Eleanor and I have been trying to revamp our websites recently. It's been so long since I've been in the website-designing game, what are the kids using these days to make cool websites? Anybody got awesome suggestions, like a program that automatically makes thumbnail galleries for you and is easily updatable and is also very easy to use and customize and also free? There are so many awesome comics/illustrators with great websites out there, but I'm no longer able to suss my way through html source code, it's all CSS and what-not nowadays. Man, I'm getting old.
We went to the circus in Atlanta last night. It was amazing.
I haven't been to one in decades, and never one so elaborate. They had big electronic displays and at one point they were playing what we all swore was a calliope'd version of Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up," but the attempt to stay hip with the kids just made the whole thing more charming. Also, goats riding on ponies.
Thanks for hooking us up with the tickets, Mr. Clark!
We watched Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" the other night, and of course the Beast is the most memorable part. Cocteau reportedly undermined his own "happy ending" on purpose, to point this up! What a beautiful and flawed movie. I guess this sort of fits in with my monster sketches?
Yesterday Eleanor and I celebrated "Velenxmas!" What's that, you ask? It's a holiday combining Valentine's day, Eleanor's birthday, and Christmas. It is celebrated only on years that your girlfriend Eleanor spends nearly a month away in Arizona over the holidays and then you're both too busy to give each other presents for another month. Traditionally, one goes out for sushi and a beer before presents are exchanged.
It's one of the more obscure holidays, I think maybe it's Babylonian in origin.
Hey, Sergio Aragonés is doing a lecture at UGA tomorrow!
Hi to all the people who came by from Kate Beaton's blog! And if you haven't seen her comics, check 'em out. I'm a sucker for gossipy history, for reals. I'd have actually learned something in grade school history class if they'd told us the juicy bits.
I thought maybe I would start posting on the internet again! I'm in one of my intermittent attempts to be better about sketchbooking, and I'm trying to design some interesting monsters for an upcoming project.
More to come.
I find it really hard to keep up a sketchbook in a consistent fashion. I usually grab paper out of the printer if I need to sketch something. I blame R. Crumb for giving me a hangup. But look how good Eleanor's gotten, and she sketches like a motherfucker.
