I’m already sick of the sniping at Frank Miller’s Spirit movie, because I don’t know enough about The Spirit to join in.
Luckily, I’m near a collection of the entire Spirit archive, and I started reading. I’m beginning to wonder if Frank Miller really is so “off” with the movie… I mean:
Aside from everything else, is that crowbar really suggestive to anyone else?
I got a day to draw on vacation. To celebrate, I picked up a new cheap sketchbook. Only on the first page, but off to a good start:
I really need a scanner. Taking photos just doesn’t work!
Artists I was thinking of: Jim Rugg (notice girl’s failed Rugg-style nose shading) and Chris Bachelo, who I’m convinced inspired the B&W boyo there on the left.
Today is Dvorak Day!
Okay… technically, it was yesterday. But I didn’t know until today, so celebrate now like it’s 1932!!! (Which was when, on May 21st, Dvorak first patented his simplified keyboard layout.) And so, in celebration, I’ve used a slow day at work to liberate my own keyboard and bring it around to the Dvorak way.
“Dvorak” is short for The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Layout. The standard keyboard layout that most people use (QWERTY) was developed to overcome mechanical problems on the original typewriter almost 150 years ago – mechanical problems that no longer exist! In 1932 Professor August Dvorak scientifically designed an improved keyboard layout based on research and logic.” -from DVzine.org
Learn more at DVzine.org.
One part of comics life that has not endeared itself to me is aspects of the research. Specifically, the research into clothes. Women’s clothing. While it’s an engaging and valid excuse for cruising Victoria’s Secrets catalogues as “research,” it also leads to conversations like:
Me: “What do you call that. Those sweaters with shortened sleeves…”
She: “What?”
Me: “Um… you know, like three-quarters sleeves? Do you have any of those? They cut right below the boobs?”
She: “You mean a ’shrug’?”
Me: “That is a gesture, not a garment.” (Not true, it turns out.)
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