Okay Bro, I’m going to see if I can post every day. That means quite a few of these post are going to be of the “I spent last night drawing X but didn’t finish it” variety. You have been warned.

Last night? I’d planned to work on one of the Sasquatch Chronicles illustrations but Nizzibet was feeling squished by the Sads and so needed me to join her in front of the tube watching a movie. Riding the Bullet isn’t a bad movie. It’s not a really good one either but I found it interesting enough that I felt like I wanted to know how it would end. I kept my drawing pad with me. Drew a pretty good kalidah for the Who’s Who in Oz Squad page.

After I tucked Nizzibet in for the night I did some more drawing, just intending to sketch out the Hungry Tiger so I could do full pencils later. I ended up doing a full pencil drawing.

I won’t be doing inks on either piece, or working on anything else, tonight – I’m going to the Seattle Art Museum with Big Sister. There won’t be time for anything but sleep after that.

Dave’s Long Box Blog reviews Oz Squad 1-3. He likes it! No, he doesn’t! Yes! No! Maybe!

Lambiek.net added their bio of me to the Comiclopedia yesterday. So, if you’ve somehow wandered over here based on the link there – howdy!

The bio is just as I wrote it except for the mention of Sentient 39. I’d left it off because of the lack of activity to the site of late. Now I fear I’ll have to actually finish those next few entries that I’ve had sitting on my hard drive for, what, a year? It may not have been that long but I suspect it is.

My Oz comics page is done for the moment. I’ll need to add info about the Captain Carrot Oz Wonderland War miniseries but, for now, I can’t stand to look at the page. Tired of it. On to the next project for a week or so. Feel free to leave comments, clarification or suggestions in the comments.

Off to draw hideous Chauchau rituals.

What? More damned Oz?

Indeed. This is a page of images from the pilot of Lost in Oz. Look at the images first. Then read the plot description via the other link. One of these days I’ll have to find a bootleg of this.

I can’t say I like Bill Bryan’s art. He’s got a good color sense in his cover paintings but his figure work all looks … skewed. It’s sort of like he’s drawing things as viewed underwater. I’m not sure how else to describe it.

He probably holds the unheralded honor of having produced the most Oz pages of any artist. He definitely beats out every other artists except for Eric Shanower and John R. Neil. I’m pretty sure he beats them as well but I’d need to do some math to be sure.

Anyway, Mr. Bryan comes up because I loaded eighteen more Oz/Dark Oz/Land of Oz images to the Oz comics page. Gaze upon them and judge ye for thyself.

Billi 99 has been reviewed by the Kipster, a man of better taste and quicker wit than I. Good things are said eloquently.

Updated the Oz Comics page again this morning. Wow that’s ugly. And it will only get uglier before it gets better. I’ll be able to do a little yuck factor adjustment once all the images and text is in place but it will still be an ugly child. Poor thing. Maybe, someday, if I go to finishing school I can pass on some refinement.

I think I’ve found all the Oz comics I’m going to find on the net. I suspect that Classics Illustrated did a Wizard adaptation. I’ll have to look. I’m going to contact some of Oz fansites and see if anyone knows about any, more obscure comics.

I spend time at the computer in mornings – coding, scanning, photoshopping, writing. This as the caffeine shifts me to what I consider more or less normal for now. Artwork gets done in the evenings and weekends after chores. When the caffeine is wearing out. Fortunately, once I’m on an art roll, I usually perk up. Sort of. The challenge is getting the energy to get out the drawings and make myself start working.

Loaded images to the Oz Comics page. More images and some text to come. Probably tomorrow.

In other news – it’s raining in Seattle. But only a light drizzle.

As you were.

Okay, maybe without the heroin drag. But basically I know a few simple codes and I find myself typing them over and over. And then correcting the darned things when they don’t work. Unless I’m working with a template my webpages all look very plain. Plain is good because plain isn’t as ugly as complicated bad design. I’m not a good designer. Not a horrible one, just not a particularly good one. What little design sense I have comes from hanging out with people who are good designers.

All of which means nothing other than I spent the morning working on the Oz Comics page and then didn’t post it before I had to go to work. It’s still a sloppy mess. Better (at least wordier) than what’s up now but so what? You can’t see it.

Blah blah. Happy Tuesday.