A picture of our first Christmas Tree. This is the first year Adam has “allowed” me to get a tree. And though he seemed not so keen on the idea, I have to say he’s enjoying it as least as much as I am…how could you not? Look at it!?!
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My friend Josh sent me this link to Marvel’s “Women of Marvel” Halloween Costumes and said he thought it would be good “fodder for my blog”. And he’s so right. But I must be tired of fighting this unwinable (not a word) fight because all I can come up with is REALLY MARVEL? REALLY!?!
Actually, I tried, but even exhausted, I can’t just say nothing. I know we (I’m speaking for all women everywhere here – so that should tell you how tired I am) do sometimes like to dress up like sluts for Halloween – it’s a nice opportunity to get our slutty selves out there with less public shaming, cause it’s Halloween and well, anything goes! And we can just pretend tomorrow that it didn’t happen! But c’mon Marvel, do you really have to stoop to the absolute lowest freaking common denominator?
First of all, a superheroine costume is pretty slutty to begin with – all skin tight and ridiculous – it’s not like you actually have to make it sluttier. I mean, until now I wasn’t even sure it was possible in some cases. The Spider-girl costume is perhaps the most disgusting, because, I don’t know, she’s SPIDERGIRL. I mean, I’ll give you the Emma Frost/White Queen costume, because frankly, compared to some of Emma’s outfits that costume is actually pretty tame (although SUPER tacky – Emma would never be caught dead in that shit). BUT WTF…AN AMERICAN DREAM COSTUME? That’s barely even a real character! And that’s not remotely HER COSTUME!
I’m sorry, AM I SHOUTING?! IT’S PROBABLY BECAUSE I AM INSANE WITH RAGE.
Ahem. Yeah, “American Dream” barely a real superhero…I mean, even comic nerds that see you in this costume are going to be all…”Really? American Dream? She’s uh…so…uh…minor. Where’s Storm, or Jean Grey, or She-Hulk, or Ms. Marvel, or…I mean the list is endless.” So those of you who don’t know about superheroes, you might want to stick with Hooker Spider-girl, or Working Girl Black Cat, which, though completely fucking ridiculous, are at least superheroes people will actually recognize…sort of.
Happy Birthday to my brother Scott – 30 years old today. He’s the one dragging Dave across the carpet, while Dave apparently does an impersonation of Christ.
I got the most amazing holiday cards this past year, and just wanted to share the beauty since everyone I sent to should have received them by now. I found the cards rather randomly at a little online shop called ShopRedBean. I got three or four different designs – mostly the two awesome reindeer designs on the site and was exceptionally happy. They weren’t cheap, but somehow I never manage to get cheap cards…despite efforts to the contrary. I got more compliments on my cards this year than I ever have before…which is pretty cool.
Because the cards and envelopes are square, they require extra postage for the “irregular shape”, which gave me an excuse to use custom stamps. I had a custome 62 cent stamp made from a piece of the 1979 Semi-Finalist header/logo above. I have to say, that turned out to be my favorite part of the process. And I’ve got some left over, so that will make mailing a little bit more fun…at least for awhile.
I hope everyone had a great holiday – and apologies if you didn’t get a card…I probably didn’t/don’t have your address. 
I didn’t draw this. But it’s cute…and I’m convinced I could have drawn it and thus somehow I feel okay about posting it…
Does anyone have any great Halloween plans? Adam and I are staying in to watch scary movies. Not the most exciting or creative option, I know, but we’ve been lacking in quality time spent together, so I’m looking forward to it. There will also probably be candy involved, so that is exciting too.
Happy Halloween to all of you – I hope you all have a great night and a great weekend – and that none of you get so drunk that you forget to vote on Tuesday…well unless you’re not voting for my guy…in which case, forget away!
Okay, let’s talk about why today’s strip is totally unsuccessful because of panel 4 (while we also ignore the fact that all of Tink’s text is a bit too small).
I do not possess the skills, and did not give myself adequate time to draw the strip and because of that, the gag (panel 4) of an otherwise interesting strip that I actually really liked, totally failed. I am super pissed about this. Had I had any other strips available to post I would have done those instead and spent some time redrawing this so that it actually worked. I’m very disappointed in myself. Yay.
Okay, onto my Cinco de Mayo nightmare.
I got home late-ish (8:30) as did Adam. I forgot there was an Orlando Magic Playoff Game on (joy! not!) and we decided to order in some good mexican food in honor of the day. I ordered at 8:40 (too late to be ordering and eating anyway, but what the hell). I then proceeded to make some homemade guacamole to go with our meal. Mexican restaurants in my neighborhood were packed so I figured delivery would be a little slow, but OH MY GODS. At 9:45 I called to check on the order. No answer. I called about eight times, letting the phone ring about 25 times for each call. No Answer. Finally on about the ninth or tenth call (now 10pm) the woman I ordered from answers the phone (politely and as if nothing is wrong…as if she has not been ignoring 250 rings of a phone). I tell her the problem, she says, (of course) “your order is on its way”. We wait until 10:20. Nothing. Adam now calls. They do pick up right away (lucky guy that Adam is) and she tells him the same thing. Finally, at 10:30 the order arrives. And it is wrong.
Happy freaking Cinco de Mayo to you too.
Hmm…think you’ve stumbled onto the wrong comic (mostly because you’re shocked to be seeing COLOR)? No, but April Fools!
The above strip is a little cross-promotion fun that Paul Abbamondi of My Life Comics and I came up with…we cartoonists really know how to have a good time don’t we? Paul actually came up with the idea and suggested it to me, although I think he was inspired by Adam’s guest strip a few weeks ago.
It was a great suggestion though, especially since I LOVE another blog called Pencils At Dawn which is a “competition” between two insanely talented cartoonists Mike Jacobsen of See Mike Draw and Phil (no last name?) of The Rut, as they battle it out by drawing competing cartoons/strips and posting them on their Pencils At Dawn site, it’s a great idea, and they are by far two of the best cartoonists I have found on the web.
Anyway, Paul and I humbly offer up our meager cross-promotion April Fools Day fun for your enjoyment – to get the full effect please go over to his site as well and check out the cartoon I did for his strip.
As childless atheists (that sounds really bad somehow) these kind of holidays just slip on by. This year I actually did manage to remember and gave Adam some brightly colored chocolate treats (that is what Easter is about right – “Brightly Colored Chocolate Treats…often shaped like cute animals”)? But otherwise it passed without a mention.
We did see The Bad Plus at the Bluenote on Saturday night with some friends and it was, as usual, fantastic. Standouts were their songs Dirty Blonde and 1980 World Champion (sound familiar?) as well as their brilliant cover of Tears For Fears Everybody Wants to Rule The World. Great stuff and a really good time with friends I haven’t seen in far too long.
A special shout out to Steve who didn’t want to go to the show and came along anyway. It wasn’t really his thing, but he gets major points for being a team player and hanging out.
Talking heads again, but with an exciting 4th panel, sort of.
To my credit, I had been up late for just days and days and days with very little sleep, and I happen to live on a very frat-y wanna be irish street that has no less than three irish bars within shouting distance of my window. Did you do anything great for St. Patrick’s Day? Clearly I did not…sleep is good.
Hee hee. This is surprisingly accurate. I’ve had to clean up Adam’s ears like 50 times already since June.
To his credit, this would drive anyone nuts, especially someone so well versed in computers and someone that spends so much time on line. It’s a horrible situation. We’re (and by we’re I mean “he, and maybe I’ll chip in for his birthday”) saving up for a new machine for him. It will be a great day for both of us when he no longer has this internet disconnection issue.
Happy V-Day to everyone. I wish I had a special V-Day strip for you guys today, but it just didn’t happen. I do have a slightly naughty post V-Day strip for tomorrow though…so make sure to tune in. Hopefully most of you are doing something nice for yourself or your loved one on this most corporate of holidays. It’s funny, I hated Valentine’s Day when I was single, and now that I’m not, it’s really not that much better, just corporate pigs, feasting on our poor needy little carcasses. It’s so sad.
Yet I still hope I get some Sees chocolate though…I’m a sheep, what can I say?
