Felaxx's Gallery

Two years ago:

via dracowafarer

Me:
-Brown vest
-Black shirt
-Black witchy skirt
-Boots
-Bear necklace
-Faire medallion necklace (new!)
-Green bag

Reagan:
-Bunker shirt
-camo pants
-stompy boots

Two days ago:

via diepunyhuman

Me:
-Brown vest
-Black shirt
-Black "shorts"
-Boots
-Bear necklace
-Faire medallion necklace
-Green bag

Reagan:
-Bunker shirt
-Camo pants
-Other stompy boots

... I can't tell if I'm more amused or ashamed. I was more leaning towards ashamed before I realized that Reagan was wearing the same getup both times. Still pretty *head-desk*-y, though.

If nothing else, this is our simplicity of life in action!

The weekend's flickr set is now nominally in order if you would like to browse or slideshow through it. Here, however, are some favorites:






( lots more... mostly of us )



Awesome, awesome day. Thanks again, guys. :) *hug*

Goodness, thanks, everyone for your kind and enthusiastic responses to my last post!

I don't have a specific publishing plan for Take-Out yet, but I've started compiling the work and organizing it for print. It could be late 2008 or early 2009; when I figure that out I'll let you know. The pricepoint will be about the average for a small graphic novel. It'll probably clock in at about 120 pages!

Wanting something soft and comforting to eat after a visit to the dentist this morning, I tried to replicate my brunch from the Tin Shed in Portland, which was basically mangoes with sticky rice, worded to convince the eater it is a healthy food. I used brown jasmine rice, thinking that would kick the health factor up a little, but after cooking the rice for the directed 50 minutes + 10 minutes steam time, it was still hard as little rocks! It took a full two and a a half hours, with more and more water being added to the pot, before it was even remotely edible. Huh.

In the end, the rice was okay, but the mango was the exciting part. A more perfect, ripe mango has never existed! I could eat another one RIGHT NOW, mmmm.

So while working in my studio on Sunday someone right next door ran out into the street, face all cut up shouting to our neighbors across the street, "Call 911 ! I've been stabbed!"

The police came and arrested the dudes roommate, who stabbed and cut him up with a knife. An ambulance came and took the victim away.


I didn't hear any of it.

I only found out when I decided to go upstairs to the first floor to make dinner. I noticed outside that a cop was walking around my car peeping in the windows. Curious as to why a cop would be checking out my car I walked to the window and noticed 6 cops patrolling around. Walking to the front of the house I then saw 12 cops, cop cars and they were taping off our house and the next door neighbors.

Oh.


I walked outside to hear the story and ran in to tell my aunt.

If I didn't decide to make dinner at that point I might not have noticed at all


This is the power of being IN THE ZONE during art making my friends. You don't HEAR ANYTHING


sheesh.

BTW as for the stabbing, the house next door is a home for mentally challenged persons, so while this sounds really harsh, it doesn't surprise me that one of them attacked the other. I never had a problem with any of them, though and this doesn't change my mind about the neighbors.  It just goes with the territory.

I gather that we've secured a table, so yeah, we will be there!

My appearances this summer/fall:
MoCCA* (at our usual table)
Heroes Con*
Spellbound Children's Bookshop (June 28th)
San Diego Comic Con*
Nashville, TN Public Library (probably; date hasn't been confirmed)
Decatur Book Festival (not sure what day yet for this one, either)
SPX*



* = with Bryan Lee O'Malley

It's a little bit horrifying to contemplate all this in my depleted state. Still, all but two of these are within easy driving distance. I'm thrilled that I won't be braving the airport too many times this summer. @_@

The Occasional Superheroine has a little something to say about No In-Between! Check it out! Thanks for your kind words, Valerie! :)




Here's a commission I did recently for an anniversary. They've had a lot of exciting things going on their first year of marriage, and her husband is a big fan of superhero comics! I added a Batman drawing on the secrecy envelope because I couldn't resist. ;)

Lastly, the SVA Illustration As Visual Essay (MFA) Graduate Thesis show is tonight, at the Visual Arts Gallery
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor.

This show is a great way to see who is crafting everything you will be looking at for the next 50 years. :)

I had a really good time. Cosmic Monkey and the Emerald City con both exceeded my expectations, and I came back with so many books that my suitcase was bumped into the overweight category and I had to remove 9 pounds of 'em. Fortunately the Barnes & Noble at the Seattle airport took pity on me and gave me a bag. I woke up Sunday with a really nasty, energy-draining cold, and I'm still pretty far under the weather, but it was a great trip overall. It's been a while since I met so many sweet, talented people at a con.

At least one person had a problem with my e-mail bouncing while I was out, but everything seems to be working now. I have hundreds of Megs free, so I assume it was a fluke. If the same thing happened to you, go ahead and resend. Thanks!

Post with details and the best tomorrow, but for now photos from Sunday are disorderly and in my flickr photostream

Also posting thoughtful-like for a couple posts over at my blog

Hello! I am going a little stir-crazy doing some designs of vapid girl characters. Since work is ending in two weeks and I don't have any formal employment lined up afterwards, I thought taking on a little bit of extra work would be a good idea, but it's driving me insane. Design doesn't click with me; I don't know how anyone can stand doing it for so long. If my storyboard is ripped apart for bad posing, timing, poor shot choices, dead scenes, etc. etc., I am very happy to change it and learn from it. However, things like changing a ruffle or increasing a foot size by 5% DO NOT make sense to me. GRRRN CLIO SMASH.



In other news that isn't driving me insane, my show pitch is going to be developed! Apparently the head of Teletoon (our all-cartoon station) liked it enough that some writers are being auditioned by the studio to help me form this mangled mess of an idea into something! viable! for! TV! Wah! Now I have to bulk up my original pitch, and upon further thinking already know that there are several things that need to be scrapped and changed completely. The whole process is turning out to be really fun, though, and I am determined to do the bulk of the work so that I have an answer to everything and no one will argue with me so much. ( Here are some silly spots I did for the initial pitch and a character study )

My mom and niece hanging out in my old room in Flushing. I love this photo.

My new blog of the moment, for fairly obvious reasons: Sleevage, on the design of album covers. It's also interesting to see how much thought goes into the accompanying single designs (remember those?) to tie back into the original album design concept (see: the Pet Shop Boys or New Order). How much longer will design like this still be around, now that we are approaching the digital age of music?

Is a person who performs a trepanning procedure a trepanhandler?

AAAAAUGH.

...As of 5:30 this afternoon, my beloved cell phone of several years suddenly seized and died of old age. I'm still in mourning, but trying my best to cultivate friendly feelings for my new phone. And yet, it's hard letting go.

...RIP, the most beautiful phone in existence. *strangled sob*

Anyway. Not all of my contact info was saved to my sim card, so if I've put your phone number into my address book sometime in the last two years, I've lost it. And I want it back. Give it here.

Comments are screened, guys! Please gimme your contact info! (Unless of course you've decided that it's too dangerous for me to have your number, and intend to go into hiding.)

HILARIOUS

Man I heard a snippet of a Christian preacher guy on AM radio saying that Jesus came to his church once and gave everybody fillings in their teeth! Gold and silver! He didn't say how Jesus decided who got what metal but man he sounded like was pretty excited about it, and that it was pretty great when it happened.

So let me get to the point let me ask you my Christian Friends is this true that Jesus gives you fillings because ol Jeffrey has got a wisdom tooth that is basically trashing most of his vibes 3 or 4 days a week and I still do not have dental insurance on account of protesting the religious exemption in the MA Insurance Law... it's complicated. Anyway if you could put in a good word for me I would be super grateful.

jjr

I actually like to think that this truly happened but then after everybody got home after church and was chowing down on their Kentucky Fried Chickens their fillings all fell out and a trumpet went "WAH WAAAH" on account of Jesus was a carpenter not a dentist. Why didn't I just make a comic out of this OH MAYBE I WILL.

PS this is what happens when I drink half a pot of strong coffee then go grab a Stone Ruinator because it is six o' clock.

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AM radio is the best
Also I am actually going to keep my Wisdom Teeth on account of I am convinced Wisdom Teeth Extraction is a conspiracy to dumb us down.

Holy crap, this 48 hour film from Memphis is incredible. So amazing they did it in one shot and the acting is great to boot. I would tell you my favorite parts but I don't want to spoil it.
http://ww2.48.tv/bin/index.cfm/id/701af039-2a3c-4d4b-acb5-8ec22e4dad35

Doodled this up last thursday...meant to get around to coloring it.
Will most likely add a Thor eventually.

No In-Between is updated on webcomicsnation.com!

And, I know you all are tired of me harping on this- but I promise the best way to get me to be quiet is to click the link and nominate. :)

Time is running out for Friends of Lulu Award Nominations! Have you nominated the women you know work hard in comics? Have you nominated your friends? Your girlfriend? Yourself? If you haven't- why don't you? Give them the chance to be honored with a Lulu Award, and some recognition for all their work right here: http://www.friends-lulu.org/awards08nomform.php

Please, spread the word, won't you? We've got just a little time left, and I would love to have a flood of nominations for this industry's most amazing women.

Voici le pré-programme des dédicaces de JUIN 2008 pour les Enfants d'ailleurs tome 3 ! Sortie le 04 juin.

- samedi 7 et dimanche 8 juin : festival de St Geoirs (en compagnie de Dik Pose, qui signera Flight avec moi)

- mercredi 11 juin : librairie BD Fugue Annecy, pendant le festival de l'animation,en compagnie de Dik Pose, qui signera Flight avec moi, et de Corentin Jaffré, le coloriste des Enfants d'ailleurs.

- samedi 21 juin : librairie BD Fugue Besançon.

D'autres dates viendront s'ajouter dans quelques jours.