Nevermind, Death Head is up! Go read, you sexy beasts.

Tomorrow's Death Head update is going to be late. I hate the art, so I'm probably going to start it from scratch. Oh well.

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I've started drawing more at work, because I'm bored on register all day and have decided to shirk my responsibilities. I get shit done regardless, so whatever. Anyway! These were each done once a day for the past week (sans the second one, which was done a week ago) and all on receipt paper. They're actually shown larger than they were drawn.

Expect the first one to be redrawn and better.

Wanna know a secret? Come in close, I have to whisper it to you. I'm in the midst of a serious depression. *schoolgirl hand-to-mouth chuckle*

Seriously though, I really am. I hadn't realized it until today and suddenly things make sense. I haaaate my job, specifically my boss and the whole retail thing. I'm sick of living here, and while I absolutely adore my flatmates and would be happy to live with them anywhere else, Ruston is just a go-nowhere kind of place for someone like me and it's starting to weight on my shoulders. My family's drama hasn't gotten any less, it's only gotten more spread out and painful. I'm lonely as fuck. I don't feel like I'm going anywhere and that I'll never go anywhere, which is a fate worse than death to me. I keep yearning for a return to a childhood that was never really good to begin with. I'm tired all the time and I hate everything. I'm so angry I could spit.

Today alone I nearly threw my hands in the air and said "I quit on life!" more times than I can count. I'm so done with all this shit. I feel like a whiney high-school kid being a whiny high-school kid, but seriously? I'm just fucking sick of this shit.

I cannot, CANNOT, sit idley while life passes me by. My eyes on the internet and ass on the couch. I have to do stuff, go places, be active in some way or another that doesn't involve my sole social interactions being my job. I'd rather kill myself-- I'm not kidding.

Not to mention they cut my hours worse and worse all the time at work. I'm looking at other options again, but I don't know what the fuck to do. I don't know what I want, but I know I don't want the only things that're the only places I know how to look.

I'm just fed up. Straight up.

Oh, and have I mentioned Death Head updated today? Probably should.

SEATTLE AND OLYMPIA FRIENDS, listen up! Apropos has a show lined up a Gerties bar in Lawndale on Hallowe'en eve eve! As in October 29th. We just lined it up, and we need bands to fill it up. Prefer punk, metal, hard rock, whatever. It's the first show Gerties is holding and they want a band night, so it's up to Apropos to fill it up.

If you're in a band TOTALLY LET ME KNOW, or if you know any bands let them know we're looking for people.

Much appreciated!

So Death Head updated date this time. Drunk Duck, the site that hosts it, was being buggy and wouldn't let me load-- but now it is, so horray!

In the mean time I had started to create a mirror site, and decided I'm'a just keep it. So if Drunk Duck doesn't work, check it out over at Webcomics Nation.

Also, big news: I've submitted my application for the Prism Comics queer creators grant. Wish me luck! Seriously, I wantz so hard. Hella work went into that-- I'll probably upload most of the application to show you what I mean.

I just sent my submission in for the Prism Grant award. WISH ME LUCK!

Thought it wouln't pass?! Too extreme to go through?! Think again!!!

Capitol hill fucks artists everywhere!

FROM ILLUSTRATORS ' PARTNERSHIP OF AMERICA:

Orphan Works: The Devil's Own Day

Never Too Busy to Pass Special
Interest Legislation 9.28.
08

As lawmakers struggled Friday to clean up the mess on Wall Street, sponsors of the Orphan Works Act passed more special interest legislation. Their bill would force copyright holders to subsidize giant copyright databases run by giant internet firms.

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TAKE ACTION: EMAIL CONGRESS TONIGHT
Tell the House Judiciary Committee not to adopt the Senate version.


We've supplied a special letter for this purpose: [J: Even if this is TL:DR, please just go to this link, plug in your info, and send it off. It's so simple, and this is important to people like me.]

http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/alert/?alertid=11980321

Panel from the next Death Head that I'm particularly proud of. I was kinda loathing the idea of doing it, but when I got down to it it was pretty fun. And I admit, I stole a lot of faces straight out of New York Four and DMZ, but it's still neat.

My art: it's so terribly inconsistent. I'm looking at "Graham" on all eight pages I've drawn so far, and I can't tell it's the same guy. Hell, on one page alone he goes from looking like a forty ans asian man, to a cartoony black dude, then a grizzled 'Nam veteran. WTF?

At least Chuck premiers tomorrow night. There's always that.

Addendum: 1:10AM: I couldn't take it, I had to watch Chuck tonight (questionable legality). I'm so excited. I spent my time watching it penciling a doorframe, then poorly inking it. I AM TEH WIN FAIL!

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Look everyone! It's badrobot, at his store The Great Wind-Up!

Done with work for today, and have the next four days off. Time to rope in this comic submission. Can I get a hell yeah?

Oh yeah, most recent Death Head went up thursday. Forgot to mention. Think I might give up Oh So Sassy, no big loss really.

To the artard who set the trashcan in front of the store on fire today: Thanks for making the day a little more interesting.



Don't worry, no damage or anything. Just smoke. More funny than anything.

Comics which influence me the most:
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DMZ
Maus
The Walking Dead
The Watchmen
The Boys
Funhouse: A Tragicomic
Y: The Last Man
The Zombie Hunters
Something Positive
Templar, Arizonia
YU+ME:dream
For Better Or For Worse

Yesterday I was in Seattle. Today I drew another page of my comic. I think I need to go to Seattle before drawing, because my skill level went up about two notches on this page.

Death Head. It's new. You want it. You want its bod. Bod Head, for Death.

PS: if the site doesn't work when you go, it's because Drunk Duck has been switching servers this past week and the site'll go down for hours at a time. Sorry!

I didn't get done today what I was hoping to get done, so I'll just tell you rather than show you I guess.

Today I was working on avatar images for Pink Kryptonite's writers. There're nine of us now, and I got approximately two sketches done, haha. Mine'll be simple enough, I already know what I'm gonna do. The rest are less difficult in concept, but moreso in execution (and here's where I'll answer halfawake's question from before).

It's so hard drawing other peoples stuff in a new and non rip-off way. Here's the list of things I have and will be drawing, per the writers already standing requests:
- Jonothan Starsmore of X-Men (already sketched), for writer Jono Starsmore
- Zombie eating someone (already sketched), for Doctor Lexicon
- Barbara Gordan, AKA Batbirl, AKA Oracle for writer Oracle Chele
- Goblin from Spiderman, for writer Goblin
- An elf, for writer Elf Girl
- Rogue from X-Men, for writer Rogue Fan (aka: tygerraven, or Kenne!)
- Heavy class from Team Fortress 2, for writer Sgt. SausagePants
- Ilpalazzo from Excel Saga, for writer Il Palazzo
- Death Head, for me :D

I'm actually gonna put a lot of work into these, and it's driving me nuts so far.

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i hate drawing i hate drawing i hate drawing i hate drawing i hate drawing

[more on this later]