Discovering a “new” [to me] TV show that I really enjoy...

The culmination of a dream.

Ever since I started watching [and loving] the anime BECK in 2007, I have wished for a CD of the songs from that series. Soundtrack albums were released for the original Japanese cartoon, but not for the English dub, which are the songs I know and love. (The series was never big enough over to here to warrant that sort ( Read more... )

Yesterday, during one of our "feeling our age" chats, my boss mentioned those times that she will be talking to a group of students and drop a reference to Gilligan's Island or Hogan's Heroes and draw an utter blank ( Read more... )

An unusually interesting and fun [for me] dream:

( and here it is )

The Jetsons premiered fifty years ago today. The show was such an immense formative influence on me that traces of it persist even into my present-day work. And I also mentioned it more specifically in a graphic novel script I wrote in the 90s.

( And here's an excerpt from that script! )

captaincadet lent me the first three issues of Adventure Time!

I'm happy to see they've done such a good job with the book. The show has a very particular yet hard-to-define tone, one which I wasn't sure “outsiders” would necessarily be able to capture. But Ryan North is doing [what I feel is] an extremely creditable job making his scripts read like you're ( Read more... )

I made a “professional connection” this mornin.

I was sitting in *$ workin on rough page layouts for SK when this guy came over and introduced himself. He saw me workin on what looked to him like storyboards, so he wanted to find out if I was a storyboard artist. (Sometimes he hires same for his personal projects ( Read more... )

Curling finals are back!

Two of my all-time fave theme songs, back when I was a kid and continuing on to this day, are The Jetsons and Jonny Quest. If I could get someone to produce a theme song for Space Kid!, I would probably want it to split the difference, combining The Jetsons' sweeping strings and “futurey” edgy harmonies, and Jonny Quest's thundering breathless ( Read more... )