wednesday plan: not pictures

I don't know if it's my most woke opinion but I think if a company wants to be publicly traded they must have a unionized workforce.

panels like this take longer than busy splash scenes, probably because they end up requiring the same amount of work as animation would, only with a single frame (or two) to do it

maybe i am unable to fit into any normal comics environment because i think things like "tough and short day today... but before calling it, maybe i can at least draw all the feet on the next two pages"

12 more pages of PROXIMA CENTAURI free Fridays featuring Hollis and the Young Proxinauts including the popular Virgil, the duck with teeth. www.patreon.com/posts/proxim...

a couple of quotes i wish i saw when i was 15 or 16--

it's not entirely up to me if any day will be usable, but again insisting on a few personal minutes no matter what has (unsurprisingly) dramatically improved my wellbeing

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my strongest skill might be always picking an angle that i have no reference for (and that may not show up even in the actual book)

where was i with that new years card

inadvertently did the hemingway thing of stopping mid-line yesterday, so i pretty much started the day with a finished picture at 10 in the morning, which sure feels nice

hey, more new pictures (3/6) -- number four may be online as well, i need to check later

hey, they finally added this (basic functionality; 20+ years into the program existing)-- looks like complaining about it four years ago worked

back to some personal comics today, as part of the ongoing brain reclamation program (too many deleted days/weeks in a row)

they're replacing bathroom tiles on the other side of my studio wall, so saturday plan: either pictures or homicide

(and carmen red claw #3 comes out on wednesday, so here's that one again)

hey, new picture-- #5 of 6 in a series. thanks to the editor Ben Abernathy for being on board with this deranged puzzle of a cover / part of my "turn any simple straightforward thing into way too much work" program

A new painting. A tugboat at the Albert Dock, Liverpool. Watercolour.

this missing eraser situation took a full ten minutes to resolve because apparently i'm wearing art supply camo (free idea: art supply camo clothes)

made a cup of coffee six hours ago and forgot to drink it-- sometimes i think that they should invent a coffee that works just by looking at it, but that does already exist; we call it news

wednesday plan / one from the archive

without reverse image searching them, i have no idea when anything gets announced, so i missed a few more of these have showed up online--

i still find rushing to be the undisputed number one way to slow things down, but number two is drawing things really accurately, because that's always the first stuff that gets thrown out and redrawn

100% less drawing on the next thing

like all of Farel's work, proxima centauri is an encyclopedia of (surprising, immediate, personal, fun) things you can only do in a comic-- this section has some of my favorite moments too, though it's hard to pick from this particular book

back to moving the pen today in some capacity, so sunday should be at least ok (in this room, no guarantees elsewhere)

Goku 4x6 original available: www.freebensears.com/product/goku Also available for similar commissions. Hit me up thru the web store for more info.

it's just nuts how much of a drawing machine Kordey is, and this book is a good example

absent-mindedly drank half a cup of leftover coffee, so i guess the plan for today now includes saturday

it would take a group of experts to explain exactly why i would have a thought like "we should see more of the horse" at 9 pm on a friday, but i can tell you that it's definitely the same reason because of which i do comics in the first place

I did a cover for my homies, who are doing some really cool stuff.

(the day is garbage, but starting it with drawing an excited child instead of the usual scowling grumps program is a nice change of pace at least)

on with friday (i'm still paying for the domain, so www.not-but.com for all your reminding needs)

That's a random selection of stories. They will be publishing everything in The Complete Corto Maltese, beginning with Volume 1: The Ballad of the Salt Sea in October.

looked at the fantagraphics website during a short break and hey, out in april. it's amazing that these can ever be out of print, let alone for years at a time, but it's comics

again a long day of drawing lumpy guns, but remembered i can at least put on some glenn branca for the last 40 hours of it www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM_k... (it's funny how music that sounds like a migraine can have the opposite effect) (or it might put you in a homicidal state; i'm not responsible)

GUYS have you seen this. antarctica on google maps. go look at it. this is tech struggling to process the Sublime

forgot that drawing snow means either covering everything in near static or the ernie bushmiller-grade painstaking placing of eight snowflakes in perfect spots or it doesn't work at all, so guess which reasonable and expedient option i gravitated to (as usual)

tonči "there are no S, G, or K sounds in my name" zonjić (that's the mystery phrase in my bio -- tawn chih zawn yitch)

how is it always tuesday

RIP frederick wiseman. putting on the entire filmography tomorrow

one of these days i'll get to doing some garo-colored black and white comics

things letting up at 5 pm isn't great, but it's better than things letting up at midnight. on to pictures

day too long again, but there's still several minutes left for the late program

today's achievement: remembered something from earlier in the day (so things are really looking up)

this winter reminds me, free million dollar idea: rechargeable hand warmers that are also a bluetooth mouse

i only noticed this week that the main computer had a shortcut to the wrong brush-brush for nearly two years, that must why be things were so uphill lately (that and inadvertently having the ishinomori/tezuka sleep schedule since october) (only with a marginally smaller output)

done with drawing. on to 100 hours of color (best medicine) (except medicine)

it won't get a trillion dollar valuation, but the technological progress we actually ask for is this sort of stuff