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5/4/2004 - So, in case that you're wondering. Little Dee is going very slowly. My guess is that it may take up to a year to get off the ground really, and so there are no fireworks, and I'll be happy if I even get one or two papers on board before it takes off. I plan to do it either way, so you can still look forward to it, but just to let everyone know where I am, since I've dragged you all along so far with this.
I do still intend to continue Bruno regardless. I've been really into the current storyline (as have many of you, or so i hear through your kind emails to me), although I wish I had more photo sources for it. I know the artwork has been not up to my standards, but am glad the story has been. Soon enough she'll be back to places I've source, hopefully pulling good storyness with her. :)
Oh, and although the slowness in Dee taking off will mean that I will be looking for work soon again, maybe even trying to consolidate if i can find an institute that will take my messy affairs into their hands, I do hope to have the next Bruno book out sometime this summer. I have a backer for the full amount who i will be paying off directly from book profits until it's clear.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040504)
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5/5/2004
Dicebox!
Every Wednesday, for six weeks, I am filling in for the amazingly talanted Jenn Manley Lee, doing my own little side story with the characters from her comic, Dicebox.Check it out, the most current week is always free (although it's always nice of you to subscribe.)
While there, feel free to peruse other stuff of course too. Stuff like Bite Me!, Li'l Mel, Doctor Dragonwagon, DAR, or others, including soon the much anticipated Hereville.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040505)
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5/7/2004 - So, this week's sketches. No real explanation. Sat with Sara at Traditions Cafe and just drew whatever came out of the pencil. As I look at it... um... yeah, pretty random... um. Yeah, really have no idea. Everything feels stretchy.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040507)
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5/11/2004 - Sorry I haven't had much to post about lately. No bites yet with Dee, finances messy, just staring at the ceiling a lot. Well, not really. I haven't the time. But, yeah.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040511)
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5/12/2004
Dicebox!
Check out this week's installment.Every Wednesday, for six weeks, I am filling in for the amazingly talanted Jenn Manley Lee, doing my own little side story with the characters from her comic, Dicebox. Read it now though, only the most current week is free (although it's always nice of you to subscribe.)
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040512)
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5/14/2004 - So, this weeks sketches. Bethanne, while walking home (well, the story is slightly longer) found a free box of National Geographics. We pawed through them for a while, and ended up using pictures from them loosely as sources.
The thing I like about National Geographic is that they seem to try to catch people the way people really dress and wear their hair and make-up. it doesn't feel like a fashion magazine. The only sad drawback is that there aren't too many pictures of people close-up enough, and who are interesting enough, to draw. But if you seek, you'll find some. Which is enough for me.
I was also inspired by Dylan Horrock's Pickaroon, which was essentially a pre-curser (it seems) to his larger "Dirty Comics" which, of course, may never be finished. Ah well. Sad. But life goes on I suppose.
Anyhow, that aside, i think this week was a bit of a break-throgh for me. I really like the style. I penciled first (loosely) and then inked with a Steadtler Mars Graphic 300 Duo Brush-Pen. I'm not a big fan of brush-pens because I like the feel of a real brush. But since i knew I'd be pencilling, inking, then flipping through more maagzines, and then repeating, i knew my brush would dry out (or I'd have ot get up every five minutes and clean it) and so I used them. but either way, it just felt good. I like these pictures. I have favorites, but frankly, aside from the pic on the bottom right, I would not be unhappy to have the rest all be dual-protagonists in a complex long comic book. This pleases me greatly.
Anyhow, hope you like.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040514)
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5/19/2004
Dicebox!
Check out this week's installment.Also, in case you didn't notice, but wanted to leave a message for Jenn or myself, there is a Dicebox Forum at the bottom of the Dicebox page (or, of course, there's always email).
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040519)
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5/21/2004 - This week's sketches are really very little different than last week. I used a paint-brush instead of a brush-pen, and that's about it. My brush lines have been falling a bit heavily these days, so even the difference in brushes appears minimal.
I think I moved forward slightly over last week. Just some details I prefer here and there. But the difference/improvement is hard to tell. Mostly hard to tell because last week felt like such a jump forward. But yes, so I am pleased, but nothing in particular worth speaking about here.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040521)
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5/24/2004 - I know, you're all scritching your heads. I've only heard the expression once or twice, but it amuses me for some reason. Anyhow, when accused of enjoying fire too much, you say "Well, some like Romanian pie" with the implication of "and some like pyromania."
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040524)
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5/25/2004 - I actually really like Fruity Pebbles. And Safeway (local sheap food chain) carries generic large bagged versions of it. Verrry dangerous.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040525)
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5/26/2004
Dicebox!
Check out this week's installment.Yup. Still filling in for the prodigious Jenn Manley Lee. Enjoy!
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040526)
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5/27/2004 - So, I'm going to be a featured cartoonist at the Stumptown Comics Fest on June 6th. It's $5.00 admission and raffle tickets are $1.00.
I know.... I took a break from the convention thing, but this all started last year before i had taken my "haitus". Indigo Kelleigh and I had a table together at the very lame comics convention in Portland, which was mostly just a flea-market, and we we're saying how Portland has so many cartoonists that it needed a convention that was about the art rather than the collector-angle.
Well, I moved to Olympia, but he did something about it. And so when he invited me, not only to participate but to be a featured guest, i really wanted to do it, to support him and the whole project. And so I'll be there, signing or selling some books or whatever. Chatting mostly, more into this one for the social value.
And tThere you go. :)
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040527)
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5/28/2004 - These weeks sketches are odd. I've actually really been looking forward to doing the sketches this week, so many thoughts in my head. But also, I've been kind around 40% functional this week, and so things come in flashes, but then I can't seem to get much done. It's a bloody miracle bruno kept up this week.
But most of them are based on previous drawings I've done for the sketchblog, but playing with styles and angles. Nothing I really love, but it seemed interesting in my head as I was drawing them. oh, and then i drew a Bruno and a creature.
As far as my head? No, I have no idea what is up. Just an emotional loopdee-loop. Possibly some actual physical illness too, but I often find it hard to tell. I did make macaroni and cheese from scratch today though, and that, my friends, is a very yummy thing.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040528)
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5/31/2004 - Don't forget, this Sunday, June 6th, I'll be a featured guest at the Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland (this is not the normal convention, it's the new focus-on-the-artists one). It's $5.00 admission and raffle tickets are $1.00.
As far as the Olympia Convention, sadly, when I showed up at 11:00 on Sunday, all excited to go to the local con, i found out it had been Saturday, and so I have no report. Only that I was downright angry with myself. No fun. I really wanted to go. I'm such a disorganized flake sometimes. Rrrrghh.
(I will make the PDX one!)
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200405.html#20040531)
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