Ever heard of  Hourly Comic Day? If not, now you have. Here is my effort!

In the interest of directing folks who pop up from time to time… I made a Facebook Fan Page for myself. Have at it!

Aside from that, I have some other things brewing, hopefully it won’t be long before I post something.

Thanksgiving week was quite a busy one for me! I was hosting friends from afar, and as a treat, they took Dove and I to see a Teatro Zinzanni show.

The show features a variety of acts, and I could be in love with Beaumount & Caswell ! There was a lot of gender play in their act, and it was fabulously fun! The whole production from the wait staff, the meals, the performers, the decor… just everything was masterful and wonderful. I am so lucky to have such amazing friends! This wins Thanksgiving forever!

Another donation gift! There’ll be two more, I hope, by the end of the month. That should catch up with at least what I’ve missed from previous thanksgivings.

My partner and I at Steamcon 2009! She treated me to this special weekend! I tell you, it’s quite nice for use to enjoy a non-working vacation. She even helped with my costumes! The skirt below was a particular labor of love!

At a steampunk convention… everybody dresses up. It had to be like, 5-10% of people who attended without dressing up. The rest were all manner of great outfits, props and whatnot. Neat. Endless eyecandy! I kinda wanted to just run back and forth to our room to change into different costumes. Hee! All ages, colors, genders, and sizes. I love it! It was all so beautiful and peaceful! I recommend this type of event highly!

The following weekend, my BFFs sent me train tickets to visit them for Halloween.

October was full of such fun times! A great relief! If you keep up with my DeviantArt gallery, you can see, too, it was a very productive month.  In terms of getting help with the health problems, things have been dismal as ever, but it was nice to finally have at least an emotional break!

I’ve been quite busy as of late! I’m catching up a little, so here is this month’s donation gift art.

So, in 1985 I was just starting 6th grade in a new school. I had a cousin who worked in fashion design, and often I would get hand-me-downs from her. I always thought they were awesome clothes, and had been using them to play dress-up since I was little. Well, there was this one outfit…

I didn’t realize until many years later that the pink triangle was a symbol for the GLBT community. So, I had apparently spent time at the age of 11 dressed as what I can only describe as a gay superhero. JJ here is  in the exact jumpsuit I wore in 1985.

Happy Halloween, eh? :)

DeviantArt Print (Click Here!).

Wallpaper Version (Click here!).

I’m still working on fixing things here, but in the meantime, I wanted to post previews to the latest donation gift updates! These all sort of had a Noir theme… but only loosely.

I think it’s safe to say that the surgery recovery is about done. I live, I breathe, I carry on. I still have a number of other medical issues to sort through, but such is life.

Oh yeah, I also cut my hair. I’ll be sending it to Locks of Love! My hair isn’t short exactly, I can still make a small pigtail! I thought I’d miss my hair more than I do. I like that it’s less effort!

Lulu has this new book format – mini books. It seems like a fun idea, but since you can only order sets of 3 or 4, I’m not sure what I could do with it. I can see the value of maybe a LOM primer or sorts that people could pass around, but still… So, if you REALLY want to see me do something with that, e-mail me and tell me so.

I’ve been mostly making fan art and posting it here. I hope to get back to cranking out the wallpapers for the donation area here. As for comics, we’ll see. It’s been so long, and my life has been sort of pulling me away enough that I think I have to re-acquaint myself with the story, and the script. I’m mulling the idea of a single panel thing with a similar theme to a life comic – but staring the characters. It would not be canon, but would at least get me practicing a bit.

I had this idea a long time ago, to make a little family album of sorts with art from the comic and donation gift collection. I picked up a small album years ago, but never got around to it. There are still some pages blank, I could possibly fill those with actual doodles or other prints. If you’d like to buy this from me, please e-mail me!

Family Album Preview

I completely forgot to mention this in the last post, but I wanted to give a heads up on this, too. I may also have a rough time creatively after having recovered from surgery if my tech fails before then.

• For several months, my CRT monitor has been on the fritz, and after having my tech gurus evaluate it, they estimate it’s nothing I can fix, that the inner hardware will just go eventually. It was, of course, just past the warranty when this trouble began. I have long preferred CRT’s for color accuracy and clarity, but when I can, I will replace it with the much cheaper, and just as accurate and clear LCD I found.
• My scanner has well and truly died from hardware failure. It had a long (11 years!) and happy life, and served me well (and thanks to fabulous fans, I’ve been able to keep the SCSI needs at bay). My next scanner needs to be the largest surface area I can get, and it will have to be of a certain quality (a large part of my needs for it are scanning large paintings so I can make quality prints of them), and I am considering a cheap and crappy scanner as a band aid. In the meantime, I am stuck borrowing when I can.
• My video card is also coming to the end of it’s life span. It was a hand-me-down, so it’s also having itself a long and useful life… until it totally fries on me, anyway. I’ve tried replacing it, but my motherboard is apparently too old now, and my attempts haven’t done much but waste money I do not have. I was gifted a nearly new PCIe card of vast superiority, but I have no compatible slot.
• Oh, and I’m down to tiny, let-all-the-noise-in, portable headphones, because all others have fried. This may not seem as crucial to the creative process, but not being able to suitably rock out while drawing is horrible! hehe!

If my desktop suffers any more of these expensive failures, I can switch to the laptop, but I have found it to be lacking in the drawing and creating area, but excellent for page layout, and other kinds of work with preexisting art. I was careful to pick something that would do well in an emergency, or for working on site, but it is not the powerhouse my desktop is/was that makes me feel like I can do anything.

SO… yeah, I just figured I’d be somewhat more informative, for those wondering what the heck was going on with me these days.