Camped out in Haskett
December 4th, 2008. Categories: 24 hour comics, Projects.I got started with this 24HC at 7:30 last night. If all goes planned, I’ll get finished with it tonight at Locovore Bot’s opening, which is from 5 to 9 tonight. I began this comic with the intention of doing an idea I had sometime in the last ten week, which was to do a comic essentially about my personal artist statement, and sort of giving a closing commentary on my college career. However, I lost interest with that after two pages, and stewed for a little while before going with another comic idea involving absurd humor centered around the concept of “Magical Unicorn Jerky.” Not a great idea, but I got four comics out of it.
Then Chris suggested I go with a meta-comic, about my performance of the comic. So I did that, inserting some pages around the failed attempts to illustrate that I had the ideas and then gave up on them. And I’ve since been drawing things that happen to me during this performance, such as my battle with the Coke machine downstairs.
I’m currently situated on top of a big slab-o-granite platform at the end of the hallway on the second floor, near the back entrance to the Sound Stage. Sitting here, either cramped up with crossed legs or slightly stretched out, has made me very sore. Sitting on a giant rock will do that. But I borrowed a cot from my friend Susan, which I now have set up, and which is much more comfortable than a rock. (Though I think the damage is done on my poor bum.) I’ve been consistently ahead of schedule since going with the metacomic, and I plan to save some pages for when the afternoon wears on and the show starts.
I’m writing this entry on my brand-new MSI Wind netbook, which I bought for myself with graduation gift money. I literally picked it up from UPS yesterday morning before setup, so I’ve had this whole time to play with it, and I really really like it. The wireless is wonderful, and the screen is an acceptable resolution for a laptop this size. It has a webcam built-in, so I’m also streaming this adventure live on Ustream. (Embedded below.) Many people have been amazed at such a little laptop. I’m glad i made the decision to go with a mini than a regular sized machine.
Not much to report, other than that. It was very quiet between the hours of midnight and 8 or so, and now students are trickling in and out. I’m sure it’ll pick up here very soon, since there are always lots of 11:30 classes. Stay tuned as the day wears on.
