| ROCR: Comic for October 18, 2004 has been remastered. |
[May. 15th, 2012|09:34 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Jethro Tull - No Rehearsal | ] |
Read it here.
Nothing much to add. I've been sick since Saturday. I got things done on the cartooning front, which will be shown on Spun Off in a few weeks. That site seems to be doing pretty well even on non-update days, so I expect I will be putting more effort into it here shortly. Though there is also ROCR material to be worked on, and a possible fan comic if I can find the time. |
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| ROCR: Comic for October 15, 2004 has been remastered. |
[May. 12th, 2012|06:01 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | John Hiatt - Sure Pinocchio | ] |
Read it here.
Also, the page for January 9, 2006 got a minor tweak, so for those of you who use my RSS feed, that's why it showed up as updated.
I tweaked it because I spotted some errors prior to uploading it for the ROCR reruns on Thecomicseries. Because it was a quiet morning, I went ahead and uploaded the comics through the rest of May there, so most of the Headsmen storyline is now ready to go.
The ROCR reruns and Spun Off are both doing well, with Spun Off getting over 100 pageviews on non-update days some times. Not too shabby for a comic that only has 5 updates up. Comicfury, the site that hosts all Thecomicseries domains, has a tab on its front page showing the currently most popular comics and one of the two is now on it on most days. Of course, all that really means is that Comicfury is a pretty small pond, but it's encouraging.
Remasters have slowed down a bit over the working week, and as I'm a bit sick this weekend, they'll continue to be slow. We (Rona, youngest stepson and me) just lazed around after doing weekend groceries, watching the Wickie the Viking movie from 2009 on Belgian TV. Wickie was my hero when I was about eight years old, and the movie, while far from perfect, is astonishingly well-cast and funny. You do need to let yourself become eight years old again to enjoy it, because it's not the sort of story that stands up to thinking too hard about it, but in our virus-addled state, that wasn't so hard. The movie also had some clever cutting that may have made things harder to follow for the younger viewers. But boy did all the actors look like the characters in the cartoon. |
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| ROCR: Comic for October 11, 2004 has been remastered. |
[May. 6th, 2012|01:56 pm] |
Read it here.
This survey report from Adobe is merely a cute presentation of some opinion statistics on creativity and obstacles to it. It's low on analysis and solutions, though if the implication is that Adobe will come up with some later, I'm all for it. But I loved the quote from a German respondent:
Creativity is born out of boredom and fun at the experiment.
I suspect that something got lost in translation from the German, or as a result of the German speaker putting their thoughts into English. But it is a pretty good quote as it is, because boredom really is a necessary factor in creativity. Of course, not all boredom is created equal: the grinding, stressful boredom of office life doesn't help at all. This past vacation, though, I got the right kind of boredom: endless days stretching out before me with hardly any obligations at all.
And soon, that will be over. But I'm happy with how much I got done this week. I'm especially happy to be picking up those three big-production pages (intended to be inked and coloured) that had been lying in my desk drawer for a year. Two Spun Off pages and one ROCR page. One is now inked and lettered. One has been scanned in its penciled stage and will be digitally inked, and the third will be scanned and digitally inked after I've done the backgrounds. I'll... have something to do whenever I'm bored. |
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| ROCR: Comic for October 6, 2004 has been remastered |
[May. 4th, 2012|04:26 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | comic, rocr | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Norma Waterson - Pleasure and Pain | ] |
Read it here. It's the 290th installment in the storyline. 52 more to go.
Spun Off is doing pretty well for its first days, which is encouraging. I do hope it, or ROCR starts picking up more of an audience soon. I'd love to go back to the days of having 500 unique readers a day, modest as that number is. |
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| ROCR: Comic for October 4, 2003 has been remastered. |
[May. 4th, 2012|11:49 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | comic, rocr | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Queen - March of the Black Queen | ] |
Read it here. Told you it was going fast? I really should have bundled those into a single post, but I didn't think about it in time.
Next up is a short break to walk the dog, and then I go back offline again to do the next two or so. The dog needs to go on a larger number of shorter walkies today, because he's got a torn up footpad on his left hind leg from running on concrete too much. This will be my main source of breaks during the "working" day. |
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| ROCR: Comic for October 1, 2004 has been remastered. |
[May. 4th, 2012|11:38 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Lykke Li - Love Out Of Lust | ] |
Read it here.
When I planned this vacation, I did not count on Rona getting all enthusiastic about her second internship at a small graphic design agency (her first involves giving art classes to mentally disabled artists). She's out all day today, which means I get to sit in the office and process these remasters. With the Internet turned off and originals that don't have as many problems as the earlier ones, the work can go fast.
I'd rather be at the caravan with her though. I'd get all the creative benefits of isolation, and the company of my wife. |
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| ROCR: Comic for September 29, 2004 has been remastered. |
[May. 3rd, 2012|06:51 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | comic, rocr | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Jethro Tull - Aqualung | ] |
Read it here. The original image that this new image replaces had "FuckIAmTired" in the image title, which suggests that I was not in a good place when I drew it. I don't remember, and while the page isn't the best in the storyline, it's far from the worst either.
This is the last remaster for the day. I'll do more tomorrow. |
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