Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Woohoo! My pirated Studio Ghibli DVD boxed set arrived today!
April 15, 2002
Heh. I notice that my hit counter for this page is exactly one year old today. I’ve had an average of just under 11,000 hits here in the past year. That’s an average of 30 hits a day. Pretty impressive, really (though I tend to hit this page quite a few times each day to test it [but no more than ten on average, I imagine]). So I received this e-mail at my work […]
Sunday, April 14, 2002
Brennen made an excellent point (as expected) about my comic magazine idea: Perhaps it should begin life by focusing on serializing existing online comics. There’s a pre-built audience there, and some of them would be willing to buy a nicely-printed copy of the archives. Corollary: it would be advantageous to print related comics, so that there’s a good chance that a fan will get anthologies of several of their favorite comics in each […]
Saturday, April 13, 2002
Whew. I feel exhausted. I’ve had a productive day. Besides a lot of gardening, I drew a drawing that I’m quite proud of, I cleaned house, and…and…that’s actually about it. Huh. It felt like a lot.
Friday, April 12, 2002
I’ve been thinking about comics. The Japanese distribution method for comics is greatly different than the American method. In Japan, you (generally) can’t buy the latest single issue of a popular title. Instead, they’re published in a massive anthology magazine. These magazines are several hundred pages in size, and contain the current issue of a handful of series, all in one publication. This addresses two drawbacks to the American distribution method, as I see it: […]
Thursday, April 11, 2002
I caught another episode of Andy Richter Controls the Universe tonight, which I enjoyed immensely, and Greg the Bunny, which I did not. Greg isn’t bad — I love its premise, behind the scenes at a pre-schooler‘s TV show — but the writing was formulaic.
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
I’ve had another suspiciously good day. I went to the final session of Men’s Academy this morning. Work went smoothly, despite a few inevitable last-minute crises. I drew a new anime face and posted it to Treetop. I watched a couple of episodes of Robotech. I watched tonight’s hilarious episode of Andy Richter Controls the Universe. And that’s about all that happened. Quiet continues steadily.
Monday, April 8, 2002
Today has gone by with a smoothness that invites suspicion. Thanks to my policy of taking extended breaks every couple of hours, I was highly productive at work today. When I got home, I divided a bunch of hostas, then after dinner, wrote a snippet for Quiet, re-arranged the story of Murmur a bit, drew some practice sketches with charcoal pencils for the first time, and practiced calligraphy. All throughout this time, I was pretty consistent […]
April 7, 2002
…Woah. Am I turning into a competent artist? What do you think of Light House 2.1? Well, I’ve gone and done it. I bought a pirated collection of Hayao Miyazaki movies on DVD. It’s an 11-disc set, containing most of the animated films Miyazaki has made (except for Panda! Go Panda!, The Castle of Cagliostro, and the recent Spirited Away, among others). I’d buy licensed versions, but I can’t get a domestic release […]
April 6, 2002
Just posted Light House to Treetop, but it looks worse scanned and colored than the original inked drawing looks. Arg. This morning, I received my third Dual! cel: I also bought a Shayla-Shayla (El Hazard) cel in Boston, which I think I forgot to mention. Here’s what it looks like. Cool, ne?