Dead or Alive, you're going with ED!

So, at the bi-weekly L.A.D.D. meeting last night, I was struck with a bit of Sci-Fi genius. I decided I wanted to draw an image of Ed after having undergone a "Murphy"(robocop) incident. You know... bunch of hoods and "Cop Killers" shoot him up beyond repair until O.C.P. steps in and fixes him. Special thanks here from Jason Howard for inspiring me to ad an egg mixer as a meelee weapon. It was all his idea.

Full on "Murphy":

http://www.zudacomics.com/node/1336

Another advertisement predicting a future storyline for my webcomic, THE ADVENTURES OF MR. SIMIAN, which is currently part of the July competition over at ZUDA comics. Take a couple of minutes, read a free comic, and give it your vote if you like it.

WE'RE GOING TO OTAKON 2009! This Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, June 17-19, Interrobang Studios will be in Baltimore!

We got table space in the artist alley after all! There was this huge waiting list and we had a snowball's chance--but then we got a BENEFACTORESS! 2x2x2 invited us to share her table space in the Otakon artist alley!

Swing by her webpages and check out her awesome stuff!

Did any of y'all have plans to attend? Will we get to meet you?

http://www.drunkduck.com/1_Dollar/index.php


Posting not for myself, but my little brother. He's an AMAZING artist, and my inspiration. He recently did this as a project for university- a mostly text-free strip which he hand-bound into a beautiful book. He's posting a page a day over at Drunk Duck. I'd love it if you checked it out (and so would he, I'm sure!). He doesn't think he's nearly as good as he is, so be sure to tell him. ;)

It follows the journey of a $1 through its many and varied (and often unexpected) owners. It comes together wonderfully, and I love every page!

My second comic launches tomorrow! It is called My Annoying Life. It will run directly below Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos at http://www.Onezumi.com

It's kind of like a fucked up Dilbert. Here is the preview comic:

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I have been royally screwed by bureaucracy, paperwork, and the government, and feel sick to my stomach because of it. I am trying not to cry noticeably in my cubicle while continuing with my work.

Hi! I am 28 years old and considering going back to school in fall of 2010. I have been seriously considering going to Sweet Briar - I loved their packet, and while I haven't had a chance to take a campus tour yet, I think I will this fall.

I am planning on looking at their Anthropology and Studio Art programs, and I would really like any insight from anyone who is a student now or has been a student on the school itself and its surrounding area. Thanks so much for your help!

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Shaenon Garrity reports that The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco is organizing Monsters of Webcomics, and will be putting together a gallery of as many other webcomics as possible - here's a chance for a bit of outreach!

I've put together a page of all the webcomic creators that are attending the San Diego Comic-Con. Additions, corrections and even snarky comments are encouraged. Unfortunately, if you weren't already planning to go, it's too late to let this list persuade you - attending memberships sold out weeks ago.

I first posted a link to my diary comics here when I had ten or so, and now that I've hit two hundred fifty I thought I'd share again.



---> comic diaries of a hey there lonely girl

Well, doodling. The things that insomnia will bring you to do when you haven't the patience to read or knit and your eyes hurt from staring at the computer screen too much.

At the beginning of the summer, I bought myself some earth-toned conte crayons and a large sketchbook. I probably have not used conte crayons since I drew the cat in my icon, and that was at least four years ago. (I was sitting at the zoo and there was some sort of spotty cat laying against the window asleep. It was wonderful aside from the crowd of schoolchildren who clustered to watch me...)

So, uh, yeah. Taking a photograph turned this a heck of a lot more pink than it actually is. I had some issues - I added black in a few places I almost immediately realized I shouldn't have, and ended up making things more blurry as a result. The anatomy is off. In a lot of places.

But, you know. I'm drawing. It's nice. I just need to get back into practice. And doodle the cats instead of random non-existent people.

( Random doodle of a vaguely asian girl )

Oh, hey, and maybe SLEEPING sometime tonight would be nice. Do you hear me body? Calm the heck down.

I call to your attention the webcomic Gods Playing Poker, which has a syndication feed at gppcomic.

I especially call to your attention the entry for today, July 10, 2009. Simple, simple win.

In honor of Nikola Tesla's birthday, the Alternia Comics site is launching today!

Stories in five worlds update as follows:

Mondays: After the Collapse - Post Apocalyptic, near-future
Tuesdays: Crossworld - Steampunk? Historical fantasy? Modern magic? You name it!
Wednesdays: Ex Machina - Corporate cyberpunk future
Thursdays: Mystic Frontiers - Classic fantasy
Fridays: World of Heroes - Superheroes, present day.

Each world will alternate updates between long term serial stories and one shot short stories. World-building articles and artwork will be posted on weekends and at random.

The purpose of Alternia is to entertain and inspire. We welcome you to submit your own stories and ideas for inclusion on the site - in the absence of canon, make it up!

Visit the Interactive Introduction to explore all five worlds - or even suggest your own.

Dear Mr. Burns-White,

It has been a long time since you enacted a distribution of biscuits (tasty, tasty variety); however, I would posit the time has come again.

Sincerely,
Mr. Riley.

trying to get back on track with regular posting. caught up on a bunch of stuff and ready to move forward. here's a dump of a bunch of stuff I posted over at my blog but forgot to cross-post here, as well as some new stuff. onward!

sketches/ideas for the "cover" of NB14...



some bike'n junk...



random sketches...



finishing up NB Vol2 layout...



falling in love with drawing nubbly-eyed people...

This would be a bad sign, generally, but I suppose it's mostly a sign that I am able to relax rather than have panic attacks now that my freak-out about supervising new people is over (though still having trouble reconciling myself to the fact that they are all being paid and I am not until school starts again in the fall), I've gotten some of the work I'm actually supposed to be doing done (yay wireframe designs of websites), and Aunt Irma has gone home for the month.*

I finished reading Savvy (Ingrid Law), and it was quite good; definitely something I'd recommend to kids in their tweens. I miss working at a public library sometimes - while interacting with people was exhausting, the exhausting probably had a lot to do with the fact that I spent most of my time on a combination ref/circ desk for eight hours a day, five days a week. I feel better now than I did then about working at a public library. Now I know that it's just a bad idea in general to keep someone on-desk that long, and I also know a bit more about the other things I can do. Granted, I was doing some of those other things - collection development**, creation of program materials***, and so on - but I was doing them while on desk, and as a seasonal intern-type person, I had no official duties as a library staff member because I was going to go back to school.

So, uh. Yeah. I keep seesawing between wanting to work at any library, so long as I can hide in the back away from the public and catalog stuff or do other technical librarian things, and wanting to be involved in young adult and teen programming and recommending and all that fun stuff. Because... well, I really adore a lot of literature from that age range.

Okay, back to work. Sort of.


*Really, it's not Aunt Irma's actual visit that's so terrible, it's just all the lead-up. Once the bleeding actually starts, I'm fine. I suppose it's like when real relatives are visiting, and you realize your house is a complete mess, and you spend the week beforehand cleaning til you fall into a stupor and getting crabby because there just isn't enough TIME, and you know your relatives are going to JUDGE you based on the cleanliness of your abode, and you start to feel like you'll never get enough of the mess cleaned up in time so you should just throw everything out and start again.

Except, you know, with a uterus.

** Also known as "Here, Madison! Go look and see if we have all the Rosie Award books in the collection!" and "Here, Madison! Take this huge list of highly recommended childrens books and make sure they're all in the collection!" and "So you should go check and see what YA series we are missing volumes of and let us know." And then I would hand the lists back to the director, and they would sit on her desk until the end of the summer until she said "Here, Madison! I am too busy. Go make a cart with these in it and we can order them!"

*** AKA cutting things out and putting things in envelopes.

I'm going to Salem in the fall.
Please, throw me all the advice/tips/stories you can on going to a women's college in general, and Salem specifically (I've heard there's at least two Salem Sisters in this community).

Thanks!

Hey, I'm a sophomore at Salem College.

Lately, I've been thinking about designing an on-line store that sells clothing that promotes women's colleges--not specific schools, but the idea of single-sex education in general. A lot of the shirts that I've seen have logos on them, and I thought it would be nice to have shirts that help unify all women's colleges. Women's College Coalition doesn't sell any that I can find. Also, I like t-shirts.


I was thinking of selling some of the more popular slogans, such as: We're not a girl's school without men. We're a women's college without boys. or Rather dead than co-ed. and Ask me about my women's college or something. Then, on several, I was thinking of putting a list of all women's colleges in America on the back. Because we're a team, damnit!

I don't want to do this on cafepress, because I hate white t-shirts (I stain them). Is anyone interested in starting this with me or have any ideas about how to do this? Or, at least, would like a shirt/whatever other item?

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Hey everyone, I'm competing in DC comics ZUDA competition again, with my comic THE ADVENTURES OF Mr. SIMIAN. Follow one of the links here and if you like what you see, give me your vote.

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