I will not actually enter the convention center, except at the very end, to fill out a form.
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Apparently my Marvel Strange Tales MAX LONGSHOT entry should be "previewed" sometime soon? Or already has? Not like, in "Previews", but, previewed somewhere on the internet? I never follow comics stuff on the internet, someone else usually points me even to things I am in... So I'm kind of counting on someone to show me if a preview for my Longshot thing ever goes up.
Oh yeah, I will not be at San Diego this year. It's my 2nd year missing the con. It is my penance until I finish a CERTAIN GRAPHIC NOVEL. Next year will be my triumphant return.
But Pink Godzilla (game store & sponsor of SEEDLESS) will be there, and they will have a bunch of sweet Pinky G t-shirts, including a whole new batch I designed for them over the last couple months:
Not sure what their booth # is... But they usually have a pretty elaborate setup, including a pyramid of Pink Godzilla plushies stacked real high (no kiddin') so see if you can find 'em! I'll still be there in spirit.
A Brooklyn grandma got more than she'd bargained for when she rented a copy of "Austin Powers" from her local library and found it spliced with long pornographic scenes.
Esther Klein got the tape from the Borough Park branch for her three grandkids, ages 7 to 15. The X-rated footage appeared as the credits rolled at the end.
Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.
"This is unbelievable," Hikind fumed. "The bottom line is that the local library can be unsafe for young children. It's pretty sick stuff."
The Brooklyn Public Library said it had the problem under control and would remove the tape.
But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.
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It's still in limited release, which is a pity, because at the heart of it, it's a pretty muscular thriller/action movie, something I imagine those summer audiences crave so badly these days. The opening 9 minutes of The Hurt Locker is up on YouTube:
My father is an excellent gardener, and could grow enough vegetables to keep up fed all through the winter. Turnips are amazing because they are root vegetables and so if you pick them and put them in soil in the cellar they last for ages and ages. For more information about turnips, see every day of my childhood.
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Here's my full appearance schedule, including signings and panels. I'll be signing only at the Oni Press booth, #1833.
THURSDAY
12:00 - 1:00 Spotlight Panel (I'm interviewed on stage by Scott McCloud)
3:00 - 4:00 Oni Press Panelmonium!
5:30 - 6:50 Signing
FRIDAY
2:30 - 3:50 Signing
4:00 - 5:00 Graphic Novels Panel (w/ Tom Spurgeon and a passel of geniuses)
SATURDAY
1:00 - 2:20 Signing
5:30 - 6:50 Signing
I will not be attending the show whatsoever on Wednesday or Sunday, sorry.
Here's what we'll have at my Oni signings: two new t-shirts, new button packs, limited-edition prints from TCAF, all the books, and I'll bring as much artwork as I can.
(If you have specific page requests for original art, leave them in the comments or hit me on Twitter and I'll try to accomodate you! Note that a lot of the "good" pages from vols 1-3 have been sold over the years. Prices will start from about $200.)
Things I'm not sure we'll have: last year's colour specials. The big posters. Anything else that we've had in the past in limited quantities.
I'll show off the new t-shirt designs hopefully by the end of the week! (Waiting for photos of the finished shirts.)
- Mood:
optimistic
Thursday, July 23rd
• 10-11:30am - Signing at Oni Press booth
• 4-5pm - Signing at Comic Relief booth
Friday, July 24th
• 11:30-1pm - Comics Arts Conference Session #6: Can College Prepare Creators for Comics Careers?
Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night), Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Hope Larson (Chiggers), David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Nick Langley (Rocket Llama), and Mark Head (Marko's Corner) discuss whether college education really can help people pursuing comics careers. Room 30AB
• 4-5:20pm - Signing at Oni Press booth
Saturday, July 25th
• 1:30-2:30pm - The One-Panel Panel
A single image can hold an entire world in miniature. Comic-Con special guests Charles Vess (Stardust), Hope Larson (Chiggers), and Michael Allred (Madman), plus Larry Marder (Beanworld) will each show and discuss one particularly meaningful panel from their own comics, how it came together, and where it led them as cartoonists. Moderated by Douglas Wolk (Reading Comics). Room 4
• 4-5pm - Spotlight on Hope Larson
Cartoonist and Comic-Con special guest Hope Larson (Chiggers) and author Cecil Castellucci (The P.L.A.I.N. Janes series) discuss Larson's career, her upcoming graphic novel Mercury, and the joys and frustrations of making comics for a young adult audience. Room 3
• 5-6pm - Signing in the Autograph Area
The Chap “Well Done You”
The lyrics sound like something your boss might tell you, or any other authority in a position to give you a compliment without any emotional value. The voice and the sentiment is neutral, but the music is tense and uneasy, and as the song plays out, the words seem increasing condescending and insincere. Perhaps it is not a good idea to listen to music that deliberately instills paranoia, and makes you question the banal kindness of most anyone at all. Surely, it can’t be healthy. Either way, this is quite good. Sinister and slick.
Visit the official website of the Chap.
Holla,
Here's a couple of new things I drew last week.
The 4th King city cover:
That one will be out in November. I'm doing the back cover and extra pages for it this week.
I got the first issue of DC comics Wednsday comics big newspaper thing, and I really liked the format.
So I'm doing a giant one page back up comic for KC #4 that will read like a 2 page spread printed sideways.
And here's a quick one page thing I did for Barnaby ward's 16 Miles to Merrics.
I wish I had more time to spend on writing it. -feels more like a part of a scene than
a self contained 1 page comic--so it goes.
You can read Barnaby's whole comic here:
http://somefield.com/merricks_online/in
It's really cool stuff.
Here's a couple quick sketches I did with some commisions that finnaly got mailed off.
Last week I was all about watching the Torchwood children of earth series.
Marians sister watched an episode with me but for the most part I couldn't get any of my nearest and dearest into it. Man, a gay couple and a pregnant woman fighting
child hungry aliens. How does it even get better than that?
Eventually I ended up watching the old Cobra La GI joe movie with Mr James Stokoe.
I think Lt. Falcon likes it,
falcon is such a fuck up....
I liked that even though he is no longer in charge of Cobra throughout the entire movie
Cobra commander still gets called Cobra Commander. I don't know what trick he pulled to get that to stick but his name must have nothing to do with rank.
Snakeyes is barely in the movie, just flouncing around in the back ground in a couple scenes.
mostly It's new dudes, I didn't remember too much.
Except Jinx on the left here, who I had the toy of as a kid.
ladyninja.
The cruel thing about her is in the movie she can't really fight with out being blind folded.
and the other dude there fucking, NEMESIS ENFORCER! Who I guess has been alive since the ice age and doesnt have a soul --because he must've traded it in for the best name ever!
And his boss is named Golobulus. And he must have like 30 souls with a name that shitty.
I was really struck by Dr Mindbender in this.
He's a geneticist that dabbles in cybernetics and cloning but isn't afraid to go in to battle
against the most elite trained U.S. millatary dudes. shirtless, in arctic weather.
And then he has the nerve to sport a monucle. Godammit, I respect a Dr Mindbender.
And then there's these dudes.
fucking chuckles and zandar..
I included Zandar because James would scream whenever he came on the screen.
James HATES Zandar.
Is he shirtless but with sleves.? The nerve!
All this GI joe got me to dig out my coverless copy of the GI joe yearbook #2,
with the amazing michael golden, October guard story.
So fucking cool--WHAMM WHAMM!
Golden does that great trick of making everything the charaters interact with look so solid.
all the vehicles and guns and shit.
I found these old shirow covers on http://www.shirowledge.com/news_enu.htm
I really like the design of these.
and this dude from an old british cop show called THE PROFESSIONALS
that Shirow based his charater Magus on:
And as I'm typing this Marley (who was forced to listen to me and her dude watch GI joe while she had to work)sent me some of what she was working on.
I'm really hyped to see her Black circle book in print:
And I just found out that the Forevor war comic ran in Cheval Noir--so I should be able to actually find it all.
And I really like what a great set up that Forbidden worlds cover is.
Sacre bleu!
Dude in the pith helmet looks like he's been buying his pants from Dr Mindbender's line.
(he doesnt sell shirts only pants and capes!)
And here's a flyer for the next con I'm going to. That is a fine line up.
and also this is so cool. Ignore the 50 cent at the start--he's just there to scare you away.
KRS's hand gestures alone are worth watching this for.
- Location:the silent castle-Cobra Citadel
- Mood:hot chocolate
- Music:KRS-ONE
The end! Hope you liked this story. It seemed pretty long due to the guest strip run, but this was a relatively short arc.
There is a new thing you can buy, in time for hot summer drinking: Pint Glasses! Featuring the much-loved Paper Bag Parade design, like so:
Please note this is a PRE-ORDER. I must take a pre-order on this one to cover the cost of printing them, so if you want to be included in the order, get yours now. These are likely to ship by the end of July or very beginning of August.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 15, 2009 is:
fractious • \FRAK-shus\ • adjective
*1 : tending to be troublesome : unruly 2 : quarrelsome, irritable
Example sentence:
The class was fractious and uncontrollable when Mr. Douglas first took over as teacher, but he now has the students disciplined, focused, and ready to learn.
Did you know?
The Latin verb "frangere" ("to break or shatter") has many modern English relations. Dishes that are "fragile" can break easily. A person whose health is easily broken might be described as "frail." A "fraction" is one of the many pieces into which a whole can be broken. But "fraction" also once meant "disharmony" or "discord" -- that is, a "rupture in relations." From this noun sense came the adjective "fractious," meaning "unruly" or "quarrelsome." Though the "disharmony" sense of the noun is now obsolete, "fractious" is still common today.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
This entry originally took place on May 23. Here's Part 1!
Ain't nothing like a sunny day at the beach, hanging out with friends...
- They only look dead.
Lying on the sand...
- Drag.
Dragging bodies wrapped in black sheets across the sand...
Erm.
- Lying on the beach in an atypical fashion.
We weren't at the beach for a fun day of being pelted by UV rays, but for a fun day of helping Diana with her personal photoshoot. Roman and Davi acted as "bodies on the beach" and Kathy acted as "mysterious woman dragging bodies on the beach" while Greg, Edd, and I took the roles of assistants and documentarians.
- I...can't fly.
And goofing off-ers.
- Random bits.
Diana has directed many photoshoots, but this was the first involved one I had ever been to. Not that it was that involved; her set was the beach and the main prop was a black sheet. No need for makeup and hair artists. She just had to tell direct the models, take the photos, and make sure everything came out, you know, perfect.
- Good job, Greg.
And she had to deal with this...weirdo.
- .how it ends (where to begin, again). by Diana
The end result looked awesome. If you ever want a portrait that simulates bodies scattered across a beach, she's your woman! (Seriously though, you should hire her to do all sorts of photos, assuming they are not boring. You gotta make it worth her while, you know. "Creative Ideas Only." If all was right with the world, Diana would get more opportunities to take these kinds of photos, but as they are mostly personal projects, the chances are too few.)
If you want to use a tripod at Brighton Beach, you need a permit. Luckily, no one caught us until Diana was on her last shot.
As for some photos that didn't require a tripod...
- Kathy under a sheet!
- Jumping Greg.
- Fuuuck meeee. Photo taken by Greg.
- Davi tries to catch a boppy.
- I force Edd to jump.
And then we were hungry.
- Cafe Kashkar
Due to lack of planning on my part, we ended up at Cafe Kashkar, a restaurant that I had last visited in 2006 during my first visit to Brighton Beach. Ideally we would've tried a new place, but I knew Cafe Kashkar was a safe choice and everyone else was interested in eating there too. It's not every day you get to eat Uighur food.
- Meat! And stuff!
My favorite dish was the naryn, simply described as "pieces of dough with seasoning." The appearance of this room temperature dish lived up to its plain description: pile of cheese-looking dough shavings topped with sliced sausage. But such glorious dough shavings with an appealing chewiness and gentle cumin flavor. Want. More.
- Rice, mmm.
My second favorite was the pilaf. I'm down with mountains of rice, especially those containing tender chunks of lamb, chickpeas, and carrot shreds, all flavored with cumin.
- Noodles!
The geiro lagman was another nice pile-o-caarbs, this time hand pulled noodles, topped with spiced lamb chunks, onion, peppers, and chopped scallions.
- Chicken!
We ordered a chicken kebab mostly for Diana's sake since she isn't a big fan of lamb and, in case you haven't noticed yet, a lot of Uighur dishes have lamb in it. But even if you do like lamb, this skewer of moist, spiced chicken is worth getting.
- Other things with...yeah, LAMB.
I was less enthused by the samsa, flaky dough pockets filled with chopped lamb and onion, and the manti, like huge-ass dumplings filled with the same lamb and onion mix. The lamb didn't taste as good in these forms—less tender, and with a slight, unappealing funkiness—as in the not-encapsulated-in-dough versions. Unfortunate, considering how much I like things wrapped in dough.
- Kathy does this all the time. She's a pro.
The hemorrhoid pillow-sized naan bread is alright. Not bad, nor a "must order."
- Green!...stufff...um.
After spying bottles of radioactive green tarragon-flavored soda on other tables, we ordered a few bottles for ourselves. It doesn't necessarily fill a craving for tarragon flavor—you might smell it for a second—but it does fulfill the desire for sweet fizzy liquid that is the same color as lime Jell-O or alien spinal fluids.
You may notice a lack of desserts. As did we. Those of us who dared plod on for sweets—Greg, Kathy, Edd, and I—rode the subway back to Manhattan for two of the dessert kingdom's most popular choices: gelato and cupcakes.
- Large cup.
First stop: L'Arte del Gelato, my favorite gelateria in the city. In a rare moment of moderation, we shared (shared!) a large cup filled with fruits of the forest (berries), hazelnut, and banana chocolate. All recommended. Yes. Pistachio is my favorite flavor, but it wasn't available that night or else we would've gotten it. Hazelnut isn't as transcendent, but will suffice as a stand-in nut flavor.
- Edd, Kathy, and...uh...
I tend to capture Greg during his less-than-sophisticated moments.
Kathy directed us to the nearby wine bar/cupcakerie Sweet Revenge. Before going to the bakery, she described the frosting pattern on the cupcakes by making three subsequent chopping motions with her hand. And going, "Chop chop chop." Or maybe I made that up. Basically, she illustrated the frosting pattern in some way that made me think, "What the hell is she talking about?"
- CUPCAKES!
But then I saw it and it all made sense. YAY KATHY!
- Oo, the magic of brown-colored foods.
We shared a Dirty, or dark chocolate ganache on a rich chocolate cupcake. It was fine—good to eat once, not necessarily something I felt like I needed to eat again. Keep in mind that I say that from an "indifferent to dark chocolate" point of view. I liked the smooth, thick ganache frosting, but I found the cake too rich. Is there anything wrong with a rich chocolate cake? Helllllls no. But I probably prefer a more old-school cupcake.
- I don't know what's going on here, but I like it.
And thus was the end to a fairly epic day, quite a difference from my normally sedentary existence. I hope the random foodings made Edd's visit to New York City bit more memorable. ;) Here's his post about the Brighton Beach outing.
Addresses
Cafe Kashkar
1141 Brighton Beach Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11235
Here's the description from the readme file:
Lady Amber Pennyworth (scientist, suffragette, and researcher of the occult) and Winston Mainspring (her clockwork valet and lab assistant) have found their cottage lab besieged by foul eldrich octopi. Armed with only a hammer and a fowling shotgun filled with low grade birdshot they must defend the cottage for as long as they can.
Download it off the AGI site, grab a friend and give it a playthrough. It supports keyboard play but it's nicer if you have gamepads (xbox 360 ones work great) If you get hooked and want to compare high scores the comment area in this post is the place to do it. Once the game is feature complete I'll be adding onine highscores.
Also next week, birthday trip up to my cottage yay! [edit: I actually mean a trip up to my actual cottage, no squidy things. This is unrelated to the rest of the post]
- Location:outside on my porch.
- Music:Aphex Twin "Girl/Boy" aka the best song ever.
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