Fellows Exhibit at CCS!
Thu 9/4/2008
One of the requirements of being a CCS Fellow is letting the school put up some of your comics pages in their front hall gallery. And so, as the 2008-2009 Fellows, Chris and I have offered up a bunch of our comics for the consumption of the general public. Chris's are from his excellent collection, Inkweed, and mine are from the second chapter of Basewood (the first time original Basewood pages have been on display!)
There is an opening reception tomorrow night (Friday the 5th) from 6pm - 8pm. If you are in the area, please come down and join us. There will be ROOT BEER FLOATS (!!!!) The show runs for the rest of September, and the gallery is open from 10am - 4pm on Saturdays, so if you can't make it to the opening, please come check it out!
Also, right now there are some Basewood chapter one pages on display at the Tuckerbox Coffee Shop (right down the street from the school, on the corner). They are actually just print outs, not originals, but they are printed out at the original size (18 x 24) so it's pretty much the same thing. Come on over to White River Junction and get your Basewood FIX!
24 hour comic #8!
Wed 9/3/2008
Yesterday I drew my EIGHTH 24 hour comic. It went really well! It was maybe my easiest one ever... It only took from 12:01am to 8:30pm. And I even took a nap for an hour at one point! I guess I've reached "old pro" status on the 24 hour comic challenge...
The key this time, was shrinking the page size to 7" x 8.5" (previously I've always drawn them on 11" x 14") and also I only did a 2x2 panel layout, instead of 2x3. Also, instead of inking one page at a time, I did this thing where I "wrote" batches of about 4-6 pages (meaning that I laid out the panels, inked in all of the text and lightly, QUICKLY, penciled in figures) and then I would blast through them in an inking frenzy.
The comic is called "The 2008 PHASE 7 Summer Supplement" and I'm going to print it up as a minicomic and send it out to all the Phase 7 subscribers this week (please let me know if you have moved recently!) I might also print some up for SPX. And then at some point I'll put it up online.
I mostly wanted to do this NOW, before school starts up, so that I don't have to stress out about drawing a 24 hour comic before the end of the year, when I am neck deep in Basewood! (and SNOW!)
Keep an eye on those mailboxes...
Rad People: GCB, Rachel
Sun 8/31/2008
Just before I left for Seattle, my computer TOTALLY DIED. I was standing there coloring Walker Bean, listening to Indie Spinner Rack, when my computer crashed. Now, it has been known to crash every once and a while (like most computers) but this time I couldn't get it to start back up. (GULP!)
Luckily, at the start of this year, I bought an external hard drive and I have been doing regular back-ups. So I at least had all of my data, but man... I really DID NOT want to have to buy a new computer...
Luckily, Gabe was able to help me out, with a magical CD (or DVD?) that fixed everything. It arrived in the mail the day after I got back to Vermont and it was SUCH a relief to get my machine working again (Thanks Gabe!!!) Believe you me, it's pretty great having an ex-mac genius for a best friend!
In other news, Rachel was up here visiting for a few days, which was really nice. We took the free bus into Hanover, New Hampshire to wander around the Darthmouth campus. We explored their giant, beautiful library, checked out some of the shops downtown and then wandered down to the river, where we rented a canoe (Rachel's first time in a canoe!) We also went to a Barbeque at Bryan Stone's house, which was well attended by all sorts of CCS folks - alumni, current students, and NEW students. It was a lot of fun.
Also, check out this awesome pillowcase Rachel made for me, to help me remember to draw comics every day. :)
Well, it's been a nice little summer break this past week or so. I've got a lot I need to do in the next couple of days and then CCS really kicks into high gear starting this Friday. But more on that later! Soon!
-- Rachel