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11/02/2004 - please vote today.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041102)
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11/03/2004 - "The nation spoke that we're on the right course, and we'll stay on that course and hopefully accelerate it" -Bill Frist
I feel good paying taxes for social programs, I feel deeply inside me that Iraqi lives are as important as American, I see no discussion on whether or not gays should have equal right to marriage. And on and on and on......
I just don't get America. And don't want to. Horrible.
Yesterday I finished listening to Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar", and i kept rooting for her to persavere. Partly to not succeed in killing herself, not swimming to the floating rock, to be found in the basement; but almost as much, to keep smiling so that they wouldn't "find her out" and give her shock therapy again. The most horrible thing i could imagine.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041103)
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11/04/2004 - I've been very disheartened in my mood due to my friends being all sad. I mean, me too. It's just, to suddenly have almost every single one of your friends in a kind of shell-shock, it's heavy in the chest.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041104)
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11/05/2004 - For some reason i couldn't get myself to draw today. and so, here's a couple sketches I did ages ago, back around the end of my college days. Umm, random pencil sketch and un unfinished drawing of Rachmaninoff and John Lennon having coffee together.
Last night I took a ton of reference pictures of Bethanne, but didn't have time to print them or transfer them to my computer. But I promise you, drawings of those will go up next week (99% chance give or take). Today I was aching for an anatomy book or some form of reference to draw from at work, but had none, and so i just sat there in a stupor, feeling guilty about all sorts of silly things in my life for no reason i can think of. I took a couple long walks until my calves ached.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041105)
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11/08/2004 - Bruno's current dream sequence will end this week. This one has been interesting to do, inspired by falling dreams I've had, I've really payed a lot of attention to the relationship of the images from day to day so that they read together very fluidly, and yet in-a-way, not how a comic-book action sequence would be drawn. and though it might be in verrrryy sloowww motion with only one strip per day, I'm hoping it's been beautiful and interesting, and I suspect it will come across even beter in the book format, read one right after another.
This weekend Bethanne and I went and saw The Incredibles. Now, I have enjoyed all of Pixar's previous films, especially Monster's inc, and I'd read some interviews, so i had somewhat high hopes on this one, but I really felt it pulled through in spades. Just fun, funny, made me feel good, and I'd say the best superhero-comic-made-into-movie yet. I'm not a huge superhero fan to begin with, a love a few standalone titles, but mostly am not very interested. And I think that most movies based on them have done better or worse jobs, but all have felt a tad flat in the action department, and Spiderman is the only one I recall giving the character anything interesting to work with. This one I felt did it all. In fact, I think it also beat most James Bond movies in the action department.
Of note though, it's maybe not for the very young, it gets a bit tense, scary and violent (although there's no gore) at points, but compared to television, it may be vanilla for most kids.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041108)
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11/11/2004 - I've mentioned this before, but it can be oddly kind-of frustrating doing a strip like this. I mean, I spent a lot of time putting in the detail, and then just cross-hatch over it and it all looks kinda' grey in the end. Mind you, that's what i want... an unlit room at night, once your eyes are adjusted, is just kinda' grey, at best. And I like how this looks, but it was a bit of work. Seems odd, but perhaps masochistically satisfying.
That said, this is the last strip of Book #9. Yeah, it's going to be a big one. Plus it will have a bonus section (which I will speak of at a later date). I'm very excited, although... I am not very excited at the speed in which it is being competed. But, i try not to be too hard on myself, whenever I begin to panic I have to remind myself that the last time I put together a book, I wasn'ty working FT and putting in 20 hours or so on an additional strip.
Things in my life are fine. Busy. Hella' busy. Working FT plus these two strips has me whipped. I haven't given up, but I'm struggling. Feeling strong although depression has come up here and there this autumn, pretty strongly, and I've had moments of utter loss of confidence, something I'm not used to. I've found a therapist, and have insurance, so I'm hoping that'll help.
On a more practical note, I am looking for someone who might be able to write a little code on me web site. I feel rotten for asking favors like this, but outside of basic html I'm lost, and more so than ever i don't have time to expand my knowledge in that arena. Basically I'm looking for something in which I can use both at baldwinpage.com and Little Dee to sell original art, plus I would really like an RSS feed. The idea I have for the selling artwork would simply be to request a name and email and then change the site's html to show that someone has purchased it. That's pretty much it, the merchant stuff is already covered.
But please, don't volunteer unless you currently have the time, knowledge and desire to do it. And we can probably come up with something to barter with in return.
And with that, I'll take the rest of the evening to rest, perhaps to dream of what on earth will come next when Bruno wakes up from this current belly of the whale.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041111)
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11/12/2004 - So, sketches. As I mentioned last week, i took a series of pictures of Bethanne in order to study the skull (and some torso) from every angle. What is posted here is almost half of the pictures, so I may have a similar update next week. I simply inked them with a brush on the reverse side of a printout of the photos. The first one I darkened in her hair some (then added zip-a-tone), although her hair is by no means that dark. And the last picture, the one of me with a wire in my nose, I actually drew first as a warm up, a silly picture kicking around on my HD. Feel free to ignore it.
Regarding yesterday, thanks to Matthew, J.C., and MDL for volunteering to help with coding for my site. It was really kind of you. Thank you.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041112)
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11/16/2004 - Today you may enjoy my fill-in strip for Jon Rosenberg for his comic Goats, and Bruno even makes an appearance. If you don't get the goat joke, it simply means you haven't read the strip, and haven't learned about Thor's panties. Trust me it all makes sense, it just may take a bit to get in the headspace.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041116)
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11/24/2004 - Hey, check it out, a fun little interview type thing with Scene Missing Magazine.
Despite me going traveling about for the Thanksgiving weekend, there will be no interruption here at the bruno site, although for the sketchblog, I may pull something out of my unreleased archive, as I have done before.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041124)
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11/26/2004 - So, on the comic book page of my website is the premise for my comic book idea The Moth. Posted here was one of the first two pages I did, (the second is on The Moth page), and was based on the idea of this bad guy who had a front man and etc etc. Anyhow, long before I had a story to go with the idea. Recently I actually came up with a full plot, and now I have to just find spare time to write it, maybe even draw it. Not currently a big priority on the plate, but I'd like to eventually.
Anyhow, so I couldn't find this drawn page when I created The moth page ages ago, but I finally found it, so here it is. it was coclored at some point, but I couldn't seem to locate that.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041126)
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11/30/2004 - I'm part of an article in The Comics Journal for the Nov/Dec issue #264 on page 54. There's probably not much info you all don't know (I try to tell you guys everything), but It's still pretty neat, and they use a picture of Bruno. Yay!
Oh, and welcome any new readers coming over from there. :)
They also review Blain's Isaac the Pirate on page 189, which if anything, hopefully will convince NBM to translate the rest of the books.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200411.html#20041130)
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