Back in Business!
June 16th, 2009
We’ve got new space and I’m back at work! I’ll be able to start updating Jonny Crossbones again on Monday.
I did this as a warmup yesterday. Next I’ve got to do some Middleman stuff.
It happened again
June 8th, 2009
all my ruined stuff
I was heading into work on Friday when I got a telephone call from Indigo Kelleigh, my studiomate. It seems that the roofers who were “fixing” the roof at our studio did an extremely shoddy job of covering the building before they left on Thursday (Wednesday? I’m not sure when they’d last done any work) and the rain of Thursday night and all day Friday had poured right on into the building.
I got in a few minutes later, and it was a disaster. Almost a total loss. About ten or so finished Jonny Crossbones pages (they’d all been scanned, thank goodness), a few commissions, some other illustration and comics work, and all my art supplies were completely waterlogged. Water got in under the laminate on my drafting table, so that needs to be replaced, too. I am extremely glad that I’d taken my Cintiq home for the week, so I could work on an illustration gig there because of the noise the roofers were making.
My bookshelf seems to have escaped mostly unscathed, so my reference and inspiration library is okay.
My housemate/studiomate/hetero lifemate Jon lost all of his art books, all his artwork, and his Cintiq was soaking wet but still seems to work for the time being.
Indigo lost a big box of minicomics he’s been collecting for the last fifteen or twenty years, some books, some art supplies, etc.
And BT Livermore lost a ton of artwork that was hanging on the wall, and a whole rack full of supplies, but was lucky enough that his own artwork was on a rack that escaped most of the damage.
Now we’ve got a couple of garages full of wet art stuff and nowhere to work. We’ve already started our search for a new location, so hopefully we’ll be back on track soon.
The most frustrating thing about this is that almost the exact same thing happened at the last location Jon, BT and I shared. Roof taken off without adequate covering, water-damaged studio. That was just a year and a half ago! At least that time we didn’t lose anything. We weren’t nearly so lucky this time.
Let’s just hope this trend does not continue in our next location.
Charlotte Braun, RIP
May 19th, 2009
I found this somewhere on the internet yesterday. I can’t remember where, so if you posted it let me know and I’ll link back.
Charles Schulz responds to a fan letter by accusing the writer of murder:
Barbarian MiddleWendy
May 15th, 2009
I drew this just for fun. It’s the Wendy from the Barbarian Middleman story in Tales of the Middleman.
I was thinking about what she might be like when she took over as the Middleman herself.
Ustream broadcast now
May 15th, 2009
I’m going to be broadcasting some drawing today for the next few hours. It’s not Jonny Crossbones but it might be interesting.
I got the chat working today!
Ustream broadcast
May 5th, 2009
I’ll be coloring tomorrow’s Jonny Crossbones strip live on the internet tonight at 7:00 PDT.
This is the first time I’ve tried this so hopefully it won’t be a disaster.
Right.
April 30th, 2009
I asked last week if people would like updates here when a Jonny Crossbones strip goes up. I got a few yeses, then I completely didn’t do it. So here:
A strip from Tuesday and a strip from today! And, starting on Monday, a new strip every day, Monday through Friday!
The easiest way to follow along would be via the RSS feed or on your Livejournal friends page! Also you could visit the site every day and click on all those ads.
Jonny Crossbones
April 22nd, 2009
Hey, I sort of stopped mentioning when I updated Jonny Crossbones over here, because I figured if you were interested you’d just be checking there anyway on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If I’m wrong about that, and you’d like reminders, let me know and I’ll start posting them again.
Anyway, I just reloaded the entire second chapter, much of which hasn’t been online in a year or two. You can read it by following the link in this image:
