Late-arriving Groundhog says Six More Weeks of Volcano

[spqrblues]

I was looking through some scanned sketches for some art to post, to liven up the site for the New Year, and discovered that I still don't like looking at the pages from the Big Project. Bleah. On the left is a sketch idea for a title page for Big Project, created on the iPad in an app called ArtStudio that I was quite in love with at the time, and which appears to have had many upgrades since. I don't think I've posted this one before. Hmm. I should check on that.

It was just a quick scribble, but I'm oddly fond of it.

Last month I went to the big comics festival in Angoulême, France—strictly for work, though I carved out a couple of hours in a crazed schedule to walk around the festival with _w_o_o_d_, get some books signed, and enjoy just how many comics with ancient-world settings are published and popular overseas. And some of them aren't even fixated on orgies, bloodshed, and Senators' wives going topless (and Senators' sons going bottomless). I didn't do as much sketching in France as I'd hoped, since there really wasn't much time and there was definitely too much cognac, but I managed a couple of scribbles. I'll see if I can get Mr. Scanner working, or finally get myself a new scanner after all this time.

Also I caught a really bad cold. But it's an imported French cold, so it's very elegant.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_w_o_o_d_/]

Remember to go "atchoum" when you sneeze ! That's the French way.

It was great to hang out with you !

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

I hope the elegant cold gets better soon! Around here we just have the garden-variety kind.

I love the sketch!

[pikku-gen.livejournal.com]

Oh dang. If I'd known, I'd gotten the money and the time off somehow! It's so much easier to travel to France than to the other side of the pond. Besides I've never been to Angoulême (although I've been in many other French towns) and I've always meant to see the festival. Gah. So many lost opportunities. (Professional-wise, too; I'd love to translate some BD to Finnish, and I know someone who knows a possibly interested publisher.)

I hope you had fun and lots of inspiration, besides the imported French cold!

[texascarl.livejournal.com]

Tell your cold "My children need wine!" ala the Simpsons. Perhaps it will listen to reason.

Good to 'see' you again.

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!