| secret, apparently heterosexual message to jaci who is back from vacation |
[Nov. 27th, 2006|04:57 pm] |
on patrick o'brian, the straight face of, i offer this:
"in the matter of boobies, he had been more fortunate than most men." -- the fortunes of war
i mean, c'mon now. c'mon now. eh?
also, i learned i have to pay attention to who's narrating these audiobooks. that narrator chose to give stephen this broad irish brogue, & to pronounce "villiers" to rhyme with "pillars."
love,
miriam, who just downloaded the surgeon's mate, but will only listen to it after kafka on the beach (haruki murakami), & possibly teacher man (frank mccourt) again.
p.s.. not even mentioning, from the same book, "he reminds me of that tuneful lesbian ..." |
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| fangirl squee |
[Sep. 26th, 2006|02:37 am] |
so, one day last week, which shall remain nameless, i got mike to take me out to the word on the street literary festival, here in vancouver. cause i heard from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) inkstuds that joe sacco was coming into town, & was going to do a long interview for cbc. & that, moreover, cbc was giving away tickets if you told them in 200 words or fewer why you deserve them.
whoever follows my work will know that i have quoted sacco in two comics (manifesto, page 4, & towards a hot jew, page 10), & that i am inspired especially by his pioneering of comics-as-journalism. so i knew i had to go meet him, & it wasn't very hard to convince the cbc people of that.
the taping was a lot of fun. it was two hours of interview, plus reading, plus audience questions (only a couple of which were dumb). sacco was, of course, handsomer than his comix alter ego, very well, spoken & seemed very at ease, even though he said he'd never done a reading before. there was an autograph line at the back at the end, where they were also selling his new book. they tried to sweep us out quick to get ready for the next event using the room, but i did get his new book, but i like it. i handed him all my stuff as well, naturally, & told him what i was doing, what it was about....
( & then he inscribed it! )
tee hee! of course, it is worth mentioning that he said that about a collection of grunge-roadie/poster artist juvenilia, which is muchmuchmuch fluffier than such works as palestine or safe area gorazde. but stiiiilll. |
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| teehee |
[Sep. 20th, 2006|04:21 pm] |
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| | hank williams, honky tonkin' | ] |
so i thought i really ought to change my bio, because i am not presently an art student. so i did.
thanks to seattleturtle for the line. |
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| ain't that pretty at all |
[Sep. 13th, 2006|03:57 pm] |
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here is the thing i've been doing & not-doing ever since i got back from israel. it is an illustration for a magazine.... it is pretty much my first watercolour painting, except for the fluke which was the cover of jobnik! 5.
( um. ) |
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| vanity searchin' |
[Aug. 8th, 2006|07:50 pm] |
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i am leaving for israel for two weeks tomorrow. i don't post cause i don't feel like i have much to say..... but here is something i just have to share.
so i do vanity searches on google, to see if people are noticing my stuff, or if it's positive reviews i can link to or whatnot. i really haven't seen any since san diego this year, but i just found this one on an utterly random myspace:
remember when we were in 6th grade and we went to comic con in san diego. there was this girl who did an isreali army comic called jobnik. then we found out she went to emily carr and that explained why she was such a disinteresting sass pile. too bad the comic is so good.
that just made my day. |
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| my favourite thing i've gotten for my birthday |
[Jul. 28th, 2006|05:56 pm] |
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| | i am the baker - the aquabats | ] |
( ringu ) |
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| happy birthday |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|01:30 pm] |
to art_geek who, every year, without fail, has almost the same birthday as me.
hug! |
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| the social scene |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|01:24 am] |
so, we are back. hopefully there will be a big photo post by mike on the other journal soon.
i would call it successful. we took home more than twice what we did last year, we sold out of issue 1 (50 copies) & issue 5 (45 copies) & every men's medium or large shirt. we also did a lot more hanging outage than last year, due to our staying downtown at my cousin-once-removed's swank apartment. we stayed out until three-ish each night, & woke up at six-thirty, to buy provisions & walk to the con by nine. at which point we would stand for nine hours, with occasional walking around, & then stay out.... another reason i consider this con to be a great success is that despite the previous, mike & i don't seem to have come home sick, or even with loss of feeling in our toes, like last year.
we got to hang out with various groups of people, notably the vancouver comics scene one night. i'm really glad that we're getting to know those guys. i mean, none of us is really doing the same thing (those of us who aren't cocreators).... we're superheroes, manga, horror, idf memoir, etc. but everyone's just really cool, & fun, & nice, like a bunch of freakin canadians. & i'll see them again at comix & stories in a month.
the people we hung out with most of the time seemed to be stephen notley (the angry flower), & david axe, to whom i was introduced by ted rall (more on that later). david seemed to seesaw between "i'm a real reporter, i'm really above this stuff," & you know, admitting he was just a fanboy, & it was his first convention as an exhibitor, & he really did want to know us. i liked him, & i really like his book, which was iraq war reporting in graphic novel form. talking with him about it inspired me & has me thinking more of other ways to go at what i do.
you know who else inspires me? ted rall. i remember reading his cartoons every week in hoot, the late free humor newspaper in columbus (it ran through, i think the late eighties & early nineties). his stuff is very deadpan, & just so spot-on. & he came to my table. i guess he's in his mid-forties, but reading him at such a formative time, i was surprised to find him so young-looking. (i was like "gee, who knew ted rall would be so handsome! his head isn't a bit rectangular!")
i was even more surprised when he said he'd bought issue one at a previous con, & loved it, & looked forward to the rest (which i promptly handed him) & i should have a book, & i should be in bookstores, & had i ever thought of doing a strip? & for giving him all my comics, he said come by his publisher's booth & he'd give me a book.
the publisher's booth was where i hung out & talked for awhile longer, & met david. i also found out that ted rall, like many otherwise proud lefty types, has a thing for girls with guns ("especially when they look like they know how to use them"), & almost drooled over page 7, aka the one on contra_7's wall in japan. i forgot to offer to sell him the original. i didn't end up getting a book, cause he would've had to buy it from his publisher in order to give it to me. but he said he'll send one.
now.... i'm not even going to try to tell this whole story. but i think my favourite after-hours at the con was the very last night, when mike & i were rolling home from a late & drinky night, after parting with david & stephen, & ran into the guy who runs the vancouver comicon, & peter coogan. oh my goodness, how many endless rambling drunken stories poured out then. an hour, i bet, before we were even introduced. with some extra intellectual silliness on top. i recommend it. for a really good time, tell him how shocking you find public nudity. |
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| the nudity issue |
[Jul. 14th, 2006|05:35 pm] |
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| | i'm leavin' now- johnny cash | ] |
jobnik 5 is here! jesus is that ever a load off my mind. i don't yet know exactly how i feel about it, cause i've just been buried under it for a long time. but if jobnik! 3 was the wild sex issue (as stephen notley would have it), then i think jobnik! 5 is the lightly-dressed issue (as my father used to say).
if you're in vancouver, you can see for yourself, as i took a wrong turn on the way back from my t-shirt suppliers & dropped the the new issue at rx comics
next: minestrone! |
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| temporarily yours |
[Jun. 15th, 2006|10:58 pm] |
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| | composing my leetle letters to the elite | ] |
oh, i guess i oughta say, cause there might be some people still wondering: i applied for a temporary extended visa for a year. this weekend i got one for six months, 'til december. after that, who knows? further bulletins as events warrant. |
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| this was a new one on me, part ii |
[Jun. 13th, 2006|10:33 pm] |
so, the comics world & booth babe-ing being what they are, i had no shortage of weird encounters this weekend. one was with as-near-to an unconscious antisemite as i've ever met. but the weirdest one was with gary groth. & it was twice as weird because all i could think of throughout was the dream i had four months ago, wherein i spoke to gary groth at mocca.
so i was roaming around the con floor, in the only half-an-hour i was out from behind my table all show. ellen forney told me she had a new book through fantagraphics, & it was on my list of things to buy. i walked up to the fantagraphics table, found the book, & handed it to the people behind the table, one of whom had a badge that said GARY GROTH.
he was a very clean, nice-looking paragon of middle-aged businessmanhood. i stood there dumbly, & all i could think of was, "why, you're not an ugly mangy dwarf at all!" (luckily i did not say that).
he looked at me & said, "& who are you?"
i said, "um? i'm miriam libicki."
he said, "that's who i thought you were."
i said "uhhh.... really?"
he said, "yeah, that's what i figured."
i really couldn't manage anything else. i smiled a little petrified smile, & got away.
i still don't know what the heck went on there. was he just putting me in my place cause he's famous & i was staring? does he actually know of me? if so, should i, like try to send him something even though my last letter from fantagraphics seemed very don't-call-us (it wasn't from gary groth. really, i have no idea why he would have heard of me)? should i just send him a follow-up note with my business card, saying i found him surprisingly tall & handsome (my friend & host ben's suggestion)? |
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| who soothes my thumpin', bumpin' brain |
[Jun. 6th, 2006|01:34 am] |
this past wednesday saw me inagurate two new art toys.
( wacom tablet (graduation present from grandparents) )
( screenprint table (i bought the hinge clamps, we attached them to a secondhand computer desk) )
then this past thursday saw me drive down to seattle to stay with tam_lynn & this other dude. we had a shavuot without much staying up, but with plenty of dairy products, oh my. including white mocha cheesecake. & lessons were learned all around.
saturday night saw me see a wristcutters: a love story (aka kamikaze pizza aka pizzeria kamikaze aka kneller's happy campers aka hekeytana shel kneller, etc.) with my hosts as well as my inspirations for the trip, marginalia & art_geek then we all went out to ihop, where i had some additional post-holiday blintzes. hooray for leaving my house!
i have a couple of leads on the sabbath helper front, but not enough that i'll sleep oversoundly tonight....
but oh! my radio interview is up. for the record, the playlist was
1. everyone went to the new mall, teapacks
2. spiderman, moxy fruvous
3. you turn me on i'm a radio, joni mitchell ("can-con & fem-con!" they exclaimed)
4. poor poor pitiful me, warren zevon (extra-long instrumental intro version, argh)
i brought fat-bottomed girls, but we never got to play it cause of, um, talking too much. |
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| ok, so, here's a question |
[May. 24th, 2006|02:35 pm] |
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i've been hosting realgonegirl.com through an outfit called domain direct, for no real good reason. my second year is up in six days, & i am thinking to switch domain hosts. for one thing, i am reasonably sure that they give my email out to spammers. for another thing, i was kind of snookered into getting the bigger, more expensive package. it wasn't their fault that i got it, but it is their fault that when i go to renew, the only options are "keep what i've got" or "get the even bigger, more expensive packages." absolutely no option for "scale back my package" through the renewal website.
i'd be obliged to hear, from you friends who know from this stuff, if you can recommend another host, & if you know how exactly i could switch my whole domain name & website over.... thanks heaps.
back to drawing a page that will not die!
p.s. oh, and, does anybody know somebody in new york, &/or going to mocca (june 10th & 11th), who might be willing to help me for odd jobs & at my table saturday? also they can't be jewish. no? worth a shot, anyhow. |
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| i'm the same old trouble that you always been through |
[May. 16th, 2006|09:02 pm] |
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| | middlesex, jeffery eugenides | ] |
had a very good day yesterday. bussed downtown to have lunch with a jody from school (& proceeded to circle back for forty-five minutes, cause i had no idea where her office was). weather was not too hot but awfully sunny, so we sat on a bench on the seawall & had ice coffees & pastries while discussing comix & plans. then we walked along the seawall for a while, talking over our recent graduation. she was inspired to take the rest of the day off work, & we took the aquabus (which i'm ashamed to say i've never ridden before) out to emily carr (did i ever tell you that i took a class with a chinese girl who unfailingly referred to our school as "enemy car"?).
we got to school right before her animated short grad project came up on the looping video projector, & so i got to see it finally (it rocks. & it seems the toronto international film festival agrees, cause they're showing it at their student showcase in a week, & flying her out to be there).
we then took the scenic walk home from granville island, one i hadn't known about before. we talked about how we wanted to get back into regular figure drawing classes, & i showed her the thumbnails for jobnik! 5. she said she liked my sex scenes :)
i was afterwards so amped (though i was also sunburnt ow bad all down my right arm), that i proceeded to make a watercolour for the cover of issue five. i still wish i could take a proper class on watercolour, because there are so many totally transcendent effects you can get with it, & it behaves so much differently than oil or acrylic. but i was surprised at how much i liked my painting.
i needed blue ink to finish it, & i got that today. i didn't do much today besides finish the painting. i walked to school once & back twice (mike is constructing at emily carr these days, so he gave me a ride this morning), & saw my therapist, who encouraged me to make a schedule of drawing, rather than drawing whenever but trying to get a page a day. so that starts, er, tomorrow.
heck. the fact that i am somehow both afraid of my cover image & skipping-around pleased with it, means i probably should go ahead & post it, at least to this, my non-professional livejournal. tell me what you think?
( vargas jobnik ) |
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| hayom yom huledet |
[May. 10th, 2006|01:54 am] |
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happy birthday, sherylsjean! |
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| a plea for help |
[May. 3rd, 2006|11:29 am] |
so it turns out that for my radio interview tomorrow (which i'm totally freaking out about, when i'm not freaking out about trying to get my grad show piece assembled, or my father & grandparents coming), i have to bring in five songs to play in breaks during my interview.
now, i am as dependent on music as the next person, but these are going to be playing for, you know, dozens of people, not just myself. they must have broad appeal. & they have to complement the fact that i'm being interviewed on the radio, somehow. i could make a playlist out of all songs that have appeared in jobnik! (corrine allall's "ein li eretz aheret (i have no other land)", which is quoted in full at the end of jobnik 3, ella fitzgerald's "our love is here to stay, the dire straights' "romeo & juliet", etc.) but uh, they are not the peppiest. mostly. i'm not sure if their jobnik! connection is enough.
tamar thinks i should just play song's that she'd like to hear on the radio, particularly queen's "body language." perhaps a mix of each is best. i really have no idea. does anyone else have an idea? what would you play if you were being interviewed on the radio? are there any songs that maybe remind you of my comics, or that my comics bring to mind? |
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| welcome in the mayo |
[May. 1st, 2006|10:30 am] |
(i'm going to post this to both journals, just to be sure)
um. there is a long interview with me at important online comix zine sequential tart, also i drew this month's cover. which, if you like it, can be ordered in t-shirt & mug form from sequential tart's cafepress store.
& on thursday, i'm going to be interviewed on inkstuds, important local comix radio show. i am nervous for that one. i don't like my voice. inkstuds airs every thursday at 2pm pacific time in vancouver at 101.9 fm and online at http://www.citr.ca/, so everyone can listen.
& this saturday i graduate. |
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| exceptionally passive & highly adorned |
[Apr. 4th, 2006|04:53 pm] |
so i am so not with it (i've run out to my printer's three times today, & to school twice, with a third trip planned, & speaking of trips, i'm flying out to san francisco tomorrow. also i suddenly have two honest-to-god illustration assignments that... have to be in by next week). but i promised myself i'd post about this
( grad art auction. ) |
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[Mar. 6th, 2006|01:59 pm] |
you know what i hate? voice mail.
maybe i've been missing it because i am so not in the adult world of offices & things, but it really just dawned on me what a tool for evil it can be.
but i have had two super-ambitious, super-professional (super-secret) secret business plans for the furthering of my career & the betterment of the world thwarted in the past few days, because i don't know how to get someone to pick up a phone for me.
is this official practice? that all calls (or even all from an unknown person) go straight to voicemail? cause i left messages, but i really can't imagine either of those important people calling me back.
grownup friends: do you know how to get past/work around this? it is for a terribly cool cause. |
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