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editing the Monday
Apr. 25th, 2011 02:33 pmI don't have to go in until later today, and I had Thursday and Friday off, so I'm able to spend more time this weekend editing video clips together for Anime North. Big Yamato panel I'm doing, a shojo thing, a classic anime thing, and of course Anime Hell. I am about 40% complete. Of course I need to write up my notes, too, but that won't take as long.
We didn't do a whole lot for the holiday weekend; Shain made cornbread and we had some ham. Went out to a park by the Credit and got some sun, watched the dogs play in the water and a frog poked his head out of the weeds to stare at us for a while. That was one hardy frog; that water was COLD. You Can See Our House From This Movie dept: extended scene from Cronenberg's THE FLY has a nice shot of pre-gentrified Liberty Village.
Page 99 of ZERO FIGHTER is up. Almost 100 pages! Of course these aren't the equal to old school 10x15 comic book pages, more like half pages, but I don't know what to call them other than 'strips' which doesn't work either. Anyway, I'm getting more out of drawing this strip than I have gotten out of drawing comics in a while. It's frequently clumsy and badly drawn, but what's keeping me engaged is that I'm having to push myself on nearly every page; every situation is involving something I am unfamiliar with drawing, or some technique I haven't used before, or some method that takes real work on my part. I'm well aware that the learning curve is frequently visible. I've accepted my status as a hobby cartoonist - if this was commercial work you'd never see anything that wasn't 100% professional - but at the same time I don't feel it's "finished" if it isn't where people can see it. In the 80s and 90s it was photocopied zines, now it's the internets. Shain has been powering through volume 2 of Element Of Surprise as well, and she's been working about three or four times as hard as I am on comics, and her work is leaps and bounds more professional than mine. Someone should totally hire her to do comics.
We didn't do a whole lot for the holiday weekend; Shain made cornbread and we had some ham. Went out to a park by the Credit and got some sun, watched the dogs play in the water and a frog poked his head out of the weeds to stare at us for a while. That was one hardy frog; that water was COLD. You Can See Our House From This Movie dept: extended scene from Cronenberg's THE FLY has a nice shot of pre-gentrified Liberty Village.
Page 99 of ZERO FIGHTER is up. Almost 100 pages! Of course these aren't the equal to old school 10x15 comic book pages, more like half pages, but I don't know what to call them other than 'strips' which doesn't work either. Anyway, I'm getting more out of drawing this strip than I have gotten out of drawing comics in a while. It's frequently clumsy and badly drawn, but what's keeping me engaged is that I'm having to push myself on nearly every page; every situation is involving something I am unfamiliar with drawing, or some technique I haven't used before, or some method that takes real work on my part. I'm well aware that the learning curve is frequently visible. I've accepted my status as a hobby cartoonist - if this was commercial work you'd never see anything that wasn't 100% professional - but at the same time I don't feel it's "finished" if it isn't where people can see it. In the 80s and 90s it was photocopied zines, now it's the internets. Shain has been powering through volume 2 of Element Of Surprise as well, and she's been working about three or four times as hard as I am on comics, and her work is leaps and bounds more professional than mine. Someone should totally hire her to do comics.
