More Set to Sea than you can shake a stick at. Seriously.
Hey, here's something ego-flattering! These guys do a weekly podcast about webcomics, and they covered Set to Sea in last week's episode. Speaking of Set to Sea, there should be a new panel up quite soon... hopefully tomorrow. And here's one last bit of Set to Sea junk from the pen of David Yoder. Oh, that scamp.
Something I've meant to link to for a while, but straight up forgotten: My friend Chris Wright finally has a website. So now you'll be able to see for yourself who I've been ripping off for so long. He's also been posting some fantastic pages on his livejournal recently, so check 'em out.
We made hummus for dinner today, which is quite easy, if you have three things: 1.- A food processor (which we didn't, the first time we tried making hummus - it was still quite edible, but very lumpy) 2.- A store that stocks tahini (Sesame paste - we found it at the local hippy grocery store, Brighter Day) 3.- Twenty four hours notice, so you can give your chick peas a good overnight soaking.
If you can get your hands on those three things, all you need is maybe 50ยข worth of chick peas, a lemon, and a clove or two of garlic. It turned out awesomely delicious. Especially with toasted pita bread, lettuce, tomato, and olives.
I've been thinking of redesigning my site again recently, and separating it out into three different main sections: comics, an illustration portfolio, and blog stuff. Here are some sketches I'm working on for the main page: They still need some work - I'm concerned they might look a little more "kid friendly" than I'm intending. How will it all come together? Wait and see.
For some reason, our kitten Detroit Pepperoni seems to have become one of the most popular kittens on the internet. I've been getting a ton of hits from Google's image search, because Detroit shows up twice on the first page!
Here's a very small drawing I did today for the back of the Christmas cards me and Eleanor are making:
I won't show you the front of the Christmas cards, because that would be spoiling it. I'm sure it'll show up online sooner or later.
I took Eleanor to the dentist today, where she finally got her (tiny) cavity filled. She had fun for the next couple hours rubbing her numb mouth and cheek on me. It poured all afternoon, but apparently my mom's house in Virginia got a couple inches of snow - the one thing I miss living down south. We had "creole" catfish for dinner, and spent all night assembling Christmas cards while watching the Simpsons. Oh, and we hung up some lights around the house, too!
Eleanor and I've been pretty productive recently. I spent the morning researching ships and drawing the new Set to Sea panel, and Eleanor finished up a pitch for a kid's comic. Then we went off for pizza and a movie with Antar and David Yoder - that new black and white George Clooney movie. It was very pleasant, dry and slow-paced. Then we spent the evening working on Christmas cards.
Yes, a new Set to Sea panel. I've been up to some other things as well, which I'll talk about next week.
Eleanor and I cleaned the house, went jogging (much easier now the weather's getting colder), and made a broccoli/green pepper/tofu stir-fry for dinner. We're still perfecting our stir-fry making skills. We've been listening to Beatles albums all evening and drawing. Soon it'll be time to decorate for Christmas.
