How to Be a Successful Web Cartoonist

(by Andy of Creatures in my Head, which you should totally have a feed for on your friends' page.)

Since I don't feel like being productive yet, have some art/comic/photography journals I've been digging as of late!

charitylarrison
Lots of art things, including a long-running comic

comicnrrd
Web Comic, awesome, funny, dry...and it's drawn by a fellow Liz!

machinedanceKinda fantasy, kinda fetish, great make up, very strange photography. Well worth it, especially for the ( Read more... )

Awesome interview between Craig Thompson (Blankets, Carnet de Voyage) and Alison Bechdel (Fun Home, Dykes to Watch out For) here.

On an unrelated note, my house is very clean (well, common areas and my part, anyway) and I'm very tired. I am victorious in my battle against the dog hair (and my allergies are making me miserable as a battle casualty

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Comics fans will find this interesting: A Comics Panel with Seth and Chris Ware, moderated by Ivan Brunetti. (As most of you probably know, Chris Ware is still my total art star crush of the moment).

I stumbled across the story after reading Multiplex, which is a fairly new but well illustrated comic (that doesn't use horendous typefaces!!!) by ( Read more... )

Bleh...I need a new keyboard, this one is getting old and gummy. It's been a long hard three years that it's served me though, and served me well. Ah well...maybe when I get a job and have some income rolling in again, I'll get one that doesn't require me to backtrace every third word to add in a letter that failed to register ( Read more... )

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I drank too much last night but mostly got away with it. I felt a little nasty when I woke up (at 9 am...seriously, I'm such a crappy unemployed slacker bum gal!) but after coffee and the ugliest artichoke, spinach and cheese omlette in history (fortunately, it was still quite tasty) I felt like a human being again. I've spent the better part of ( Read more... )

# of NaNoWords written last night:
900 (I fell asleep with a purring kitten on my lap, I couldn't help it!)

minutes wasted so far at work today:
58

temperature inside of my office:
68 degrees F (and it keeps running the AC despite the fact I've turned it off!!!)

I think I'm gonna skip DSVC today. I need to catch up and get ahead on my NaNovel ( ( Read more... )

As I got about my workday, hanging punctuation, policing rags, and usually remembering to run "smart punctuation" when working on text, I sometimes have to ask myself why I even bother.

Good punctuation is oh so sublime.

There is nothing sublime about my job.

Bleh.