Choir of Angels

Nothing too deep about this strip actually, but interestingly enough, the pun in the title came to me before I woke up one morning.

Originally, I started working on this comic because I wanted to use a halo in one of my strips and in the original version, every choir boy had a halo in the last panel, but somehow I felt that this was redundant. Also, I had managed to work the halo into last week's comic "The Twelve Daves of Xmas" and so I was satisfied.

Essentially, this comic was an excuse to show off my Calvinesque ability to make juvenile facial expression. Combined with body language and hand gesture, they are one of my main tools as I make my strip.

Neighborhood video

In case you didn't know, I am curently in Korea.

This is me walking around the neighborhood snapping a picture every couple of seconds. I like the style, but i could be done better. If I used a tripod all the pictures would be at the same height, which would have a weird effect.

I may do this again with more of a purpose, but for right now, this is what my neighborhood looks like...

What's Really Going On.

Wednesday, October 17th--

July 17th, the day after I met comics-scholar Scott McCloud (also my birthday), I began work as Prop Master on "The Only Good Indian" which consumed all of my time until September 20th, when it dumped me on the side of the road like an Xmas tree on Dec. 26th.

Its been a rough month since then. The feature film "Nail Biter", on which I am also to serve as Prop Master, has entered into some sorta holding pattern. Basically, it starts three weeks from tomorrow. Which tomorrow, I don't know.

So I've been trying to make some art in my "spare time".

-I made three comics, but my Wacom tablet has broken and so I am waiting for my new one to arrive.
-Whilst I cannot make comics, I have made some music, recording two songs.
-A good guy who I met on TOGI has encouraged me to write the script to a story I told him about, and this has been going slowly.

Halloween is two weeks from today and I plan to go to the Gogol Bordello show at Liberty Hall. I have a costume idea in mind, but I'll wait until afterwards to share it with you.

Any Questions?

Time Flies

Oh people...

You know when people say, "Don't quit your dayjob"?

Well I did.

I quit my square job to work on a film, originally the independent feature "Nail Biter" which is a horror flick. So immediately after quitting my job, "Nail Biter" gets pushed back and I begin to freak out, because I do have bills to pay. I fight my way onto another movie "The Only Good Indian" which is the latest Kevin Wilmott "joint".

I have the most marvelous job. As Props Master, my job is to find and procure objects, which coincides nicely with my lifelong love of antique malls, thrift stores, junkyards and general rummaging.

In other news, I met Scott McCloud of "Understanding Comics" fame on my 27th birthday (a week ago tomorrow) and had him sign my personal copy of "Larrytown Laffs" the long-awaited comic book which I participated in.

In music news, I started recording music in my bedroom with my Mac and posting it on Myspace. The other night, Jon and I went down to Westport and "busked" for an hour and a half. We made $34 dollars, which is $8.00 an hour per person.

My hair is long and unruly and has interestingly been positively commented upon by black people in four unrelated situations. Why is this noteworthy, other than the sheer coincidence of it all? Because I am white and furthermore, from the suburbs, where we have defined black people as possessing some unattainable quality of which we lack and are envious. Also, Morgan Freeman.



bye!

News of the Weird

So what's going on?

Spring is a time of change for all things. The world is hot and wet and there's literally sperm in the air.

First, work at Blockbuster is silly and constantly disturbing. Why do I work there again?? Not for long anyway...

I have been on a big musical kick lately, which brings me to this...



..... which I discovered during as I went through some of Jim Henson's mighty legacy.

I am redesigning my website...

Here are some sneak peeks:



I hope I don't jinx it, but I have been asked to propmaster a horror film in Kansas City and I am thrilled. This is job with a real creative streak running through it.

Funniest thing.... various people have been very mean to me lately and as a student of Reality's, I am forced to assign some sort of arbitrary significance. What I'm saying is this, I am the only constant in all of these situations. Scientifically speaking, I must be attracting bad vibes for some reason, right?!

David!?

PS- Look at this!