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Man, I hope that's legible.

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"Kick the bitch in the tummy." Nothing I ever do will ever out-wrong Ice Cube at his peak. Two pages from now, I'll do my best.

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Let's say you go a little crazy and decide to try to get a big-ass comic done as fast as is humanly possible. Or youmanly possible, really. Two things you want to avoid:

1) the above HAND-stipling page that wasn't even a part of your layouts or schedule, idiot

and

2) mistake your mug of india ink for your mug of coffee when going for that big, single, mug-emptying gulp.

Do the second one only if you want to somehow empathise more closely with Tom Neeley's characters.

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NO color. Today, I'm thinking no color for Mr. Eybyaninch. Of course, then I look at a panel like this one, and I think color might help it some. Maybe if I just go back in and spot some blacks it will be fine. Drop some shadows.

I also printed and assemble a dummy of the big, silly cheese fight comic that turns into abstract art comedy. It's called Earth Minds Are Weak #10: THE SAUCE OF CONTENTION! And it is a deluxe 7x8.5" edition, printed on faux parchment paper and bound in a Jupiter red pearlescent cardstock cover. And It will have stickers affixed, but I need to get me an X-Acto for that. It's both a commentary on the Omnibus-Masterwork-Archive-ing of silly action comics, and something that makes me laugh. Mostly the latter. Ask for it by name or vague description!

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Breakin' out the Ames Guide! Ames lettering takes about 100 times longer than the freestyle I used on the other pages, but I think it's fitting. It gives it a more instructional look while still looking hand-drawn. Also, I had a lot of information to convey, so I needed something for the tight delights. How does Dan Zettwoch do it with the diagrams? I ask, 'cause that was rough, and I didn't even have to figure out how the mechanics actually work, or make a readable diagram.

Anyway, that was a slow page. But I think it will hold a place of honor in my Crazytown, butterfly.

NO MORE ACTION FOR SERIOUS

Yesterday, I thought the Action Sauce Cheese Book was done. Today, I realised it wasn't. Tonight, I think it finally is.




Edit: Holy fuck. It's almost 11? Shit.

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Ok. #12 brush, Hunt 102 and Hunt 107. All business. I kinda wish every drawing looked like this. It makes a good argument for doing so much work at once, let me tell you.

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Much is done. Some more to scan. And some computer stuff to do.

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MoCCA 08

Can we push MoCCA back a few weeks or so? I've got cylanders I didn't even know I had firing on new horsepowers. Seriously. Move it to the begining of July and I'll have five new books ready to go.

NEARLY FINAL ACTION

Pages 16 are that last gag I wanted to include. I crack up just thinking about it.




The back cover has another little gag, because I can't leave well enough alone.



The cover without logos or title, which I'm just finishing now:

ACTION 1

Page 1:

SAUCE!

Pages 2 and 15




That makes 7! And I'm floor tiles away from getting the 8th page (page 1) done. I probably won't scan it until tomorrow though.

I'm not quite as ahead of schedule as that might sound though, as I've thought of this new gag I'd like to get in there. Pages 16 & 17 to go. At least.

Then front, back and inside front covers to figure out. One will probably be a text piece.

SAUCE OF CONTENTION!

Pages 3, 13 and 14; respectively.

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Two down, 5 to go. I have two pieces of the Action scanned, one drying and two about halfway done. Business!

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So, I need to post 7 pages by the end of the day. 7.

ACTION 04 and GOoaAL!

Page four. Three more and I'll be at the start. Then a cover. Possibly 2 pages at the end for an end to violence proper. We'll see.

The Goal:

Two Pages a day average. I may be posting less frequently. We'll see. Either way: two pages a day on average to get serious DONES for MoCCA. Blow it out.

START OF THE ACTION PAGE 5

Closing in on the start.

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Yesterday only got worse and worse. So, I got drunk instead of finishing this page. Today was a sad day, but all the shock is wearing away. And it seemed important to get back to work.

I'll have another Action page done tonight as well, but I won't get it scanned in until tomorrow.

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Page 8! This prints a lot greener than it looks on screen. I may have to bump the yellow higher for super sicks.

This was hand-colored, using a technique I think I remember reading Seth uses for his comics. I painted the to-be-color areas with pro-white paint on a clear vellum overlay. It's kind of a cool way to work, because the vellum isn't completely clear and it wrinkles as the ink dries. So, you become less and less sure of what you're doing as you go along.

Then I scanned both pages, did my tweaks, and turned the white areas of the overlay into that green. Then I combined them in photoshop and tried to figure out where they synced up.

EXTRA CHEESE! EXTRA SAUCE! EXTRA PUNCHING!

Page 6 pf the Action thing, possibly titled the above:

ACTION PAGE 12

ACTION PENCILS

Using real models for dissonance! I got to give that girl in the middle some extra cheese, cause she oughten be doin that when she knows her boyfriend is on the way back to the table.

I couldn't get away from the computer for a while, so I kept track of songs again.

Queen — You're My Best Friend
Portishead — Half Day Closing [live]
New Order — Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Tom Waits — Lonely
T.I. — Stand Up Guy
Richie Havens — I Can't Take it Anymore
Pinehurst Kids — Pretty Whistle
Ultramagnetic MCs — Big Booty
Frédéric Chopin — Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp, Op. 36
Nirvana — Very Ape
Ghostface Killah — Yolanda's House (feat. Raekwon & Method Man in reverse order)
John Lennon — Crippled Inside
Fugazi — Argument (all this Fugazi musta come from one of those guys...)
Cult of Luna — 101
Ella Fitzgerald — Blue Skies
Green Day — Longview
Sould Coughing — Collapse
Wilco — Hummingbird
Westside Connection — The Gangsta, The Killa and the Dope Dealer (Ice Cube over NIN's Hurt...)

CHEESE! PUNCH! SAUCE! PUNCH!

Still playing with Action titles...



Here's the last 15 random songs I listend to while finishing this page:

Nine Inch Nails — Piggy
Rage Against the Machine — Bullet in the Head
Yeasayer — Wait for Summer
Steve Burns — Superstrings
Audioscape — In Your Heart [feat. Annikka]
Germs — Communist Eyes
Talking Heads — Paper
John Zorn — Feet Music
Elf Power — Willowy Man
Sweet 75 — Bite My Hand
Throwing Muses — And A She-Wolf After the War
Frank Zappa — Help, I'm a Rock
PJ Harvey — The End
Angels of Light & The Akron/Family — Pity the Poor Immigrant
Run DMC — Jam-Master Jay

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An etching commemorating the first Man-Bear War. Not really an etching at all.

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It is indeed another page! I must be getting sick or forgetting some extensive engagement to be crankin heavy flow again.

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Last night I had a nightmare about the pax romana that followed a war between man and the bears. That's right: a nightmare. About the peace that followed a war. Between men and bears.

And they say I need to get out of the house more often.

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MR. EYBYANINCH 01

Since I obviously don't have 5 other projects I"m trying to get done, here's Mr. Eybyaninch Page 1:



Honestly. It's like I have nothing but all the time in the world.

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MoCCA SO SOON!!!



Stay tuned for something terrible.

THE SAUCE OF VIOLENCE

Here's pages of 8-11 of that essay on violence I've been writing:

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Sheeeeeeiiiiit. Wouldn't it be nice if it looked like it took this long?