Good morning!

A few things for your Monday: one, is a ‘new’ comic suggestion for a comic that has been running for a few years now called The Adventures of Popsicleman. Without giving away any spoilers, it is a black and white weekly comic… about a popsicle that fights crime, and it is also packed full of completely non-sequitor, g-rated, outlandish and sometimes downright ridiculous geek humor. If you are a geek, and you want to see a guy who is a frozen snack treat put villains behind bars, well, you’re a very specific person, and you’re also in luck.

Second is perhaps the coolest thing google search has yielded me in a long time, and that is lunch bag art. This guy is a graphic artist who decorates his kids’s lunch bags during his break at work every day, and he’s got some phenomenal skills.

^ From the movie Labyrinth, which I found terrifying, mostly because I find David Bowie terrifying. Note the giant spike mullet and contact juggling ball. Still, despite the creepiness, this was one of my favorites.

^ How could I resist loving this one? A very stylized Morpheus and Matthew from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series.

So, go check him out, there’s a goldmine of sci-fi/fantasy art floating around over there.

See you next week.

- Jen

 
Good morning! Firstly, say hello to Germany and Sweden, who are still topping out lists for non native English speaking nations. Hi guys, keep coming. Tell your friends.

A few things - one, you’ve noticed that I posted two pages today. While that eats the buffer up a little bit, it’s necessary because they were painfully boring, and I am trying to get us to Page 12 (the start of what I consider to be actual plot and tight writing) as fast as possible. This is the ONLY time two pages will be posted, sorry, but they all get better from here.

As for the news of the day, may I please draw your attention to a very interesting art show that is coming into my neck of the woods: The Vader Project is a very unique art show that takes hot new artists and has them decorate Darth Vader’s helmet in various ways. This strange and gorgeous phenomenon was spawned at Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles in 2007, and traveled out from there across the UK and the United States. They come out beautifully, all odd and one-of-a-kind, and this is totally worth seeing.

The flier, below:

It will be at the Warhol on the Northside, I encourage any Pittsburghers to go. I know I certainly will.

Until next week,

Jen

Good morning everyone. What a lovelyMonday we are having. For the first time in a long time, it is sunny and warm in Pittsburgh. I will not hold my breath that it will last.

I am, however, pleased to announce that we did complete our submission to the Webcomics Tarot Project, which you should all check out, because it is a pretty interesting concept. (I should note now that it has nothing to do with tarot, really, and has everything to do with artwork and webcomics. Then again if you are reading this particular comic, the chances are that you aren’t that spooked by the tarot anyways, yes?)

Anyhow, I was a little bummed that the major arcana were already taken but we still managed to snag the entirely appropriate 9 of Disks (or Coins as they are calling them), and the result was an astounding arrangement of art nouveau, and some Leo glory.

You can check out the full image on our DA page, and I’ll plug it into the gallery later this week.

The second thing is that Vienna Teng has just released her new album, Inland Territory, which I bought at the concert she held here a few weeks ago, and it is phenomenal. I suggest you all go buy it. It is best for everyone this way. Trust me.

- Jen