Here there be monsters

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:15:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:42:00 +0000

Whoops, I forgot to post up Friday's S2S. I'll put one up on Wednesday to make up.

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:17:00 +0000

Hey! That shadow puppet show happened over the weekend, and came off well! I've watched those guys turn a maybe unappealing prospect (it's an adaptation of a Pueblo myth, the stuff of dry, earnest elementary school film strips) into a beautiful, funny little show. I'm excited to see what's next.

Speaking of the puppet troupe, member Michele Chidester made this comic. It's about the internet.

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:04:00 +0000

Somehow the puppet rehearsal last night turned into a whiskey party.

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:02:00 +0000

What's up around here? The weather's finally getting nice again, so we've been taking long walks to soak up the sunshine and trying to drive out the winter doldrums. I'm helping Eleanor get ready for another shadow puppet performance, this Sunday. We went to this free showing of "Enter the Dragon," and the lack of human empathy therein made Eleanor feel upset. We've been going to figure drawing sessions every Weds. over at the UGA art building. I've broken out the big newsprint pads and charcoal for the first time since my SCAD days, just to switch it up, get my hands all charcoaly again.

And the inking Set to Sea crawls ever-nearer the finish line.

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:23:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:11:00 +0000

Three little Secret Science Alliance-related things:

• SSA won in the "Best Graphic Novel" in an online kids' book award called the "Cybils."

• Here's a pretty cute sketch of Greta. Since Joey helped to make the book, I guess it probably doesn't count as fan art.

• There's an video interview with Eleanor and other SSA cohorts up at TCJ.com right now, part 1 here, part 2 here. I'm far too embarrassed to watch it myself.

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:49:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:15:00 +0000

Man, Blogger's discontinuing support for off-site blogs - like, for instance, the ones on all Eleanor and my websites. Looks like I'm going to have to learn about Wordpress.

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:13:00 +0000

I did an album cover for a band called the Unwelcome Guests (out of Buffalo NY,) and it's out now! The Unwelcome Guests do a sort of folk punk/hardcore rock thing, you should check it out if that sounds like your scene.

The album is called Don't Go Swimming, on Kiss of Death Records. The popularity of vinyl releases is a real boon for artists, I've always wanted to do one. There's a cd release, too. For the cd, the cover is folded into quarters, and unfolds to almost-lp size.

SSA stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:15:00 +0000

Almost forgot:

The book that Eleanor and I worked on together, The Secret Science Alliance, got a good review at The Comic Journal, "one of 2009's most significant releases," the man said. I think that might be the first "comics blogosphere" review of SSA. I guess we've arrived!

Also, the 2nd printing reached American shores a few weeks ago, so the book's back in stock at Amazon.

... I'm just sayin.

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:16:00 +0000

Hey! Eleanor and Kate Guillen's joint art show Diplopia now exists online as well as physically (at Giant Robot LA). All of the paintings and drawings are clickable and purchasable (and some are NSFW.) It'll be wrapping up Feb. 10th, so if you're interested, act fast!

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:17:00 +0000

Now that our internet's fixed, I can stop pirating our neighbors' intermittent wifi, and get back to updating Set to Sea!

Our from-way-back-in-our-SCAD-days buddy Wook-Jin (Hunter) Clark's book just hit the stands: The Return of King Doug.

It was written by some animation screenwriter guys, but it's a fun twist on the "prophesied savior of the fantasy realm" genre with a pleasantly light touch. And the art is just bonkers. I'm looking forward to the craziness that will happen when Hunter writes his own book, but this is a good start!

Outage

noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:30:00 +0000

My internet's out. I'll update Set to Sea when I get back online!

Diplopia

noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:28:00 +0000

Hey, apologies for the double post if you're friended to Eleanor - but she and her friend Katherine Guillen are having a joint show at the Los Angeles Giant Robot, starting this weekend. If you're in the vicinity, you should go say "hi" to them at the opening this Saturday. I've seen some of the amazing jam pictures they've been making, so should you.

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:55:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Don't just stand there, do something!

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:02:00 +0000

He's no "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, that's for sure.

Hey, my friend Joey is having a fundraiser to try and get his new book, Cavemen in Space, printed! You know a book with a title that great deserves to exist. And he has better premiums than an NPR tote, (comics, original art, etc) so go check it out!

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:02:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:12:00 +0000

I just got a new phone - in case you've tried calling me recently, the number should be working again!

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:12:00 +0000

Hope y'all had a good Christmas, if you're into that.

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:29:00 +0000

We drove all over town the other night looking for a cheap Christmas tree, but every place was wiped out! Then yesterday our amazing friends showed up at our door with a tree in tow! They are good people.

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:23:00 +0000

If you've ever wondered what American-style English sounds like to non-speakers - the actual sound and flow of it, without the content - this Italian "pop song" is probably as close as you're going to get without some sort of terrible brain trauma. Also, the song is pretty great, it wouldn't sound out of place on that "Nuggets" anthology.

Quiet times around here. Eleanor's working hard getting pieces together for a joint Giant Robot art show she's doing in January. I'm plugging away on Set to Sea. We've been drinking lots of hot toddys in these cold and rainy days.

Yeesh, Christmas is sneaking up on me fast. Time to declare war on this here Christmas.

Currently reading: To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
Currently listening: Fear and Whiskey (Mekons)/The Age of Faith (Will Durant audiobook)

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noreply@blogger.com (Drew) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:58:00 +0000

I'm going to post up S2S three times a week for a while, since I've missed so many days recently.

Secret Science Alliance may be sold out on Amazon right now (they're bringing out a 2nd printing, but it probably wn't hit stores till January) but if you need it for Christmas and have a spare $161.84, this guy can hit you up on Ebay! And holy crap, someone on Amazon's trying to get $130.05 for a used copy! Who are these people?