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| | Subject: | omg i drew a comic | | Time: | 11:26 am |
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Here is a little journal comic I drew in my Moleskine and inked because I felt like using my nib pen. It's not much but at least you know I still have arms!
I do apologise for not posting more comics. I have been hard at work on Mungo Bean (12 pages inked, 12 more written) which will be going up on Top Shelf sometime in the future, and I have been making lots of stuff to sell.
Also we got a Wii. | comments: 22 comments or Leave a comment   |
| | Subject: | craft market | | Time: | 04:08 pm |
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| Apologies for cross-posting (on ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) madebybees) but I will be selling comics, badges, Space Rabbits and brooches at the Made on the Left craft fair tomorrow (Saturday). It's at the Hyde Park Hotel and goes from 11 am to 4 pm. Entry is free and there should be lots of good stuff there so if you live in Perth, come and check it out! I will be adding more stuff to my etsy shop very soon. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | ive live in perth 2008!!! | | Time: | 11:24 am |
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| As promised, here are a bunch of photos! I will start with the Monster & Robot Supanova photos. Mostly I took photos of adorable things like this:
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| | Subject: | fanart and love | | Time: | 03:09 pm |
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| I'm back from Supanova and the Weekend of Love! We had ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sirive living in our house for five days and it was the best time ever. Come back, Ive! I will make you more French toast! I took exactly one trillion photos over this time but I have yet to retrieve them. I will post some tomorrow, but I think I'll break it up into a few different events, just for those of you who want to see pictures of adorable children dressed like superheroes but are less interested in a thousand photos of Ive and Grug looking at a shark. (We also went to the aquarium.)
Anyway I got a couple of emails this morning that really made my day, and one was from Joyce, who drew me this fanart! She said that she would like to make comics and I really hope she does, because this is gorgeous. Thanks Joyce! I am drinking a cup of tea right now.
Posting about this reminded me that I never posted about this other wonderful drawing by Sarah McIntyre, aka jabberworks! She is an amazing children's book illustrator and cartoonist, and she drew Space Rabbit meeting her adorable character Lettuce. She regularly throw out casual warm-up sketches that would take me hours of agonising work, and I would love to be half as good as her some day.
Tomorrow: photos! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | mungo bean on top shelf | | Time: | 03:23 pm |
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| Hey you guys! Top Shelf 2.0 has started serialising Book One of Mungo Bean. Also um I guess I forgot to tell you when they posted Bad Yeti? Anyway that's there too.
Even if you don't feel like reading those again, you really should check out some of the other stuff there, it's really great! I am currently working on Book Two of Mungo Bean but that won't be up for a little while. I have also finished writing Book Two of Love Puppets, and I'm thinking about Book Three!
I guess I should occasionally post a comic here to remind you of my existence, huh? | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | SUPANOVA EXCITEMENT | | Time: | 11:11 am |
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| Do you live in Perth? Are you doing anything this weekend? Would you like to TOTALLY NERD OUT?!?
SUPANOVA PERTH is on at the Claremont Showgrounds this weekend and it is filled with awesome ladies from science fiction! I am SUPER EXCITED to meet Kaylee and pretty excited to meet Dualla. I am not much of a Star Trek OS fan but I think it is very cool that Uhura is coming!
Ahem. Yes I am a giant geek. But most importantly MONSTER & ROBOT INDUSTRIES will be there! That's right, sirive, tedprior and I will have a table in Artists' Alley and we will have lots of exciting new wares for you. Also you will see how good-looking we are in person (super good-looking). So come down and rub our beards and buy our stuff! | | comments: 19 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | last word on this, i promise! | | Time: | 11:30 am |
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| Hey you guys! Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on ethical shopping. I thought I'd post a few links for those who are interested.
Better World Shopper is really easy to use and they have a book for $10 (free shipping) which would be great to take to the supermarket with you. This is best for people in the US though, as a lot of products in other countries aren't included (even though most of 'em are owned by the same few big bastards).
http://www.ethical.org.au is an excellent resource for Australian shoppers. You can print out PDFs of each shopping area (chocolate, shampoo, etc) and see a list from best to worst. The site is good although you might have to dig a bit to find out which company makes your product. You can buy their booklet cheaply too, which would be good to take shopping (a bit easier to manage than a bunch of printouts). You pay a flat price for shipping so if you want me to get one for you too (and you see me on a fairly regular basis) let me know.
The things I am most concerned about are social impact and fair trade, that is, the primary producers being given a fair price. We are going to have to switch brands on a few things and give a few things up (Lipton iced tea, I will miss you!) but it won't be too disruptive to our shopping, I hope. We're happy to pay a little more for this anyway. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | buying ethical | | Time: | 04:05 pm |
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I don't know if I just have late-afternoon brain lock, but I can't find a good site which will tell me which brands are owned by whom, and whether the parent corporations are evil or... uh, I guess "what level of evil the parent corporations are" is what I'm trying to say. For example, which brands use sweatshop labour, which ones rip off primary producers, etc. I found a good list of the fourteen worst corporate human rights violators, which cemented my determination to stop using Coca-Cola and Nestle products (oh Milo, I will miss you so much!) but I want to check out other brands like Kellogg's and Lipton. Does anyone have some good links to share?
(And yes, for the record, I understand that our frugal little household boycotting Nestle is not exactly going to bring the company to its knees, so you don't need to point that out.)
Thanks! | | comments: 20 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | my thesis | | Time: | 09:25 am |
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The Wordle version of my PhD thesis (in English & Cultural Studies). I wish I could have used this on the cover! Seeing this makes me vaguely nostalgic for the days when I just read about prostitutes all day. Click on the image to embiggen, and to make your own! | | comments: 24 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | i am a published author! | | Time: | 02:18 pm |
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Hey you guys! Luxbooks has published Space Rabbit! I have an ISBN and it's even on German Amazon!
Unfortunately, it's only available in German so far. I'd love to get it published in English but it's a full-colour book, over 60 pages long... so don't hold your breath. If you speak German, you should go to your local bookstore and order a copy! And talk loudly about how great it is.
Holding a pile of my books in my hands was one of the best moments of my life. I was just about hyperventilating!
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| | Subject: | cuddle a space rabbit! | | Time: | 01:15 pm |
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Hey you guys! I have an Etsy shop!
And I'm selling these screenprinted, handmade Space Rabbit softies there!
Currently I only have four up but I have a bunch more at home. This is an experiment to see if people want to buy these! So if you want one but it's already gone, let me know in the comments and I will post more. They come in blue or pink with a variety of different printed cotton backings.
I'm also selling comics on the Etsy site, so check em out! | | comments: 11 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | grug/robert/tedprior is having a birthday! | | Time: | 11:49 am |
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Happy Birthday baby! I love you very much! | | comments: 14 comments or Leave a comment |
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