My visit to Kinkos earlier.
Me: Hi, I'd like to scan in this 11x17 art please.
Nice Lady Behind the Counter: Is this original art?
Me: Yes.
NLBC: Is it your art?
Me: Yes. Well, it's for my website. I'm the writer and my artist cohort drew it.
NLBC: So you didn't draw it?
Me: Uh, no.
NLBC: Well we have to have this copyright paperwork filled out by the artist.
And that's how I ended up fighting a copy machine to get the art re-sized, rather than paying the $9.95 for them to scan it in.
Hopefully our new scanner comes by Friday.
Happy Tuesday everyone.
-alex.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Monday, April 2, 2007
Welcome back.
It seems as though we all survived Zombie week in one piece.
Fear not Zombie fans, Alan will return soon.
This week: A bit of Time Travel. Also we learn who really runs the store.
Other notes: Josh changed to 11x17 paper this week, so scanning things in with my not-11x17 scanner has been tricky. Thanks to the magic of the ebay, I have ordered a bigger scanner which will hopefully be here by next week.
Last night I watched the end of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars on Sci-fi. Man I miss that show. I don't remember how I first heard of it, if I caught a random episode or if I just happened to get the first disc from Netflix, but once I started watching it I was a Farscape Fiend (FoF? Fiend of Farscape?). I would get a disc, watch all 4 episodes and have it back in the mail before the next time the postal officer graced my apartment building. It was good stuff. I have not gone back and watched those again, though I have a lot of them on DVD. I was physically ill when they just 'ended' the series, I literally could not bring myself to watch the end of it. But then the movie got announced and a real ending was to be had. Watching the very end of the series made the think back to the beginning. I may pop the first few episodes in later in the week.
This week: Grindhouse. Needless to say I'm excited and Amber is not. Thankfully I'll visiting Josh so we'll go catch it Friday night. I'm stoked. It has been fun to read interviews about the movie.
Also this week: I finally get around to ordering trades. Why this week? Because I have to spend money on Un-Fun things this week, so to balance out the universe I'm going to splurge on some Trade action.
I hope you all made it though April Fools in one piece.
Tomorrow: Random Links? Maybe. My goal for the week is to post something every day. We'll see how long that lasts.
Stay tuned.
-Alex.
Fear not Zombie fans, Alan will return soon.
This week: A bit of Time Travel. Also we learn who really runs the store.
Other notes: Josh changed to 11x17 paper this week, so scanning things in with my not-11x17 scanner has been tricky. Thanks to the magic of the ebay, I have ordered a bigger scanner which will hopefully be here by next week.
Last night I watched the end of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars on Sci-fi. Man I miss that show. I don't remember how I first heard of it, if I caught a random episode or if I just happened to get the first disc from Netflix, but once I started watching it I was a Farscape Fiend (FoF? Fiend of Farscape?). I would get a disc, watch all 4 episodes and have it back in the mail before the next time the postal officer graced my apartment building. It was good stuff. I have not gone back and watched those again, though I have a lot of them on DVD. I was physically ill when they just 'ended' the series, I literally could not bring myself to watch the end of it. But then the movie got announced and a real ending was to be had. Watching the very end of the series made the think back to the beginning. I may pop the first few episodes in later in the week.
This week: Grindhouse. Needless to say I'm excited and Amber is not. Thankfully I'll visiting Josh so we'll go catch it Friday night. I'm stoked. It has been fun to read interviews about the movie.
Also this week: I finally get around to ordering trades. Why this week? Because I have to spend money on Un-Fun things this week, so to balance out the universe I'm going to splurge on some Trade action.
I hope you all made it though April Fools in one piece.
Tomorrow: Random Links? Maybe. My goal for the week is to post something every day. We'll see how long that lasts.
Stay tuned.
-Alex.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
In the Wild!
Here we see another of my daily drawings I did last August.
The story:
I had seen ads for Capcom's Xbox 360 game Dead Rising for months. It looked pretty, and I do love me some zombie kiling action (See Resident Evil 1-4 and various offshoots). But, was it enough to purchase what was then the most expensive console system? I held my ground, thinking that buying an xbox for just one game was madness.
Then the videos started showing up. And the list of things you could kill zombies with started to grow. Bowling balls, 2x4s, axes, swords all screamed out to me. Then came the lawnmower (Warning, slightly violent conent. Click only if you can handle zombies dying in brutal blade action).
And so my gaming zombie genocide contiuned. There is more to the game that I will talk about later. For now I must go finish tomorrow's last part of our Zombie week.
Tune in tomorrow.
-alex.
The story:
I had seen ads for Capcom's Xbox 360 game Dead Rising for months. It looked pretty, and I do love me some zombie kiling action (See Resident Evil 1-4 and various offshoots). But, was it enough to purchase what was then the most expensive console system? I held my ground, thinking that buying an xbox for just one game was madness.
Then the videos started showing up. And the list of things you could kill zombies with started to grow. Bowling balls, 2x4s, axes, swords all screamed out to me. Then came the lawnmower (Warning, slightly violent conent. Click only if you can handle zombies dying in brutal blade action).
And so my gaming zombie genocide contiuned. There is more to the game that I will talk about later. For now I must go finish tomorrow's last part of our Zombie week.
Tune in tomorrow.
-alex.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Zombie Q&A.
Amber works a lot. More than me for sure. So in the moments before sleep, I of course decided it was time for a little Zombie Q&A. Enjoy.
Amber’s thoughts on Zombies.
Amber: They’re green and smelly. And serve no purpose to the community. Plus they’re creepy.
Have you ever seen a zombie movie.
Yes. 28 days later. Scary!
What you do if you saw a zombie?
Tell you to kill it.
Do you know how to kill a zombie?
I think you chop its head off with a silver bullet axe, or something.
Why do you think people are fascinated with zombies?
I really didn’t know people other than you were.
There you have it.
Tomorrow: Zombies in the media.
-alex.
Amber’s thoughts on Zombies.
Amber: They’re green and smelly. And serve no purpose to the community. Plus they’re creepy.
Have you ever seen a zombie movie.
Yes. 28 days later. Scary!
What you do if you saw a zombie?
Tell you to kill it.
Do you know how to kill a zombie?
I think you chop its head off with a silver bullet axe, or something.
Why do you think people are fascinated with zombies?
I really didn’t know people other than you were.
There you have it.
Tomorrow: Zombies in the media.
-alex.
WOYL? 3.28 edition.
Zombie stuff later today.
Hit the comments for the lists.
Mini review of Miami Vice: Zzzzzzzz.
-x
Hit the comments for the lists.
Mini review of Miami Vice: Zzzzzzzz.
-x
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Z is for...
When I was a kid my brother was the artist between the two of us.
I did manage to mangle my way through Draw Squad one year, only getting about 1/3 of the way done before I gave up.
Two years ago I decided I was going to 'bust my cycle' and do some drawing. I practiced and participated in the 24 hour comic day that year. Since then I've done a couple of months of daily strips here and there.
This is none of those things. It is what happens when you have the undead on your mind.
As far as my current drawing skills go, you may get a glimpse of those soon. Consider yourselves teased.
Tomorrow: WOYL and maybe some zombie pictures?
We'll see.
-alex.
I did manage to mangle my way through Draw Squad one year, only getting about 1/3 of the way done before I gave up.
Two years ago I decided I was going to 'bust my cycle' and do some drawing. I practiced and participated in the 24 hour comic day that year. Since then I've done a couple of months of daily strips here and there.
This is none of those things. It is what happens when you have the undead on your mind.
As far as my current drawing skills go, you may get a glimpse of those soon. Consider yourselves teased.
Tomorrow: WOYL and maybe some zombie pictures?
We'll see.
-alex.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Zombie, Zombie, Zombie weeeeeeeek.
Oh yeah it is.
Normally I'd say something different, but again with the pg-13.
And I promise this week's strips will maintain that, at the same time giving you some fierce Comic-Shop on zombie action.
This week was fun to write, Josh had a blast drawning it, and I hope you all have a good time reading it.
We have some outstanding stuff for you on the blog this week as well. Tomorrow I'll show you some Zombie Art (part 1). Wednesday we'll talk a bit about Zombie movies. Thursday might have some Zombie Video game action. And Friday, if we all survive that long, is still up in the air.
Check out the Myspace page for more Zombie action.
Tune in tomorrow for something that gives multiple meanings to the word Horrifying.
-alex.
Normally I'd say something different, but again with the pg-13.
And I promise this week's strips will maintain that, at the same time giving you some fierce Comic-Shop on zombie action.
This week was fun to write, Josh had a blast drawning it, and I hope you all have a good time reading it.
We have some outstanding stuff for you on the blog this week as well. Tomorrow I'll show you some Zombie Art (part 1). Wednesday we'll talk a bit about Zombie movies. Thursday might have some Zombie Video game action. And Friday, if we all survive that long, is still up in the air.
Check out the Myspace page for more Zombie action.
Tune in tomorrow for something that gives multiple meanings to the word Horrifying.
-alex.
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