BLAR!

on September 2, 2005

I’ve kind of diverted my efforts temporarily to doing a couple of new short stories for this little Blar mini for SPX, so I decided to post up the original Blar story I did for the Fluke anthology, a little bit at a time.


Drawing Blar is tons of fun, in a highschool-notebook-doodle-ish sort of way.

Eleanor’s knees are fine, it turned out that the “padding” behind the kneecaps was inflamed from the fall she took, and all she has to do is take anti-inflammatory drugs and stay off them for a week or two.

We’ll be heading off to northern Georgia for Dean’s wedding tomorrow, and we’ll be staying at Robert and Mary Jessica’s new house overnight, so we should have a fun weekend, even if Eleanor laments her new comic (which she’s been posting on her livejournal – the first page is here, and you should definitely start from the beginning) being done a couple of days later than scheduled.

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Twenty Three

on August 27, 2005


The story so far…

I’ve decided to put together a “Blar” minicomic for SPX. Who is Blar? If you had picked up this year’s Fluke anthology you would know. It’ll probably have the story from that anthology, plus a new one.

It’s been a frantic couple of days. Got the coupon book for this month done – it took a bit more work this time since I finally upgraded from Pagemaker to InDesign, and I’m still learning the ropes. Next month’s book should be even more fun as I try and work around SPX, which is at the end of September.

Eleanor’s been having a hard time recently – a couple of days ago, she tripped while we were out jogging, and skinned her knees up pretty good. We thought that was the extent of the damage, and even went jogging the next day – but for the past couple days her knees have gotten more and more stiff and painful. Now she can hardly bend them and can’t stand up for more than a couple minutes. I’ll be trucking her to the doctor come Monday.

I wish they would go ahead and announce the lineup for the SPX anthology already.

I may or may not see “Brothers Grimm” tomorrow.

I also may or may not do that music quiz meme that’s been floating around.

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Twenty Two

on August 23, 2005


The story so far…

Hmm… I actually plotted the complete story of “Set to Sea” out last night (it’s only been a rough idea in my head up till now,) and it’s looking pretty doubtful that I’ll actually be able to get it done by SPX, at least not without cutting a bunch of corners. It came out to more than sixty pages! I’ve been kinda digging on how it’s going, so I think I’d rather do it right than rush it. I thought briefly about splitting it up into two books, but it’s not really a two part kind of story.

I’ll try to have something new done for SPX though. Though the You Ain’t No Dancer anthology should be premiering there – I might have something in the SPX anthology, they still haven’t announced the lineup – and I almost forgot about the little minicomic that’ll be in our gumball machine. So there’s that. Maybe a poster? Or a very small mini?

Our kitten (Detroit) has been an absolute terror today. She knocked over Eleanor’s brush-water twice, and then an entire bottle of ink, which got on some library books. We also have been having to feed the two cats separately, because the this tiny little kitten will push big old Mo-Mo out of the way and steal her food, growling when Mo-Mo comes near.

Eleanor and I have been doing nothing but drawing and listening to the Harry Potter audio books, and then we go jogging every night around the park. While we jog, we talk about the subtler plot points of the books. I’m sure if anybody listened to us as we jog night after night, they’d be convinced we were obsessive Harry Potter nerds. Which may be true.

We will figure out which is the Horcrux sooner or later.

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