Hey, it's Christmas in five days or something! Merry Christmas everybody!

(This is a card I made for Strange Adventures, but we'll just pretend it's for everybody, since I don't have time to do a Christmas card for the internets.)
Man, was this whole month a giant failure in terms of work... freelance and other things distracting me away from my comic-making, and to make matters worse, pretty much all my friends are up and leaving Halifax due to the general awfulness of the animation industry here, so what little extra time I had was spent with them. Sad, sad, sad times. Sucks when people leave.

I haven't been able to work on Ice much lately. I have a few pages pencilled, but wasn't able to finish them... so much for a year end update. Sorry! :( I'm still plugging away, though. SLG and I have spoken about them publishing it, and it's something I'd like to do, with some changes and updates to the story, which has been going on for far too long. Anyway, I hope that the Small Press Publishing Gods are kind to both SLG and me, and we'll be able to make that happen next year. I feel uncomfortable with the idea of my older work being passed around in book form, but I think that with the changes I want to make, Ice could possibly be a nice little graphic novel. I won't mess with the online content, and it will remain up, so I'm planning for there to be two different versions of Ice, one online and one offline. That's the plan. We'll see what happens.

I feel kind of in flux lately regarding comics and the internet. It's really weird. During my time doing Demonology 101, I never told anyone in Real Life that I drew an online comic, mostly because I felt kind of like I wasn't a REAL comic book artist. Now that I'm working full-time doing a book for a "real" publisher (whatever that word means) I miss the internet, and the interaction with readers, and I feel like I should be doing more art/comics/whatever online ('cause, y'know, if I don't, people might forget about me oh nooooo!). Sometimes I draw a panel in Friends With Boys, and feel pretty bummed about the fact that no one will see this panel for another two years. It's hard to be patient.

Unfortunately, I have never made money off my online comics, so it's hard to try and make anything online a priority when you have paying work demanding your attention. I'd really like to finish Ice (God, when??? wheeennn???) and move on to some kind of comic that actually works online, rather than a long-form story. Which doesn't work. And doesn't sell t-shirts or any of the stuff that makes online comics sustainable. Anyway, these thoughts are probably more of a result of me being a horrible worrier more than anything (must have many revenue streams to pay bills! Can't hitch only wagon to shaky print industry! What if everything fails? What if??? AHHHH! Dogs and cats living in sin together!). Even if I have nothing to worry about, I worry about cosmic death rays or something. Bah, humbug.

On the days that I don't let the publication date for the book bug me, working on Friends With Boys is awesome. I love drawing it. Sometimes the story weirds me out, like how there's little bits of things I went through in high school, and I get nervous over it, because it's like picking at a scab you didn't realize was still there. People who are honest, honest, honest to God memoirists are masochists, I think. But man, I love drawing comics. Please, Comic Gods, let me do this forever and ever.

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Brittany is helping and we'll have two rooms for two nights... So whatever happens happens I guess. :E It's at the Microtel in York, ME again.

And like I said before, I'd REALLYYYYY appreciate it if we leave one room for alcohol ONLY. Some of us don't like to sleep/smell/be around it all the time. And I also think we should think about putting a mature cap on it as well. >>; I can't keep you guys from drinking, and I don't want to, but I think there should be a limit. We're friends, and I'm pretty sure we can have fun around each other without that crap. JUST SAYING.

Also, let me know who's bringing what (PS2, PS3, Wii, whatever fuck shit ass damn). I only have a cable adapter for my PS2, so if somebody can bring an AV one, I'll bring my PS2. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT.


oh shit son see you all next week

To the New Year Crew

This is super shitty, but I really don't think I can afford two nights. I really don't want you guys to have to pay for anything either, because it's my Christmas gift to all of you. So I'm thinking we'd do a 31st to the 1st thing, and I'll still be available to do stuff on the 2nd if we still want to get together. I just can't afford $400 at the moment, and I'm sorry I put it off for so long. I just needed to make sure how much money I had. T_T;;

So let me know if this is an issue. I was thinking to make up for it, we could do a hotel thingy for Ami's birthday in March. :<;;


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I bought Dissidia the other day. It makes me happy. The reviews and stuff for it are pretty poor, but I'm a fangirling fag and love it to pieces. It took awhile to get used to, but I think I've gotten pretty decent at it now. Got the guide yesterday so I can oogle over pictures. D:

Speaking of pictures, here's another drawing I did:
http://acktacky.deviantart.com/art/Immoral-Melody-147104041


Still have to finish my other ones, but I don't really feel like vectoring at the moment.

I did some Christmas shopping with Spencer and his parents yesterday. It was a perfect day to go because of the snowstorm. Got everything done pretty much. It was a nice day overall. I also finished reading Twilight and plan on burning it in a fire sometime soon.

My New Year's plan is to embark on a very hefty journey. I want to play FFI-FFXII (FFXI replaced with FFX-2). That's one Final Fantasy a month. It's going to be tough... But somebody has to save the world.

I'm really just hoping it will keep me indoors for most of the time so I don't spend any money. Then I can see about moving out at the end of the year. That'd be cool.

I technically have a bit of design stuff to finish, so not quite finished yet. BUT BUT in terms of classes and such?

As of tonight I am officially done college.

Christ on a crouton. I need to start being an adult now, don't I? :O

So Spencer got me Twilight for Christmas, and I've been reading it. I've largely been enraged with Bella's character and Stephanie Meyer's writing... But I finally came across a part that made me audibly laugh:

"Of course," he said, and his tone mirrored mine, "we have to be careful not to impact the environment with injudicious hunting. We try to focus on areas with an over population of predators--ranging as far away as we need. There's always plenty of deer and elk here, and they'll do, but where's the fun in that?" He smiled teasingly.

UGGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHG



And I swear if I read "crooked smile" and a day that is miserable/agonizing/depressing because holy shit, it's RAINING out or EDWARD ISN'T AT LUNCH, I'm going to punch a fucking baby.





I love this book.