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03/25/13 – Furryite Factory

by Christopher on March 24, 2013 at 9:00 pm
03/25/13 – Furryite Factory

Thank you, btw, thank you thank you all of you who put in orders and gave donations last week. it helped, and you’re the awesomest.

Had a pleasant weekend. Saturday I refueled my eyes by going (with my sweetie) for a brief trip down to the Albany Institute of Art & History (although their collection wasn’t really to our taste). Sunday I worked on house projects. Built a screen out of wod scraps and mesh for our skylight, re-strung all the chimes in our old wind chime, stained legs for our couch, glued together chairs, gessoed a canvas. That sort of thing.

For all (any?) of you fantasy writers out there, Sophia McDougal (of Romanitas) wrote a brilliant post on tips for making your fantasy book better. I am still giggling.

Oh, and, if any of you had any questions in your head about Star Wars making any sense, there’s finally a video explaining WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.

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02/18/13 Phonetic Declaration, by Jim Anderson

by Christopher on February 17, 2013 at 9:00 pm
02/18/13 Phonetic Declaration, by Jim Anderson

Strip two of my busman’s holiday (regular Spacetrawler strips back on Wednesday).

Today’s incredible strip is by Jim Anderson who writes and draws “Ellie On Planet X.” I first saw Jim’s work when I began running Spacetrawler. I was looking for other sci-fi comics to link to, and just loved his drawing style and playful humor and have been following it ever since.

Then, the day after I linked to this lovely strip of his, I realized I needed to ask for help if I could get caught up with work and not lose my mind. And so I instantly thought of Jim, and he was kind enough to say yes.

He almost did a strip about Dimitri and Emily, and here is his awesome character sketch he did, which I totally wanted to share.

Also check out his portfolio site of illustrations at jimcandraw.com! (and below is a sample of Ellie!)

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02/11/13 Shuar Meets Choan

by Christopher on February 10, 2013 at 9:00 pm
02/11/13 Shuar Meets Choan

Spent the weekend packing boxes. moving the office (my sweetie is opening a private practice, and so she is taking over the space and I’m taking over our home office). Fun! No, not fun. But not horrible. Boring, actually. Ah well. :)

Snow blizzard zilla Nor’easter hit us on Friday, but not that much. Nothing stopped. Out here in upstate NY it was simply kinda’ pretty, with icicle reminders.

Do you like B movies (sometimes!) and horror movies (Ugh! No!)? But if I DID, I’d read Dawn’s website reviewing them.

Attention! I will be attending the Tucson Festival of Books March 9-10 at Tucson’s University of Arizona. I’ll be tabling with an enormously talented group of woman who write Romance Novels. Check out who I’m tabling with!

Amber Scott – http://amberscottbooks.com
Amber Polo – http://amber@amberpolo.com
Belinda Boring – http://www.belindaboring.com/
Brenda Whiteside – http://brendawhiteside.com
Clarissa Ellison – http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shadowman-erin-kellison/1102991105
Deena Remiel – http://deenar116.wordpress.com/
Donna Hatch – http://donnahatch.com/
Erin Quinn (aka Erin Grady) – http://www.erinquinnbooks.com/
Gini Koch – http://www.ginikoch.com/
Kris Tualla – http://www.kristualla.com/
Lacey Weatherford – http://www.laceyweatherfordbooks.com/
Lynn Rush – http://lynnrush.com/
Michelle McKissack – http://www.michellemckissack.com/
Morgan Kearns – http://morgankearns.com/
R. Boschee – http://www.rebeccaboschee.com/books.htm
Sandra Lee Smith – http://sandraleesmith.com/
Sharon Hamilton – http://sharonhamiltonauthor.com/
Tami Vinson – http://www.tamivinson.com/
vijaya schartz – http://www.vijayaschartz.com/
wendy ely – http://www.wendyely.blogspot.com/

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12/17/12 Planet Neptune

by Christopher on December 16, 2012 at 9:00 pm
12/17/12 Planet Neptune

///EDIT/// I originally wrote this strip about Uranus, having forgotten that I’d already done a strip on that planet, and so I changed it to now be about Neptune. Here’s the original version. ///EDIT///

Trying to think how to sum up this week. Work work have floor put in work unpack work clean work. I’ve already let some family know that this year I’ll be sending New Years cards rather than Holiday cards. I just ate a leftovers dinner almost warm directly out of the pot.

I’m not really complaining, just telling stories. This was my week. I also sold a new strip (and maybe a second) to MAD, the second half of another freelance job came in, and I’m just finishing up the coloring for a third tonight. Yup. Busy but I got to do what I love (comics!) and enjoy our new apartment and watch the snow. Tomorrow I’ve promised myself a day off. Heh. As much as I can.

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11/12/12 Burnill University

by Christopher on November 11, 2012 at 9:00 pm
11/12/12 Burnill University

Thank goodness. I’ve been fighting some sort of cold or flu for the past week. It hasn’t laid me up, it’s just made my brain slow and sapped my energy. Fun fun. But it FEELS like I might be on my way out of it (I say, crossing my fingers).

Sunday night, we saw the play “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress” at SUNY Adirondack Community College. A fun cast and good production, and damn, Alan Ball can write.

Shout outs: Thanks for the mention by Gary over at Fleen regarding me hitting my 300th strip a couple strips back. And lastly, but not leastly, thank you veterans for everything you’ve done.

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09/26/12 Human And Eeb History/Planet Uranus

by Christopher on September 25, 2012 at 9:00 pm
09/26/12 Human And Eeb History/Planet Uranus

Phew! Returning from a convention is often as hectic as getting ready for it. But I got the strip done with a couple hours to spare. Yay!

You know, for today’s strip I have to thank all of you for helping me. When I first revealed that Humans and Eebs shared common ancestry you all discussed it in intense detail, which was at terrific guidepost for writing it.

In other news, Cadfael and I sat in the backyard today, enjoying the sun and afternoon breeze. It’s very very relaxing listening to a cat walking through the first crisply dry fallen leaves.

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09/10/12 Safe In The Ship

by Christopher on September 9, 2012 at 9:00 pm
09/10/12 Safe In The Ship

Do you remember Hein? I know that I wouldn’t have. So here’s a helpful link to where she was mentioned!

As many of you know, I blog occasionally with my cohorts Dan and Matt over on Cookrookery. It’s been a crazy busy year or so for me and I have not updated much, but I did. And it’s about avocados and pie crust. Hopefully I’ll start doing that again more, I think my interest in baking has been re-ignited a bit.

Thanks to those of you who were in Plattsburgh and came and said hello to Mike and I (despite being washed out by tornado warnings and downpours). Those of you who are 5th grade teachers or know 5th grade teachers, there are teacher’s guides for all those books. Contact Mike.

And I want to keep driving this home: those near or accessible to the DC area, I will be tabling and paneling in the D.C. area September 21-13 as a guest at InterventionCon. Last year I was there and had a great time and really enjoyed it. It is geeky and friendly and has a really great guest list of people with time and space to meet each one.

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08/13/12 Scars

by Christopher on August 12, 2012 at 9:00 pm
08/13/12 Scars

@Ronald, hopefuly panels #2 and #3 resolve the “living in secrecy in The Stacks” vagueness.

Thursday went to the little “Larac 50/50” show, that was pretty neat. Some lovely pieces. I also looked at an art studio space in the local “shirt factory” building. It would be nice to have the space, and to be able to “go to work” rather than feel I never leave the house, and it’s really very affordable, but I’m fearful of committing that amount of money for a year lease. Ah, the life of a starving artist.

My dad, gram, and some good friends visited this weekend. It was SO good to see all of them. And although their visits ended up overlapping, it was a good thing, a hubbub of cheerful conversation in the house.

And then we flushed the hot water tank (which didn’t help the smell/taste much), and drove around  in the evening sun looking at a good place to watch the meteor shower (although the sky never cleared up enough to go back out and do so).

Oh, and those in upstate NY, I’m going to be in Plattsburgh for the 1812 Bicentenial thing September 8th and 9th tabling for a book Mike Peterson wrote and I illustrated. More on that later, but just so’s you know.

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07/25/12 Meet The Eebs

by Christopher on July 24, 2012 at 9:00 pm
07/25/12 Meet The Eebs

Again, I’m still in the midst of moving (I should be somewhere around South Dakota by the time you read this). My “real” scanner is in NY, and I was using my old tiny junky one back in Seattle. Which MEANS that the washes didn’t scan right and I couldn’t get them to line up. But, for now, it’s done. Sometime after I get there, I’ll go back and re-scan and fix it all.

I enjoyed building Dusty’s “vehicle.” I took the actual frame of a tricycle and welded it to a missile. I’m sure the Mihrrgoots did the same thing.

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07/18/12 Telekinetic Removal

by Christopher on July 17, 2012 at 9:00 pm
07/18/12 Telekinetic Removal

I blame all this moving/traveling, but I was remiss in my duties and with Monday’s strip when I intended-to-but-forgot to blog that Haldeyis’s upbringing was inspired by my good friend and writing go-to guy Daniel from his story “How The Remora Began” which he wrote and I illustrated back in 2006.

You may note I’m skating around the issue of HOW human and eeb DNA is connected, know that I have it planned and will connect the dots, but in my own sweet time.

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