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20Apr08

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/petmilk/twelvesteps

a moment of silence for the sharpies that sacrificed for this page.

… aaaand we’re back. a little product placement for you — jc penney’s, shitty middle school spanish teacher fashion at a reasonable price. look at those light angles! yet where is the light coming from? (hint: you never find out!) also: NUDITY! (jimmy himself, and on his upper arm! the naked bodies just never stop!)

there’s not much room to insult my art because there’s only three legit panels. i’m sure an expert could squeeze in at least twelve criticisms.

also, you will never see that kind of cross hatching EVER AGAIN.

on unrelated notes, i went to comic con today (thank you, kali koehler, from the bottom of my nerdy, glasses-pushing heart). it was MADNESS. srsly. it did not smell as bad as i predicted it would (possibly because it wasn’t THAT hot outside), but there were definitely people who walked by and i held my breath. if i ever get a booth at comic con (unlikely), i promise i will never try to goad you to look at my artwork. if i become that lonely conventioneer with no one at my table, SO BE IT. at least i will go down with dignity!

fittingly, it was held at the jacob javits convention center, which is, incidentally, a large glass house! so, pete — mystery solved. (it’s a legitimate confusion on pete’s part, i think, i don’t believe anyone from chicago’s going to know shit about the jacob javits center, just like a person from new york probably won’t know about the rosemont convention center.)

after talking to an artist, i’m considering upgrading my materials. sharpie, zebra pens, bics, and pilots are just not cutting it anymore. i think i might just bite the bullet and walk into (ugh) utrecht. i mean, the mountain goats wrote a song about it, it can’t be that bad, right? also i really want BIGGER PAPER. i have to scrunch everything in to such a small space, it sucks. then again, how will it fit in kit’s scanner if i get any bigger? dilemma. can this be solved via cintiq? tablet? oh wait … i have $5 in my bank account. anybody feel like giving me an early birthday/christmas/i-love-mary gift?

i also met magnolia porter, the woman who writes the lovely comic the good crook! (http://www.goodcrook.com) seriously, check it out, she’s maaaad talented. her style is incomparable to anybody’s! the closest influence i could cite is MAYBE crumb. but that’s being too general, just kind of lumping unconventional artists together. the point is, she’s great.

also i tried to donate blood for the 1039844093853 time today, and got REJECTED once more. usually i get cockblocked by a reoccurring iron deficiency i haven’t bothered to get checked out, but this time i didn’t even make it past the form. folks, you can only donate blood a YEAR after receiving a tattoo.  (wtf?) also, if you are gay, or have slept with a gay man, you’re just completely fucked. (wtf??) i did receive a t-shirt for my attempt (yay!) even though it is XL and fits like a dress (really catering toward their prospective audience).

anyway. this week has been stressful. i’ve always wished i was one of those people who stops eating when they get stressed and get really romantically slender, but i’m a glutton and i stress-eat.  (on top of that i resumed birth control, so while my breasts are extra awesome, i’m also loading that much more junk into my trunk.) so please excuse my surplus bulk. it’s actually really embarrassing, let’s never talk about it again.

i’ve had space jam stuck in my head all week. i want a sweatshirt with the “sexy” lady bunny on it. or maybe marvin the martian with a basketball. we’re gonna take it into overtime.

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