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It’s the week after the week after SPX so it’s time for me to get back to my everyday self and composure. First order of business is working on my storyboard for my next comic. Second order of business is drawing said comic. Third order of business is working on the storyboard for the next comic after that. And so on and so on.

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Somebody made a comment which fundamentally misunderstands Si Spurrier’s essay about “telling, not showing.” But since I don’t want to beat the person up in public, I’ll discuss this matter all circumspect.

It isn’t “cheating” to let the text tell a bit of the story. It isn’t “breaking a rule.” Perhaps if one reads shonen and seinen manga ( Read more... )

~a coffeeshop story~

"[Name Redacted] closes in an hour!" Before this year I have never heard a closing announcement a full hour before closing time at an establishment but that is how this cafe operates now. It's unbelievably unwelcoming for a business whose reason for existing is to provide people a place to relax. Don't get too comfortable.

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My hair is often knotted up because I keep pulling at it and twisting it. This is just another exhibition of living with constant anxiety.

I'm working on comics but mostly it's drawing two lines and erasing one and a half lines. I don't even make progress in the long run, just run in place for a while.

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Comic book team:

Brian Michael Bendis

Writes the story.

Stuart Immonen
Wade Von Grawbadger
Marte Gracia
Cory Petit

Pencils & inks & colors & letters

The All-New X-Men:


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At the cafe listening to an off-duty barista talk to the on-duty one. This girl kills me, she's a funny person to listen to. I wish I could be her best friend!!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo


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Ayn Rand is a monster and a cancer on this society. Only the callous, only the cruel and sadistic believe in her views. She is a true barbarian, a true savage.

Ayn Rand doesn't represent capitalism. She represents destruction. Destruction of the people who capitalists NEED: the consumers, the workers, the small timers.

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At R.I.T. (Rochester Institute of Technology) if you were an upperclassman and you lived in the dorms, you usually had a little gang. You couldn’t help it. Freshmen didn’t have full debit accounts and upperclassmen did. At the end of an academic quarter, you’d have money left over and it would go to waste and hell no, are you letting money ( Read more... )

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