Sprangtime! Sprangtime!
Hey, you remember that thing I said about posting more often? Oh hoo hoo hoo hoo, that was a very funny joke that I made!
I've been keeping busy between my job and all the comics activities - tabling at Boston Comicon, making jam comics at Million Year Picnic on Free Comic Book Day, Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel, Memorial Day barbecues! - that Sprangtime has brought! But since it takes me so damn long to actually post, I now have too many to recount. But let me tell you, they were a-ma-zing! Oh yeah!! You wish you was there!
I have anoooother announcement to make regarding my obvious genius...:D Me and my Very Helpful Guide to Gaga got a mention in Comics Should Be Good's review of Boston Comicon!! Jeez, I've really put off posting this for how long? It's near the bottom, and he only has nice things to say about my comic. ;_; Fellow BCR members Cathy Leamy and Alexa D are in there too and in grainy cellphone photo splendor, no less (Alexa lookin' sharp in her Zatanna cosplay)! Comics Should Be Good thinks I'm good! Pretty dang cool!
And I have other things to say about what a genius I am, but they will have to wait for now, because I am a dreadful tease. :D
What a backlog I've got. Here, have it!
A slightly blurry scan of a painting I made my mother for Mother's Day. Anybody know what flower this is? I have no idea! But I like the way the pink in the petals came out.
Quite a while ago (again, I suck at posting) me and a nice crowd of people from BCR all came together at Wellesley College to see our heroes Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel give a talk and it was woooooooooooooooooooooooow! They have such incredible presence, and to see to such talented women bursting with intelligence and wit together like that just blew my tiny mind. Both gave a sort of reading/slide presentation of their latest worked, and talked some about their process, and then they got on stage together with their host and just talked together about...well ALL THE THINGS. Memory and memoir and D. W. Winnicott and how art is the the mirror-box for the phantom limb of our collective souls...And! A story about a chicken that a little boy told Lynda on a plane! My friend Cherry took extensive notes and posted them up on the BCR forums, but you guys can't read 'em there. Maybe she could be persuaded to post them in the comics...? :D In the meantime, here are my feeble attempt at notes that make no sense at all and just turned into sketches anyway.
(That table on the left is actually from the New Democracy Center where the BCR meets...and if you squint you can sort of see one of Aya Rothwell's glass sculptures laying on a cloth. I don't know why I didn't just start a new page for the Lynda and Alison talk. -__-)
Yes, that's right it's LYNDA BARRY AND ALISON BECHDEL OMGGGG!!!!! And LOOK!!
Alison signed my sketchboooook!!! :O :O :O aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh I forgot to bring a book for her to sign and she was polite enough to sign my sketchbook instead (although I felt kind of gross shoving it at her) and flipped through it briefly and said she liked it (!! well I mean she was probably being polite but...!). We talked a little about her new addition of red in her latest memoir (I am a fan) like I was not flipping out at how amazing it was to be standing around talking to her like it ain't no thang. She is as cool as a cucumber, that one.
I talked to Lynda Barry and....and she remembered me, and my sister, and scene from a comic my sister wrote about us from when we attending her writing working MORE THAN 4 FRIGGIN YEARS AGO. That is no woman. That is a Goddess, yea, of all things Good and Wonderful and Verily she is asda;slkdsa alijdas ;_____; I had put together a little package of some of my comics as well as a piece I drew for her while I was trying to finish my thesis without going insane. I have been wanting to send her these things for almost a year (she welcomes former students sharing their work, see: her remembering my sister's zine 18 Long Days!), but I just couldn't get my act together until this opportunity fell on my lap. I wasn't sure about just piling my stuff on her in person but Cherry encouraged me to just go for it(thanks for the push, Cherry). AND THAT IS WHY I GOT A HUG FROM LYNDA BARRY.
IT WAS VERY NICE.
NOW I HAVE TO GO LIE DOWN FOR A MINUTE.
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OKAY. I think I can type again now. :D
Sketch of a scale model for Walker Handcock's Pennsyvanian Railroad War Memorial, 1949-1952 I drew at the MFA with Kimball Anderson and Andy Wong. Wednesday nights are freeeee.....:D And quiet, and calm, and full of art! We've hung out in the Art of the America's modern and Central America galleries, the Chihuli exhibit, and the Rotunda too. So much goodness to be found.
A quick brush pen drawing of my table orchid at the 9 Taste Thai restaurant. They make very delicious everything.
Stay tuned for another post sometime soon - hey, come back! This time I really mean it! I have it half written in a word doc and everything... it..it has a theeeeme! ;__; I promise!
Things I have been watching and listening to:
Click to viewI hope you're enjoying becoming re-acquainted with our good friends The Sun and The Color Green. I know I am.