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7/1/2004 - There are just way too many of you who not only identified the photo as from the Brit Sci-Fi show "U.F.O", but also which episode. :)
No, I'm afraid I have never seen it, I but simply found the picture and was amused by it, as well as finding it convenient as a source. Although, from the descriptions and the other pics I saw on the site (looked more extensively after receiving emails), it looks like a lot of fun. I'm sure i could rent it at Movie Madness if i ever move back to Portland.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040701)
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7/5/2004 - Well, I know that I'm no genius, but fortunately, i have an older brother.
My brother, Peter, has been playing music and producing albums for 15-20 years. Longer if you count us both taking up the trumpet in.... maybe elementary school or so. I have vague recollections of us having to practice trumpet in the car so my mom wouldn't have to listen.
but I digress,
So yeah, I'm totally biased, but I think he's just amazingly talanted and does beautiful work (and if you think Bruno's cross-hatching is anal, you should hear his producing). And he's been writing, producing, and performing with Ben Sumner for about the last dozen years, And their album "Hercules in the alleyway" has just been put out on March Rercords. So yes, samples of their music are on the Hercules site as well as links to purchase the album if you like what you hear.
On another note, can I just say how much I love drawing water in Bruno? The waterfalls out in the Columbia gorge, the ocean out in Yachats, and now thursday's strip and todays. A million ways to draw it, and it's fun trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040705)
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7/9/2004 - So, today's sketches. hmm. Okay, so the sketch of Bethanne with a lioness going "rawr!" was for her birthday which was this week. The rest was just this and that. The two small ones were me trying to practice unusual angles, and then the asian (Japanese I believe) woman, after the first version (left) I decided I'd try and ink again (right). And it's strange on those last two how it's the same drawing, all the lines are actually in the same exact place, but the shadows totally transforms the shape of her face. Very odd.
Anyhow. This and that. Oh, and just to get your excitement meter going, the Monday after this coming one will be the new Dee strips, which for the most part (except for just a few more strips here and there) have not been put on the Bruno page and so you've never seen them. yay!
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040709)
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7/12/2004 - I wish they'd raise the federal minimum wage to about $9.00/hr or so. I'm actually somewhat fortunate to be living in the state (Washington) which has the highest state minimum wage in the country, that being $7.16/hr which is low-end barely-almost reasonable (San Francisco has a higher city minimum wage of $8.50 compared to California in general which is only $6.75). The federal is $5.15 but since Bruno is just outside of Pittsfield, it could either be in Massachusetts or New York, respectively $6.75 and $5.15.
Of course, Washington makes up for it's goodness in high minimum wage with badness of having sales tax rather than income tax, taxing low-end income disproportionately.
Oh woe, am i ever happy about anything in this country. Poor little me. Can only buy one jar of Nutella from Europe rather than 3.
:sigh:
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040712)
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7/13/2004 - MONEY
Well, so Bill Mudron, of Anne Frank vs the Moon Nazis and Pan is trying to get to San Diego, and is doing commissions as well as selling original comic artwork. I have several things of his on my walls and highly reccomend him.
And while you're feeling open to all this giving, Goats is making a run to be financially independent, and is trying to reach a minimum of $10,000 to do it, and they're about $130 away, so if you like Goats, do it. If I wasn't currently unemployed, I'd consider it myself.
Me... welllll... I only have one copy of book#3 left, so I've discontinued it, and so i have little to offer. In fact, not much funds at all, so book#3 plus book#9 are both on hold. Dee wiped me out this spring, so hell, everything is kinda on hold. But feel free to visit the moodycow store anytime you want, or commission me. I will not be making it to San Diego this year, but wish i could.
Today I am accepting of my fate. So feel free to just wish me good ju-ju and enjoy your day. :)
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040713)
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7/15/2004 - Today's strip, written by me, and drawn by my lovely girlfriend, Bethanne.
There's a carnival in town, "Lakefair" as it's called, just two blocks away. And so we went down to witness the kareoke and eat some fried-dough (Elephant Ears) and to ride the ferris wheel. We had a few extra "tickets" (they look like little credit cards now, no actual tickets) and decided to ride a ride called "Sinbad", which is like a ferris wheel, only you're locked in, it goes much faster, and you are moved sideways.
I happen to get motion sickness when I spin. I really discovered this back in 1999 during a night of line dancing in Washington D.C. with the lovely Kari Eaves. And I thought that this tame carnival ride might be okay, it's pretty tame, and there's no spinning around like a top.
But we came home and it washed came over me, I feel like after a night of drinking too much and maybe even puking, you lie (maybe on a bed) and you try not to get the spins. I don't have the spins, and I do not feel drunk or like I'm going to puke. But otherwise, it's a fair description. Badness.
And even though Bruno was written (the script you see is the actual script) (well, it sounded funny in my head at the time), and Bethanne, being her wonderful sweetie self, agreed to draw it, and as I lay on the couch, trying to feel not ill, I could see the top of her head, as she sat bent over my desk, giggling, trying to figure out what Amy and Katalin look like.
And so I'm at least smiling now, but I am going to sign off here,and go to bed.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040715)
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7/16/2004 - Today we have a couple of things. First off, I'm feeling better and drew yesterday's Bruno despite my lovely sweetie's marvelous job (which will remain in the archive alongside my version). I did add to the punchline a bit, for better or for worse, so feel free to give it another glance.
Regarding the sketches, all pencilled and then drawn with my trusty "0" 202 Sceptre Gold II synthetic & death-to-sable brush.
The anglerfish i think is just a bizarre and beautiful thing, like most sea-creatures, although I think sea critters've been on my mind since I've decided to incorporate them into my graphic novel (if it ever sees it's way to pen-to-paper). A pain to draw though, with all the filling in of the negative space, but worth it.
The Northern Flicker for some reason caught my attention, possibly because in the photo he had two females wooing him simultaneously, and he looks waaayyyy too happy. Acht. Bird-dreams. But it also reminded me of in comics how you were never supposed to use the work "FLICK" because it looks too similar to "FUCK". Strange, no?
The rest were just sketches from my head. The simple three on the left are based on my sketch style, which I use to lay out my graphic novel as I write it. The other two were just.. stuff i guess. No real story.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040716)
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7/19/2004 - For those of you who've been waiting for it, today marks the day that new Little Dee strips have begun, ones which have not been shown on the Bruno page for you to see yet (with a few exceptions at some point or another, due to pacing, etc).
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040719)
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7/23/2004 - So, this weeks "sketches" are/is a sequence of Bethanne doing some dishes (just as it says). As I was trying to figure out what i should do this week instead of just drawing more animals and portraits, it was Bethanne who suggested a sequence. So I grabbed the digital camera, and since she was doing dishes, I thought how to order it and took a bunch of photos.
I then pasted them up in Photoshop, resizing and arranging them. I printed it out and then drew it straight with a brush and no pencils on the back of the paper using a light-box. Not an uncommon technique, although I haven't used it since I worked for Channing L. Bete back in 1999.
Some of it is a bit splotchy, i really drew it a bit too quickly and carelessly (although parts came out very very pleasingly), and I should have had Bethanne's laptop in front of me so i could see the color originals as i drew to see what was happening when the printouts got too dark, but aside from that, I'd only say i should have used a ruler on the borders. I usually prefer "organic" borders, but I think in this case it detracts.
So yeah. that's this week in a wrap. Looking forward to our Friday evening Tango class. Finally get to see Tripletts of Bellville with Bethanne and Kyle on Saturday, and in-between time is more work on Little Dee.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040723)
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7/26/2004 - The Tripletts of Bellville were wonderful, and I'm not very functional. Like it's news or something.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040726)
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7/27/2004 - Oh, come on now, you remember Brian, and then what should have been his swan song. For some reason I drew him a lot more handsome this time.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040727)
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7/30/2004 - So I'm ill tonight. I started a new full-time job this week and what with trying to keep up with Dee, bruno, and my relationship, plus changing my schedule and then last night staying up an hour later than i should have, tonight I fell apart, and once I had sources ready to draw, I found myself unable to do so. Well, I could have, but it would have uninspired stuff not worth a thing.
So it's a night from my archives, more stuff you haven't seen. All pen&ink. The top one I did with a quill pen, the rest with the pilot V5. The drawing of Bruno is an early one, from maybe the 2nd year of the strip. The card with me and then a cartoon me popping out of my head was a birthday card for my friend Cailin many numerous years ago, possibly around the same time as the Bruno actually. The last one is an unfinished drawing of me and my siblings.
And yeah. Bed now.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200406.html#20040730)
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