Set to Sea

on August 18, 2005

I redesigned the website a bit, to reflect the comic I’ve been working on most recently – which finally has a title! This is only a temporary sort of look for the website – I hope to do an extensive overhaul as soon as I get the time (which probably won’t be for months.)

I forgot to actually name the last two pharaohs from the sketches I posted last week. They were Cleopatra (the easy one) and Hatshepsut.

And just as a reminder, the “Pup” archives are available to non-subscribers (for only as long I feel like, so look now.)

I just stayed up way too late working on this website, and probably messed up my schedule, so off to bed with me!

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Just for the hell of it…

on August 17, 2005

Since there are possibly some NY Times readers wanting to check out “Pup,” I went ahead and “unlocked” the archives for the time being – so non-subscribers can read it. I’m not sure you can even reach “Pup” from the main Serializer site (which is still not up to speed after the server crash 4 or 5 months ago,) so you can reach the archives at:
http://www.serializer.net/toc.php?name=pup

Check it out while it lasts!

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Nineteen

on August 17, 2005


The story so far…

And that’s the end of the comic!

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Ha ha, just kidding! We’re only maybe a third of the way through!

“Pup” got a brief mention along with a lot of other cool webcomics in a New York Times online article about the state of webcomics in general. The article in general is pretty negative, though. I must admit that “Pup” (and Modern Tales-related websites) are not very new user friendly in general…

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The house smells like garbage

on August 16, 2005


The story so far…

Eleanor and I made a sort of kimchi and tofu stew tonight. Man, does it stink! Kimchi is about the worst-smelling food I’ve ever eaten. It doesn’t taste too bad, though.

We’ve also been listening to the audio book version of the latest Harry Potter book while we work. The reader does a good job; I think he actually improves on certain characters and scenes… but maybe it’s just a failure of imagination on my part. I’ve been listening to a lot of audio books in the last couple months (they’re great to draw to, unless it’s a particularly complicated bit of drawing.)

One I just finished was Jaques Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence. The version we had was only part of the entire book – the part dealing with the 20th century. I thought the first 3/4ths or so were great… a very informative look at the art and culture of the late 1800s forward. But the last part of the book descended into a sort of screed against modernity, the likes of which can be found in a typical Kenneth Smith TCJ essay. He makes the usual mistakes (like comparing the art and philosophy of the aristocracy of the 1800s to the tastes of today’s “common man.”) You’d think a guy so well-read and well-informed would be a little more self-aware.

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