Old sketch collage (developmental work and Volume 1 stuff):



Volume 4 watercolor sketches, done a year ago this week (!):

Here's an old Ramona drawing that I scanned out of my sketchbook. Drawn at the airport, a year before I started the first book.



Drawn with those markers I used to have.

Includes a lyric from "True Blue" by Madonna! Woo!

I did a comic for Toronto's NOW Magazine recently. It is vaguely autumn-themed. For those of you who missed that, here it is. (Above: sketchbook from development of same.)

( cut for bigness )

I can't get to my server to update my website, just in case anyone was wondering. I was going to say on there something about how the t-shirts are sold out, and how we're going to APE in April (in San Francisco), and I was going to ask if anybody knows a place where I could pay to have good MP3 hosting so I can have my music online without having to rely on the unreliable bit-torrent thing.

Here's a page i scanned out of my sketchbook the other day.


What I'm up to in my spare time...

* playing Final Fantasy XII for PS2

* we're finally watching Arrested Development Season 3 on DVD

* reading The Maltese Falcon, sort of, slowly

* still reading Fabric of the Cosmos, but the entropy chapter kind of blew my mind slightly and I haven't really picked it up in a little while

* a comic, The Mourning Star Vol. 1 by Kaz Strzepek, is totally awesome and you should pick it up if you can find it. It's very small and square and thick. It's kind of a fantasy story in an unusual post-apocalyptic world, like a cross between Akira Toriyama's Sandland and, say, Jeffrey Brown.

* the D&Q release of Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip is very great and a must-buy! Tove Jansson was a brilliant genius and I'm glad D&Q (Tom Devlin specifically, I think) is putting this out there.

* while I'm ranting about brilliant geniuses, I'm still very much fixated on Osamu Tezuka. The latest english release is Ode to Kirihito, which is like 850 pages for 20 dollars or something ($16 at Amazon), with the added value of being completely fucking insane! I'm also slowly working my way through Phoenix, which I love to bits. Even the stupid ones are perfect, in my mind.

Uploaded this earlier: some of the first thumbnails from Scott Pilgrim Vol 1.



Another thing: I posted this script excerpt (from Scott Pilgrim Vol 1) in the comments of the Q&A thread earlier, and it got 400+ views just from that! So here it is for the rest of you.



Click through both for more information and larger images.

I uploaded a few sketchbook pages from the making of Scott Pilgrim Vol 3, possibly interesting to those who are interested in these... uh... things.

You can go to my "sketchbook" tag on flickr to see them in one convenient place.

I scanned a bunch of drawings from tonight, and I'm hiding them behind my first ever LJ-cut. But before that, I want to mention that Eddie Perkins started a Scott Pilgrim LJ community for those sad people who would like to be a part of such a thing. If you don't want to join it, you could just watch it or whatever and I'll try to push all my boring Scott Pilgrim junk on there exclusively.

( anyway... )