| Podcast Tomorrow: Mr. Neil talks superheroes with other artists! |
[Aug. 30th, 2008|06:55 am] |
Announced yesterday on Comix Talk, my buddy Al Schroeder III and I will be be appearing on Webcomics Beacon tomorrow, along with Ben Carver and Abby Lark. Hell yeah, I'm nervous, but thankfully I'm one of four people. If I was by myself, I would be freaking out.
We'll be talking about more superheroes. I'm not much of a talker, but I hope I won't be leaning on the others too much. Just in case, I've put together a short list of topics I can fall back on if I get too tongue-tied.
I suppose I should get a few c pages done before we go live tomorrow at 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central.
Funny story. I stopped at Radio Shack today to find a few 1/4" female audio jack extension connectors so that I don't have to hunched over the computer. (Seriously, my mic's cord is so short that if I lean back, it'll pull the wire right out of the computer.) So, I walk in, and I kind of forgot how expensive this shit was. I don't know why, but I have this idea in my head that these things should be, at the most $2, so I was a bit taken aback when I saw they wanted $8 for an extension cord. Fuck, I'll just go home and solder something. I'm sure I have some leftover female 1/4" jacks that I can modify to work with what I want to do.
Jeez, I'm such a boy.
Anyway, I guess that should tell you how long it's been since I've been in a Radio Shack. I've made such a habit of cannibalizing old stereo equipment to create my own custom parts that I very seldom buy new stuff. Heck, I like to make extended RCA audio/video jacks out of old video game television connections. I have a twelve-foot RCA cord that I made by connecting an unused Sega Saturn cord to an unused PlayStation cord. It's great for those rare instances when I want to watch an old VHS tape, because the only place I can plug in the VCR is from across the room.
But I digress. I'll be firing up the soldering iron later this afternoon so that I can talk from the comfort of my reclining chair. |
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| HEY! LISTEN! |
[Aug. 17th, 2008|12:20 am] |
After being unable to wrangle my friends (OH MY FRIEEEEENDS!) into a room to do a movie commentary podcast and having even less luck trying to rip on Flash Gordon, I've decided that my first commentary outing is going to be an episode of The Legend Of Zelda from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. If you don't yet have the DVD, you need to get it.
And don't worry, I'll be sure to pick an episode that has a live action sequence in it. Like, maybe the Inspector Gadget one.
And then later, I think I'm going to get Jenny to join me for The Lion King: Anniversary Edition, so we can wince at the horror that is the song "Morning Report". Oh, if you haven't seen it, it's not good. Basically, they took a song from the Lion King Broadway show and put it in the movie.
The scene not only adds NOTHING to the film, it actually takes away some of my favorite jokes. They were corny jokes, mind you, but I liked them! They stuck it into the movie in place of Zazu's awesomely terrible puns, such as, "Cheetahs never prosper.", and "I tried to tell the elephants to forget it, but THEY CAN'T!". C'mon, Disney! What the fuck!
So, when I'm sure that I can have absolute silence around here, I'll sit down and do this thing.
As for right now, I have a commission to finish and a few Crossoverlord pages to draw. And maybe... just maybe... a slew of Dasien updates. |
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| "Don't Go To ComicCon" |
[Jul. 29th, 2008|05:15 pm] |
Hey, cats and kittens! My friend Marissa went to ComicCon this year. She was bored. Very bored. Maybe she should have stopped by the Dasien booth!
Check out her YouTube Channel. |
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| The Three Faces of Dasien |
[Jul. 24th, 2008|04:25 pm] |
This little project is a warm-up drawing I did this afternoon to get me ready for a long night of artsy fartsy Photoshoppery. I took the three actresses upon whom Dasien's appearance is most based, and I separated them out to see who would look the most similar to Das. Not surprisingly, Charlize Theron ends up being the one, although she still looks a little off. (Probably because she's not as stylized.)
Basically, this came out of a short exchange that Al and I had about character facial appearances. Interestingly enough, Al bases his Dasien on Jessica Alba. In some of his later pages for the Crossoverlord, this becomes rather apparent, and in a good way!
I'm really a fan of individual artist interpretation. I love watching a bunch of artists draw the same thing and find out how each of them approached the subject.
If I thought I was a big cheese in the webcomic world, I'd stage a Dasien draw-off.
Oh, and on an unrelated note, this guy kicks ass...
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