Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
I had an idea, and then I did it twice
I had this idea, and then I kinda started working on it, and then I put all my messy sketches together and spent a lot of time coloring it, and now I have this. Alice’s tea party, with Alice and Alice and Alice and Alice and Alice. She’s schizophrenic, you know.
Ever since I saw and put my name in for Beautiful Forever at the Light Grey Art Lab, I have been working on a set of tattoos. Now, I didn’t get chosen to participate in Beautiful Forever, but I couldn’t stop. Minus one (and + some details), these are all tattoos that occur on my comic characters. Do you know which one doesn’t belong?
Aren’t they great?! I, maybe consciously, modeled Lola on a Dolly Parton/Christina Aguilera love child. Marx is totally Rosario Dawson. And I’m not sure I had an image in mind when I was drawing Vertigo. Her attitude is modeled on a dear friend of mine, but not her looks.
Drawing a bunch of characters in indulgent Victorian inspired outfits.
Long ago and far away when I used MySpace and not Facebook, I only ever had cartoon portraits of myself in my photo albums. I was recently told that these were missed, so I pulled them out of obscurity (they are up on the Art page too).
So, I like things like JEM and the Holograms, and the massively under-appreciated Josie and the Pussycats. There’s something about girl bands battling evil that is too fun not to love. Thus, my own girl band, who may or may not end up fighting evil: The Buffalo Chucks. Right now they are kind of like Josie in an Archie and Jughead crowd scene, but just you wait!
And, in the meantime, check out a webcomic that embodies all that too: Band vs. Band by Kathleen Jacques. You will not be disappointed.
From another night I didn’t know quite what to draw. My husband said this picture was weird, though I think it tells a story well enough. Think: sometime in a desert/apocalyptic future world where crazy big robot overlords patrol the cities there is a guy at a bar. And he has with him an artifact that has been unknown to the people of this world, and the robots too, for ages. Fire. Thus the robot’s intense interest in the match. Or, maybe, different apocalyptic future, this dude in the bar and his robot buddy are concocting a plan to storm the castle which includes setting something on fire. The dude just happens to be an amazing story teller and the robot is enraptured.