Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
I am working on a zine, have been for a while now. You’d think that it would be a simple and fast thing to accomplish. Well here is a zoom in preview. The finished product will be a yearbook from the Wyvern Academy for Monster Girls, complete with club activities, school song, pictures of the girls, the grounds and all.
Hey, I found these pics of Levi and Annie from my unfortunate scan batch that I am too lazy to correct rather than put more work into them to get a different look entirely. Been watching a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories of all sorts.
In my library news streams was an article : Oakmont Regional High librarian eyes ditching Dewey Decimal System for new classification – Sentinel & Enterprise. The librarian at Oakmont points out that the Dewey Decimal system isn’t giving the right message to the kids. Examples: Homer’s ILLiad in nonfiction and books on homosexuality next to those on incest and prostitution. I had never thought about it before and am surprised at myself. Also impressed when people don’t simply accept something because it is custom, traditional, or whatever.
Mark Your Calendars: Participate in Mini-Comics Day 2013 on March 24th! | Mini-Comics Day. No really, mark your calendar. I did this last year and it was really fun. Or, I really like what I got out of it, which is lovely mini comics. All folded up and stapled even. This year I will make sure I have extra color ink for my printer in reserves. I will print more copies. Yes.
my husband and friends have heard my diatribe during my long and clumsy search of a new shampoo. you see, I used to use herbal essences and then it changed formulas and everything had cocoa butter. I mourned the loss of the herby tea like scents and grumbled over having to seek something else in the fruity cocoa buttery world of shampoo. I don’t like the smell of the buttery. anyway, long story kind of shorter, when I was in the drug store the other day I found this. I didn’t know if it was back-stock found in a box somewhere or if the wonderful tea smelly herbaceous wonderment of hair care is coming back from the breach, but I bought it and will indulge my sense nostalgia to its fullest just the same.
lo and behold, when I got home I saw a commercial reminiscent of the original hair washing on the plane commercial from way back when. Herbal Essences has heard my plea and this was no back-stock. yes!
Okay, I was crazy excited about Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong when there was only page one. Then, apparently I got distracted (and did not subscribe to the rss feed) and forgot to read it. What a dunce am I? Anyway, Faith Erin Hicks is still the bomb and in combination with Prudence Shen is making another fabulous comic! Fabulous!
I will post artwork on this here blog. I have scanned and I have edited. There will be more coming.
Oh, also, there is more coming on the Drawing Board. On Wednesdays.
This is kind of really awesome: The World’s First 3D Printing Pen that Lets you Draw Sculptures | Colossal. A pen that spits out instantly hardening plastic that allows you to draw in air. It reminds me of Picture Pages and “Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings.”
Over on the 24-hour comics day blog the 24-Hour Comics Day 2013 date announced. It is October 5th. I love the spontaneity of dreaming up a comic and executing it in one day. It is a trial, but I love what I’ve come up with so far. I’m already looking forward to it.
My first: Death goes to Octoberfest
Last year: Nightmare
All right kiddies. Levi Levi and the Time Machine will be posting on the Bean on Thursdays starting tomorrow. It’s got bold new styling. It’s got a fantabulous story. It tests the boundaries of time and space and natural aging. It’s got back story. And, it’s got a cameo by my friend Micah.
’cause the little mermaid was little right? more coloring.
Another project from the sketchbookproject.com: Memoir Project. I failed the deadline for the sketchbook project – but will send my little book up to Brooklyn when it’s finished anyway. I’m kind of leery of signing up for a new project. I’m not sure if I’ve gained enough momentum yet.
It looked interesting and after clicking through a few pages I started from the beginning and then I couldn’t stop. I couldn’t stop watching Stupid Snake – Wordless Graphic Novel. It is a lovely web comic.
Here is a valentine’s gift for you. I write stories. I know I talked about it before, but I haven’t really shared any of them. And I am testing a new post-type thingy on the Bean. Here is Little River Love Story on The LeEMS Bean. Only terribly influenced by Carl Sandberg’s Rutabaga Stories, and sitting around in my computer for years. Hope you enjoy.
