Better than TV - 22/03/08

I had one of the most relaxing Saturdays in recent memory. Went with Lyndsay to see friends newly with a child.

Liesl, their nearly four month old, passed out on my arm like a napping airplane. She is adorable--that's such an abused term, but so she is. Who'da thought crying, soiled nappies and spitting up could still be so fascinating (mostly it was the reward of her occasional beaming smiles...)?

Anyway, saw a picture of this guy in an art magazine and just liked his slightly wall-eyed, crazy old man look. Doodled this while trying to figure out who did what to whom, where and with what in Cluedo while the baby napped.

One more day to crank before heading back to work on Monday...

Doodling on a rare Saturday at Home... - 16/03/08

Didn't have to work this morning... quick fiddle in photoshop...

Looking for something... - 10/03/08

...but I didn't know what.

I went to Forbidden Planet tonight to look for some good comic art inspiration. I know I wasn't in the groove, but I just wasn't feeling it. I guess that's a good sign that I need to keep working on my book because I just don't see anything like it out there.

Anyway, these are doodles in a little Moleskine sketchbook I found I had in a desk drawer yesterday. Just small enough to not make a show out of on the Tube when you draw, and just noticeable enough to make Brits really paranoid when they see you look at them and then scribble in it...

Warm Up - 09/03/08

Found this photo on my buddy Dene's website. Loved this guy's expression. Did it as a doodle to warm up this morning. It is a cheat, however, because drawing from photos to warm up is like using one of those 1950's fat jiggling belts to lose weight. Ah well...

Friday Warm Up - 21/03/08

Just trying to get the muscles going before I get on with the comics panels of the day. Found a new use for photobooth on my MacBook Pro though...

In other things, one a completely unrelated note, for those who didn't see or hear the full version of Obama's speech on Race and Religion on Tuesday, listen to this man. He truly may be one of the great statesmen of this generation. I know everyone wonders if he's been properly tested in hte crucible of international politics; but no one freaked out (except for the reactionary wing of the Republican party) when we elected a no name governor from Arkansas with little international experience to the White House in 1992. If you can get past the inappropriate fellatiography of the man and his intern, he did some good work in trying to bring peace both to Ireland and the Middle East.

Check it if you get a chance...

Spitz-O-Rific - 12/03/08

It's kinda like if Harvey Dent, crusading Gotham City District attorney, one day threw acid in his OWN face--just to stir things up a little.

Jesus, what the hell was he thinking? I lived in New York at the height and then beginning of the end of the DotCom boom. When it became apparent that there were a lot of people who made a whole lot more money than they should have and screwed some honest folks to do it in the process, Eliot Spitzer was this guy you remembered reading about who was a holy bloody terror to people who had the gall to break the law with the sense of entitlement of a 20s robber baron. It was nice to read about.

And now he goes and pulls a Gary Hart. What a friggin' douche bag.

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