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Illustration Friday – Primitive

April 24, 2008 in cartoons, comics, illustration friday | 3 comments

Hello longtime fans of me (and new fans of me too of course)! I’m going to start trying to participate in Illustration Friday. You can read more about it by following the link, but basically it is a great site, in which one word is given on Fridays and a community of all kinds of artists participate by submitting their interpretation of that word and linking their image to the Illustration Fridays site.

This is my first go round, and the word is Primitive. I’m in a bit of a quandry as to whether I should be posting it under “cartoon” or “comic book”…for this one I guess I’ll go with cartoon and moving forward I’ll just have to play it by ear. Enjoy!

#131 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

April 24, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, craptastic, skor | 4 comments

It’s all true. I don’t know when I’ll come out of this funk, but perhaps drawing myself looking more like Jessica Rabbit and less like the real me (as I have done above) will help pull me out of it…

#130 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

April 23, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics | 4 comments

Fun with heads. What can I say? I’ve still been struggling to find a visual identity for my strip. It varies wildly from week to week, and sometimes day to day. I’m actually a much better artist than this strip would lead a person to believe but I just really despise drawing myself and cannot seem to find a style that fits comfortably (why I chose to do a journal comic is a mystery to me). I really would have thought a nice solid style would have evolved on its own by now, but it just hasn’t, and I’m in a bit in a quandry about what to do about it.

I had decided recently to start doing (and posting) some pages (which Adam graciously agreed to color for me) from an old project of mine that I love, with characters that are quite cartoony, but I committed to getting some writing projects done first, and that hasn’t happened yet. What is this whole diatribe about you ask? Basically it’s me, asking you gentle reader, to hang in there. I know the comics have been by turns bizarre, or lame, or poorly drawn lately, but I believe we will turn the corner back to good again…someday (soon, I hope).

So thanks for hanging in there.

#129 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

April 22, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, new york city | 4 comments

Man do I hate me some people.

I just have a really low tolerance for crowds. I mean, I’m sure there are very few people that love crowds…maybe really young guys and girls who feel like they’re constantly on spring break? Or the kind of people that are hoping that the larger the crowd the better variety of people to hook up with? Hell, I don’t know. I think most normal adults are pretty turned off by crowds. But I confess to being not normal in that I’m so turned off by crowds I will just deliberately not do shit in order to avoid them.

Case in point, I’ve been wanting to go to MOMA for ages, and put it off in part because I knew it would be a circus. And it was. But it was pretty great anyway. I wish museums were like they are on TV – where it’s just you and all this beautiful space and stunning original work on the walls that you can be alone with. But I guess museums would be out of business if it really was that way.

Anyway, I highly recommend MOMA if you’re in New York, regardless of crowds (though I bet it is less crowd-y on weekdays in either the morning or late afternoon).

#128 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

April 21, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, movies, new york city | 4 comments

Perhaps we will have a slew of comics of actual events…rather than just shots of me watching a tv show, since my good friend Kyle is in town, and is “forcing” me to do all sorts of great stuff with him. Between Friday night and Sunday night I went to The Natural History Museum, The Cloisters, and MOMA, spent some time in the East Village, saw a movie (Forgetting Sarah Marshall – hilarious!) and of course there were a couple great dinners and breakfasts thrown in there as well. I literally did more in one weekend than I usually do in about three months. Of course no writing and very very little in the way of comics got done, so this is not really a way I could live my live usually, but it was nice to get outside my head for a while.

I could still do with WAY less people though. Everywhere we went, especially MOMA was insanely crowded. I HATE me some crowds. I do love me some sculpture gardens though, so it was worth it.

#127 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

April 18, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, seafood, television, television reviews | 5 comments

That’s right. You guys couldn’t take the “creative” and “adventurous” stuff, so here we are. Back to Adam’s and my invigorating “real life”. Like watching a marathon of Discovery’s ‘Deadliest Catch’. Which makes a riveting comic to read, right?

Honestly though, the show, Deadliest Catch is kind of amazing and horrible. I mean, it is hands down the most intense reality show of all time, a guy actually died on one of the episodes I watched. Talk about raising the reality stakes. Forget houswives and their ridiculous rich woman woes, and the sluttiness of rock of love hos, and even my cherished chimpanzee bros…dudes DIE on this show. I did a little rhyming for you there…did you enjoy it? Good, because it will probably never happen again. Anyway, the show is pretty crazy. It is really fascinating to see how these men (and one whiny woman) live with these dangerous jobs and lives, although it suffers from the same problems of all reality shows, too much padding and recapping, too much repetitive stuff overall, but otherwise a pretty scary show…or maybe I’m just super afraid of the Bering Sea…which could totally be my own issue…

#126 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

April 17, 2008 in ass, boobs, boyfriends, cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment | 5 comments

Well we’re drawing to the end of the stick figures (and terrible dark genital parts jokes)…which for some will be the sad end of an era and for others will be a welcome relief. We’ve got one more day of it, so for those in the former category, savor these last moments, and for those of you in the latter, hang in there for one more day. Goodness knows what might happen next week…could be anything…

#125 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

April 16, 2008 in boyfriends, cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment | 11 comments

Well hopefully you guys like this one better than yesterdays – which I loved, and based on the comments – only two! – you guys were not so enamored with. Perhaps the stick figures wear thin? No pun intended of course…

#124 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

April 15, 2008 in boyfriends, cartoons, comic of the day, comics, craptastic, entertainment | 3 comments

Hee Hee. I love this one. I don’t know why. The drawing is crappy and the genitals still look just terrible (they look slightly better in tomorrow’s strip I promise) but I just find Adam hilarious in this one.

The nice thing about the stick figures, so far, is that they allow the strip to move somewhat past the traditional lines of “journal comic”, which I’m sure Paul will tell you can get tedious, especially if your life is going through a particularly boring patch (which in my case is pretty much all the time)…anyway, so this has been fun and I think I’ll keep up with it for the rest of the week…who knows what might happen next week…I think Josh suggested that Adam and I go on adventures and solve mysteries…who knows…

#123 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics…NSF?

April 14, 2008 in boyfriends, cartoons, comic of the day, comics | 10 comments

The fun with stick figures just keeps on coming. Hopefully since you all read Friday’s strip…you can tell what is going on here…even though it’s just a terrible terrible drawing.

Stay tuned tomorrow for more fun with the genitals of stick figures…

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