The [adult swim] special (a.k.a. failed pilot) "Welcome To Eltingville" is up on You Tube now, for all those who never got a chance to see it. I'm posting it here because it can't be put on Evan's LJ...if you want to watch it, click below!
Warning absolutely no cuteness ahead. At all. Also, it's about 23 minutes, and kind of LOUD.
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That's the name of the upcoming symposium at Duke University on "the power and relevance of primary materials to the history and future of feminism". And because one of the topics being covered is girl zine history, there will be a large exhibit of zines and other works, many from my collection, on display, and I will be a guest speaker! I'll be participating in the "Modes and Methods of Feminist Publishing" session on Thursday. We've been so busy I'm a litle out of the loop on what else is going to be going on there, but it looks pretty interesting and it's free, so if you are for some reason in the area, check it out!
It's March of 2004. And what did I do today work-wise? I colored Bill S. Preston, Esq. & Ted "Theodore" Logan, yup, I've been working on the Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Adventures trade (vol 1) all afternoon. I feel like I got in the phone booth myself and went back in time -- I almost expect to see my old fuschia hair in the mirror! So weird! Okay, got to go party on, dudes!
So, Evan finally announced our crazy Bill & Ted's news. That'll be my very next job as soon as this current crush of work is over. Our jaw's been dropping since the idea first came up. It's silly, but pretty exciting. We have very fond memories of the B&T days.
I expect we will find "No way!" and "Yes way!" creeping back into our vocabularies any week now. ^_^
Be excellent to each other!!
A fantastic article on copyright, discovered in the forums of Distributed Proofreaders, which is an awesome project to get more books into ebook form. Go and help, and if you don't want to proofread, you can scan, run OCR or just donate.
I've been spending a lot of time going through boxes of old letters, zines and mini-comics and packing up more stuff for Duke University, where they are archiving my entire collection and archive of zines and comics by women/girls. It's always a little weird to go through that stuff—on the one hand, it's so nice to reread all these great and inspirational letters that I got from people who really appreciated what I was doing, but on the other, looking at the not-so-nice mail I'd saved for no comprehensible reason made all the reasons that I got really get burned out on the whole thing came back to me in a flood.
Going through comics for the first time (I had kept them all initially) was also a little sad when I realized how many creators have disappeared. Some of them have become illustrators, and some are doing comics today. But a large number of them seem to have simply vanished.
On a brighter note, I talked to the archivist who deals with my stuff for the first time in ages, and she told me that the collection is being used heavily, and that five classes used it for a major project this term! She's going to send me a handful of the top papers. It's really exciting to think that all of this really ephemeral work has gotten a second lease on life—that was my hope when I started sending my stuff there, so I'm really thrilled to see it happening. It's really eased all my reservations—I had trouble letting go of a lot of things, many of them had small notes to me written in them (don't worry, letters and truly personal notes were all excised) and of course there were reviews and interviews with me that I do not have copies of. But you can't save everything. And I can always go and visit it all.
It looks like it'll be too cloudy to see the Leonid meteor shower. Not that you can see much of the night sky here on a good day…light pollution being what it is. (Those of you with clear, dark, skies have no idea how lucky you are. And boy do I miss them.) Trying to find a good location to meteor-watch (before I saw the weather reports) I found Darksky.org, which sounds like a super-villain group, but is actually an educational non-profit working to improve the night sky.
In other news, I've finally finished our little store (I saw "we" because Evan has helped quite a bit, although he can't seem to finish my Mr. Bunny drawing!). My original idea, was, of course, a lot more complicated. But what it's boiled down to is a way for us to make little, limited run things of cute designs we come up with. "Cute" doesn't sell that well, so these are either the kinds of things that we know will only sell a few at most. Or they're things we only want to make available for a limited period of time. And if nothing else, we can make more stuff for ourselves. (That's all I've used Cafepress for over the past two years!) I know I'll be doing some X-mas shopping there myself.
Been a long week. I have just one comment: If you are a flash animation studio, and you have announced yourself as such, you really ought to have some decent flash on your website, fer heck's sake!! Because guess what happens when someone is looking you over at your website—you get dropped off the list of prospects. Come on, it's like a web designer using a horrible site to promote themselves…wait, I've seen that too… In other news, Evan (my DH, for those of you who don't know) has finally started writing his online journal, check it out at: Big Mouth Types Again.
My, how time does fly! Kodocha volume five is off to be lettered, and I'll be starting on 6 this week. Woke up achy today from working out back (found and pulled out bunch of buried rocks—they were definitely put there on purpose, but what purpose is a mystery to me…) Got some work done and then spent several annoying hours (okay, one or two) after discovering that someone had hammered us with some stupendous bandwidth theft. Basically, someone hotlinked to a rather large image on the site and proceeded to use it as an avatar all over the place. I also discovered that the new server the site was moved to recently (same host, new machines) was having trouble recognizing some directories, which is why the images weren't protected. You know, (rant mode on), it's one thing to copy a graphic and use it because you love it so much. But to hammer someone's traffic every time you make any post anywhere… That is just so wrong. It's like having someone steal your wallet and then charge you $5 for the privilege. Grrrrr. However, I'd just like to keep thinking this guy was totally clueless, instead of a malicious clod.
Whew! This year's SPX experience was certainly an unusual one, mainly because of the freaky events we went through just to get there. (I'm going to let Evan tell this story himself, but until that happens I'll give you a couple of key words: dead body; truck stop; severed finger. No, I'm not making that up, and don't worry, we both still have ten fingers each.) The show went well but it was too big and disorganized to really see much of anyone. Dork 10 came out on Friday (no printing mistakes) and sold out by mid-Saturday (it should be in stores tomorrow). (Annoying coindence: the book comes out at SPX on Friday. Saturday people start coming up to us and say "Hey, did you see your joke was on Leno?" Just a minor joke, no big deal, but how annoying.) (Hey, note how parenthetical I'm feeling today…) Thanks to all of you who stopped by and said hi, by the way—we were kept pretty busy all of both days. And we did manage to have quite a bit of fun while we were at it, actually. Of course, then we came home to a house full of mysteriously non-functioning stuff, which was no fun. But that's a whole other story.
On another note, if you use XP, hopefully you already know about the near-fatal security hole that's been discovered (which allows entire directories on your hard drive to be deleted by a web site! go microsoft!) If not, go to Leoville for info and links.
I am so tired. After finishing up the new issue of Dork we went straight into a rush job (a Moby comic for Spin. Updates on the HOF page when we know when it's running, etc etc. With no time to recover, we are now getting ready to leave for the SPX where we'll be all weekend. We did get the cool 1" badges made (see below) if you want to come by and get one! So, anyone going to SPX, see you there—everyone else, see you next week!
As usual, things have been hectic, between trying to prepare for taking off two weekend in a row to do some shows and then trying to be prepared as I can for possible district court jury duty right afterwards...ugh! But I have finally finished revamping the cooking class and I'm pretty happy with it. I also discovered that Google was still linking directly to some of the old pages! So I put redirects up for every single page. (and that is when deep linking can be bad!) And the first volume of my manga rewrite, Kodocha, finally came out! So all in all, not a bad week.
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