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...I have discovered the undiluted glory of ginger snaps and coffee. Yum!
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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So I've been very bad at updating this lately, but am making efforts to get better. Since I haven't had much time for comics recently, I thought a couple of photos would be a better idea:
We've had some awesome weather lately, and my parents came over to visit so we took the opportunity to go up to Hampstead Heath. This picture is from the top of Parliament Hill, a spot popular with kite flyers.
This is an older picture I took a couple of months back, on my way home from work. I like the colour and something about it seems representative of Kilburn as a whole.
(On another note, I finally wrote up our second week in San Francisco - the entry, complete with pictures, is here).
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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Just a quick thing I dashed off while trying out the demo version of Manga Studio, after hearing Bob Byrne (hereby known as The Spunker speak highly of it.
I'm not too convinced. I like the variety of brushes, it's the sort of thing that I can use to hide the various flaws in my technique to add a bit of flavour to my drawing. But I don't like the interface, and I say that having played with several different packages. I might spend the $50 on it when payday arrives, but thus far I'm not convinced I should abandon Photoshop Elements or Paint.NET just yet.
(The sketch is a preliminary thing trying to settle on a character design for a script a friend asked me to draw; if it works out it'll actually end up in print, which seems more of a baffling notion than an exciting prospect, but there you go...)
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My last post about San Francisco ended with a somewhat lazy Sunday where we waited for our hangovers to lift. Now to move on and recount the rest of the time we spent there.
( The adventures continue... )
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Just over a week ago, She Who Must Be Obeyed and I had an got to spend the day travelling to San Francisco, for a two-week holiday wrapped around a wedding reception for a friend of mine.
Here's what we've been up to:
( Here be pictures of a worksafe nature )
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
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I haven't been very good at posting here recently, which is a shame - I've already mentioned about going to the Thing last weekend (where I took barely any photos, hence not uploading them), but I haven't been doing anything much comic-related. Well, other than getting people to contribute to The Book O' Flange at the post-Thing pub session. (On which more when I've scanned it and assembled the pages in Photoshop - I now regret choosing to use an A3 sketchbook for it, but there you go...)
Anyway, after finally finishing the next Fyshbowl Comics strip (only a month late!) I figured I should do some sort of sketching, and decided to sketch the central character for a project I've been planning for a while. I've got the script side of it worked out properly now, so hopefully it should start to take shape soon.
Enough of my rambling, and on with the sketch:
( Pay no attention to the man behind the cut )
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Excuse the lame south-park-based joke in the subject there, I couldn't think of anything less stupid. The new series of South Park has been unexceptional, although it did offer unexpected gold in the line "You shouldn't use the word fag, it's a hate word and it's insensitive to butt-pirates".
Anyway. More important is the fact that last weekend I attended the UK Web & Mini Comics Thing, as well as the Post-Thing Thing. Much fun was had, chiefly with the creation of the Flangethology - a sketchbook in which a whole bunch of people contributed doodles, sketches, and short strips. It ended up at 12 A3 pages + cover, which will be scanned and uploaded for your viewing delectation in the next few days.
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So with relatively little pomp and fanfare (unlike, say, Gabe from Penny Arcade) I have succesfully achieved a +1 to my age. You'd think that I'd have a more interesting thing to associate with getting older than "Hmm, I guess I'll definitely be older than my brother was when I finally get a full driving licence". Nothing about, you know, maturity or any of that gubbins. Wheee! BUMS! And other such guff. I guess the whole "Growing old is mandatory. Growing up? Not so much." thing is true.
No illustration this time because I've got no time. New comics soon though.
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
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It's been interesting to realise over the last year or two that I hold a few convictions which would probably make a significant number of people categorise me in the same mental bracket they reserve for those homeless guys who shout, in a Foul Ole Ron manner, about being spied on with invisible pink unicorn lasers and how monkeys stole their face. Or perhaps those people who think that they've seen the Virgin Mary's face in their faeces after going for a particularly hearty bowel movement.
Then again, a lot of people are pretty damn stupid. But anyway, ( I figured a list might be interesting... )
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
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This is just a short update. I'd planned to do a longer update over the weekend including a couple of Valentine's Day themed doodles I'd drawn but frankly I couldn't be arsed spending the energy on commenting at the time. my_window_seat had the funniest take on it I've seen in a good while, which is online over here.
( But anyway... )
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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So I woke up this morning to discover that it's still snowing, to the extent that the bus network is suspended. The tube network is mostly suspended. Trains aren't running. Which means that neither myself nor She Who Must Be Obeyed can make it to work. I'm curious how this is going to work out, since the weather reports suggest that there's going to be even more snow during the day - up to another 5-10 inches. It's not much, but in a country not particularly adept at handling snow it's enough to screw everything up.
That said, as I was taking photos this morning I heard a passing individual mention to someone else that he'd never seen so many people smiling in the morning.
( And suddenly the world has become a winter wonderland... )
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
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It's funny how some things can seem utterly normal to you until you explain them to someone else. This came around after a lengthy conversation about teachers, which made me realise that the secondary school I went to had some real weirdos there. Some great teachers too, but even so....
( Cut for length - text & illustration below cut )
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
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I was planning for the next update to be a bit lengthier, but then a really stupid joke occurred to me. I was working on some comics for the Comic Challenge, and the trailer for Frost/Nixon started playing on TV. Not the full one I've just linked to, but an abridged one. And I'd swear that they picked Nixon's lines in the ad to make the film sound like something between a serial killer thriller and a slasher flick - an impressive way of selling a film that's effectively about interviewing a corrupt politician.
Anyway, the ensuing conversation between myself and She Who Must Be Obeyed led to the following:
( Cut for size and stupidity - seriously daft comic below the cut )
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
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A couple of days ago I spent some time deleting the 700 or so entries I've made in the 7 years since I started this journal. Partly because the last year or so of posts (probably more, in fact) have had little or no merits, and partly for the sake of having a general clear-out. I want to change how I use this journal and see if I can make it into something actually worth reading.
One of the things I'm working on doing more this year is reading: in general (since I keep neglecting prose reading for comics reading) and also specifically in terms of science. On which note, I offer you the following (based on something I scribbled down in the pub recently):
Speaking of comics, I have decided to temporarily put a halt to the Coasting story that I was doing, and have started a new storyline on The Fyshbowl. The plan is to continue this as a weekly endeavour for the short to mid-term and see where that leads me in terms of longer-term comic writing/drawing.
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