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BIRDSEED (ONLINE COMIC)

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birdseed part 1

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birdseed part 3

The work continues. I’m sitting here listening to my 30+ episodes of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio. Life is good. Last night I dreamt about a Civil War veteran with a pet tiger. Meg dreamt we had hinges behind our ears, and after we got married, we went back to the hotel, pulled off our faces, and there were two little aliens sitting behind controls in our heads. I said, “That’s a terrible dream.” Meg said, “No, because we were both relieved that we could tell each other the truth!” An anxiety dream, sure, but a sweet one, I thought.

While working on an online portfolio, I decided to put a flash edition of “Birdseed” online.

So what else? I’m reading Eddie Campbell’s Alec: How To Be An Artist (good review here), after reading his Fate Of The Artist. Both of them are really good. The man behind the From Hell visuals, Campbell’s one of the greats. Here’s a good short interview with him.

Ok, boy. Quit stalling. Get drawing.

ABSTRACT ANIMALS

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in my last comic (which I haven’t posted, because I want to send it out), i drew pigeons as triangles, now i’m experimenting with boiling other animals down to shapes. bears on the brain, right now.

  • Lester Bangs once said, “In the history of rock n’ roll, no artist has squandered his talent so completely as Rod Stewart.” (Bangs also wrote a mini-biography of Stewart that I’m trying to get my hands on.) I can honestly say that EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY is one of my favorite albums ever. Seriously. Get it.
  • The Walkmen are doing a live concert on NPR. Although I’m disappointed by the new album (the boring songs, the way-out-of-register singing…Pitchfork had a good review), I’m still looking forward to seeing them later this month.
  • Article in VQR on Little Nemo In Slumberland, a favorite read before bed.
  • Dancing On Fly Ash is two fellas who post daily 100-word stories. I like some of the stories a lot, and they post to some good-looking magazines I’d never heard of.

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