He saves what others throw away, he says that he'll be rich someday

*Whimper*
You guhuhuyyyyyyyys...I am one bad night's sleep away from going batshit cray-cray! :( Going to put in ear plugs, crawl under the covers, and pray for the sake of all the brains in Eugene that I don't wake up until 11 tomorrow.

Yodelehiii!

What? WHAT? What is this?!! Why did I not know about this until randomly browsing Hulu's family section?!



Feminism? Amy Poehler?? I want in on this party!!

She only listens to the radio to see who's alive

DAR is so funny. I keep going back to this strip--hilarious!! I love the throwing of hands in the last 2 panels.

Follow me down into the valley below

New Between Gears pages coming soon~...

On the night you left I came over

Applications for the 2010 JET fleet went up today. So weird...there's a good chance I could be in Japan this time next year. Pivotal decision, this. I had a strange vision: being at Comic-Con next summer from July 22nd - 25th, and moving to Japan on the 31st. How would all of my art projects work over there...? It would probably be hard to do anything commercial from out of the country, even with the available technology...it might just be an inspiration, learning, and journal-keeping year. :-/

I took a 'visual journaling' class this weekend, which turned out to be a bookmaking class with some medium experimentation in the last 2 hours. It was interesting, but bookmaking just is not my forte...I mean, I fully enjoy it, but I am aware of my strengths, and precision and nit-picking are not among them. My books always turn out loose and uneven, with glue spots. Heinous! I'm better-suited for gestural, messy art. I just can't make myself care enough to measure the loose ends of thread or re-tear a page because it dipped half an inch into my live area.

She's thinking 'how did I get here?'

I wasn't able to be in Portland for the Amazing Amazon First Thursday event this week, which showcased Wonder Woman Day contributions, but Matt Grigsby was nice enough to e-mail me some photos from that night!



Art always looks better framed by two handsome men! :P (Matt's site, Terry's site)



Matt and his ink wash painting.



Terry and his mixed media painting.



They hung my piece next to Alex Ross's!! I'm not sure whether or not you can see it in these photos, but the gallery had the glass for each piece uniquely engraved! Mine has butterflies on it.

A lot of people who I mention on this blog, and whose work I really admire, are in this gallery. I hope I can make it to Portland sometime during October to see, and I hope that you can as well!

It all happened so much faster than you could say disaster, wanna take a time lapse and look at it backwards

The first reading assignment in History of Superheroes was volume one of The Superman Chronicles, a collection of the first Superman comics from 1938-9, when he first ran in Action Comics, New York World's Fair Comics, and Superman. It's really interesting to read! My only exposure to Superman has really been the modern, mainstream stuff, and I've never liked him, because he seems to have no personality and no real problems. Ignore the irony of this sentence, but he really doesn't seem human, and therefore I don't care about him.



Reading these old comics, though? He's so entertaining! I like seeing him go so far creating the illusion of a despicable, cowardly Clark Kent. I like how his alter ego is an amusing joke to him, and the more that Lois ignores him, or people call him a weakling, the more ironically funny it is to him. He can even be cruel, laughing as he creatively punishes people as Superman, something that the modern, over-polished version of him would never do. This old Superman is cool. I would have been all about this series if I was a kid in 1938.