MAN?

So I've been thinking about taking a new direction with my blogging habits. SAN started out over 3 years ago as a way for me to get my noggin back into creative gear, and I think I've been pretty successful at that. I always meant to grow into something other at some point, and I'm seriously considering a separate, art-based blog. It might update on Mondays (MAN?)

I would love to actually get a comic rolling, but I'm still a little nervous about announcing an update schedule and not being able to cut it. I have to face it, I need to go through some remedial storytelling classes before I can actually even think of beginning a story. At the same time maybe I need to hone my fiction writing skills.

Monster Pulse by Magnolia Pearl Porter is a little like Pokemon, a little like Orphan Annie, and a little like Avatar: The Last Airbender. Maybe a little like A Distant Soil too.

I just bought š! #9 after learning that it won an award at Angoulême this weekend. I thank Lewis Trondheim that I am even aware of Angoulême International Comics Festival .

This seems like a great place to start reading: Jessica McLeod.

I almost forgot I bought Shutterbug Follies this past week. It should get here some time this week. The state of the union address was given this week. Also I got a haircut. I also tried to watch the Golden Globes. And then I heard Mike Holmes did this interview on Where Monster's Dwell, which I learned is the longest running comics radio broadcast. I watched an episode of Alcatraz by accident. Also some guy conjectured about Ice Cube's good day.

I started reading Friends with Boys again. And then I got sidetracked investigating a reference to Demonology 101.

So other than a few productive things I did on Saturday, this is how my weekend feels.

Uploaded by WiltonTurdley on Jan 23, 2012

The Adventures of Tintin from James Curran on Vimeo.

This Heroic Space Opera is cool. So is this guy's mural.

Uploaded by SuperVegeta69 on Oct 23, 2011

And then there's also this cool comic by Michael DeForge. Also because I never mentioned it before here is Brandon Graham's wordpress. It is full of cool and useful shtuff.

Ninja from Olivier Trudeau on Vimeo.

Halloween is nearly here. I can't wait to see the costumes!

I watched Hide and Seek (2005) this weekend because I had watched Lexxy paint this, which was inspired by this. I just discovered Mikenesses. :O

So this week didn' t turn out to be a very artistically productive one. I barely touched my tablet, but hopefully I'll get into my sketchbooks, and work something up this coming week. It really feels like October flew right out from under me, which is a shame because I think it's my power month. Here's a little progress on the painting from last week.