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So now you know! I think I’m actually at the point where the coloring and shading is the most time consuming of all steps. Figure 1-2 hours for the sketching/line art and 2-4 hours for coloring and shading…
Okay… I’m off to a Penguicon meeting. Here’s hoping the ice storm holds off until I get back!
So… yeah… I was working on a different strip when I noticed just how cluttered my desk has become lately… I had a little talk with my figure model, and the really thinks it’s time for me to clean some of that mess up…
Long time between posts - Golem Part2 is now complete! Check it out
Don’t you just love it when all the kids come to the UN to play. So many puffed chests and so much propaganda… it’s bloody brilliant! Haven’t heard anything new or earth shattering (or earth repairing) yet, but we’ll see.
Oh, to those of you who read these from one of the mirrors, you missed Tuesday’s exciting conclusion to our latest bit of continuity. You can catch it on the main site, here.
For those that spent yesterday living under a rock (or otherwise occupied), Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment for a whopping $4 billion. I’m feeling some mixed emotions about this. On the one hand, we’ll likely see a lot more Marvel Comics movies… the kind that are made with serious funding… which is, in theory at least, a good thing. On the other hand, Disney is already so very, very big.
…and while they have historically happily harvested harrowing tales and humorous homilies (Excelsior!!!) from the public domain, they are the fire-breathing, flesh-rending leader of the battle against the public domain with their never-ending battles to extend copyright terms here in the States and abroad. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a firm believer in the concept of copyrights to allow the artistically inclined to be able to profit from their works and support their families, but Disney’s extensions have reached the point of obscenity and far exceeded the original intents of copyright law. Oh well, the battle rages on, I suppose…
So, I’ve not read any comics since the story was announced, but I strongly suspect there will be a lot of these sort of strips today. I almost passed, but my sense of whimsy got the better of me. The moment I read the story, I had a picture of a bloody Mickey/Wolverine rending flesh from the bloody corpse of Jeffrey Katzenberg… and it made me giggle. Had to tone it down a bit though, as I try to keep Slightly Off-Topic family-friendly.
I actually learned this particular ditty at MYF (Methodist Youth Foundation) winter camp… that and the pioneer song! I used to love going to the Winter and Summer (weeklong) MYF camps. I’d always get to bring a camp, and there wasn’t much in the way of churchiness to it. There’d always be activities, fresh air, some sort of reading (thought-provoking but never from the bible… we read The Lottery one night) and free time… lots of free time!
I remember the year we decided to teach the girls to play AD&D… it did not go well…
In any case, what is the most bizarre children’s song that you were taught as a child?
Kingdom:3 Finding the girl… this snapshots a little on the heavy side. One more shorter snapshot to come.
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That would be this Ardra Comic. Clearly, I have no financial or professional relationship with those guys… just a fan… and I think the t-shirt is pretty cool!
Okay, back to Penguicon. I would seriously like your input, so let me know who you’d like to see (keep in mind that the only weapons at my disposal are 3 nifty guest “free passes” and a shot at a one expenses paid Guest of Honor slot). Think about what panels would be interesting to you as a reader or a creator and let me know. Together, we’ll make this the greatest Penguicon EVER (wow, that’s actually an incredibly high bar, but I’ll do my best). Thanks.
Dave
Oh, L’il Kim, you’re so silly! If you want to be a recurring character in the comic strip, you just have to ask. There’s no reason to run around shouting things and making people nervous.
Hey, if you’d be willing to leave the county for a day, The News Guy would love to do an interview. We can’t let him travel in to North Korea though because we’ve heard how you treat journalists there. But say the word and we’ll meet you in Hong Kong for noodles and a Coke.
On second thought, make that noodles and an Evian. You do not need any caffeine in your diet!
On a lighter note, it seems that Randall Munroe caught the same viewing of Wargames that I did. At least we went in totally different directions with it. Of course, his is funnier. I hate when that happens.
So the new iPhone was announced yesterday, the 3g S. Aside from the new firmware which all phones will get, it has a faster processor, up to 32 gb storage (!!) and a better camera. All of these features are, of course, very nice, but nothing compelling enough to make me throw my 3g out the window and rush to upgrade.
But then again, this is the 3rd generation iPhone, and it’s not really about greasing the converted for a few more quid. It’s about refining a design enough and seeing if you can’t entice some new users over to the Apple side.
So, what I think *is* compelling is that they are keeping the current 3g iphone in production and lowering the cost to $99. Now *that* is a sweet deal. Yes, it’s still tied to AT&T, but this really is the greatest phone I have ever used! As per the costs of the AT&T plan, they do stick you with a mandatory data plan, but I’m paying less for the family’s three phones at AT&T than I ever did at Verizon or Sprint, so I don’t see a problem there. I can also get a signal in my lab with AT&T which I never could with the other two, so for me, at least it works. In any case, the cost of entry for an iphone has just gone down a rather substantial notch, and that is a beautiful thing…
…now if I could just manage the thing from linux…
