If you have been enjoying my “Civ. 4” Comics you should take a stroll over to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and read the hilarious new short titled, “Halo 3 Cheat Codes, As Explained By Neglected Girlfriend, Janet Iverson” by Andrew Kiraly. The only thing wrong with this piece is that it was brilliant AND written by a man…not that men can’t write brilliant things, they do, all the time, however my happiness was put on pause a bit when I realized that a woman didn’t write it. After adjusting to the information however I have to say, good work Andrew, even more impressive that you, a man, wrote this. You more than any man alive, must understand the Halo v. Girlfriend dilemma.
I should point out that while Adam is not above making a snide remark, as evidenced in today’s cartoon, he was also very concerned about me being too cold and many times offered me his jacket, despite the fact that I apparently thought I was above wearing my own. In the end we were walking enough that I didn’t really freeze, but it was definitely a mistake. The weather here has been all over the place…totally unpredictable…though I enjoy fall (my favorite season) and generally enjoy at least the first half of winter, I’m not loving the 60+ degree afternoons followed by 40 degree walks home a few hours later. On top of everything else it makes it impossible to plan a wardrobe.
Yea!!! This is great news. Let’s just hope the writers get what they need and everyone can get back to work. Congratulations Damages, you earned it. And congratulations FX for knowing a great show when you see it.
The only thing I hate drawing more than me, is drawing cars. Fortunately I had so many unattractive word balloons to squeeze in I was able to leave limited space to actually draw the car. Perhaps I should have stretched this comic out over several days, because really, it both looks terrible and even more crazy things than that happened, hindsight is 20/20 I suppose.
In the end the guy hollared at me so much (and started to get out of his livery cab) that I ended up going back to his car and letting him give me his number, if only so he wouldn’t get out and follow me (my apartment was right there). When I got up to the apartment a few minutes later Adam saw the number in my hand and I had to relay the whole silly scenario. Suffice to say he made me throw out livery cab guy’s number.
When it rains, it pours. I just got a rejection today, not really for short fiction but rather for a “list” that I submitted to McSweeney’s for their McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Lists. I got a nice little email from them, but it was a rejection all the same. Why is it rejections come in little painful groups? It’s like the rejection people see you exposed and vulnerable from a previous recent rejection and think, “oh, now’s a good time to let her know…STRIKE NOW!” It’s so frustrating. So debilitating. And I am barely in the infant stages of rejection…*sigh*
The official count, revised from yesterday to reflect this submission that I forgot about: 1 for 6
From Ploughshares. Whee!
I had little hope for this piece as it’s a bit aggressive, but hey, you never know. That leaves me with one piece still out there (to McSweeney’s) which I’m already kind of assuming is a no. It’s time to get off my ass and start resubmitting and revising where necessary. I got my copy of Tin House’s Fantasitical Women issue Saturday and spent all day kicking myself, because I had a really good piece for this, but missed the deadline. Ah, big sigh.
Anyway, here’s the official count: 1 for 5
Okay, I’m going to post daily again this week. I admit however, that I enjoyed this much less this weekend (though I got farther) and I also did almost no writing…so I’m not sure drawing these silly little comics (that I’m not enjoying as much now) is actually time better spent than on other things. It’s certainly better spent if it’s instead of TV watching or random internet surfing, but if it’s instead of writing…and maybe even reading…I’m not sure it’s worth it. Maybe I’ll feel differently by Friday…we’ll see.
Anybody do anything great this weekend? I saw No Country For Old Men…it was AMAZING. So good. The only negative, without giving anything away, was that I felt a bit ripped off in the “showdown” with Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. They were both so amazing and there was such an intense lead up to those confrontations…I have to admit feeling a bit robbed, otherwise a pefect film.
As I’ve mentioned before, Adam is a far superior cartoonist and artist than I am, and he’s been proving it in spades lately as he’s been sketching a lot more these days (I’m not sure who is influencing who at this point, but as long as we’re both more productive, who cares). Below is a little sketch he did of me called Kelly Bunny. It’s a great little drawing (and he was very nice to me, representationally speaking) and he agreed to let me put it up. I’ve been begging for weeks months for him to add comic strip or cartoon content to my blog…so I’ll take what I can get, which in this case, was great.
I had to take a few liberties with this one, because while he did wake me up talking in his sleep about Civ. 4, it wasn’t anything as simple as “Aluminum”. He talked about aluminum and his need to get it, or have it, or invent it or whatever, when he was fully conscious earlier in the week. Clearly I was really listening to him too.
Anyway, the days of Civ. 4 are coming to a close as Adam worked a freelance day yesterday and also found out yesterday that he got a new job – starts Monday! Congratulations to Adam…there’s not much work out there with the writer’s strike on, but any work he can get before things fully shut down is really good news, because it’s looking like this thing could go on for quite a while. And we will be poorer than ever. 🙁
Sidenote: We fully support the writer’s strike. The production Adam is working on could get stopped at anytime because of the strike, but currently they already have finished scripts, so they can at least start production…or at least that’s my understanding of it.
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