Miyazaki's latest film came out in the US last weekend: Ponyo. I went to see it last night with Maggie and Jessica S (formerly known as Other Jessica). I was happy to see about 20 other people in the relatively small theater our multiplex had it in. I was afraid, especially since it was Sunday evening, it might be one of those screenings with only ( Read more... )

The fair was lots of fun! Growing up in Indiana PA, I used to go to the Indiana County Fair almost every year, but the last time I went to one was probably around my senior year of high school, so... 15 years? I was actually kind of excited to walk through barns and see farm animals, like old times ( Read more... )

Drawn.ca linked today to an illustrator named Pascal Blanchet who is pretty darn awesome. If you are at all interested in art, I recommend checking it out ( Read more... )

I've been remiss in posting here lately, even though I've been doing an unsually large amount of stuff that I could write about. As I mentioned a couple posts back, there were a lot of events recently. Just since the beginning of May I heard Jorge Cham of PhD Comics speak on campus, saw a screening of the documentary Helvetica, judged at the ( Read more... )

First, a couple fun links:

Mystery cat takes regular bus to the shops - An article in the Daily Mail about a (lovely) cat which has started riding the bus by himself. This link was sent out by somebody on the Miyazaki/Ghibli mailing list run by Nausicaa.net; after all, Moon/Muta from "Whisper of the Heart" rides the train all by himself, too.

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I'm still enjoying the nice warm weather. Until it gets hot enough that long walks with backpacks become uncomfortable, I think I'm going to hoof it home from school pretty frequently. It takes 30-40 minutes, but it's nice to be outside.

On Friday during my walk home, I passed a trio of former students while still on campus, and then ran into ( Read more... )

I keep an eye on the "illustration blog" run by GuriHiru, the artists from the new Power Pack comics, because I find her/their style so appealing. A recent post shows the most adorable Sinister Six ever (the Spider-Man villians). Oh, and earlier this month she drew a cute Transformers picture with Spike, Carly, and Bumblebee. I'm sad to see, ( Read more... )

I've been trying out a lot of new webcomics lately, and today looked at a few that were nominated for Cartoonists' Choice Awards. Reflections on some comics new and old to my list...

I finally started reading Wigu. David and Graham are big fans of it, and I tried reading it several times, but it never clicked with me. Recently, though, I guess ( Read more... )