Archive for November, 2008

An Observation for Anime Women

Friday, November 21st, 2008

I’ve discovered Americans were giving women hammers with which to lay the smackdown long before any women in anime did so.  Let me share something I scanned this week at the library:

This is from Judge magazine, dated December 17th, 1901.  I found this picture delightful, simply for the fact that Public Opinion is anthropomorphized as [...]

Publishing on Lulu

Friday, November 14th, 2008

My Lulu bookstore is online.  I’ve spent the past two weeks or so preparing my material for printing, and at this point, almost my entire body of work is available for purchase.  It’s been rather satisfying seeing all of it laid out like this, and I’m glad I finally got this daunting task done.
My main [...]

Alex’s Guide to a Life Well Lived

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

My third 24 Hour Comic is finished! This time, I tried to tackled the webcomic variation of the 24HC, which is mentioned on Scott’s website as 100 panels in 24 hours, since many webcomics don’t follow traditional full-page format or sizes. I didn’t achieve this, but got 24 total strips out of it, [...]

24HC #3: Hour 14

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

I’m 14 hours into my third 24 Hour Comic. This attempt is going very differently in a lot of ways from the first two… Firstly, I now have a webcam, and thus I’m recording more little things that get posted to YouTube immediately, and don’t have to worry so much about capturing DV [...]

It’s November?

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Well, I was going to do my third 24HC this past weekend, but decided not to.  It was Halloween weekend, I hadn’t had a weekend home to myself in a couple weeks, I was invited to a party, and I had tons of work to do for school (mostly finishing the Summer’s Year video) so [...]