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06/09/10 Trade Rep for Earth

by Christopher on June 9, 2010 at 12:00 am
06/09/10 Trade Rep for Earth
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I re-watched the first third of Galaxy Quest this week. Fun, as ever, but when Beth fell asleep I didn’t have the motivation to continue.

Watched Strange Days, which felt so much like a Philip K Dick Novel or Maybe Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (it was written by James Cameron), with Mace being the ONLY character with inner conflict, and meager conflict at that. But it was pretty, exciting, and fun. Odd that it came out the same year as City of the Lost Children which also had a psycho killing someone while visually jacking into their head so the victim sees themself being killed. Hrm.

Speaking of movies, Indiana Jones #5 info has been leaked, I didn’t even know they were planning it. #4 was kinda Meh, but I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t totally planning to see it.

Anyhow. Oh, and thanks, Jashar, for the mention!

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06/07/10 Pierrot meets a Native

by Christopher on June 7, 2010 at 12:00 am
06/07/10 Pierrot meets a Native

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And now that i have you all disturbed by the last strip, we move along with a fresh gait.
The news today for me is that I am re-running two of my previous strips I’ve done. Bruno ran daily from 1996-2004 and Little Dee ran from 2003 til 2010. The archives still remain online Bruno & Little Dee, but people have requested the daily dose format, and so I’m re-running them.
I’m especially excited about Bruno, which has literally hundreds of characters. With WordPress tags, it will make following specific characters very easy.

And now that i have you all disturbed by the last strip, we move along with a fresh gait. Trot trot trot.

I must say, as a cartoonist, there is little in the world as pleasurable as a a face made utterly of purple-grey silly-putty.

The news today for me is that I am re-running two of my previous strips I’ve done: Bruno which ran daily from 1996-2007 and Little Dee which ran from 2004 til 2010. The archives still remain online Bruno & Little Dee, but people have requested the daily dose format, and so I’m re-running them.

I’m especially excited about Bruno, which has literally hundreds of characters. With WordPress tags, it will make following specific characters very easy.

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06/02/10 Gahhrt’s Daughter

by Christopher on June 2, 2010 at 12:00 am
06/02/10 Gahhrt’s Daughter

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As some of you know, as well as being a cartoonist (MAD Magazine, Bruno, Dee, Water Street, etc), I also am a decent baker. Three friends and I run the cooking site cookrookery.com. Their skills at both cooking and writing are superb, so I recommend digging in the archives.

Today on cookrookery I blogged about Russian Tea Cookies, and how I came to choose them for Spacetrawler.

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05/31/10 Gahhrt’s Bakery

by Christopher on May 31, 2010 at 12:00 am
05/31/10 Gahhrt’s Bakery

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I quietly ask for links, and I get io9′d. That’s a bit of a whirlwind.
Thank you to Lauren Davis and the staff of io9, and welcome to all the visitors who came from there. I hope you’ve enjoyed the archives.
Thank you as well to Stripovi for the mention (read the google translation).
http://stripovi.com/index.asp?page=news-view&ID=415
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fstripovi.com%2Findex.asp%3Fpage%3Dnews-view%26ID%3D415
And lastly, thank you to whoever “stumbleuponed” me, as well as all the Twitter mentions

I quietly ask for links, and I get io9‘d. Thank you, universe.

Back in reality, thank you to Lauren Davis and the staff of io9 for the write-up, and welcome to all the visitors who came from there. I hope you’ve enjoyed the archives.

Thank you as well to the Croatian site Stripovi.com for the mention (google English translation).

And lastly, thank you to whoever “stumbleuponed” me, as well as all the Twitter mentions: Comicplanet, Bizarcane, Ave Sin Nido, Confluency, Simonleuf, Shineanthology, and Mike Russel (Culturepulp).

Hm. I hope that’s everybody.

Been meaning to mention as well, if you want to follow me: Twitter and Facebook.

Not much news otherwise. For those who were readers of Little Dee, I finally shipped out the last of the book orders on Friday. My friend Kyle was in town, so that meant good food and laughing hard. And Beth and I talked at length about diagnosing and creating a potential therapeutic plan a theoretical Narcissistic Personality Disorder patient. Good times.

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05/26/10 Martina Tags Along

by Christopher on May 26, 2010 at 12:00 am
05/26/10 Martina Tags Along

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That’s a Bollyck she’s hugging, in case any of you forgot.

Not much news today (and so you should rush to your facebook/twitter/website/etc and link to Spacetrawler, just say, “aliens, Aliens, ALIENS!”), and for me, I’ll share two links myself.

First, Alan Ryan’s “Faraday the Blob” totally cracks me up. Start by checking out his most recent strip, “Printer of Darkness.” it is definitely worth a gander.

And thanks to Michael Sexton of Everblue for the link! I haven’t had time to read his comic thoroughly, but what I’ve seen is lovely.

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05/24/10 Landmarks of Tornitus 6

by Christopher on May 24, 2010 at 12:00 am
05/24/10 Landmarks of Tornitus 6



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Beth and I noticed a hummingbird in the neighborhood, and so she put up a hummingbird feeder on Thursday. The results: we now see hummingbirds there at least a half-dozen times per day.

Which is amazing. They are such delicate little sugar spazzes. I adore them and count my visit to the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum Hummingbird House one of the most memorable things in my life.

Not having really watched a television program since the 80s, I cannot blog about LOST, which I guess is okay because it is being handled neatly by everyone else. But I can talk about a book. I often listen to one or two audiobooks a week while drawing, and have been plowing through all the good sci-fi I can find, and would love to share. Today’s book:

Arthur C. Clarke’s
Rendezvous with Rama

Today’s strip is NOT like Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous with Rama” but it certainly pulled some inspiration from it. I was first introduced to Clark by seeing, and then reading, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” His characters are plain (in a way that reminds me of Hemingway) with not a lot of personality, and he doesn’t go much into their life story, but they are solid real people doing their jobs.

Which helps us directly experience the awe and wonder of what Clarke creates. With a character based story, the experiences are filtered through the character’s eyes, teaching the reader how to feel by showing reactions, rather than leaving the reader alone in their wonder. But if the author keeps their characters impersonal, the reader is allowed to step into the world themselves.

Mind you, I LOVE LOVE LOVE character-based stories, I am merely pointing out why I ALSO love stories like this (I’ve already reserved the sequel at the library).

So, “Rendezvous with Rama,” basic story without giving away too much: humans find a huge alien spacecraft in the shape of a cylinder. They investigate, and what few questions they manage to answer mostly just open up more questions.

How it relates to today’s Spacetrawler? I wanted to portray somewhat the awe my characters are feeling, and I think it helped to not show them.

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05/19/10 Down to Tornitus 6

by Christopher on May 19, 2010 at 12:00 am
05/19/10 Down to Tornitus 6

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Tornitus 6. I am SO excited that things are about to happen. Establishing character and getting to know how everyone interacted with each other was important, but I am ready.

I’ve already begun building 3-D models for the city, and today I’m going to sit down with coffee and really bust out the set of scripts for Tornitus 6.

I actually almost never drink coffee anymore (previous stomach problems), except when I want to really really concentrate, often when I do a huge binge of writing, where I want to be more than 100%. Which always reminds me of a scene in “Beverly Hills Cop” where Eddie Murphy is telling the chief about the other two cops (Judge Reinhold and John Ashton) and how they are kinda like supercops. I wish I could find it on youtube, but Murphy is ad-libbing like crazy. And in an extra on the DVD they comment on how Murphy never drinks coffee, but that morning he had some.

Which I supppppose is not a lot different from the normal comedian coke habit (a la Lenny Bruce, Jon Belushi, etc), but it is certainly more legal. :)

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01/06/10 Martina’s Fate

by Christopher on January 6, 2010 at 12:00 am
01/06/10 Martina’s Fate

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Before I continue with editorial help I’ve received, I just wanted to give some thank yous.

First off, thank you for the links, that’s one of the best ways to support Spacetrawler, getting the word out. Erin over atBigCloset TopShelf, Gary over at Fleen. And Twitter, thanks for the many of you who tweeted, Le_Woodman, Kiplet, alicebentley, erinhalfelven, stewartfritz, culturepulp, jonrosenberg, tommasz, comicsbin, ElBueno, kevinwmooreand I’m sure many more.

But biggest, baddest, and bestest, thank you to Corey and Danielle. Without the technical and hosting support they’ve provided over the years, I’m not sure how possible. (Sorry, Corey, for the other night when my brain was fried and I thought I was on an old version of comicspress. Phew, I was out of it.)

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