I’ve been fleshing out Aldus’ and Pel’s (she acquired a name!) character designs.  Grevicans are a little odd, as far as their biology and gender roles go, and I’m trying to figure out how to present it within the story.  I think I’m going to do a separate post for that, behind a cut.

I finished this for Newenglander, yesterday.  Once upon a time, Alice was not a giant, talking rabbit, and had trouble reaching books on the top shelf.

Sparrow says, "You, sir, are drunk."

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Signing in Stevenage

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Just a quick note to say that from 1pm next Saturday, December 5th, I'll be signing comics (and anything else you want to bring along, within reason) at Limited Edition Comix in Stevenage, Herts. The website for the shop is www.ltd-edition-comix.com/index.asp .

I hope to see some of you then! Cheerio!




Black Friday Sale Ends Tonight

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Such a deal. Thanks to everyone who's purchased so far.

I'm working on music today, in between minor chores. Call this one an open thread.


And the Pursuit of Happiness

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 4:56 AM
Fascinating, fun blog at the NY Times. Check out the latest installment, "Back to the Land".

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Greyhound Park Closure

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Alert warns that dogs not adopted after the closure of the Dairyland Greyhound Park will be euthanized.




More 2000ad and Batman comics

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 10:58 PM
2000ad icons from #11-25, including Dan Dare, Invasion, Shako, Judge Dredd, Tharg the Mighty, MACH 1, Harlem Heroes, and Flesh. Even if you aren't a fan, check them out because the artwork is fantastic.

Total Icon Count: 93


Teasers:


TEASER! Icon 003 TEASER! Icon 059 TEASER! Icon 080 TEASER! Icon 091 TEASER! Icon 092



(As a warning to severe arachnophones, some of the icons have drawings of big furry spiders. Including one in a cowboy hat.)

Comics from Golden and Silver Age Batman comics, including fixes for the last batch (a bunch were rectangular and screwy. My apologies for being a dumbkompf). From Batman 1, 150-151, 153, 159-160, 171, 173, 176, 180-181, 184, and 186.

Total Icon Count: 28


Teasers:


TEASER! Icon 010 TEASER! Icon 012 TEASER! Icon 013 TEASER! Icon 014 TEASER! Icon 020



Contains men in fedoras. If that's important to you at all.

Fake cut to my journal




Attention Humans: Sale Extended

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 10:44 PM

From: Cole Richards
To: PvP Subscriber List 1
Subject: Attention Humans: Sale Extended

Dear fellow primates,

My name is Cole Richards and I am writing very innocently to inform you that our Black Friday sale at www.pvpstuff.com has been extended to Monday, November 30th. Instead of offering you a sale for one day, we are offering you a sale for three days.

This is something we are doing to be nice to you. This is not a plot by a superior being to undermine our company in his first step towards the eventual domination of our entire race. So please feel free to take advantage of our savings and do not consider the long-term consequences of your actions.

Enjoy the remainder of your pathetic lives holiday weekend.

Sincerely,
Cole Richards (not secretly a cat)




Want CHOKER? Print this here thingy.

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Want CHOKER? Print this here thingy.

...or do whatever else you want to it really. The best way to get CHOKER is to ask your nice local comic store type person to "Please put me down for a copy of CHOKER #1 from Image Comics. I have heard this comic actually cures cancer, turns water into wine & can beat a chess grandmaster in 3 moves while toilet training a small effeminate dog. The order code is:

DEC090342

This is what your friendly, most awesome retailer type person will need to know to note down which book to actually order for this month. You order it this month, when it's available, then magically, pixies deliver it to you sometime in February. It's weird how it works, but the pixies apparently run a fairly tight ship.

So, anyway, to make it easier, print this out, give it to them. Hell, maybe print a few out if you like. This all might make it a little easier to get a copy when it hits, into your hot little hands. You see, unless they know people want one, many places may not order a copy, or order enough, since I'm not exactly the same as "huge superhero icon comic X" which is guaranteed to be ordered at least a bit. So if you want it, speak up!


To Buy Templesmith’s New Comic CHOKER

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 7:45 PM

Print, fill out and deliver to your local comics shop: 4142597384_2eb5e7aca1_o

(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)


[Super Stupor] Thanks?

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 1:58 AM


If there are any problems with the comic or website, or if you have any questions, comments, or complaints you would like to address directly to Randy, please email him at choochoobear@gmail.com.



Random nightmare

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 7:50 PM
I had a nightmare that my job was reclassified and I would have to take a $10/hr pay cut if I wanted to keep it. Truly horrific. :D

Alternate: http://schmevil.dreamwidth.org/201879.html.

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Much ado about nobbing

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Even before I mention this week's Camelotting, I must note that it's been an eventful week for shippers of all stripes. On the minus side, UK/US shipping has jumped the shark, apparently. On the plus side, good news for fans of The Wombles, because it seems that Bernard Cribbins ships Uncle Bulgaria/Madame Cholet. And since he did the voices, that makes it virtually canon, right? Wellington/Orinoco shippers are still waiting for a sign, sadly, but 'twas ever thus.

Now it's time for my weekly trip to the land of Merlin, with some thoughts on what Sweet Dreams was made of... )

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The Tudors

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 6:30 PM


I think the CBC blew half its budget on The Tudors because the whole time that I lived in Toronto, every bus and every subway car was plastered with Jonathan Rhys Meyers' pouting face and ten yards of cleavage. I believe we've all learned a valuable lesson here, and that is William Cecil may have been a crack statesman, but if he wants to me to give a shit about him he better start hitting the gym.


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Nov. 28th, 2009

  • 3:43 PM

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(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)


Two new SPN stories:

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 3:20 PM
The World's Biggest Snow Globe Emporium Is Haunted

Summary: It's Black Friday and the Snow Globe Emporium is haunted. (humor)
Characters: Dean, Sam, Castiel
Word Count: 2065

In Truth (Four Things That Never Happened to Anna Milton, and One That Did)

Summary: Not fate only. (srs business)
Characters: Anna, Castiel, Uriel, Dean
Word Count: 500

Alternate: http://schmevil.dreamwidth.org/201533.html.


Daily Post and Holiday Card Printout

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 3:11 PM

I think it would be fun to do a daily post, for my site and my livejournal, since this posts in both places. I’ll have to think of things I’d like to touch on each day, or decide to simply make a point to write about what I’m working on and what’s on my mind.

Of course, comics are updated for today.

Page 67 of Crimson Flag - www.crimsonflagcomic.com

Page 318 of Dracula - www.draculacomic.net

Page 13 of Ekwara - www.ekwara.com

If I’m going to be doing daily posts, I will remind everyone to go read Arcadia Snips on Monday!

Today, I have a holiday card you can download and print out to send to folks, if you’d like! I did this last year and people seemed to get good use out of it, so here’s a new one! The image is free to use, change and distribute, as long as my url stays on the back, and no one’s making money off of it. Feel free to add your own caption and inside message, for whatever holiday you celebrate this season.

Download the hi-res tif file here!

www.ninjahijinx.com


Nov. 28th, 2009

  • 1:49 PM
[15]Dazzler
[35]Inhumans
[58]X-men SPOILERS for New Mutants

Preview:
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Find 'em here


Well, We Can't Have That

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 1:37 PM
AmericaBlog turns us on to one of the stupidest arguments against health care reform yet:
... Let's just not pretend, as some healthcare reformers would have us do, that we can easily get more equality without paying the price in efficiency.

Put simply, the healthcare reform bill would make the United States more like western Europe. That may mean more security about healthcare, but it also means that future generations of Americans will likely spend more time enjoying leisure.
Because goodness knows efficiency is so very much more important than the health of your workers and their being able to enjoy some leisure time. I mean, it was right there in the Declaration of Independence -- "illness, wage-slavery, and the pursuit of efficiency".

Do any of these people ever look at anything in a way that doesn't involve bottom-line, short-term monetary profit?

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I hate the fic labels het, slash, femslash and gen.

Het and slash function as warnings: here there be m/f, f/f, or m/m relationship stuff; enter at your own risk. Or alternately, as beacons: slight femslash, come one, come all. Who cares what the story is actually about? They also have the effect of seeming to change the content of a story. "I don't read femslash." And so you miss out on a 300,000 word swashbuckling adventure, because Anna Maria and Elizabeth Swann happen to share a few kisses. "I don't read gen." And so you miss out on a satisfying story about lifelong friendship that has all the hallmarks of the het, slash and femslash stories you enjoy. The romantic labels het, slash and femslash, trump all other content tags save warnings. The story is het before it is horror; femslash before it is a character study.

Gen, in contrast, is a categorical ghetto for misfit stories - stories that are none of the above. It's a category that's simultaneous too wide, and too narrow, to mean much of anything. There's an unending argument over how we can define gen, and that is because gen has no actual content: it's defined negatively. Gen ISN'T het, slash or femslash. Gen is everything else.

Let me throw in some anecdotal evidence now: most fic is not out and out romance. Shipping is a major component of fic fandom, but it's not everything. A romantic subplot in an adventure story =/= a romance story. The appearance of a romantic relationship in a horror story, does not make it a romance, and it does not make it any less of a horror story. There are an awful lot of first time stories, and fluffy romances, but there are tons and tons of stories that deal with ships, without being romances. So why is it important to label a story het, slash, femslash or gen, in addition to pairing and character tags?

There was a time where slash was a genre unto itself, I think. If you read the really old stuff, slash seemed to indicate not just the presence of a m/m relationship, but that what you are about to read, draws on a certain subset of story types and tropes. Slash and femslash are so much bigger now - they are whatever they want to be. A story about gingerbread dudes falling in love can be slash. A story about girls fighting back the apocalypse, and occasionally having sex, can be femslash. So is there still genre called slash, or a genre called femslash? (Seriously people, is there? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this).

As a reader, I find it much more useful to know what kind of story I'm about to read, than to have two different notifications of the genitals contained therein. Femslash, Buffy/Faith, Summary. But What the hell is the story about? Is the Buffy/Faith relationship central to the story - is it about the relationship? If not, then throw me a bone, in the form of a genre indicator. A hint about what tropes you're drawing on. And for god's sake, I get it, Buffy/Faith does indeed imply hot lesbian action. I don't need the reminder.

I know that some people love these labels to death, for whatever reason, but I think that the changing landscape of fic fandom makes them increasingly meaningless. But that, of course, is just my opinion.

Alternate: http://schmevil.dreamwidth.org/201460.html.

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Testing Zoundry Raven

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 9:53 AM

Testing Zoundry Raven, a desktop blogging client. Using an image by Emma Vieceli to do so. You can find the print for sale here. Post2Blog never did drag and drop very well. I’d like a desktop client that was as smooth and easy as Tumblweed for Tumblr, to be honest, but there doesn’t seem to be one that clever and slick for Wordpress.

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If the bumf is to believed, then swiping this image of Emma doing a bookstore PA should just paste in here:

(Sorry, Em, I’m using you as an experimental animal, but I had to google the link for your print shop and this was right underneath in the search results.)

Tumblweed is a clever app because it matches the intent of Tumblr: fast, easy scrapbooking for the internet. Wordpress clients tend to match the intent of Wordpress, as a place to write long blogposts. No matter how the theme of your Wordpress site actually changes that supposed intent. This site has gone through its tumblelog phases, but it’s hard to tumblelog in a big complex client, and bookmarklet apps don’t seem to work so well any more.

Anyway. Let’s see if this actually works.

EDIT: the Flickr image broke within moments, and on a subsequent post with four images in, it only posted one of them. Windows Live Writer, which has also been suggested to me, is currently refusing to post any entry containing an image, using any of three different methods.

(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)


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