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12 Comics a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Me and my roommates all had Sunday off and decided to draw a comic every hour that we were awake, because apparently that is the cool thing to do Here are my comics for that day, but I went ahead and compiled all of ours over here on this site if you wanna check them out.

1am

10am

12am

1pm

2pm

3pm

4pm

5pm

6pm

7pm

8pm

9pm

10pm

Robbie, of course, referring to Robbie Allen, who I've known since the birth of online comics.

11pm

Here's a link to Uber EZ8's Blog. You be the judge.

Don't forget to check out the awesome ones my roommates did! Many of ours go together.

Dead Redd Comics

Okay, I decided to post my Dead Redd comics on their own blog over at http://www.deadredd.blogspot.com
These comics won't actually start updateing for a week or two, but the blog construction is pretty much done now! Here's a resized version of the first page that doesn't blow up this template (click on it to actually be able to read it)

Dead Redd

Yeah so I've been thinking about brining Dead Redd back lately. I just can't seem to find a good way to fit 20 panels onto a small sheet of paper. I've got to figure something out because the comic makin' bug is biting me. I love Dead Redd.

Japanese Flash Cards

No drawings today. I spent most of the morning printing up some nifty Japanese Flash Cards from this site. They are wonderful! I had been brushing up on some of the Rosetta stone stuff, and I realized that I was learning too much from reading the romanized text instead of learning from actually listening. Then when I converted the text to the hiragana I could'nt get it at all. So I want to learn the hiragana first, then I'll be able to follow along the spoken dialogue with the Japanese text. Hopefully some tough learning on the front end will help emensely in the long run.

So tonight I spent most of the time coloring sticky notes and making little stickers to put on various flash cards. Any symbol ending in "a" has a red sticky, any in "i" has a green sticky and so on. This way in the begining I can have a little help remembering which symbol is which. As I start to get it down I can simply take the stickers off for more advanced practice. We'll see how it works out!

Actual drawings tomorrow, I promise!

I'm Back!

After toying with the idea of creating a new blog, I have decided to just revamp this one. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I plan to update this thing at least 5 times a week, letting people know what's up with me and my art. So what's up?

Today I took advantage of a 10 dollar gift card to Hal Priced Books and a 25 dollar gift card to Barnes and Noble. I tell you, I have some excellent friends who think I am smart.

From Half Price I got:
1. English Fairy Tales - collected by Joseph Jacobs
2. The Life and Fables of Aesop - edited by Simon Stern
3. The Lost City of Zork - by Robin W. Bailey
4. Star Trek The Next Generation: Guises of the Mind - by Rebecca Neason
and ended up with only 9 cents left on the card!

From Barnes and Noble I got:
5. Samurai Leaders: From the 10th to the 19th Century - by Michael Sharpe
6. The Rime of the Aincent Mariner - by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
7. India: Secrets of the Tiger - Paul Stump
but had to spend exactly 2 of my own hard-earned dollars.

I bought the two fairy tales books because I am trying to come up with good, simple story ideas. I've read some Russian and Arabian fairy tales, now I need to brush up on the European stuff. The Zork book and Star Trek book were only a buck each and were used to fill up the remainder of the gift card.
The Samurai Leaders book quenches my unyielding hunger for Japanese history. The India is filled with amazing photographs of Indian art and culture. There's something about India that has always intrigued me, and I think this will be perfect reference material for future projects. Lastly, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner has always been a wonderful story to me, and this edition had all of the original illustrations at a huge size. It was perfect for a gift card because I would have never bought it for myself, but am very pleased to have it.

And lastly, here are some drawings I did the other day. These are just a bunch of unfortunate people I happen to know or be related to.