I’m going to only write in bullet points from now on.

on December 4, 2007

• I’ve almost filled up a sketchbook! Man, I’ve been working on this one since I was in college. Did I mention I’m really bad with sketchbooks? Anyway, I’ve been doing tons of life drawing recently, so it’s been filling up quick. I feel pretty bad about not doing more fun, creative sketches like Eleanor, but I can barely bring myself to draw in sketchbooks at all for some reason. Here’s some sketches I did at an old-timey music last weekend.

• Hey high school Drew, fuck you for not listening to country music. Back in high school, I would brag about my eclecticism by saying I’d listen to any genre of music… except country, of course. To ho ho. Well, I was an idiot back then. We’ve been listening to so much country radio recently. On a related note:

• Fuck anybody who dismisses “the south” as an entire entity. Whoops, you’re a bigot!

• Most terrifying Christmas song I’ve ever heard: “Ding-a-Ling, the Christmas Bell” by Lynn Anderson.
This song is supposed to be about an anthopomorphized bell that rings off-key and is mocked by all of the other bells, with requisite Rudolph-style day-saving at the end. But there’s this repeated refrain of “Ding a Ling’s” chime, and it’s in this weird minor key that sounds almost exactly like the theme from “Halloween.” I think you can listen to it here, if you’re curious.
 
• We saw almost every single cartoonist in North Georgia at a pretty cool art show the other day. Did we bother to get off our asses and submit something to the show? No. No we did not.

• Best two mincomics we’ve gotten in the mail this week: Dregs by Coleman Engle, Hey Four-Eyes #2 by Robyn Chapman et al. WOW!

Hey, does anybody who’s versed in Macs and iTunes know if it’s possible to throw a bunch of music onto a DVD and delete it off your computer, but somehow let iTunes know that the music is going to be on that DVD from now on? Quickly and easily?

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With the closing of the month…

on November 30, 2007

Ten 10 for November

1. Getting to visit the Center for Cartoon Studies. We yammered at the students about comics for a couple hours. We even made a powerpoint. So much thanks to James and Robyn for bringing us up.

2. Everybody up at White River Junction. They were so freaking nice. I would name names, but I’d forget somebody.

3. Autumn finally kicking in down south. I really love me some sweater weather.

4. Getting a new hoodie. Goodbye, five-year-old gray hoodie that smells like old butter (due to a bad decision at a Denny’s.) Hello new blue hoodie. Eleanor got a green one.

5. Picking at least ten pounds worth of pecans from various trees around Athens.

6. Making pecan tortellini and pecan pie from scratch for Thanksgiving. Also, making Chrismas beer (with orange, honey, ginger and cinnamon – we’ll see how that turns out!)

7. Cutting our water usage in half! Will our big bins of grey water save the south-east from a dessicated, Mad-Max style future?

8. Seeing Morrissey at the Tabernacle with Robert. I got a piece of his shirt (Morrissey’s.) Yes, it smells good.

9. New Scott Pilgrim.
 
10. Getting so close to being done with the final rough draft of Set to Sea finally. (See above image. I’ve got the whole thing pinned up on lines, so I can scoot around panels and add in new stuff. Then it’s only a few more months of inking the wretched thing!)

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SPXin’

on October 18, 2007

Hey, SPX was pretty great! This time around it was a lot less stress – maybe we’re just getting more used to these things. I actually walked around the floor and said hello to folks! Crazy. The new Fluke Anthology sold pretty well and got a great response – I just added it to the Little House shop, so click here to check it out and/or buy it.


There were lots of intimidating young cartoonists at this year’s con! Eleanor and I have to step up our game! We got some incredible minis, and we’re still making our way through our big SPX box. I’ll yammer more about it in a bit.

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Fluke #6!

on October 8, 2007

I guess this’ll be premiering at SPX!

The 2007 Fluke Anthology! Here’s the lineup:

Fluke – Aaron Fu
The Suitor – Shawn Cheng
A Night of Georgia Haints – Patrick Dean
After School Snacks – Joseph Lambert
The Acker Brothers – Mike Laughead
Medusa’s Tangled Locks – Coleman Engle
Otto – David Mack
. – Mel Stringer
Surprise! – Kelly Froh
The Whole Protools Affair – Dorothy Gambrell
Apple Turnover – David Yoder
Untitled – Antar Ellis
Everybody Knows – Joey Weiser
Traume Von Magpie – Doug Frey
Van-got Your Back – Kevin Burkhalter
Meat Cute – Eleanor Davis
Pineal L’il Frauleins – Benjamin Constantine
Invention – Michele Chidester
Doe Rae Me – Alexander Bullett
Faux-boes – Max Clotfelter
Algernon Lamb – Drew Weing
Dumb Luck – Jeremy Sorese
The Sea Demon – Chris Wright
Salt Lick – Matt Wiegle
Fluke – Missy Kulik

88 pages long! Still not sure about the cover price.

I got a tremendous amount of excellent submissions – I’m really proud of this one. So if you’ll be at SPX this year, drop on by the table and check it out! I think we’ll be on the right hand side of the room, toward the back.

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Algernon Lamb

on September 28, 2007

Here’s a preview of the story I did for the upcoming Fluke anthology, which is in the process of production of right now! It’ll be premiering at this year’s SPX.

I got tons of great submissions. Too many to fit into one book. I’ll be listing the final lineup in the next couple days!

It’s gonna be pretty awesome.

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