Archive for February, 2005

More on on my first autobiographical comic strip

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

I’ve written a summary/treatment for the story (which I’ve mentioned earlier in this journal). It’s a synopsis of all the main events that includes some captions and dialogue. I’ve broken the plot down into pages. It will run approximately 24 pages. The page size will be the same size Justine Shaw used for one of [...]

Just when you thought I was done writing about online dating …

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

No, I’m not planning on another round of it. I’m still seeing Stefania (who I met through eHarmony.com), and things are going great. However, I just got an interesting email from someone who was reading through this journal and had some interesting things to tell me about eHarmony. It turns out that the founder of eHarmony, Dr. [...]

More digital art

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Here are three more pictures. I want to devote most of my artistic energies to my first online autobiographical comic strip, “Mistaken Identity”, which I plan to write more about in another post. I’ve created quite a few pretty pictures … now I want to tell a story with the pictures. This said, you’re probably always [...]

First of two new rounds of digital art….

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Click the thumbnails below to see the full-sized images:

Screen capture of my spiffy-lookin’ desktop

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Here’s what the desktop on my machine currently looks like. I use both WindowBlinds and WinStep to modify the Windows XP desktop. I also frequently download skins for both (and wallpapers too) from WinCustomize. I use WindowBlinds because I’ve gotten bored with the typical Windows desktop. I use WinStep for the same reason, but it also helps [...]

I know how you feel, Mr. Crumb.

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

[The panels above originally appeared in the story "I'm Grateful! I'm Grateful!", which appeared in WEIRDO MAGAZINE in 1989. It's copyright Robert Crumb of course.] I’ve been spending the day here in the “home office” here in southeast Minneapolis. I’m getting the same level of satisfaction out of this that Crumb gets from hanging out [...]