Hi, y'all. Here's some mildly boring pictures of Eleanor and me in England!
Yeah, we got back a long time ago. I just haven't had any art I could post up recently, so I've been keeping quiet. What did we do in England? Went to about ten million pubs, and drank about a million pints of bitter! It was great. You don't even have to tip in bars in England, apparently - though everything is about twice as expensive as here so you don't really save any money. We did a few other things there too, but I'll let you look at the pictures.
I didn't crack my sketchbook the whole time there, though. I've got to start being more disciplined.
OH HEY YEAH, the FLUKE anthology deadline! That was actually up a few days ago, but if you've been working on something and still want to submit it, drop me a line ( drew "at" drewweing "dot com" ) and let me know. Unless you already did. Or I emailed you.
Once again I've neglected The Internet for over a month!
The rundown:
I've got a new Wulf and Merl comic in the current issue of Disney Adventures! It is a three page story, here is the first panel:
Eleanor is going to have some work in an art show at Giant Robot (the one in Los Angeles.) It's called "Panelists," and has got all kinds of hip comics artists. She's going to have a bunch of original art for sale, almost all of which was either in the most recent Mome or is going to be in the next one! You should stop by and take a look, if you're in the area! Buy something, hint hint.
Speaking of, have you seen the cover of the next Mome yet? Here it is:
It's definitely shaping up to be the year of Eleanor Davis! Grr.
We're both going to be out of the country for most of June! We're going on a walking trip in southern England! London to Winchester to Salisbury to Christchurch and back to London. This'll be the first time I've ever set foot outside of the country!
Anyway, since we obviously won't be around to be filling orders in the Little House shop, I'm going to go ahead and "close the shutters" on it till we get back. Don't worry, if you had an order in already, it'll get filled!
Hey! I'm not totally 100% sure that this is actually on the stands yet, but there's a new Wulf and Merl comic in the May issue of Disney Adventures! So feel free to browse through in the grocery aisle. This one's just a one-pager - here's the first panel:
Remember when I mentioned the McCloud clan rolling through Athens some weeks back? Well, a Winterview has finally surfaced - you can check it out here! Sky and Winter are so unreserved and charming that Eleanor and I pretty much felt like big lumps in comparison. Anyway, you can watch the interview see how boring we are for yourself. Our cat Momo pretty much steals the show. There are some shots of some of the nice crafty stuff Eleanor's made recently.
And one last bit of "news:" A couple of our comics (Blar, The Beast Mother, Bugbear) got reviewed in the current issue of the Comics Journal. The review was basically positive, but maybe a little condescending. Oh well!
On Saturday we went up to Atlanta with Devlin (the Bizarro Wuxtry guy) to see The Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3-D, with a pre-movie Spook Show. Man, they really went all out! Big "Amazon Jungle" plywood standees, paper mache monsters, makeup, the whole nine yards. The house was completely packed and in a good mood; everyone gamely shrieking whenever the "Gill-Man" showed up onscreen.
We've had some exciting adventures the last couple days. Yesterday we ventured down a ravine on the north side of town, finding all sorts of lovely glades and nooks. All sorts of debris had washed down along the sides of the little creek - plenty of bricks, pipes, and bits of old buildings. We even found a muddy backpack, with somebody's pulped-up books and personal knick-knacks. At one point, there was a very short drain tunnel big enough to fit us, so we crawled through and popped up in the middle of a field behind a school. At the end of the ravine there were a couple of railroad bridges, with some pretty excellent graffiti underneath. Some artiste-type had even executed a mosaic out of bits of broken mirror and spraypainted plywood. For dinner that night I made a sort of black bean stew, cornbread, and we tried frying up some plantain slices.
Today we took a long walk and enjoyed the hell out of some spring flowers and ended up at a Mexican restaurant called "La Estrella," where we had a pretty excellent "7 Mares" soup and a whole grilled fish.
Tomorrow's bottling day for the porter! Did I say the Kolsch came out excellent? Cause it did. I don't know how "authentic" these beers are turning out, but they are very tasty to drink.
Eleanor spent the last couple days making herself a new drawing desk out of two-by-fours and such. She's been working in an armchair for the last couple months. I helped! I sawed at least five or six boards. We've both been getting excited by the possibilities of pegboard, which you can get really cheap at any hardware-type store.
Eleanor's also been getting a lot of internetpressrecently. Hmm. Perhaps she must be stopped?
I've got a porter-type beer bubbling away in the bucket in the closet. I'm taking a wild stab in the dark at trying to somewhat recreate the Captain's Porter from Moon River in Savannah. Hopefully it will be ready for tasting in time for Fluke!
