Font Party

I hearby vote this the least stimulating post ever. But a man has gotta think about these things, there comes a time!Font nerds, toss in your ten cents!
Addendum: I'm starting to think they all stink! Any suggestions?

These are the end times

They must be, for me to be posting someting from the flipping Montel Williams show

BUT

but man oh man

THIS DOG

A flip, a flop, a flippidy flop-hop

Well I gotta say it was a treat having the morning off to go into Soho during the early hours. I'm not sure why I tossed my camera into my bag, but I'm glad I did. If nothing else, it was worth it for my spotting one of the ceramic tile space invaders which I first read about in the always delightful Colors magazine a couple of years back.I'll find out about the job by Friday. I think I might get beat out by other folk with more practical experience in post-production but on the other hand the interview seemed a pretty cheery affair and I had decent answers to their questions. We shall see! Anyways, more of Soho...And then there are two neat bits I spotted outside Leicester station before I headed off to work.

Addendum: Here is the Invader's own site.

SUCCESS SUCCESS...

...SUCCESS!

I mean, SUCCESS!

Thanks to some help from John I tamed the GIMP and was able to do better word bubbles than PhotoPaint 9 afforded me. Meanwhile the first panel of the next comic is done and I've been able to take a bit more time with it, since I have more than twenty-four hours until my Sunday evening deadline this time. Huzzah! Already the steady march of personal progress has begun.

But then.... who am I kidding? How can I ever compete with this?

Now to toss myself in bed and cross my fingers for the interview tomorrow. In that order.

Addendum: SHEESH! I thought .png's were the preferred file format for webcomics because they were smaller than jpg's....but converting from the latter to the former has more than doubled the file size. Sorry folks! I'll see about changing this later.

Stabbing back at the winking anus of infinity

It feels too much like defeat to not post SOMETHING.

So if you are down with spoilers and mostly complete work, click on this link to see where I am with the strip so far.

Pulsating Balloon

Sheesh.
So after some long-winded Skype with Paw, I seem to have a way of making word bubbles in Corel Photo-Paint.

It's more arduous then feels right though...it feels more like a work-around than a solution but here we are. I need to spend some time today NOT in front of a computer as my ass is turning into a kind of pulsating balloon and it is not a comfortable sensation! Tomorrow my dear, tomorrow. At least I can lay back in bed and get a head start on the art for the next strip so hopefully I won't be setting a pattern of delayed updates from the frigging get-go.

Meanwhile, I guess I'll keep going through the GIMP mini-tutorials until I have the requisite skillz to pay the word bubble billz.

*sob*

IN OTHER NEWS
I have an interview on Wednesday for a different job in Soho. But it is with a film post-production company so I can't shit my pants with dissatisfaction too hard.

I can't do that!

Plus I am apparently to be interviewed by another "Oliver". Wish me luck! OR DON'T.

I must admit, I'd thought I'd be meeting Oliver's by the dozen over here but this guy will only make #2 since I arrived last October. It's a bit strange since this would make Oliver's, in my experience, only marginally more common than they are in Canada (I think I've met four there in my entire life). I'd expected they'd be as common as "Mike". Live and learn.

Addendum: Posterchild illustrates a pretty good point today. His art, as always, is stellar but holy crap scroll down to see the mobile phone pictures he put up.

Insert Mandatory Joke About How Giving Birth Isn't This Difficult

UGH!

The art is done, scanned and cleaned up. But I have to postpone uploading the comic until tomorrow - though not for lack of effort!

Ah.....but I planned the fuggin' thing out for the use of proper word bubbles, thinking that I could make such things instead of using the old (and ugly) overlayed text n' lines bit. It seemed a simple thing for one to do. But Inkscape, the GIMP and trusty old Corel Photo-Paint have all screwed me to the bone over this in one way or another. It's getting to 11pm and my brain isn't working any better, so for the sake of quality I am going to wait until I can take another tackle at it tomorrow. Trust me, it would be disgusting if I used the old method - I experimented in my last moments of soft-ware dis-pare.

Some things I have learn-ed
1) The GIMP is infuriating (Every time I tried to embed text into the main layer - it vanished) and it is most likely only a good move for those who have already conquered Adobe Photoshop.
2) If I get serious about this I'll need a larger tablet, a larger scanner or both depending.
3) Cramming a weeks worth of work into twenty-four hours could perhaps not be the best idea.
4) I hate reading authors newsposts where they go over the creation of the day's update in excruciating detail and/or make a pile of qualifying remarks. Yet, I may have to get that out of my system just the one time - tomorrow.
5) I gotta get some sleep, now.

Though maybe I'll stare at this for just a minute or two, to sooth myself.

I'm not sure if it's an effective advertisment...

...but it did make me laugh.