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Cthulhu sleeps

July 26th, 2010 | by admin
Posted In: comics

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[image] A man kneels with his hands above his head in praise, in front of a large squid looking creature.

[text]In the southern hemisphere, on a Patagonian island, a village leader promised me deliverance by petitioning the only creature on earth who had control over time and space. Intrigued, I followed him high into the snow-capped mountains; into the maw of an unbelievably sized cavern. Our steps echoed hollow, and deep within the damp, cool, blackness until we stopped on a raised dais just short of a large oddly shaped looking glass.

My guide mumbled under his breath as he lit torches on either side of the crude platform. To my horror, the growing shock of light revealed a leviathan the size of a zeppelin, lying on a bed of skeletal remains. My unbelieving face gaped back at me from the inky pupil of this creature.

I ran stumbling, and screaming, the world askew, towards a pinhole of light, a lifetime away from my grasping outstretched hands.

“Cthulhu sleeps,” my guide’s voice echoed in diminishing cantor, “… and we are his dreams …”

└ Tags: cephalopod, creature, Cthulu, fear, geek, horror, lovecraft, monster, mountains of madness, patagonia, sacrifice, steampunk, webcomic
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Barbara Streisand complex

July 28th, 2010 | by admin
Posted In: Blog, Creative Process

OK, just so we are all up to speed:

I write the scripts. I also draw the panels. I also created the look and feel of my site massaging the CSS into submission. I also self host, which means I created databases, installed WordPress including seven or eight plug-ins. One of those plug-ins was ComicPress; I set that up and worked that puzzle within a puzzle to completion. I manage my own SEO. I also create all my advertising, and place the media calls. I promote myself on Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, my own blog, a few comic listing sites, and some local comic book events.

I cannot tell you how many hours I have spent, creating, writing and directing this endeavor – all with the end goal of achieving some sort of artistic expression. (And I should say — with as little out of pocket cost as possible.) I cannot imagine turning any of this over to anybody else to accomplish.

My wife says I suffer from Babara Streisand complex, and keeps reminding me that my time is worth money.

└ Tags: advertising, art, Barbara Streisand Complex, ComicPress, DIY, Do it yourself, drawing, If you build it they will come, love, Wordpress
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Vampires

July 23rd, 2010 | by admin
Posted In: Blog, Sketches

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No, this is not a regular post. This is more of a sketchbook wandering. I found some scrap online that had an interesting look, and I wanted to turn her into a vamp kind of image. I really didn’t have a story in mind. I wanted to play. So I played and lost interest someplace in he middle. It’s not like vampires don’t interest me, but I am more of a dog person. I like werewolves. Anyway, after some frustrating wrestling with hand geometries and heart placement and some anatomy issues, I decided it wasn’t fun anymore. So it died on the vine. I post if for your enjoyment and as yet another mark proving that sometimes it just doesn’t come together.

└ Tags: blood, drawing, gore, goth, heart, pumping heart, vampire
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