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05/22/13 Yuri’s Powers

by Christopher on May 21, 2013 at 9:00 pm
05/22/13 Yuri’s Powers

I had lunch with my drawing group on Monday, wishing one of our crew good journeys to Wales. That was fun. Tuesday I did a videocall guest lecture about creating comics for a school in Montague, MA to 5th graders. I enjoyed it, and I was told that they did too. Discussed with Dan the motivation to create art, always enjoyable to ponder. Other than that, I’ve just been drawing. Reading some poetry.

I heard they’re finally making a movie of “Ender’s Game” and so I re-listened to the audiobook. I have some a few issues with the book, but it’s still amazing (even if the author is unfortunately so extremely outspokenly anti-gay). Then I listened to “Silent To The Bone” a young adult book by Konigsworth, which was entertaining but I’m not sure holds up well under intense scrutiny. Next, “Pillars of the Earth” and “Mistress of the Art of Death.” Wheee!

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05/20/13 Building The Cage

by Christopher on May 19, 2013 at 9:00 pm
05/20/13 Building The Cage

Congratulations to the Nebula Award Winners (I look forward to the day when I am on that list.)

I’ve had a busy week, but haven’t done much blogworthy. I haven’t seen Iron Man or Star Trek. We planted the tomatoes, and I moved the really heavy iron fence (ouch). Our cat, Cosette, has a sore throat today, Verdi’s left eye is now squinty with something, and the new kitten still has a URI. Had a beer with a poet friend, where we talked about quilting and wood stacking.

I would like to mention again that Spacetrawler is now on the iphone app Comic Chameleon, which I quite like. It’s a good way to read through archives on the go — and I’ve been doing just that.

Shaenon Garrity and Jeffrey Wells are doing a Kickstarter to help fund the printing of the fourth volume of their comic “Skin Horse.” They already met their goal, but you should still buy a book. I adore Shaenon’s humor and art, and love what Jeffrey has brought to it all as well. I even wrote a pull-quote for the book, yay!

Oh, and I’ve watched episodes of The Office here and there. The ending was nice, I liked it. I felt they handled it funny, but feeling good, and not trying to do anything really grand. Nice. Although, in talking about the show, my sweetie says I’m a mix of Pam and Kevin with a bit of Meredith. Hrrmmm.

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04/08/13 Arranging Sanctuary

by Christopher on April 7, 2013 at 9:00 pm
04/08/13 Arranging Sanctuary

I drew a fill-in strip for the brilliantly disturbingly funny Alan Ryan of “Faraday the Blob.” You can read my fill-in here (before going on to trawl the archives).

You may remember Alan’s work from when HE filled in for ME back in mid 2011 with his Spacetrawler strip Planet Wrlrlrl. Great stuff.

Regarding last week: sorry for my moaning and groaning last week. I’m feeling much better.

On a curiosity note: some of you were suggesting ways to get my brain going to come up with ideas for my next project, but the problem is not the lack of ideas, I have several. The problem is figuring out which one is going to be the best one and which direction to develop it in. Which is fun, but sometimes frustrating due to lack of time to spend on it.

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04/03/13 Martina’s Greeting

by Christopher on April 2, 2013 at 9:00 pm
04/03/13 Martina’s Greeting

I have not been in a huge bloggy mood lately. Not sure why.

I guess I’m really overworked and a lot is in transition. Tucson was a bust (though a fun one), Minneapolis was Cancelled, Portland fell through. Been awaiting a possible contract that’s been under discussion since last June for a certain project, am gnashing my teeth to finish up edits to my novel to get it to my agent, and still am not sure what I’m going to replace Spacetrawler with when it ends probably early summer. Took a walk today, only to be cut short by the wind and cold and snow. Went to what I thought was a drawing class/group tonight, but nobody was there.

I’m in decent spirits, it’s not that. I guess I’m scattered. The only time I feel clarity is when actually writing/creating.

Maybe I will go make cookies. THAT is an AWESOME idea.

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04/01/13 Small Reunion

by Christopher on March 31, 2013 at 9:00 pm
04/01/13 Small Reunion

Reuniting! It’s fun bringing people back together. Unifying a bit. :)

A travel note: I will NOT be making it to Convergence in Minneapolis this year. I am too overwhelmed with projects and difficult finances, and I had to pull out. But I LOVE that con, and fully intend to make it the following year.

Saturday was lovely. My sweetie and I packed some tea and sandwiches and made the few hour drive up to Montreal. We spent the day doing nothing but walking til our legs fell off, enjoying the sun, the architecture, and the very sweet people we met. I love little day trips like that. No real plan, just to see new things. And eat sandwiches.

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03/27/13 Eeb Delivery

by Christopher on March 26, 2013 at 9:00 pm
03/27/13 Eeb Delivery

No Blog today. My brain is all fuzzy tired. Just drawrin’ and writin’

Enjoy the strip! -Christopher

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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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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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12/12/12 The Lecture

by Christopher on December 11, 2012 at 9:00 pm
12/12/12 The Lecture

All is well in my world. I’m reading Women and Soap Opera: A Study of Prime Time Soaps which is awesome. Strange what I find awesome. I like reading things which I learn writing techniques from. Sometimes i like to read a mystery’s solution before reading the mystery, so I can see how the author crafted it. Good times. For me at least. I’m also listening to The Passage which is surprisingly satisfying so far.

My sweetie and I made Logan Bread, which was strangely good.

Last free model studio session until February. I may go to one or two non-free one between then and now, but we’ll see. Here’s from this week.

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12/09/12 Yuri Mediates

by Christopher on December 9, 2012 at 9:00 pm
12/09/12 Yuri Mediates

I considered titling this one “Herbicide” but didn’t want that to be a spoiler.

See the Kreill tag for previous strips. And Nogg’s fate to go on a dung ship to Glasthrea, the Mihrrghoot home planet, was first announced here, and then that was where he went.

A busy week. Since the move has been pretty much completed, I’ve been buckling down to get caught up on freelance and side projects. Good times.

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