Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
Oh, so yeah, you saw the title right? ‘Death Goes to Octoberfest: the case of the Strychnine Streusel.’ I’m thinking inspector Lewis, and corny 80s mystery paperbacks, and Clue, and Noises Off, actually…
Ok, here are the first two pages of my 24 hour comics challenge. I have very little idea what I’m going to do with it next, but I know what the end is, so maybe I’ll work on those pages (which you won’t get to see yet) and figure out the middle later.
I’ve got 24 hours before my comic drawing marathon begins. I’m really ridiculously excited and have been boring and annoying everyone with talk of it all week. I will be posting all the pictures here as I go.
draw ink scan
draw ink scan
draw draw ink draw ink ink scaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
At the end of this week is 24 hour comics day. Saturday, October 1st to be exact. My challenge will start at 8am. I’m kind of thinking that it will be ok, and that my tendency to draw draw draw every evening will serve me well. And then I’m thinking that I’m underestimating the challenge and I will be a crazy eyed zombie by the time it is done.
Anyway! I will be posting the pages here as they are completed, so check in to see how I’m doing.
Alright kiddies. I had an epiphany–I greatly dislike manual upkeep on an rss feed, which is what I was doing for Levi Levi ever since I took it off of it’s old blog platform years ago. Combine that with the guilt I’ve been feeling about not regularly updating the Bean and voila! — a new website for my projects means a new life for the Bean. While there will still be some consumption commentary, the Bean will be more about production.
I mean, it only makes sense yeah? The Bean is my bean, and since I’ve been more into making things than taking things it should be too.
This is my idea: this fancy new blogging platform makes it easy to offer multiple feeds out of one blog. Sooooooo, the Bean will make my comic feeds for me. So far, I’ve listed the currently production ready comics as their own ‘subscribe to’ links over on the right. Updates on the Bean will happen before updates to the comic pages themselves–but the pages won’t be too far behind.
I love feeds, they’re awesome!
This new roll-out comes complete with a little more of comics that I’d only touched on in my previous web site release. Well, those pages are expanded now too, as I’ve just updated the web site again. No Evil and Flip Side are underway, along with upcoming pages for Levi Levi. Soon to follow is Left Overs.
Cheers!
I’ve heard of this, somewhere, on someone’s tumblr or deviant art page at some point in time, but I never remembered to figure out what it is, which is weird because I like participating in online creative challenges. Never remembered to figure it out until now, that is. I just signed up for 24 hour comics day. The site is weird and the sign up process is a lot like making a charitable pledge, but I circled around it a bunch of times to make sure it was the right place.
On October 1st (I decided to start myself at 8 a.m.) I will be drawing a 24 page comic in 24 hours. The frenzied activity will distract me from my hasty rush to finish a couple of in progress stories before NaNoWriMo, and my obsession with trying to figure out what I am doing for NaNoWriMo. Now I just have to figure out what I am doing for 24 hour comics day.
So, come on! Whose with me?
–LeE
Alright, HELLO! once again. I am happy to be back, though truthfully, the Bean was the least affected of all my web site woes. Moving around took a little more finagling than I had anticipated, but I’ve learned a whole lot of new things. Right now I am happy to wave buh-bye to third party domain retailers, wonky web elements in IE, and my lousy ‘check back soon’ home page. Yay!
Of all the things I’ve run into that have astounded me, there is one that I cannot find anyone talking about online–complaints or fixes. Maybe I’m just searching it wrong. But here goes–I have a fancy SLR digital camera that I love to bitsies. Harvesting off of this loverly camera results in a bunch of .JPG files–note JPG not jpg. What’s the difference, you ask; why should this matter? The answer is somewhere I’m sure, but I haven’t found it. The problem is a whole bunch of html, java, and whatnot don’t read one the same as the other, and it’s damned aggravating.
That’s enough of that, what’s really important is that I have a NEW WEBSITE, at the old hangout. And on this NEW WEBSITE are NEW LEVI LEVI pages and an entirely NEW and COMPLETE comic (part 1 anyway) called Unlikely Bedfellows. There’s a whole bunch of other stuff too. I’m so proud!
Well, alright. I am working on a web-site overhaul and in the midst of planning I submitted to my dissatisfaction with my domain host and moved sites. The LeEMS machine still looks the same and you can still get to it in the same way, but the Bean has moved and changed. Well, it’s still at the same address…I’m just not sure that it’s RSS feed is at the same address. AND in the process of moving platforms, I only transferred the 10 most recent posts of three or so years worth of posts. I’m thinking of posting the archives in pdf chunks, but I don’t know if there’s any call for that. I’ll keep thinking.
Anyway, I am really excited with my code that you can’t see yet. So, we’ll see what happens.
Ok, its been a long time coming but I have finally invested some time in my Etsy store once again. No telling if I'll be more successful than I was before, but I do have a stock to liquidate and it won't get sold if it's just sitting in my closet.
Alright, so this blog has become very different than what it started out being. I used to have time to consume as much creative things as I created, and so I originally used this space to talk about the awesome things I had found out. But now, I don’t–though I seem to be creating more. Drawing ‘s like therapy you know.
Anyway, I found these four already drawn pages of Levi Levi hiding out in a little sketch book while I was cleaning and luckily, they fit in with the story I had been drawing besides.
Oh, and the action comic that I called action comic because I didn’t have a name for it now has a name: Unlikely Bedfellows. Yes, it has a name, and many many pages that are drawn and inked. I do not yet know how I am going to share them.
So, this desperately seeking out books that I had read went all the way back to the books I remember as a kid. Caps for Sale was just such a book. Another, that I haven’t managed to pin down, was one where a bunch of men rush about building a house and when they settle back to admire the great fruits of their labor they realize that they forgot to build in windows. It might be The Simpleton’s (or Die Shildburger) by Erich Kästner but I haven’t been able to verify. If it rings a bell with you, please message me or something.
One of my very favorites, for which I can find not hide nor hair of a replacement is Snow White and Rose Red by Gustaf Tenggren. Now, Tenggren did quite a few golden books and though they are reviving all those lovely gold tape covered bindings, and adding a few titles, none of Tenggren’s books have reached the stores (at least, not any stores in Florida).
Previously on the Bean:
The Great Book List and the only book I ever read twice so far
It all started with a preview on a Netflix rental. I was intrigued by the idea that a movie could be filmed through in one shot and all in the Russian gallery. I figured the uniqueness of this alone would make it worth a rental, so I added Russian Ark to the Netflix list. Then it came, and because I figured that it’s only good attributes were the fluid camera work and the Russian gallery, I left it on the shelf for nearly a month because I couldn’t work up the wherewithal to sit down and take in an artsy movie.
I was horribly wrong. The limitations of the single shot filming didn’t make any part of this movie tedious, as I feared it would. Watching it was like dreaming, where you can only see where the dream is taking you. The dialog and action were all completely engrossing and completely unexpected. So, go watch it.
Ok, so I didn’t manage to get anywhere close to my goals for NaNoWriMo and then I just vanished off the face of the internets for a little while. I’ve been a little busy, what can I say. But of all the creative things that I should have been doing, one thing I have kept up with is drawing. I’ve been drawing lots and lots and lots of pictures. Mostly comics. I’ve got six?–yeah, I think six, comics going right now. See those people in the picture–they’re from my action comic–so named because I haven’t thought of a name for it. I was inspired to draw this story when I dreamed about the lady with a bunch of eyes shooting me in the head.
I am considering putting this up on the site page by page like Levi Levi, but perhaps I need to be better about making actual updates before I do that… Oh, there’s a new Levi Levi page up today too.
Once I stall on my six comics I will most likely kick myself in the butt and write on one of my five stories. Or I could even get back to writing here more often too. Maybe I should just write my stories here…
K, bye.
So, confession: I haven’t written for a week, but I am totally justified, yeah? Anyway–I got some time to compute for a little today and guess what I did?–I didn’t write.
Instead, drumroll please, I finally erected a new page for my Levi Levi comic–complete with new Levi Levi picture. So, it’s kind of simple and I haven’t gotten the rss feed working right, but it is so much more of what I wanted than the blog I had him on before.
If only I could count code towards my NaNoWriMo word count. 
Previously:
This is the comic that I built
NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month is upon us!
National Novel Writing Month Finally!