i'll be at TCAF this weekend at table 273 on the second floor of the library! i kept forgetting to post about this before now. i hope i see some of you there!!

i'm taking a podcast break!
taking over my spot for the time being is previous Ross & Nick guest Kaylie McDougal/~kayliesaurus-rex, the awesome creator of the stellar dinosaur-riding gang comic Dinogeddon!!

check it out here!!!

man, if every episode is as fun to listen to as this one, i might stay away forever! now that our X-Men animated series marathon is over, Kaylie and Nick tackle ALF. they talk Alf's weird towel thing, Peter Bonerz, is Alf funny or unfunny, Kaylie's fear of lifelike puppets, and then they get into the question of how perception of art can differ between the person making it and the people viewing/consuming it. Kaylie relates the question to Dinogeddon and the misperceptions around her erotic comic PonyGasm which caused a shitstorm when it was on IndieGoGo. Nick continues his existential crisis from last week's episode, and talks about how he tries to see his own work as how consumers might see it, and wonders whether art is still something he wants to do.

i don't usually like doing update journals because they seem so self-aggrandizing or clinical or something, but i've been getting enough interest in my Ninja Turtles fan-comic that i thought i should write something about it! thank you so much to everyone who's been commenting and leaving their thoughts on my TMNT art, i really appreciate it, you guys are great. also thank you again to everyone who read Glory, which concluded with its 12th and final issue last week. thank you!!!

so, i'm still hammering away at the fan-comic story outline, i've been working on it in my free time for months now. i think it's in a good place and it's pretty much all there but still needs some work. i'm not sure how many pages it'll end up being, it's got a ton of stuff in it right now so i'm guessing at least 200 pages or more. O_O gotta see how it shakes out first.

i'm not sure if i'll write a formal script like i usually do or if i'll thumbnail direct off the outline. i thought about forgetting thumbnails altogether and drawing right in Photoshop at full-size, but i think that might take me more time to do because the scale kind of throws me off sometimes in Photoshop, comics seem to go faster when i can draw in pencil at small size and see it all laid out in front of me. we'll see, though. anyway, i'm not sure when the comic will launch, but i'll be posting the pages here, deviantart will be the comic's home base, so if you're watching me whenever it starts you'll see it.

sometimes i find myself wondering what the hell i'm doing, why did i decide to undertake this when i have Wet Moon and Shadoweyes and i could be using the time i spend on my fan-comic for those other comics or bringing back my comic Mountain Girl or at the very least something that pays the rent and isn't fan-work of other people's and now corporately-owned characters, but then other times it seems like the best idea in the world. i've never done anything like this and i not only think i have a good story to tell with the TMNT characters, but i want to do a comic that's just purely for the fun of it with no money or publication pressure or anything like that, just something to goof off with. i haven't done any comics purely for the fun of it in a long time (not that Wet Moon or Shadoweyes aren't fun but they still have other considerations that sometimes psych me out). i want to do something just for me, with no rules, as corny as it sounds.

other stuff!
WET MOON: i'm over halfway done with Wet Moon 7 thumbnails!!! i should be done in another week or less, i can't wait to start drawing actual pages. if you guys are interested, i did a script/thumbnails process post over at my Wet Moon blog.

me: i keep getting into depression funks that last for a few days and then i'm fine, where i feel like everything sucks and i'm not interested in anything and i can't face any of my friends and i feel resentful towards them and i'm overwhelmed by anxiety and melancholy. i don't know what my problem is. i keep thinking i might be clinically depressed but it doesn't seem MAJOR enough to be that, and i usually feel fine after a few days or a week or something, until something tiny sets me off again. i don't know. i'll keep an eye on it, i guess.

TMNT: i think i said this somewhere else, but i'm doing 2 pages in IDW's TMNT #23, alongside Dan Duncan/~dan-duncan, Ben Bates/~AnubiTheFrog, Andy Kuhn, and regular artist Mateus Santolouco/*Santolouco. the pressure is ON. i have to step up my game if i'm going to hack it next to those guys!! then the Alopex micro-series issue is on track, it looks like, i read the first draft of Brian Lynch's script and it's tremendous. can't wait.

THAT'S IT I GUESS! thank you so much again, you guysssssssss

THIS IS IT!!!
our X-Men the Animated Series review marathon is OVER! check it out here and listen to me, Nick and Kelly Thompson cross the finish line. i can't believe we did it, i can't believe we made it through all 76 awful episodes.



in addition to our final X-Men discussion (even Kelly made screencaps this time!!), we also talk scary Easter bunnies, Nick's reality check at WonderCon which leaves him questioning his work (which i feel like we should have discussed more, i think Kelly and i may have come off like we didn't care), childhood comic posters, Nick's awesome cover of the X-Men theme song, oranges, kumquats, mangoes, and Kelly's custom bookcase.

if anyone is interested in watching the entire run of episodes, Nick put together one handy post with all the EXTREME episodes in chronological order!! check it out here!!

THE END

looks like ~kayliesaurus-rex's IndieGoGo campaign for her comic PonyGasm has had the kibosh put on it due to "terms violations," which i put in quotes because it's bullshit. what kind of site allows a page to be put up, then pulls it after they've ostensibly already reviewed its content, puts it back up again, then yanks it again? make up your damn minds! thanks to everyone who gave the page a look when i posted about it last entry! hopefully things will work out for Kaylie, whether at IndieGoGo or another avenue. i don't think i'll be pledging to any IndieGoGo further campaigns, i don't want to give those guys any more money if they jerk my friends around and keep our money without allowing the campaign to run its full, intended course. edit: they've started refunding, nevermind! not sure if they're keeping their fees, though... anything so i can hate them more!

BAH.

EDIT: PonyGasm page back up and running!!!!!!!!!!!

haha, that title sounds really dirty.

anyway, deviantart's own ~kayliesaurus-rex/Kaylie McDougal is running an IndieGoGo campaign to fund her awesome erotic pony comic PONYGASM!!!

here's what Kaylie has to say about it:

"i don't normally do this kinda thing, but please consider contributing to the IndieGoGo campaign to fund printing my first erotic comic, PonyGasm! some of you might remember PonyGasm from the first few rough pages i've posted up here in my gallery! PonyGasm is a trippy, tongue-in-cheek, sex-positive, lady-friendly erotic comic that's based on a weird dream i had involving giant, anthropomorphic toy pony lovin' in a public restroom. strange i know, but trust me, it's good porn! it will be a 6x9, 24 page, full color comic. all the art is done, it just needs to be formatted for printing.

please consider contributing! and if you could reblog, tweet, post links, and anything else to help spread the word, that would be so awesome! "

Kaylie is one of my favorite artists so make sure this happens!!! please check it out and consider lending a hand!

I NEED IT

i finished the final issue a couple hours ago. hasn't quite sunk in yet. thank you so much to everyone who has been reading and supporting the book and talking about it and spreading the word and especially everyone who did fanart, you guys are great. Glory #32 comes out i think this week, and then #34, the final issue, comes out in March, so there are still a few issues left to come out even though i'm done drawing.

i can't believe i got the Glory job about 2 years ago. seems so strange. i feel like i don't really know what to say at the moment other than further thank you's, i feel kind of speechless. so… thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



one of the weird things about being done with Glory is putting away all my copies of the issues that i keep handy for continuity reference. they've been sitting out for months but now they're shelved away. also weird throwing out/recycling all my printed reference, like Mont Saint-Michel photos, object/vehicle/fashion photos, stuff like that, papers that have been sitting here for almost 2 years. i have to clean all the page/art files off my computer, too, and keep them on my external back-up drive and free up the space. this is usually how it goes after i finish a big project, but Glory has been a constant presence for 2 years that it feels like a big change.

usually after i finish a big project i crash, too, emotionally and physically. i feel fine now but i'll probably wake up tomorrow morning exhausted and depressed and crying or something, unable to bring myself to do anything. but i have a ton of new stuff to do as well as backlogged commissions from 2012, so i have to rise above the crash and get moving!!

thank you again to everyone who's supported the book and my work in some way and for you guys leaving comments on the Glory stuff i've posted and stopping by to let me know what you thought of the comic. thanks, you guys!!!

after a short hiatus, we're back!!! ~nickmarino is all moved in to his new apartment in Long Beach so we're good to go with a special jumbo-sized 2.5-hour long episode!! check it out here.

we talk digital Wet Moon 6 on Comixology, digitizing printed work, the "editing" of smart panels, then we're back to X-Men: The Animated Series with two crappy Wolverine-centric episodes, then we talk Street Sharks (which i've heard of but never seen so you can follow along with me discovering the characters for the first time. Moby Lick!).



after that it's a call for nominations for the 2012 YOU DON'T SUCK Awards. the categories are Movies, Streaming Video, Comics, Podcasts, Tea, and Internet Meltdown. we'll reveal the winners in episode #145.

then it's some talk about boring superhero movies and pose confusing questions about which Earth the DC Universe takes place on and what the difference is between Earth One and Earth 1 or if there is a difference at all. we take the question to Twitter and get some funny answers which make everything more confusing, nobody seemed to know the answer, until we FINALLY get one!

thanks to anyone who listens, as usual!

a tribute by IDW's Chris Ryall



RIP