Long time no update.
I’m back from the catskills for a day, but I’m glad to announce that our spider farm is doing great! I’ll be posting pics on petfinder.com for anyone who wants to adopt one.
Archive for August, 2008
Spider Babies!
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008I need to spend all my time up here.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008I’m still in the Catskills and I need to figure out a way to spend all my time here. Every day I swim in the swimming hole, play Gin, go to auctions up in the boonies where victorian furniture goes for $1, and toothless speed freak locals hold up gigantic urns, cook veggies from the garden, stare at bees feeding from sunflowers, let my dog chase squirells, draw nature, get hot, go swimming, think the place is haunted, watch a shitty movie. I am in heaven and I don’t want to leave.
Too bad teaching starts in a week and a couple days.
I think I’m going to have a mini-comics worth of sketches from this glorious haven at SPX.
It’s so beautiful here it’s scarry!
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Hi everyone, I’m staying at this crazy artist house in the Catskills for the next couple weeks. It’s so nice here, there’s fresh vegetables growing on the property. I have become obsessed with cooking garlic in all of it’s many incarnations. We had it roasted the other night with fresh thyme sprigs. Then I slow cooked it with homegrown onions and lentils. This morning I harvested a zucchini and made zucchini bread. Tonight I will roast a chicken with five heads of garlic, and make green beans tomatoes and garlic from the garden.
Speaking of incarnations, this house is supposed to be haunted. Infact, someone was either killed or just died in my room, and the people that we rent the house with vacated the room because of ghost activity. I do not believe in ghosts, but if I did, this place would definitely be haunted.
I have tried to work on my book, the sequel to Girl Stories, and it’s beginning to work. The secret is to go and find a sunny spot, hiding in the tall sunflowers, and give myself the gift of time to work. I am staying here alone. Except for the nightly hauntings, I am in heaven.
I’ll be postng sketchbook pages soon.
Hand Pics, Thanks to The Strand, and a Special Bonus…
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Here are some weird night time pictures of the hand…
Richard O’Connor from Asterix Animation wrote up the Desert Island party here and has great pics!
On Tuesday I spoke at the Strand. I think I was totally under-prepared for this event, which sucked, because the place was packed. Sorry to anyone who was totally baffled by my “talk”. All my friends say it was fine, you know how this goes. Am I fat?
One thing talks do is make you try and crystallize what you were thinking when you made something. I still don’t know what I was thinking when I made the Goddess of War. I want to do it more. Working on it feels like digging a hole deeper into the ground. Is that a good thing? Do people want to read that?
Anyways, this is probably the end of relentless hyping of events and parties for now on my blog. I am going to get into deeper, psychological blogging now. If all goes right I’ll actually be posting a new drawing or two.
Here are some bonus pics from the San Diego Comicon–both the thrills and the chills …
Here’s my publisher Dan who was this excited throughout the entire thing, and his underlings, Will and Jon.
I geeked out at Comicon and bought $300 of original art from this man (more on my prizes later…):
Next there’s Shayna Yates, who makes the coolest fashions around….
Here’s a lot of people clamoring for shit….
But look at this great Jack Kirby collage comic!!
Thanks to everyone who came to Desert Island!
Monday, August 4th, 2008
Hi! Thanks to everyone who came out to Desert Island yesterday afternoon for such a fun party. Tomorrow I will go to the Strand and speak, and then I will duck down in my house and not come out for another year while I make a couple new comics. I feel anxiety and total lack of touch with making comics. This whole summer has been a bust for making anything, that’s depressing to even write. But August I’m going to disappear and hopefully get some good work done on Calamity, (the sequel to Girl Stories).
Good closure for all of this, however, will be going to the Strand and talking about the Goddess of War tomorrow.
This week: New York Magazine has a preview of The GOW…
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008NY Mag put up a bunch of pages here! And there’s a super great write up…
“Sure, being a Valkyrie is great — you live on your own planet, you control all war and conflict among the human race, you get to have sex with Cochise the Apache chief. But sometimes a girl just needs to get away, you know? Lauren R. Weinstein’s new graphic novel is a wild and fanciful vision of the day the goddess of war decides to take a personal day. The deluxe, oversize paperback of The Goddess of War — filled with both clever line drawings and gorgeous etchings — comes out in August from Picturebox.”
Also, the window installation for Desert Island is finally up and the party is today from 4-7. I haven’t gotten a really good picture of it yet, but the results have been amazing, people from all over the hood continue to drop off little characters, so many that they spilled out onto another display on the wall. On Friday I came in to help Gabe put the figures in place, and there was a steady stream of hipsters coming in and saying, “dig the hand, dude.” Leslie Stein came in and we hid on the floor gluing and cutting and talking about boys. Then two beautiful cyclist hip environmental girls came in and made figures. We talked about Portland, Seattle, composting, and creative hang -ups. Before I knew it it was 8. I think I want to spend all my time in the store making little figurines with people and talking. It’s a nice environment. Then I wouldn’t have to confront the massive deadlines that lay ahead…
