JAYSUS!

Man, has this been one productive week/weekend. I blame it fully on the fact that we haven't had regular internet service since around Tuesday. Damn you, person in the building with unlocked WiFi! Get a stronger signal!
Anyway, now that I've totally incriminated myself...
Finished a piece for Paracinema Magazine's (www.paracinema.net) next issue, that's going to be on the cover, apparently. I feel so very accomplished! Can't say a whole Hell of a lot about it, but it's cool (in my totally unbiased opinion), and you should all buy multiple copies when it comes out.
What I CAN talk about is this really awesome idea I've had based off a school assignment given this week (wow, how often does THAT happen?) I've been wanting to do some kinda gimmicky giveaway to send to people or sell, something cool and unique that hopefully people would be into. For my class assignment, I chose to do a graphic novella...thing...that's related to one of my larger stories. Kind of like a mini chapter:

That's not a poorly formatted JPEG. That's actual size. The assignment was to fit our work into a standard-sized matchbox.
So, I'm thinking of developing a series of "Minikomik" (gotta love that faux-Soviet spelling!), complete works around 5-10 pages long, all lovingly shoved in their own matchboxes and reasonably priced.
Oh, and I cheated. The original size of the pages is 3.75x6 inches. I might be insane, and I might love to do miniatures, bu there's no way in Hell I am inking a multipanel page that's only 2 inches high.

Fire Walk With Me

So I've been doing basically nothing since I got to Florida except playing with the puppy (who chewed up my wingtips! GRR!) and getting fat off my mom's home cooking. Not much done in the terms of art, just a few sketches and some reorganization of old stories into newer ones. Just basically boring nerdy things.
I have an interview, faculty meeting, informal portfolio review, AND class sit-in session at SCAD this Thursday, to see if I'm good to go for applying to the Sequential Art graduate program. Yikes. I feel mostly ready, and think I have enough portfolio material to show that I'm really interested in the field. Sigh.
Reconnecting with bizarre films etc of my youth: my parents gave me a box set of "Twin Peaks" for Christmas. God, I'd forgotten just how wonderful that show was. Agent Cooper was probably one of my first childhood crushes. (What, your parents didn't let you watch David Lynch when you were 5? What kind of childhood did YOU have?!) I've actually been to the town where "Twin Peaks" was filmed– Snoqualamie, Washington state:
Some Guy's Site About Going to the Film Locations
Proud to say that I've been inside the "Great Northern Hotel" on the top of the falls and had a cup of coffee and a piece of cherry pie in the diner. I'm a huge nerd. (In my defense, my parents and brothers used to live in Seattle in the 1970s, and it's like 30 miles away so they'd been to the town a bunch of times before....but that doesn't mitigate the fact that I am still a huge, huge nerd).




"Harry, she's dead...wrapped in plastic."

Finals are OVAH!

Yes! The final presentation of our thesis work was today (it didn't have to be finished, thank God...) and classes have officially let out for the fall semster. Yay! All I'm going to concentrate on for the winter break is getting all my crap together for my SCAD interview/faculty meeting and being as complete as I can.
After I take a long, hard, debauched nap, of course.

Wake me in mid-October.


(this recycled bin was on the floor of our department. Somebody was celebrating, I guess...)