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There are few things I love more on earth than a good sandwich, especially when someone will make it for me. But as I’m unemployed, I make a lot of my own sandwiches these days and I’m shocked by the next level you can achieve with your sandwich with simply a kaiser roll and shredded lettuce.
Anyone else? What do you use to take your sandwich to the next level?
Now, please keep in mind I do of course mix this up with different babydoll nightgowns, ratty sweaters, and sweatpants. But yeah, it’s decidedly not awesome.
If we hadn’t gone out this weekend (twice!) I think Adam would have forgotten what I looked like in real clothes. Speaking of this weekend, we saw two really good films this weeked at the New Directors/New Films series. Treeless Mountain and Cold Souls. I don’t know if either will be getting a wide release, though the latter has enough star power that it seems like it should (Paul Giamatti), it also features in a small role some “new” actress (Katheryn Winnick) that I have to say I could not take my eyes off of. To be “that guy” (or girl, as it were) she looked like a lovely version of Scarlett Johansson…only taller and a bit older. Va va va voom.
It’s true. The good news is that I told this story to Adam and he laughed out loud…so at least it’s not catching…
Yeah, pretty much slimy meat, slimy cheese, and slightly stale crackers.
What was appealing about this to me as a kid? Also, how did this fill me up? I’m no small girl, but I never was, and this is not really a meal…at all. Adam did point out that it’s designed more for kids than adults and that might be half my problem…which is true.
Also, this particular lunchable included a partially crushed Reeses Peanut Butter Cup, which is a new feature, and a strange ‘wild cherry drink’ of some kind, that was actually clear in color, which freaked me out. I didn’t eat/drink either, though I’ll probably get to that peanut butter cup eventually…I mean, crushed or no, it’s a peanut butter cup…I’m not jesus.
That’s right, I said it. Vegetables.
In honor of hitting 100,000 hits over here on 1979 Semi-Finalist I’m going to steal an idea from my friend Holly over at Beyond The Air. Holly did a great “Best Of Post” a little while ago that inspired me to revisit the comics I have really loved over Rabid Lamb’s brief year long-ish history, in honor of my 100,000 Hit-0-versary. As usual with lists I do it half in the hope it will re-inspire me to draw more comics and half just because I love me some lists. So here goes…the Top 15 Rabid Lamb Comics…as picked by yours truly. Below the jump, I also list the Top 5 Rabid Lamb Comics, based solely on hit numbers…it’s an interesting difference. And at the very bottom…1979 Semi-Finalist’s first ever POLL!
15. Rabid Lamb Comic #063. I hate the drawing in this one, but LOVE the gag. You see, it’s funny because it’s true.
14. Rabid Lamb Comic #155. This is the first comic in a short series about Adam with a deer head. Adam is largely responsible for this bit and it’s great.
13. Rabid Lamb Comic #156. The conclusion to #155 – great stuff!
12. Rabid Lamb Comics #157. A little riff on the previous “deer head” strip.
11. Rabid Lamb Comic #158. The end of that little “deer strip” – which was some of the most fun I had with Rabid Lamb – and which I don’t despise the drawing on…except panel two of this strip (just terrible!).
10. Rabid Lamb Comic #085. There’s something about the simplicity of this one that always loved…that and the fact that it’s an actual conversation…pretty much word for word. Those tend to be some of my favorites.
9. Rabid Lamb Comic # – Guest Artist Adam Greene. This probably deserves to be higher than #9 on the list…Adam’s cartooning is so far above mine it’s ridiculous. I will say that he took forever to draw this and at the time I was doing five strips a week…we can’t all be michaelfreakingangelo when posting five strips a week and working full time…can we Adam? But I LOVE everything about this.
8. Rabid Lamb Comic #124. The only strip to make my list and the “Top 5 Readers List”. I loved drawing the Adam and Kelly stick figures, if only because it helped the creativity and allowed the strip to become something more than a journal comic….which when you live the boring life I do gets very old very fast. Panel #4 is one of my favorite panels of all time – the expression and dialogue are just dead on.
Click more to see the rest of the list…and to see the Top 5 Comics according to you the reader…there’s also a poll at the end…whee!…
A rare one of all of the girls together. I hate the way Bimbo is drawn here and think she’s evolved, but everyone else looks pretty good. I also love the fact that it’s completely low-rent and drawn on yellow lined paper…
A sketch for the mysterious Platinum Assassin…also on sweet yellow lined legal pad!
An older (but respectable enough) character design sketch of Evil Catholic School Girls (from left: Mary Jane, Mary Pat, Mary Rose). They’re one of my favorite villains for the series…
I’m sorry to keep pouring on the teasers…there really is an actual project in your future dear readers (I swear) but I’m still (yes, still) hip deep in novel revisions, but as soon as I can get clear prepare for the deluge…!
I thought you guys might enjoy a teaser sketch for a drawing I’m working on for a Jilted League “Villains Line Up”.
Here we have, from left to right: ‘The Mos”; Evil Catholic Schoolgirls (Mary Jane, Mary Pat, Mary Rose); MCP aka Male Chauvanist Pig; and The Supermodel and Regular Model.
There are three more pieces to this sketch so far…if you ask nicely maybe I’ll post them in the coming days. Who knows how long before the final (yes, with color!) drawing goes up.
And please, let’s not hassle me about the fact that all their feet are a bit cut off. It’s partially the scanning, and it’s partially I’m always bad about getting the feet to fit on completely the page when I sketch…but Adam’s already given me enough crap for that to cover you all…
Have a great weekend everyone.
ELEANOR DAVIS is the 1979 Semi-Finalist’s ARTIST OF THE WEEK. I came to Davis’ work actually through her boyfriend and often partner in crime, artist Drew Weing, whose journal comics were one of the original inspirations for me trying out journal comics myself, and who will be featured as Artist of the Week on his own sometime soon. I wanted to write about Davis now though because every time I look up I seem to be seeing more of Davis’ amazing illustration and comic book work. I don’t think I could get away from her if I tried – not that I ever would.
She recently illustrated the cover to The Best American Comics 2008 (see above) and she is constantly popping up in Mome a collection Adam and I both love that is always full of the best independent comic work out there. Her amazing Seven Sacks, featured in Mome’s Spring 2007 issue is completely brilliant and as testament to its brilliance is also included in The Best American Comics 2008.
Excerpt From Seven Sacks
Davis has a unique style that is part horrible and disturbing and part playful and fun. Some of what she draws is quite frankly the stuff nightmares are made of, but she draws it all in such a way that you can see there is so much more than nightmare there. It’s almost like her work allows you to identify with the monster first and so seen from the monster’s perspective you can’t help but shrug your shoulders when you see what horrible things they might do…as if to say that horror is really all matter of perspective. Her endpapers for Wide Awake 666 are a good example of this:
See? Hard to care…those monsters need to eat too, right?
Yeah, at 9am I’m thinking, “this is a great opportunity…my chance to really give my itty bit of talent a shot”…around 9:05 I’m looking at my bank account balance and crying into my eggs. Good times folks, good times!
