Archive for June, 2009
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I’ll just say, when I was little, watching this at Disneyland in 3D, it was pretty much the coolest thing ever:
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I kinda like this drawing. It’s one of the few that I smile at when i look at it. The people there are the East River String Band — check them out if you haven’t for absolutely fabulous covers of blues songs from the ’20’s and early ’30’s, back when recorded music was all a crazy new thing for most folks — and sitting in with them is none other than R. Crumb. Crumb being such an admired artist of mine, and him having drawn himself so many times in his comics, it was a really strange notion for me to draw him to begin with. I did it anyway, though, ’cause I love him and I love the band, and, figuring I was about to embarrass myself, I sent the drawing to John and Eden. Instead of hating it, they said all sorts of very kind things about how much they liked it, and put it up on their website next to drawings that Crumb had done of them (!). As if that wasn’t cool enough, they asked for a higher resolution scan so they could, they said, print out a copy and send it to Crumb himself. So, that thought makes me smile when I see the drawing.
Anyway, here I go again with another gallery for y’all on my comicspace . If it’s not obvious enough to negate the necessity of an explanation, I’ll mention that I’m doing these galleries as a bit of a time saver because I haven’t had much time to get to the comics that come next in the current storyline. Between the cold I mentioned earlier and the fact that I’m drastically, pathetically behind on the pages that I should be illustrating for Dave Baxter (Part of that’s ’cause of the cold, too, as long as I’m giving my excuses…
, I just haven’t done a new strip for a little bit. But there will be more story to come soon, and even when I don’t post exactly on time there will be updates soon-ish, so check back. Actually, that “ish” is good. Just add an “ish” to any temporal reference that comes from me, and you’ll be less surprised by the final results of my actions. Somewhere in L.A., Dave will be nodding while he reads this.
In the meantime, if anybody wants to, you should follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/bloodoftheland (Bonus free* cookie to anybody who can tell me where the name comes from, ’cause I think most people who have read it think I’m just being eccentric, which of course I am, but still, it’s not just random words….) , ‘Cause I’m trying to make it a point to update that with any new news about comics I’m doing, or other projects, live shows, signings, what have you, as well as occasional minutiae about my life, which I know must be absolutely enthralling. And speaking of which, this weekend is my very first San Francisco Pride… I can feel it in the air already, the city humming with a high, tremulous vibrato of excitement, like an agitated tuning fork…. It must be thousands of gay boys who never need an excuse to get drunk, high, and slutty being given an excuse to get drunk, high, and slutty! Yes, it should be quite an occasion. So, for occasional glimpses into my personal showing of community pride by the sacrifice of my personal self-respect and dignity, check my tweets. Yes, i just said that. No, I don’t like me very much right now either.
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I spent most of this week huddled in a ball, sleeping, or hacking up phlegm, so this post is later than I meant it to be. It’s another new gallery for your viewing pleasure at my comicspace ! The first one I’m posting is a collection of sketchbook comics/drawings that I’ve done over the last couple of years. Most of them have popped up in print or online somewhere at some point, but here are a good number of them collected together.
This an older comic that I never posted officially when I first did it, because I was mainly posting comics on Myspace at that point and I thought they might delete my account for it. As you can see, it dates from before I realized that Zac Efron is obviously much, much more fuckable than Pete Wentz. I would imagine, though, that the enjoyment I took in drawing this still shines through in the finished product. Yep. Write what you know, they say. Whenever I show this comic to anybody I respect, their response usually includes that phrase, “But who the hell is Pete Wentz?” which proves to me that at least some things in this universe are as they should be. As hard as the music sucks, though, he’s still pretty cute. As long as he doesn’t talk much. I’m reasonably happy with how this comic looks, considering how old it is, aside from Pete’s face being somewhat deformed in that one panel there. You can probably guess that my attention to detail was keener on the panels which didn’t include his face.
One more gallery of my strips at http://www.comicspace.com/rickworley/ . Pretty awesome, I know. More new stuff next week.
Things get a little bit more ominous at this point…
Head on over to http://www.comicspace.com/rickworley/ for the next gallery of 25 of my strips in the continuing project to organize all the A Waste of Time stuff, (or almost all of it) from the last couple of years. This gallery contains one of the first long-ish storylines that I did, “Fluffynut Gets Dumped,” from back when the rabbit was still called Fluffynut and, along with a good number of strips that look strange and read poorly to me now, a few strips that I still think are decent. I’ll let you decide for yourself which are which. Yep. the next installment of the Swine Flu storyline should be posted on this website on Wednesday, so see you then!
OK, today I’m starting another new project. I’m beginning to gradually organize and archive my last couple years worth of comix on ComicSpace.com, so that it’ll all be in one location and easily accessable for anybody new to them. So, head on over to: http://www.comicspace.com/rickworley/ to dig 25 possibly new-to-you comix in the first gallery of stuff. Some of these, I shudder to look at, some of them are kinda OK, but I’m trying to make this complete, or reasonably complete, so I’m trying to post without passing too much judgement. There are a few things that aren’t being posted in chronological order, for various reasons, and some of these comix just don’t jive with what the strip has become, (major examples: the rabbit is no longer named, “Fluffynut,” since I’ve decided to admit that, about 90% of the time, he’s just me, and the monkey is no longer a character, for personal reasons, although I guess he may recur) but I guess they could be enjoyable.
So, I had this comic I was going to post today… Even got as far as scanning it in and resizing it and all that before I decided that i really hated it. I think maybe I’ll post a re-done version of it along with the original as sort of a before-and-after sort of thing, but in the meantime I feel like it’s to embarrassing to post, so I’ll have two comics to post on Wednesday. Yep. I promise.
