I live in Seattle, and am not at PAX. But tweets seem to indicate that people are having fun. Mike, Jerry, and Scott announced an upcoming comic The Trenches. Video Games were played.

On a final note, the robot exoskeletons in today’s strip were based on a doodle I did quite a few years back for the intended amusement of Bill Mudron.

Thanks to Enosh74 for the awesome review of Spacetrawler over at Faceplant! Nice. :)

Hugo awards were given. Great job to the amazing Foglio team for Girl Genius! And I’m glad the movie Moon is on the list. What a fabulous film.

Beth and I walked 6 miles for Pigs Peace Sanctuary this weekend. I brought them a copy of the drawing I did, which meant that the person we showed it to shuffled us over to meet the head of P.P.S., Judy, who was very nice and told us a story of one of the abused pigs who’d fallen into their care (the drawing reminded her of him). It was heartbreaking story, but had a happy ending, thanks to P.P.S. Anyhow, I don’t have a good picture of the two of us, but here’s an okay one of me in the pig walk tee.

Yesterday I went roller skating with Beth. It was a crisp late summer day, and as she skated farther, I spent a lovely time resting on a dock, barefoot.

Thanks to E3E for the recommendation on the Runner’s World forums. When bad rears it’s ugly head, here at Spacetrawler it’s our core philosophy: RUN. Run like hell.

Now I just have to figure out how to weave “free-style space yachting” into the comic.

I’ll be tabling with the Topatoco table at the New England Webcomix Weekend in Easthampton, MA November 6th & 7th. Buy tickets now, and see more info at NEWW or on their twitter feed. I’m not sure if I’ll have any Spacetrawler merch yet, but I’ll have Little Dee and possibly Bruno stuff there.

Speaking of Merch, I know I don’t have anything to offer yet, and so it’s hard to support me. But if you’re enjoying this strip, there are ways you can help.

1. Buy original artwork. Each page is for sale (the big blue box under the strip) for only $80 + $6 S&H

2. Donate

3. Link to Spacetrawler in your favorite bulleton board, chat room, website, etc.

4. Purchase books and merchandise from my other comics, “Little Dee” and “Bruno” from Topatoco.

And on the topic of links, a couple of shout-outs. I don’t know who’s been doing it, but someone’s been keeping up the list of techniques Spacetrawler uses over at TV Tropes. Awesome! Thank you! Also, thanks to whoever it was at Amherst College who linked to me. Ah, Amherst… my old stomping ground, I do love thee.

First off, with a nod of thank you again to Chris Hastings of Dr. MicNinja, I wanted to welcome new readers. I do hope you’re enjoying the ride.

Thank you for the donations to Beth and my walk on Sept. 4th to benefit the Pig’s Peace Sanctuary. If you haven’t donated, you can still support our walk by either donating, or by bidding on a drawing I did of a pot bellied pig: Auction ends tonight, Wednesday, 5:00pm PST (every penny will go to the sanctuary). Help the piggies!

I spent the weekend at Chief Timothy campground, located on a small island in Snake River near Clarkston, WA. I thought I’d share some pictures I took with y’all.And lastly, a picture displaying my fondness for Macaroni and Cheese.

The we-met-back-in-school back-story in today’s strip inspired me to draw that, which is hardly a surprise since I happen to be re-listening to the entire series of Harry Potter books at present.

And, Hey! Beth and I will be walking to benefit a pot bellied pig sanctuary (they help pigs without homes) on September 4th. Even if you love bacon, you can support our walk by either Donating, or by participating in the auction I’m having for a drawing I did of  pot bellied pig: Bid on the Pig. Auction ends Wednesday night at 5:00pm Seattle time (every penny will go to the sanctuary). Help the piggies!

First off, a thanks to Chris Hastings of Dr. McNinja for the kind words. For the few of you who haven’t seen it, you should definitely check out his strip — excellent, funny, action packed and wonderfully drawn.

Earlier this year at the Seattle Emerald City Comic Con I had the good fortune to table with him at the Topatoco Island. I was the shy quiet one who didn’t know hardly anyone.

Speaking of which, I will be at NEWW in Easthampton, MA, November 6th & 7th, again at the Topatoco booth. I won’t have Spacetrawler books until next year, but my Little Dee books and other merch will be there.

Anyhow. Nothing else. Here’s a wash I did recently for my grandmother of me at Shoreview park.

I went and saw “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” (above is a wash drawing of Scott and Ramona I did this weekend), and my basic summary is that it is everything that “Hot Tub Time Machine” wanted to be. HTTM was trying to be this gaudy romp through 80s and 90s culture, but it ended up being a somewhat pathetic parody of itself and was slow and painful to watch. Scott Pilgrim was new, it was exciting, and it was filled with nostalgia and an earnest love for it. I loved O’Malley’s books and felt the movie was an excellent adaptation of them (and I thought Kieran Culkin and Alison Pill were so perfectly cast (Wallace and Kim)).

Later in the weekend, Beth and I watched “The Extra Man” starring Kevin Kline. I found it a far less polished movie, and a lot of the writing was only carried by the strong acting of Kline and Paul Dano (John C. Reilly is a lovely actor, but I’m not sure I’m sold on him in this part). But it was sensitive and thought provoking.

Beth and I also watched 7Up, 14Up, and 21Up (we have more to go, they’re up to “49Up“), the British movies which follow a group of kids of different classes through their lives. Fascinating.

So, whereas Pilgrim was so lovely and entertaining, Extra Man left me thinking and re-examining life (7Up was just nicely odd and compelling). In my book it’s apples and oranges and, um, kiwi maybe. My weekend was a good fruit salad.

I also made butterscotch pudding, but it came out a tad bit gritty. No plumes of smoke though. I’ll continue at it.

Beth and I walked to the grocery yesterday, and found a blackberry bush — always a good feeling regardless my age.

I bought the ingredients to make butterscotch pudding while at the store, although I haven’t had a moment to make it. I did start playing with butterscotch candy late last week to get my head thinking about it, but I don’t think the candy thermometer was fully in the liquid, because at what read as a low temperature, it actually started billowing a dark acrid smoke, setting off the fire alarm.

Today it’s sunny again, and I’m off in a short while to my writing group. A good day and a good mood.

I spent a lovely day in Tacoma this past week (35 minutes south of Seattle). A strange city, which reminds me a bit of cities on the east coast (old buildings, lots of brick). Beth and I packed a picnic, walked a bit, sat by Puget Sound, walked through a greenhouse, got some vegan dinner, and walked some more.

The W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory

It got a bit chilly Saturday night, and so Beth and I rented Nausicaa and watched it in front of a fire, both of which are always a pleasure.

I’ve posted a page of what books I’ve been reading (which means: listening to them on audiobook), there is also a link up with my other personal links. I started the list in November of 2007, around when I started really getting into audiobooks. Honestly, I’m sure I forgot to put quite a few books in there. It doesn’t say anything about them or rate them or anything like that. Oh, and it doesn’t include comic books or graphic novels, not as a statement of value, but as a media. I don’t list movies either. But if you’re curious what i’ve been reading, there it is.

This has been a great week for comics for me. I finally got my hands on the new (and last) Scott Pilgrim, I finally finished reading the entire archive of Marooned, and I spent a lovely afternoon with Steve Gallacci and then re-read the first three issues of Albedo. All three were excellent reads.