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May 02, 2007
More Random Stuff
* Lettering in CorelDraw ain't that bad. It took me about an hour to familiarize myself with the program, but once I got going it wasn't no thing at all. I ended up getting twenty pages done last night.
* Ain't ain't a word.
* DJ Shadow's 'The Outsider' is a really, really good album. I haven't really taken it out of rotation since purchasing it. I glean something new from it on each listen.
* I turned in my 60 day notice yesterday to move out of my apartment. End of an era. I was underpaying on it so much that my landlord's eyes kind of sparkled when I told him.
* Speaking of 'end of an era', I'm going to miss Tom Poston. I really liked him.
* I brought a chess board to work yesterday. I'm like a cat with a mouse on that game, man, slowly picking my opponents apart until I finally, mercifully end it. Of course, if I had to play against someone who's actually good, I'd be massacred. I've got no real strategy except for controlling the center of the board.
* In Chandler's Marlowe books, Marlowe keeps a chess board in his apartment and moves the pieces as shown from transcripts of famous maneuvers and games. I'd like to do that myself, but those things are in some sort of code I've never been able to understand. I'm worthless, aren't I?
* I'm going to try to put up a daily 'snapshot' of what I'm working on. Yesterday's post was the first of those. Sometimes it'll be a photograph, or a snippet of a page, or a screenshot, but I thought it'd be interesting to do something like this. I'm sure I won't nail it EVERY day, but it'll still be something cool to look back on.
* I'm really looking forward to the last issue of '52'. I've enjoyed the hell out of this series. I'm excited for 'Countdown' as well. I've dropped almost all of my monthly titles in favor of collections, but I enjoy picking this sort of thing up every week.
* Man, I've had a lot on my mind lately. Lettering 'The Black Chamber'. Writing 'Too Late for Smiling'. Conceptualizing a series to spin out of that. The day job being weird. Submitting 'The Black Chamber' to publishers. Moving. Grandma dying. Aunt Kathy dying. Aunt Lois being very ill, most likely terminally. Aunt Doreen being terminally ill. Start-up business with Mom. My buddy Brandon being out of work. My neighborhood going to shit. Being overweight. Mom's health. Step-father's health. Niece being in the hospital from diabetes. Sanjaya being kicked off of American Idol...wait...
* For those of you going to Planet Comicon this weekend, I'm hoping to have an ashcan of 'The Black Chamber' to hand out. I won't have a table or anything, just wandering the floor and making a scene in front of Kevin and Dennis' table. If you're going, and you want one, say something in the comments here and I'll be sure to hook ya up.
* Seriously, lettering this thing is going QUICK. I really didn't have much dialogue at all, as I really wanted to have the images tell the story, and paced it similar to how Koike and Kojima did on 'Lone Wolf and Cub'. 'Smiling' is going to be a MUCH denser read.
* The new 'D'Airain Aventure' is out today, too! Sweet!
* I'll leave you with Ashley Wood's cover to the new Tank Girl series, as I don't have any art myself to put up today, and seriously, it's gorgeous, isn't it?
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Posted by Schamberger at May 2, 2007 07:36 AM