Consider This –

– A majority of us think that only somewhere between 1 and 5 million Americans live in poverty in the US.

– The actual number of Americans living at or below the poverty level is 33 million.

– 47% of us think the poverty level is $35,000 a year for a family of four.

– The actual poverty level for a family of four is $18,104 a year.

(Stolen from Long Story, Short Pier.)

Projects

Currently doing illustrations for –

Finnegan’s Brink – a graphic novel written by Sarah Byam. I’ll be doing that for the next couple of years.

The Black Seal #4. This is the Viet Nam issue. I’m illustrating an article on the Tcho-tcho and a short comic written by Nick Brownlow.

Miskatonic U Monographs – a few illustrations for one, more and larger illustrations for another.

Oz Squad – can’t say anything more specific at the moment.

The Sasquatch Chronicles – a huge overview of the sasquatch phenomenon written and edited by Christopher L. Murphy. I’m one of many illustrators working on this. Got to use illustrations since the darn critter is so camera shy.

Wild Nights in Oz – slowly, progress will be made.

I expect that I’ll do the occasional one off illustration for my own amusement (or that rare creature – money) but I’m not planning on taking any new projects beyond these for a while.

And Then There Were Two

J-Dogg is gone. From this house at least. He and TwoM have moved into a house together. I think it’s a slightly larger place than this one is. It’s better maintained at least. It also has two bathrooms instead of our one. That’s important. He’s going to be sharing the house with three other people.

So Nizzibet and I are living alone for the first time since we moved up to Seattle. Then we only lived alone for about four months. We’ll be spending the next few months until our lease runs out reducing our number of possessions. Once we get it so that everything we own fits upstairs we’ll be ready to move into a little apartment.

Better With Ultraviolence

While watching My Life, a rich-man-learning-how-to-live-after-discovering-he-has-a-terminal-disease movie, it occurred to me that there are few movies that couldn’t be improved by the inclusion of a rampaging werewolf.

Or the sudden decapitation of the main character at the two thirds mark.

Getting Second (and Third) Opinions

Billi 99 has gotten its first customer review at Amazon. It’s not a good review. The reviewer’s other review was of a watch. He didn’t like the watch either.

If you’ve read Billi 99 and liked it, do us a favor and go add your two cents.

I can’t. Not honorably. Being married to the author and all. Even though I read and liked the book before I met said author.