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10/17/11 Karaoke Lover

by Christopher on October 16, 2011 at 9:00 pm
10/17/11 Karaoke Lover

What a computer nightmare I set myself up to this weekend. But… perhaps wiping my HD didn’t show full insight into the tools I had available. Anyhow, a foolish waste of time. Thanks to Mike for saving my butt.

Aside from that, not much to blog about. Really enjoyed all your replies to the last strip, more specifically — about making bread and chocolate. The flavor of the bread I made is all good, and the consistency is nice to each but a bit crumbly. I might try more gluten, soak my whole grains a bit first, and then knead it a bit longer. I’m still fiddling with the chocolates. My sweetie makes almond milk from scratch, and so we have lots of leftover almond pulp. I’m currently trying to make a sort-of vegan almond pulp toffee, then dipped in chocolate. Fun to play.

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09/14/11 Dimitri Checks In

by Christopher on September 13, 2011 at 9:00 pm
09/14/11 Dimitri Checks In

Okay, I am barely keeping one foot ahead of my strip schedule. Go team tired! Thanks to Renaissance Dork for the shout-out.

And HEY, Friday, Saturday and Sunday I’ll be in the DC/Rockville area at

InterventionCon

Stop by. Say Hello. Buy books. Bring books to buy. See me on panels:

  • Friday at 8:00 “Getting Paid To Do What You Already Love: Working With Companies” along with David Reddick & Tony DiGerolamo.
  • Saturday at 3:00 “Back in my day: The webcomic veterans panel” along with Shaenon Garrity, Jennie Breeden & Bill Holbrook.
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09/12/11 Dimitri’s Trust

by Christopher on September 11, 2011 at 9:00 pm
09/12/11 Dimitri’s Trust

SPX was a grand time. Ahhhh! And now I’m on the late bus back to my brother’s. Zoom! Blogging from the bus — so, a con report will have to wait until wednesday’s strip.

And I won’t be in Seattle for it, but the 17th is the annual “Pigs For Peace” walk at Greenlake, and my sweetie Beth is walking, so please donate, and know a donation for her walking is like for me walking (only I’m only there in spirit). They’re an organization who takes care of potbelly pigs (among other animals) who were pets and were poorly treated or not wanted, and so now they have a good home.

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08/15/11 Planet Carpsellon

by Christopher on August 14, 2011 at 9:00 pm
08/15/11 Planet Carpsellon

A good weekend of enjoying beautiful weather. Beth and I canoed around Boston Harbor (in Olympia, WA, not in Massachusetts). And I just saw a small production of “Pirates of Penzance” at the Greenlake Bathhouse, put on by a middle-school aged cast, which was delightful.

A few thanks for Spacetrawler shout-outs… Don Ahe of the awesome webcomic “Road Apples Almanac” wrote a blurb about Spacetrawler about a year ago HERE, Lys wrote a blurb about Spacetrawler about a half a year ago HERE, and Mark Grealish wrote a blurb about Spacetrawler about a year ago HERE. On a related topic, let me know if you write a review of Spacetrawler anywhere, I’m (usually) happy to link to it, but often am never (or very belatedly) even aware of it.

In other “news,” I just finished reading Zach Weiner’s  first collection of strips “Save Yourself, Mammal!” from his comic strip SMBC. Awesome work, Zach! Check it out. (You may remember I did some art fill-in for the comic “Snowflakes” he writes for.)

Also, Scott Kurtz of PVP along with Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade, creators of two of the largest online webcomics, are co-creating a new comic called Tales From The Trenches. I’ll be curious to see how that goes. :)

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08/03/11 Dal’s Sad Story

by Christopher on August 2, 2011 at 9:00 pm
08/03/11 Dal’s Sad Story

As you can see above, I’ll be in Albuquerque this weekend at the SciFi Expo. (along with Cordelia from Buffy, Chekov from Star Trek, and Darth Maul from Star Wars, among others.) So come on by and say hello. :)

THE SHIRTS: I only received a couple more orders for the shirt. But I’m going to go ahead and print it, but I will ONLY be printing what shirts are ordered (since there’s simply not demand enough to keep back-stock). So, if you want a Purfin-M32, ORDER-IT-TODAY (Wednesday). I’ll be putting in the print order tomorrow, and that’ll be it!

In news, there’s a nice article on Webcomics in the Boston Globe today, featuring Topatoco‘s very own Jeffrey Rowland, plus Jeph Jacques, Richard Stevens, Andrew Hussie, Michael Terracciano, and KC Green.

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07/25/10 Dimitri Operates

by Christopher on July 24, 2011 at 9:00 pm
07/25/10 Dimitri Operates

“Purfin M-32″ – and – “Pierrot, Defender of Awesome!“*

There are a multitude of styles and sizes during the pre-order week, so order one now! I will probably order some for having in stock, but likely only one style of the many, and only limited sizes.

So yes, I read through all the feedback on the Purfin shirt, and am coming back with you in force. Both designs feature 4 colors screenprinted art on a solid-color shirt background (in other words, this it NOT an iron-on).

Enjoy! -Christopher

PURFIN M-32 (From this strip)

This shirt is no longer for sale

*if either shirt does not reach 20 sales in a week or so, I will cancel it and refund all payments for that shirt.

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07/20/11 An Enemy Aboard

by Christopher on July 19, 2011 at 9:00 pm
07/20/11 An Enemy Aboard

I withdrew the Purfin T-shirt. After 24 hours there were still zero sales, and that was too slow a start. I’m trying very hard to provide merch, but I also need to meet some minimum order numbers to even break even. My current rule on tees are I need at least 20 orders to do a print run, and if I get zero orders in the first day, I pull it. That said, a couple people asked me to re-tool the design, and I’m playing with it. Nothing satisfactory yet.

In the meantime, you can continue to support Spacetrawler by visiting my TopatoCo store, where you can get all things Spacetrawler, Little Dee, and Bruno.

And lastly, a picture of Cadfael keeping me company while I work.

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06/08/11 Dimitri and Shuar Talk

by Christopher on June 7, 2011 at 9:00 pm
06/08/11 Dimitri and Shuar Talk

Today’s strip has (give or take) six locations, nine characters, and six punchlines. Hopefully it could still be read, understood and enjoyed by Joe Shmoe if he were to walk in off the street and read it — but still, you all deserve “elite reader” awards. I applaud you. (Not that my goal is to be complex. My goal is to produce good work, which admittedly sometimes gets complex).

Someone wrote me the other day, inquiring (in a friendly manner) if Yuri was a bit of a cyborg “F.U.” at Dresden Codak. And as much as a friendly rivalry amuses me, i wanted to let you all know: unequivocally NO. Aaran Diaz is very talented and I love his work, both Dresden Codak and his blog about making comics: Indistinguishable From Magic are excellent reads.

Although…. in a fight, who would win? Kim or Yuri?…… I’ll let YOU decide.

Below is a doodle I did of Kim:

And lastly: what a day for comic Book releases! Vera Brosgel’s Anya’s Ghost (which I’ve had on pre-order since February), Dave Roman’s Astronaut Academy, and Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham’s Level up. Nice!

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05/25/11 Russian Anecdotes

by Christopher on May 24, 2011 at 9:00 pm
05/25/11 Russian Anecdotes

Hey, I’m all blogged out today. I think my blog a couple blogs ago all out-blogged all my bloginess.

So, yeah. Hope you enjoy today’s strip. Anya, I used one of the anecdotes you told me, hope you like.

Support Spacetrawler by buying books, mugs, shirts at the SPACETRAWLER STORE (Spacetrawler, Little Dee, Bruno, and my novel) (oh, and the “Limbic Fizzler” shirt is being fazed out, so get one now)

Oh, yeah, one thing. Rebecca Clements is selling only 100 copies/booklets of her cute recent comic “For you.” (I’ve already bought one, so you’re allowed to buy the rest).

***** EDIT – ADDENDUM ON ANECDOTES *****

Just a few thoughts I had this morning which I wanted to share, and preferred to write it in the (sparse) blog than the comments.

I love humor. I LOVE it. The construct of it, the patterns, the genres. And one facet which has always intrigued me is humor of different cultures. We like to think that humor is funny or not, but a lot of it is truly just our “sense” of humor, and so much of that is cultural.

Did you know that our modern US humor is largely British based? No real surprise. And you can research it all, “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog),” or “The Goon Show.” Or you can try to read the non-Brit Sigmund Freud’s “Wit and the Unconscious” and find how unconscious you’d rather be than sit through Freud telling jokes.

So, in my mid-20s I dated a woman who grew up in Belarus, a part of the Soviet Union. And over the years I’ve heard LOADS of Russian anecdotes. And they absolutely fascinated me — because they didn’t click with my sense of humor but I could tell they were funny. I could break them down and tell you WHAT was funny about them, but it took time and development and exposures to the culture before I really got the sense of it.

There are certain parts of this strip I may have played wrong or unfair. To be true to Dimitri’s Russian background, perhaps he should not have smiled as much, but it was the only visual way I could work out that he had just delivered the “punchline” and was awaiting a response.

Anyhow. Fascinating.

Oh, and happy Douglas Adams “Towel Day.”

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05/23/11 Shuar Phones In

by Christopher on May 22, 2011 at 9:00 pm
05/23/11 Shuar Phones In

Today’s strip demands a lot from you, readers, but I think it reads smoothly. Oh, and for those new or who have forgotten, here’s where Dimitri met Shuar, and then here, and some follow-up scenes (and one more) (I’d point you to the Shuar tag, but for some reason i can’t get it to show the strips). The remote Martina uses to wake Yuri didn’t get nearly enough screen time but did appear in panels 9 & 10 here.

Thanks to Gini Koch (of the “Touched by an Alien” series) for the blog mention. And a blog which missed my radar: Orren Merton mentioned me before in a blog about Spacetrawler, but now has a blog post about the book #1.

So, at the Phoenix Sci-Fi Con “LepreCon,” I met Seanan McGuire. She came up to me and told me that my webcomic “Bruno” helped her get through high school. I thought that was pretty neat, and nice of her to say. And since she mentioned that she was an author, I decided to read one of her books. I read “Feed” (written under her pseudonym, Mira Grant) and holy cats. I generally find the horror genre of books and movies to be too much for me, especially zombie stuff as it is focused around gore and shooting, but this wasn’t. This was about character and the geeky details of day-to-day life in a zombie-virus world, it was emotionally moving. Maybe all the more impact because I didn’t expect that (and have just ruined it for you, now going in expecting it). This novel was marvelous. Anyhow, link to Amazon (if you want to give me a kickback) for “Feed,” and/or read my review on Goodreads.

Oh, and hey, Brian Madison: email me. I got your T-Shirt.

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