Showing posts with label male sweat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label male sweat. Show all posts
hell's angel
I got a fresh pile of old Science and Mechanics magazines at a tag sale, and some of this stuff just gotta be blogged. Like this badass mutha! Harleys have always been famous for being the ride of choice for skull-crushers, but dang! Gimme Shelter!!!
ALSO check out CACTUSVILLE! by Steven Amey, a guy I never heard of until he e-mailed me a couple of days ago.
what now?
Now that Runaway Comic is officially mothballed...
Well, first of all, get your ass in gear and buy one. You don't want to be like the people who missed Darerat/Tadpole, do you? Make sure you get Runaway now, while you can. Make sure you have all 3 issues. It may be scarce as hen's teeth in 10 years.
As for me -
I still have the dayjob. There goes the lion's share of my time right there. But I'm not complaining. I'm lucky to have a good job designing and illustrating.
I still have Nickelodeon Magazine, God bless their enlightened souls. I'm working on a 2-page-spread Teeny Weeny comic right now - Teeny Weeny in the Year 2525! And the Gag Station header every month, and assorted this-and-thats.
Theoretically Sculptor Rick and I will be doing Buddy McNutty #2 soon. We have not heard otherwise, but the Peanut People are late giving us the go-ahead, so we'll see. That's par for them, they habitually run behind. So I think it's most likely a go.
So, in the vast piles of time left after that, what's The Next Big Thing?
I have no idea. I know that I WANT it to be my children's books. There's still that comic strip and the "coffee table" collection of my work. I'm just carefully weighing what I feel like doing, what I should be doing, what others need me to do, what might actually make money, the usual concerns of life in general.
For now, for RIGHT now, I'm booked. In addition to the Teeny Weeny spread and the latest Gag Station header, I'm working on a Real Paying Job for Skinny Benny's agency, assorted honey-do chores at Martin Headquarters, helping re-design a re-launch of Panel-to-Panel (more about that later), farting around on this blog and designing the cover for Mike Dobbs' new book. I'll go ahead and post the rough sketch I just did. I'm sure Mike won't mind the advance publicity.
Oh yeah! And keeping Bissette in line! You can go over there and catch the latest carbon offset blather if you scroll down to the comments in this post.
BY THE WAY! Yapping about what a time-crunched multi-tasker I am reminds me of something I've been meaning to throw out there:
Is there anybody out there who is crazy enough to archive this blog on CD, for some free artwork? By archive I mean copy and organize all text into a simple text format and download all images, and organize it into an organized archive. That would mean re-naming the images, so that images match up to each post in the naming. Know what I mean? Anyone?
I know all of this could disappear if google takes a notion to clean up some hard drive space. I'd kinda like to keep a record of it, and have been very lax in doing so.
Well, first of all, get your ass in gear and buy one. You don't want to be like the people who missed Darerat/Tadpole, do you? Make sure you get Runaway now, while you can. Make sure you have all 3 issues. It may be scarce as hen's teeth in 10 years.
As for me -
I still have the dayjob. There goes the lion's share of my time right there. But I'm not complaining. I'm lucky to have a good job designing and illustrating.
I still have Nickelodeon Magazine, God bless their enlightened souls. I'm working on a 2-page-spread Teeny Weeny comic right now - Teeny Weeny in the Year 2525! And the Gag Station header every month, and assorted this-and-thats.
Theoretically Sculptor Rick and I will be doing Buddy McNutty #2 soon. We have not heard otherwise, but the Peanut People are late giving us the go-ahead, so we'll see. That's par for them, they habitually run behind. So I think it's most likely a go.
So, in the vast piles of time left after that, what's The Next Big Thing?
I have no idea. I know that I WANT it to be my children's books. There's still that comic strip and the "coffee table" collection of my work. I'm just carefully weighing what I feel like doing, what I should be doing, what others need me to do, what might actually make money, the usual concerns of life in general.
For now, for RIGHT now, I'm booked. In addition to the Teeny Weeny spread and the latest Gag Station header, I'm working on a Real Paying Job for Skinny Benny's agency, assorted honey-do chores at Martin Headquarters, helping re-design a re-launch of Panel-to-Panel (more about that later), farting around on this blog and designing the cover for Mike Dobbs' new book. I'll go ahead and post the rough sketch I just did. I'm sure Mike won't mind the advance publicity.
Oh yeah! And keeping Bissette in line! You can go over there and catch the latest carbon offset blather if you scroll down to the comments in this post.
BY THE WAY! Yapping about what a time-crunched multi-tasker I am reminds me of something I've been meaning to throw out there:
Is there anybody out there who is crazy enough to archive this blog on CD, for some free artwork? By archive I mean copy and organize all text into a simple text format and download all images, and organize it into an organized archive. That would mean re-naming the images, so that images match up to each post in the naming. Know what I mean? Anyone?
I know all of this could disappear if google takes a notion to clean up some hard drive space. I'd kinda like to keep a record of it, and have been very lax in doing so.
more on real vs digital vs sloppy etc
First, let's catch up on the recent comments...
Jed said...
On the subject of bargains:
(a bunch of delusional crackhead rambling, and then...)
Which is why I no longer give a shit about making beautiful unmarred originals when it comes to my commercial work. Their Magic Specialness doesn't even rate a quarter of what somebody paid to publish it once. That just seems sad to me. It's great that these pages will undoubtedly find their way into the hands of those who will appreciate them, but where is the magic specialness Mark? You know, the magic specialness that rates more than minimum wage for the time and effort it takes to make one of these things?
You lost me again, Jed. What true artist works for money? Unless you're outrageously successful like Thomas Kincaide, you're constantly juggling the fun of creating versus the duty of feeding and housing yourself and your loved ones.
The magic specialness is in the creating and the sharing.
Anonymous said...
I like art pages which look like they've been made from scratch. The pencils, the white outs, the overlays, the lettering (remember when you read the DIALOGUES on the actual art pages)
BonzoGal said...
I agree, Anonymush! All that stuff lets you know that somebody sweated over the art. I have a couple of Mark's originals and they're swell!
SRBissette said...
But are they sweaty?
I work on a salad bar, so the sneeze screen also deflects any sweat droplets that fall from my furrowed brow. I also wear animator's gloves and a full-body condom, after showering with pure Clorox bleach.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with Voice of Reason recently. He sent a link to a news article declaring that "Scientists reveal the smell of male sweat is an aphrodisiac to women!!!" (paraphrasing) and I wrote back "How many times are they going to "REVEAL" that? They revealed that YEARS ago!" After a little more debate on whether or not this was "news", Mrs. VoR piped in and said that she, too, remembered hearing this years ago.
At this juncture, VoR and JR asked where I heard this, and I had the pleasure of saying "Why, on the Rush Limbaugh Show, of course!" thus totally smashing their long-held belief that there was nothing of any value or credibility to be learned from that show.
And it's all true. That's where I heard it. Years ago.
OK, back to "REAL" art vs "DIGITAL" art:
I LIKE BOTH!!!
Here's a screen shot of the new Teeny Weeny I am working on today. At the very bottom you can see a sketch of a panel background. That little scribble is the only "original art" that exists for this entire Teeny Weeny page. Tons of work goes into these things, and after it's all over I got nothing to sell, no tangible evidence of the creating. Where is the magic specialness???
1. In the handsome page rate those wonderful people at Nickelodeon pay me to print these things.
2. In the complete ownership of the character that I may collect into a collected volume someday, or who knows, maybe even turn into the next Hello Kitty.
3. It just looks cool! I love the clean "geometrical" look of TW comics, and it would take me months, if not years, to achieve that look on paper - if I could even achieve it at all. For all this talk about my super-neat originals, I am actually a VERY sloppy, unsteady artist.
How about you, eeTeeD? Have you ever tried that $2500 wacom superboard? I'd love to have it in my arsenal - but I gotta weight that against getting the house painted before it rots and stuff like that. If you have tried one - WHERE did you try it? Any advice on where to go in Massachusetts and test drive such a thing?
Jed said...
On the subject of bargains:
(a bunch of delusional crackhead rambling, and then...)
Which is why I no longer give a shit about making beautiful unmarred originals when it comes to my commercial work. Their Magic Specialness doesn't even rate a quarter of what somebody paid to publish it once. That just seems sad to me. It's great that these pages will undoubtedly find their way into the hands of those who will appreciate them, but where is the magic specialness Mark? You know, the magic specialness that rates more than minimum wage for the time and effort it takes to make one of these things?
You lost me again, Jed. What true artist works for money? Unless you're outrageously successful like Thomas Kincaide, you're constantly juggling the fun of creating versus the duty of feeding and housing yourself and your loved ones.
The magic specialness is in the creating and the sharing.
Anonymous said...
I like art pages which look like they've been made from scratch. The pencils, the white outs, the overlays, the lettering (remember when you read the DIALOGUES on the actual art pages)
BonzoGal said...
I agree, Anonymush! All that stuff lets you know that somebody sweated over the art. I have a couple of Mark's originals and they're swell!
SRBissette said...
But are they sweaty?
I work on a salad bar, so the sneeze screen also deflects any sweat droplets that fall from my furrowed brow. I also wear animator's gloves and a full-body condom, after showering with pure Clorox bleach.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with Voice of Reason recently. He sent a link to a news article declaring that "Scientists reveal the smell of male sweat is an aphrodisiac to women!!!" (paraphrasing) and I wrote back "How many times are they going to "REVEAL" that? They revealed that YEARS ago!" After a little more debate on whether or not this was "news", Mrs. VoR piped in and said that she, too, remembered hearing this years ago.
At this juncture, VoR and JR asked where I heard this, and I had the pleasure of saying "Why, on the Rush Limbaugh Show, of course!" thus totally smashing their long-held belief that there was nothing of any value or credibility to be learned from that show.
And it's all true. That's where I heard it. Years ago.
OK, back to "REAL" art vs "DIGITAL" art:
I LIKE BOTH!!!
Here's a screen shot of the new Teeny Weeny I am working on today. At the very bottom you can see a sketch of a panel background. That little scribble is the only "original art" that exists for this entire Teeny Weeny page. Tons of work goes into these things, and after it's all over I got nothing to sell, no tangible evidence of the creating. Where is the magic specialness???
1. In the handsome page rate those wonderful people at Nickelodeon pay me to print these things.
2. In the complete ownership of the character that I may collect into a collected volume someday, or who knows, maybe even turn into the next Hello Kitty.
3. It just looks cool! I love the clean "geometrical" look of TW comics, and it would take me months, if not years, to achieve that look on paper - if I could even achieve it at all. For all this talk about my super-neat originals, I am actually a VERY sloppy, unsteady artist.
How about you, eeTeeD? Have you ever tried that $2500 wacom superboard? I'd love to have it in my arsenal - but I gotta weight that against getting the house painted before it rots and stuff like that. If you have tried one - WHERE did you try it? Any advice on where to go in Massachusetts and test drive such a thing?
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