so sick

This is how I spent most of the last several days. On the bathroom floor. It was most unpleasant. Complete with a trip to the emergency room. But I am finally feeling a little better, because of the drugs they gave me. I have a bunch of projects that had to be postponed and I am being stressed out about that. But they told me not to go to work or school until at least Monday, so I am taking yet another day off.

But I have a comic about Roget, the creator of the thesaurus all ready to be screen printed. I am thinking about making it the first installment of a comic of the month club I am going to start. For a very small fee you could have a comic in some form delivered to your door every month. I think this will be a good way to encourage myself to make a lot of comics. But I will post more on this later, when I have the Roget comic printed.

Book!

I just made the last few changes. Not So Great Moments in Western Civilization: An Alphabet of Reasoned Failure is finished! I should probably start making my titles shorter, but anyway It turned out pretty nicely. I would have preferred a non glossy cover, but other than that it looks great. You click on the image above if you would like to read more about it/ purchase it.

Comics!

I finished and scanned the whole alphabet. Now I just have to edit and lay it out. T is one of my favorites.

I pretty much spent the whole weekend working on this. When I wasn't working on this I was reading Jeff Brown and Alec Longstreth comics. I actually worked a little in my studio this afternoon, which is kind of amazing, because usually I can't concentrate in there. But my back was killing me from drawing hunched over for so long and it was nice to actually sit at a drafting table, even if the drafting table in there is wobbly and has exacto marks all over it.

An alphabet of Reasoned Failure

This panel is from a new project: Not So Great Moments in Western Civilization: an Alphabet of Reasoned Failure. Pretty excited about it.

Aaron is out of town so the plan was to make this comic all weekend. What I really want to do is work nonstop on it and have a totally finished 28 page minicomic of it by Monday. But that probably won't happen.

Such is life.

Turtles all the way Through

This comic is based on a anecdote physicists tell each other. Apparently it really happened but no one really knows whose lecture it happened at. Nowadays they use the phrase "turtles all the way down" to refer to any circular argument that avoids a cause by explaining the cause with itself.

This, among other things, was the topic of conversation tonight at the Art & Science Cabaret, which was a lot of fun. Basically a particle physicist, a cosmologist, and a biologist got up in front of us and explained current scientific theories and then let us ask them questions. I love that this event occurred. I love even more that it happened in 2009 and that there were a lot of people there. I wish I had been born 13o years ago so that I could make elaborate ground breaking scientific discoveries in my parlor. They used to have these elaborate shows of "scientific wonders" where people could display their optical devices for the public. If only.

Fall

I'll try to get a comic up in the next couple days. I've been playing around a lot with color lately, here is a recent experiment.

Thomson Loves Newton

You should google this poem if you have not read it. Hysterical.