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Apparently cyclops' are born once in every 1 million. Wait... is it *born* or is it *conceived*? Anyway...
A cyclops was born in India recently, with the article noting that doctors recommended abortion but the parents declined. Fucking cool!
See, I'm convinced the *myths* of ancient Greece & Rome are amped up versions of real stories, just like your buddy's fishing trip last year & most of the crap in the Bible.
Near the end of the article is a mention of a recent cyclops born in St. Petersburg. It wasn't IDed as such until 7 months in, & it died shortly after birth. Additionally interesting is the proboscis protruding from its forehead, through which it was BREATHING!!!
My big question is: did it die of natural causes, or was it put out of what was assumed to be its misery? Which begs a second question: how often does physical deformity get infanticided when not aborted? As in this case, do the parents go ahead & the doctors in their *wisdom* murder in secret? I try to think of a doctor acting altruistically & not murdering under any circumstance, but we know how flawed human beings are. Doctors have the power to force medications that are unwanted & withhold meds that are needed, the former out of sense of duty & the latter out of arrogant belief.
I lost my train of thought.
Wouldn't it be cool if the Indian kid grew up to pioneer Bollywood horror films? |
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...art by ME!
Heh - not so much. I have no idea if he or his *people* even think it's any good (they probably post everything) but my FBCC X-Men poster ('The Three Stooges' featuring Colossus, Wolvie & Nightcrawler) just got added to Stan's Facehack, Myspiz & Bebo fanart albums.
You've seen it before, but here's links for the morbidly curious.
Stan's MS
Stan's Bebo
Stan's FB (gotta have an account)
YAY! Shameless self-promo, courtesy of my favourite person... ME! |
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...and accurate?
By Winston Rowntree, the author of Subnormality.
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Is this why all my dates end badly?
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Forgive a little fanboy geekdom, but doesn't Kristen Stewart look goddamn amazing as Joan Jett?
I wonder if that's going to be Stewart's 'do for the entire film, cuz that's Jett's look from the 90s, not the 70s.
Alessandra Torresani might make a good Lita Ford... if she can act. Same criticism about the hair. |
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Friday
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Jun. 8th, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
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It turns out that my chock-full & completely stressed-out Friday was a minor blessing in disguise.
Another revision to the commission artwork, all the digital work for 6 pages, plus the fact that I hadn't started the cover meant the commissioned book wasn't going to be ready. I had the cover done by 7am Saturday morning.
( the cover )
The back cover was a simple sunburst (colours reversed from the front cover's bkgd) plus a rectangle for Anita to write Owen a personal note.
Side note: Owen showed off his comic to everyone he saw for the whole weekend! Then he called & left me a voicemail gushing about how awesome it was. Fuckin' A! That totally made my week, & made the stress over all the changes & the looming deadline worth it. I couldn't be more satisfied.
So, it got printed at the UPS Store in Newmarket at 5:30pm. The *real* printer I wanted to use isn't open weekends, & the UPS Stores in Barrie close at 2pm on Saturdays.
This means CCCCP is still in my hands. I'm doing some research into small-press-friendly comic shops in Ontario when I ran across a mention of UPC code. It had crossed my mind a while ago, but nothing had come of it.
This morning I purchased a membership with GS1 Canada. In my realistic needs for the coming year, one UPC code for $60 isn't enough. Ten codes for $150 seems to be more reasonable; releasing 3 comics will make the extra cost a deal (you know this, too, cuz you can do math), & I'll have at least three comics ready to go in the next 6 months alone.
In all, it's another week or so delay.
And - lucky me! - my lovely Amanda has agreed to be the Sharon to my Ozzy, which is awesome, cuz I hate business shite. |
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It's kind of a pain to be inking & falling asleep at the same time - it increases the amount of white-out needed.
That said, inking is my fave zone-out activity. I get to get stuff done while I listen to old Art Bell programs.
So, my current workload looks like this:- ink (then proof), digitize (then proof) & print the commissioned comic... all by Friday
- get CCCCP *out there* - stores & reviewers
- send There's No Place Like Home and The CEO to mags I think will appreciate them
- do more art for Confessions of a Porn Clerk
- give away free cartoon portraits with another
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) cyberfund_creat post (I will let y'all know about it)
- illustrate next chapter of Kaltrop's untitled Slugs Noir
- start work on the autobiography, now that I know how I want it to begin
There's more coming up, including a series with online friend Nick the Saint, further collab with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) esmeralda_m, a 2nd microcomic (this time with Mike Bryant), another eventual collab with skeptizodes, potential collab with online friend Jet Fisher & getting my foot in the door at Toronto's Word On the Street event. |
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Brian,
Thank you for your interest in Haven Distributors, but unfortunately we'll have to pass at this time.
Thanks,
(name withheld)
www.havendistro.com *sigh*
Nobody said it was easy - The Four Horsemen |
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I'm not crazy about having my own love handles these days, but I sure do like women who have them.
The article I'm about to link to isn't, you know, offensive to me, but disappoints me. And kinda makes me roll my eyes.
This particular point is frustrating because I know it to be true. Yes, they are rolls of fat - but they feel good in my hands. Very very sexy.
The only thing I'd change is that I like to be skinny when cuddled up to a lovely soft body. |
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Haven
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May. 29th, 2009 @ 04:41 am
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I'm crossing my fingers that Haven Distro accepts & carries CCCCP, now that it's ready for the printer.Feelings: hopeful Tunes: Beastie Boys - The In Sound from Way Out |
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Most of us will wallow & die in obscurity, whining about how the world never understood & therefore never gave us a chance. Oh, but then there are the tales of wonder, the stories of men in business suits chasing dollars who are as ignorant as all fuck.
I only knew one of these stories before reading this article about five massive hit songs that almost didn't get released.
#5 - *Satisfaction, by The Stones
#4 - Kiss, by Prince (the legend I was previously familiar with)
#3 - **Sweet Dreams, by The Eurythmics
#2 - What's Going On, by Marvin Gaye
#1 - Billie Jean, by Jacko
Do yourself a favour & read about these classic, wildly popular & enduring songs & how they nearly didn't see the light of day.
* The exception to the business suit cliché I mentioned. Keef wrote it in the middle of a drug-induced pass-out & showed it to the band (who loved it but he hated it). And now (HAHAHAHAHAHA) he has had to play it for every single gig for the rest of his life. And that was 1965! I'd've done that much smack, too, if I was that unhappy.
** The one that almost didn't get written cuz their 1st album apparently sucked so bad they nearly broke up instead. I believe it - have you ever tried to listen to their album tracks? They're a singles act all the way. Also: let's hear it for software malfunctions. |
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I've been amused lately by cracked.com's lists. A few are just begging for artistic impression, such as a work featuring popular fictional mayors.
Personally, I'd delete Metro City's Mayor Mike Haggar; I'm not big on video games. I'd definitely add Harvey 'Two-Face' Dent.
Who else deserves to be in this class photo?
[EDIT: the Mayor from The Nightmare Before Christmas also comes to mind] |
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It's May 2-4 & I can't even drink. Too much congestion, still, to risk either booze or my beloved & immensely missed coffee; it's been mint tea+honey & overchocolated milk all week. I've been feeling better since Thursday, though, so I'm getting a few things done.
I sated my curiosity for 24 while I was down. The 1st 1/2 of season 1 kicked much ass & I now understand why it had such a following. That said, I was blindsided by the ludicrous events that had a parked car slide off a well-worn dirt road, the ensuing survival of said car's passenger after said car exploded, & said car's explosion's witness suffering traumatic event-induced amnesia.
I get so angry over bad fiction. If the show had been bad from the outset, I could have just turned it off (like I did with season 1 of Las Vegas & a Wesley Snipes movie, to name two). But the engaging quality of the plotting up to that point, despite the unlikelihood of making every minute of a day more than 'just interesting,' makes the sheer audacity of the writer(s) feel like a punch in the heart. The adventures of Jack Bauer have picked up since, but the characters are cardboard cutouts of who they were in the initial episodes. I've got two shows to go until the end, so I don't have long to go to see if it was all worth it.
The thought of the millions of dollars & thousands of hours of labour that get thrown at that shit makes me pause repeatedly for sober moments of "if shit that good can become shit that shitty that easily, what hope have I?"
I know we creative types all have those kind of thoughts, & we get through them. Comes with the territory. |
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Say NO to cocaine.
For the record:
Oh! WoulditbepossibletodropmeoffnearthereIliverightneartheremyroommatejustdroppedmeoff. |
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Art
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May. 12th, 2009 @ 01:07 am
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I woke up feeling like utter crap. I know - poor me, eh?
With the crapness, I've been marathoning Lost & eating toasted cheese sandwiches; I'm into the 2nd disc of Season 4 & it's still completely blowing me away. When is it going to go downhill the way all the naysayers have been talking about? Wait - don't tell me.
I've got a small stack of art to scan; I thought I'd be taking care of it today. So much for the best laid plans. The replacement story for the erotica is done, as is Esmeralda's story (which promises to be a new series). A couple of other stories are in the can. I even figured out my *cartoon artist signature* (finally).
Feels good. But it'll feel better when I can concentrate. |
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Judy got married and had 13 children. Her first husband, Ted, died of cancer. She married again. She & Bob had 7 children together before Bob was killed in a car accident. Judy remarried again, this time to John. They had 5 children.
Finally, after having 25 children, Judy died.
Standing before her coffin, the preacher prayed for her. He thanked the Lord for this very loving woman, who had been graced with a large family, & said, "Lord, they are finally together."
Her two lifelong best friends, Ethel & Marg, were in attendance. Ethel leaned over & whispered to Marg, "Do you think he means Judy & Ted, Bob or John?"
Margaret replied, "I think he means her legs." |
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It's been nearly a year since I first posted about CCCCP.
All of you who have contributed work have had incredible patience waiting to see your work in print. Right now, all I want to do is see it become real.
And so, I've pulled a five-page story written by a good friend & drawn by me. It will be replaced by a one-pager I will draw this week that I wrote last year with the then-6yo son of aro1982.
Deleting four pages works out nicely in terms of bookness, which I'd be happy to 'splain, but I'm in a rush. |
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