Gary Northfield's not in the studio this morning, but you can sense his presence if you look closely... He spent much of yesterday throwing snowballs at irate people on Twitter.
This morning, Hannah, my editor, approved the inside artwork for the extra pages of my Vern and Lettuce book for the DFC Library. So today I'm colouring it, with my feet perched on my hot water bottle.
Just got a call from Georgia at Random House saying they're sending me up to do an event or two at the Edinburgh Book Festival. We're still sorting out the date in August, but I'm really looking forward to that.
I saw inkstuds had a mention of a comics artist named Corinne Mucha, and I've ordered a copy of her latest comic, My Alaskan Summer. You can preview some of it on her website, looks good.
So, Hugos nominations are rolling around and this year I have a vote. Being a big fangirl this makes me very excited :) Last year Girl Genius won best graphic story, and I was pondering what other webcomics deserve the recognition.
From my understanding of the rules (and if I have it wrong please let me know!), the comic must be speculative fiction, and have finished a story arc/book of some type in 2009, either online or in published books.
I've somewhat arbitrarily restricted myself to comics which to me feel like reading a really good spec fic novel rather than a gag a day strip or whatever. Part of me wonders if I'd be including Schlock Mercenary if I'd ever read it in print :) And there's a lot of very good comics I've missed!
What webcomics do you think should be nominated? What scifi, fantasy, or horror webcomics do you just like and feel like promoting? No "But that's crap!" please, everyone has different tastes.
I did some hourly comics today since JOHN is doing them this month. I will probably only do one for today and thats IT!
The game I mentioned at 8 o'clock was "Don't Look Back." It's a great little game and I just actually played it again just as I was looking for a link to it.
"Little known fact: magic spells work. The trick is, always keep your word. If you do that, eventually just saying something makes it happen." - Molly Crabapple
I've been thinking about and doing a lot of magic, these past few days. And I will keep doing so, despite what it's doing to my head. The combinations of work and conversation and openness happening, in my life, are precisely the kinds of things I've always said I wanted, but they are fast, and they are slippery things, and they have very jagged edges. I trip over them, as I approach, you see, and they are hard to navigate. Things I think will be hard to say, or do are easy, and things I think should be easy make me hesitate and dither. But I must not fear, right? Right. So I push forward.
I am avoiding saying something: Every act of honest communication is an act of magic. To express to someone the bare part of you is to make yourself vulnerable to their taking it, turning it in their hands, caressing, scratching, breaking what you have offered. You leave yourself open to being misapprehended. And that is scary, in itself, but couple it with the idea of what can be done with the things that people have misunderstood, what people will do and think, based on not quite getting what you were giving... That's damn terrifying.
But it is the only way things can get done, and still mean anything. We are not Borg. WE are not a single hive-mind. We are individuals. We are points on a continuum, the infinitude of centres of a circumfrenceless circle. WE are the interplay of paradox which generates the universe. We have to be different, or we might as well not Be.
You make music. I explain. She illustrates. He writes. They tell stories, with words, or photos, or clay and fiery metals, and we create, out of all of it. We make things. We change things. Our methods differ. Our visions are unique, but our goals-- at least for a short while-- can become aligned.
What do you want to do? How can I help you do it? Tell me, and I'll do what I can.
I am interested in changing this world, and I would be honoured if you'd do that, with me.
I have a problem with lateness. Always have. Todays photo, yesterdays Love & Zombies (which I am currently working on while Dave flips through Last FM on XboX360, it'll hopefully go up today), getting myself to work... I just have some mental thing that prevents me from being anywhere or doing anything on time. I have been working harder on changing that.
I really am.
Anyway, so I'm spending some time working through my insecurities. They'll probably show up in this week and the following weeks comics... shit, like that was some sorta shock, right? All my comics are about my moods and bullshit... I dunno. I'm rambling here 'cause I'm listening to all of these songs and some of them are taking me back... sometimes to a good place, and sometimes to places I really would rather forget.
Random things: ~Laughed my ass off when Dave mentioned that DC should have Risk's arms and Barbara Gordon's spine come back as Black Lanterns. ~Insomnia sucks ~I really hate Wizard... even more, I hate myself for buying that crap ass magazine. ~I have an awesome little brother. I don't say that enough. ~I need to work harder on my photography. I don't think I do enough. ~Frankie Say Relax.
Stolen from comorbid: "Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag some people (only if you want to, of course). Use the first letter of your first name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real words....nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.
Your first name: Damien A four Letter word: damn A boy's name: David A girl's name: Danielle An occupation: Ditch-Digger A color: Damask Something you wear: Denim A food: Donuts. Something found in the bathroom: Drain A place: Damascus A reason for being late: Drinking. Something you shout: D'oh! A movie: Dark City Something you drink: Dr. Pepper A musical group: Dresden Dolls, The An animal: Dog A street name: Kent Boulevard A type of car: Daewoo The title of a song: Don't Go Into That Barn A hobby: Drunk-Tossing
I am soaking my geekboy panties in anticipation of this one. It's not out 'til gorram December 2010 - well, maybe we can get the nice folks at the Rio to snag it for a week or something? I don't know how all this film distribution stuff works and expect it's a lot more complicated than that... ah well.
I wish I'd seen the trailer in a movie theatre, because it's a great teaser - it doesn't tell you what it's about until midway through.
Surely I'm not the only one who watched this one when I was a kid?
This game is called "Ninja Gaiden." A gaiden is a noncanonical sidestory of a larger franchise, so one would think that there was a video game series called "Ninja" and this game was a spin-off of that series. Nope.
Fifteen years later, there would be a new video game called Ninja Gaiden featuring the same protagonist from this game, but an entirely different continuity, so an argument can be made that Ninja Gaiden 1989 has retroactivlely become a gaiden to the series that is created in the first place. That argument isn't very solid, nor is it very interesting, but that is all I've got on the topic of Ninja Gaiden because between my reviews ofKick Master,Ninja Gaiden II, and Ninja Crusaders I've pretty much exhausted all the different ways I can say "Yay! Ninjas are awesome swordy magic pajama men. Me like!"
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