There’s a fun drawing I did at the bottom of this very-long blog, so make sure you make it through!
Congratulations to Howard Taylor and Phil & Kaja Foglio (and others) for their Hugo nominations! I am envious, sure, but totally proud of you all!
Thank you to Stephanie McMillan of “Minimum Security” for an awesome little review of Spacetrawler. And thanks to Marjorie Rishel of Urban Underbrush who decorated Eeb and Dimitri Spacetrawler Easter Eggs (Happy Easter, btw, I hope you all are recovering well from the chocolate).
I spent Thursday-Saturday of last week at Norwescon, which was lovely and I had some great conversations. There was of course David Ketcherside who organized Artist Alley. I sat next to and chatted with Mark Rahner who does non-comedy zombie comics, and Roberta Gregory who’s been on my radar forever because of Bitchy-Bitch and now Cat Toons, Chris Sumption who draws space ships, and Jon Rogers who studies UFO history. And of course I got to see Stan! who I met WAY back when, oh, I don’t know, 2003 or so, when we first met sharing a table at San Diego Comic Con (my first con ever, attending or tabling) (coincidentally, Norwescon was my first ever SciFi con ever, attending or tabling).
Special thanks and shout-out to Cori Dietsch, who was not only awesome company, but let me try her Cintique.
And Thursday, OMG, joking with Gwen and Peg knitter/spinner extraordinaires, was the biggest hoot of the show (Gwen’s handspun yarn on Etsy)
And lastly, Pat and Doug Booze were extremely helpful and accommodating with organizing the Art Show. Thank you Doug and Pat! Here’s the piece I put in the show:
If that space opera drawing was the cover of a comic book I would absolutely read it, but there had better be lasers in every single panel.
If there’s one thing I learned from Asterix, it’s “When in Rome, don’t insult the Romans”
Also, awesome Easter surprises
Love the Eeb easter egg! Can I have one? My very own little Eeb!
It was great to meet you Saturday at NorWesCon, and I just finished reading through your archives. You have officially been added to my favorites bar. 🙂
I want that space opera picture on a t-shirt.
And yeah, Pierrot is not thinking straight right now. But he is having a trying day.
Second the “Space Opera” t-shirt idea!
I’d buy that for a dollar! Maybe even $20!
Thanks for the links for posting my Easter photos. I’m a bit taken aback by all the kindness that the internet is showing me lately.
Sorry Leland, I can’t send you the Easter eeb. I’m afraid I had to bring a side dish to an Easter dinner and…that’s one eeb that won’t be liberated. Ah, the fragile nature of art.
So much for pacifism… Although I suppose there’s no harm in merely thinking about shooting people, right?
Thanks, @FormerUSMC!
@Stewart, I think he meant with a stunner. Also, he shot at Shuar with a makarov pistol. He just prefers diplomacy, is vegetarian, and has strong feelings about defending those not in a position to defend themselves. 🙂
@Marj,
I was just thinking that an Eeb toy/model/whatever would sell fairly well. The only problem is that an actual egg shell is as delicate as … an actual egg shell.
Any ideas for a sturdy (and inexpensive!) way to recreate your Eeb egg on a consumer scale?
I think if I sold them, Chris would have some stern words for me.
…my only mistake was advertising on his website message board.
Eebstereggs?
Pierrot-surfing!
Any port in a storm…
I had an idea once to make a “space opera” that actually was an opera. Got as far as tinkering with a vague plot involving a boy called Royd and his sister, Aster. It went downhill from there.
But maybe one day…
Frank: I love Asterix! Brilliant stuff 😀
Mr. Baldwin: Me and my friend Bron are still trying to decide who we and our roleplaying friends would be if we were playing Spacetrawler characters XD
The Dimitri on the egg looks a bit like Philip from goats.
Ha! Krep may have found another being as snarky as he is.
Mass (for low volumes of mass) producing something like leetle Eebs is certainly possible if someone could sculpt one out of polymer clay. Making an RTV silicone mold from the original then casting copies in resin is fairly easy. Done right the mold can make a pretty large number of copies. I’ve been making RTV molds since 2003~2004. Mostly making replica parts for old cars, have done a Space Battleship Yamato belt buckle and a mold from a polymer clay figurine of a little Cthulhu. Currently working on a mold for casting new shells for TI-99/4A Command Module cartridges.
Jack Vance’s Space Opera is a novel about an opera company in space, striving to bring Culture to the BEMs and being much misunderstood.