NF09: “Big Trouble, Part I”
(click to download) (740KB)
Postcards from the Past
On November 14, 2006, I got myself a new Moleskine Reporter notebook.
There appears to be a whole fabricated mythos to the brand, which I bought into at the time. Silly me.
Though now I find that Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Carroll are Moleskine fans, both writing first drafts and logging other notes in the books. Better endorsements than those you can’t get.
Regardless of who loves them or the marketing baloney, the book practically begs to be written on, especially with a nice pen (more about I will post another day).
I filled pages from November through mid-June with writing only. I thought I was on my way to leaving myself an interesting notebook until I found out what other people were doing with their Moleskines.
After that, I started taping in pieces of the day: things I found, fortunes from cookies, bits of paper related to specific entries — and the thing above.
The “Juxtaposure” postcard was found in the Elk Grove Public Library’s copy of Mythic Image (704.947 CAM).
And, yes, it’s is really that magenta. It sure would have been hard to miss in your stack of mail.
Click the thumbnail to view the back.
Anybody know anybody who was part of the show, or went to this exhibit? Please send me some details. Thanks.
Noble Failure #9 — An update
Climb Mount Fuji,
O snail,
but slowly, slowly.
Kobayashi Issa (1763 -1827)
Some teaser art for the forthcoming NOBLE FAILURE #9.
The pages for the September attempt at a 24-Hour Comic are progressing, but slowly, slowly.
The hang-up has to do with working on the computer. The vector graphic program/drawing tablet combo are getting easier to use, however, I find myself tinkering with individual lines for long, long minutes to get the angle of an arm or just the right bend in a word balloon’s tail. I keep telling myself, It’s a word balloon! Let it go! but the program’s 2000% zoom and the ability to infinitely monkey/un-monkey with lines only feeds my compulsive compulsion to obsessively-compulse over every detail until it’s right. Right? RIGHT?!?
Well, that’s my neurosis, not mine (or mine), and clearly defeats the point of a 24-Hour comic.
But I’m happy with the eight pages done so far. It’s not often I can say that about my own work, so that’s at least something.
The wife and kid are off to Minnesota for a long weekend, leaving me here to work on more comic art and to pound away at a middle grade sci-fi/adventure/comedy I’ve been wrestling with.
I wonder which I’ll finish first.
1:57 to Stinksville (Movie Review)
This dude in the Rocketeer jacket? A mere supporting character. Can you say, “bait and switch”?
The first thing I did when I came home from seeing 3:10 To Yuma was take a shower — to get rid of the stink.
[Read more…] about 1:57 to Stinksville (Movie Review)
Ugly Money
A few weeks ago, I found this mutant 1963 Jefferson head nickel.
The back looks even worse.
Anybody have an idea what could have done this?