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sigh............

My computer and i have always had this love/hate relationship. well now it's just hate.
it decided to stop working on me yesterday and now something inside is kaputz and it won't start.
so i am currently in the library, wishing i could post a comic about my shitty computer, but i can't.
so now i gently weep at the loss of my crap-ass CPU, and hope i can produce so much artwork to scan by the time it gets fixed, that it'll blow up again.

i'll post something as soon as i can, cuz i know you're all dying to get a fix of me (not), and you will shortly start the withdrawl process, which i might add, is extremely painful.
i'm totally kidding, it'll only hurt a bit.

currently listening to: Blonde Redhead -- Bipolar

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you know what i love?
i love when i think of something moderately funny to draw, so i can entertain you all, draw it, and then try to post it. but alas! when i go to post it there are errors.
i love that.
friggin love it.
wouldn't you?

sorry folks i guess my computer just loves to hate.... my work that is!
so have some Dumbledore.

currently listening to: The Decemberists -- The Engine Driver

just call me Captain Backfire

one more thing.
I also updated my links (right sidebar) with my friends' sites and some other sites of people i am greatly influenced by, and whose work i admire.

Surprise!

yup i changed the format. i was sick of looking at dots, and i needed some instant gratification, so... voila!
hope you like it. and i don't really care if you don't, cuz i do. i really should get a real site...(kg...)
but this is still good for now.

i'm also gonna start doing a "currently listening to:" portion at the end of every post.

so... currently listening to: The Wrens -- Happy

at the end of the millenium

i know this post is pretty emo. i don't care.
everything seems to be emo these days.
the buzz-word of our generation.

back to the dashboard

in mod-west now.

everything outside is more interesting than in here

i am anti-productive.



----a poem by drew shannon

studio two

Saw the new Harry Potter film on thursday night at midnight with phuc and kyle. it was awesome (duh). I can't believe it's over. sigh..... by the way... i'm a geek.

I moved my work area outta my room that night too. it's in the room next to it. i'll post a picture of it later. but there's more space, and other perks.

i have nothing new art-wise. sorry. soon though. well i gotta go play "medal of honor european assault" with KG. enjoy your week fellow prisoners.

galactic rebel

Yesterday was Remembrance Day. Hope y'all wore your poppies and took a moment of silence to remember our fallen hereos.
I went to the market yesterday before going to the Knight's game and had coffee and drew a picture of a soldier, surorunded by a cross and poppies. maybe i'll post it later. anyways, the entire time i was drawing this picture i was kicking myself for not doing it earlier, because then i could've walked up to a random veteran, and given it to them. Y'know one of those senseless acts of beauty things. Well it was too late by then cause there weren't any veterens around to give it to, just crazy hockey folk. maybe i'll give it to my g-pa. he's a veteran.

That's all for now. nothing too special to report about. I gotta make a new comic for the school paper by tuesday, and the christmas comic is coming along nicely, i've never finished more pages of a comic in my life!

I'll have da special

i was sick today. that was not fun.

On monday night i had the opportunity to meet one of my favourite illustrators, Kean Soo. For those of you who don't know who he is, he an artist who lives in Toronto and has had comics published in both volumes of the graphic novel, FLIGHT (www.flightcomics.com). He also has a website where he ran a comic journal about his life for the year of and around 2003 and also has a bunch of autobiographical shorts set to music (www.keaner.net). His current on-running comic is Jellaby which is about a little girl who finds a big purple monster thing. it can be found at http://www.secretfriendsociety.com/.

He and another comicker Ryan North were presenting at macmaster university in hamilton as a part of a series called the "creator series". They were discussing comics online and in print, and the pros and cons of both. Ryan North's site is www.qwantz.com. his comic is very unique, in that the pictures never change but the text is different everyday.

wow long post, but i was so happy to meet one of my idols! I just had to tell you all!

I've decided that since it's close to that time of year again, when the snow falls and the clouds decide to stay, I would get myself into that romantic wintery mood by making a comic with the same kind of lovey theme, with pathetic fallacy to the max.

I won't divulge too much information at this time about the plot, but it's basically about a lot of really interesting human situations... or whatever. I hope to have it done around christmas, but if you know me, christmas = three years from next july.

this is the cover image and a title that is subject to change as the story unfolds.

so long past. hello present!

why draw my own comics when i can just direct you other people's funnier ones?

www.blankwatercomics.com

that's why.

Unhappy Hallowe'en

dear faithful User,
"there were errors during upload"-- with love, Blogger

The post i worked so hard to make isn't uploading. i have a complicated love/hate relationship with this computer. but don't mention it to me or you'll undo all the therapy.

google "a premature burial" by edgar allan poe, and you'll know what my post was about. but picture it in comic form.

i'll keep trying to post it, maybe tomorrow....