mar 20-26 2005

mar.22.05

A day in aaaaaaand...

So my first day of self-employment went from being the planned, productive, early-bird Monday it was supposed to be, to an attempt at recovering from a head cold.

I spent the weekend partying and relaxing with my friends Jeff & Becky Dow and Mike & Heather Fogg in Maryland, and came home with a nasty, stuffy sickness that I'm still suffering from.

So bad news is, I'm already almost two days off-schedule because I spent yesterday and most of today sleeping off the symptoms. Good news is, I've been working my tail off tonight so my file cabinets are almost finished being re-organized, and most of the side work I've been doing is halfway done.

More on that good news side: I've had several people solicit scripts my way, so I'll be working on new comic book work within the next week! On top of that I have a website to start designing shortly, and several commissions I'm putting together for buyers. That means more cool stuff for you guys to look at! :)

One of the books I'll be working on shortly is an issue of Plastic Farm by Rafer Roberts (whose birthday is today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RAFER!!). That'll be my main April project. Oh, and I'll be attending not only Pittsburgh Comic Con April 22-24, but the week prior I'll be spending Saturday and Sunday (the 16th and 17th) at Wild Pig Comics II in Somerville, NJ doing my second 24-hour comic. I know I've already brought it up, but they're going to have a big ol' sale that weekend at the store. I'll keep reminding you guys as the weeks get nearer.

I think that's it for-- oh holy crap! Okay, it's not really important, but I forgot to mention that my birthday is tomorrow. Unfortunately, because of the cold knocking me on my ass this week, I'll be working all day long. But uh... my phone will be on, and I'll be checking my e-mail periodically if anyone, ah... y'know... wanted to remind me that I'm loved :)

I'm such an attention whore.

Anyway, that's it for me tonight. I'm exhausted and I'd like to get to sleep early so that I can visit my old drawing prof early in the morning to get some figure drawing in.

Sleep tight, y'all!

mar.24.05

Dedications (and God bless the power of Jamie's cleavage)

Perhaps not dedications, but notifications.

First of all, you can thank Sparky for reminding me to put the focus on our beloved Jamie once in awhile.

Secondly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARL!! (There are a LOT of friggin' birthdays this week!)

And third, I have an anectode about none other than my parents, my neighbors, and their reactions to the recent GWS story arc. Going home for my birthday has never been so... eventful!

If I've said it once I've said it a hundred times: If you're family over the age of 40, DON'T READ THIS STRIP!! Unless you expect to disown me!

Anecdote to come later Thursday...

Oh, and fourthly! (Is that a word?!) Thank you to anyone who sent me nice gifts (that most CERTAINLY includes e-mails) for my birthday!! You guys make everything worth it. Thank you!

mar.24.05

Homecoming

Alright, quick bedtime story, then I'm gettin' under the sheets.

So I went home last night for one of my mother's fabulous gluten-free birthday meals.

(When I say gluten-free, for those of you who don't know, this means that everything she made had to be created without the use of wheat or barley, which means flour and malt. These ingredients are in EVERYTHING. And yet somehow, she managed to put together a tasty mac-and-cheese like only she can make it, home-made bread, and even an apple pie. My mom ROCKS!)

When we finished dinner, we invited our long-time friends and next-door neighbors, the Lettermans, over for pie and ice cream. At which point, to my sheer horror, my father decided to bring up that he'd been keeping up with Girls With Slingshots, and began to carry on about how his daughter was writing about "pornographic themes" in her comic strip! What a foul mouth! What a dirty mind!! OH!

Now the Lettermans are all teachers. ALL of them. Even Aryn, my rebellious childhood pal, is now a teacher. They CERTAINLY aren't unaccustomed to the "f-word" or to kids saying the word "penis" and giggling about it. But they CERTAINLY wanted to read this "XXX-rated comic strip."

So, much to my humiation, everyone huddled around the laptop, including my dear sweet mother, and I sat at the table, awaiting a sure excommunication from the entire neighborhood.

Instead, they burst out with laughter and started teasing my dad for thinking an adult toy store was "pornographic material."

Happy birthday to me!

To top it off, Mr. Letterman imparted some ideas for the next strip. Apparently he thinks it would be a good idea to give Hazel's little "friend" a name.

Hoooo boy. I see a dildo-naming contest...

And they all lived happily ever after. Now I'm going to go curl up with a nice gift one of my good friends sent me for my birthday. (NO, it's NOT from a toy store! I'll be reading Kyle Baker's Why I Hate Saturn for the next several evenings, until I finish it.)

Good-night!

mar.25.05

Great review!

I totally forgot to share this great review of my little Staple! GWS promo book got from The Fourth Rail!

And I quote,

"... Corsetto's artwork is really strong, with a style that looks to me like what you might get if Jim Mahfood's art and Terry Moore's art got together and had beautiful mutant children."

Now THAT'S a compliment. Thanks, Randy!