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12/24/09 08:47 pm - beatonna - Christmas Eve

It being Christmas Eve and all, I was thinking of this Christmas story and drew it up. I meant to draw it nicer, but didn't get time. It's about family.

( under the cut, because it's big )

If it helps to understand it better, I am the second oldest of four girls.

Merry Christmas, everyone! To you and yours.

12/23/09 12:09 am - beatonna - The last man to lose his head, I suppose he deserved it

A Scottish cartoon, since I am back home for the holidays.

I'm well acquainted with the tune "Lord Lovat's Lament," since you hear it around these parts every time anyone has to pick up a fiddle and learn something. But you know, it's one of those tunes you know so well, you pay no attention to it, it's just there in the back of your head.

Then one day, I was looking up a bunch of works by Hogarth (the best) and came upon this portrait of 'Lord Lovat'. The lovely old tune and that devily face, they didn't match. So I wanted to learn more about him!

Lovat (Simon Fraser, born 1697 - there are about a million Simon Fraser Lord Lovats) really epitomizes how reading Scottish history can make you want to tear your eyeballs out, or laugh because it's nearly a farce it's so nutty. Either the people involved are disastrously loyal, or disastrously duplicitous. Everything is a disaster, but it's a hell of a ride.

12/20/09 03:03 am - davario - digital letterin

When I thought I was going to have to letter the book, I was pretty much clueless about any sort of digital lettering (leading, tracking, etc) so I compiled these pages for reference. Hi-res version of that page compilation here. Here's a closer look if you don't want to click:

I noticed no matter how big or small a comic page is, a lot of lettering ends up similar in relation to each other. The hand-lettered romance comic is close in size to a modern digitally-lettered superhero comic but the latter is more condensed, especially with adjusted tracking (Wolverine more so than Superman). Webcomics have larger font sizes than print since they're on computer screens, but of all the print comics Scott Pilgrim seems to be an example of an intermediate size. Here's a font without leading adjusted for size:

Yikes!

The closest I ever came to experimenting with any digital lettering for the book was here, but recently my new editor informed me he's going to just hire one. Whew! But now I have this as reference for digital letterin in the future. I still have a lot to figure out about this (don't even get me started on cracking the bubble code), hopefully this is useful to someone else too.

12/18/09 10:52 am - lucylou - Pharmacynicism

The health care thing is really freaking me out. As an artist who is frequently sick in one way or another, I'm on tenderhooks about the public option, but the allotment of coverage is really really scaring me. Especially because while the rights and money for women's care (including abortions and birth control) are being disappeared, meanwhile this health care bill will totally cover Viagra!
Aaaaugh.

Speaking of insane ladymedicine things, yesterday I received the single most disturbing piece of mail to ever cross my hands.
What list am I on that I get this kind of thing?

Every winter, my internet service gets cranky in the cold, so I finally got my service back this morning after almost a week. To fill my need to stare at screens while I was internetless, I watched movies. I doodled my way through Harry Potter 6-- You can see my silly drawings here: Harry Potter Doodles

I have a neat interview up over on the Hideous Energy Comics Blog. We talk music, books, all kinds of stuff!

12/16/09 08:50 pm - beatonna - Familiar Faces

Some holiday comics! The Kiss Elves return.

Oh and I am posting journal type comics on twitter sometimes. If you are on twitter I am @beatonna

12/15/09 11:42 pm - davario - Snipped from an old Details mag.

( 2009 )

12/13/09 10:50 pm - beatonna - that's a good one old buddy

I saw a stage production of A Christmas Carol today. I love Dickens, I will always love A Christmas Carol. Even if they don't do smoking tricks in it.

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