Mm, let’s see. Finals ended last week, and I have since turned into a giant lazy blob. This is not a singular occurrence: I do it after finals every semester. Of course, the next big question is, did my advisor get my graduation petition in and am I, therefore, graduated now (and have to get my giant lazy blob ass in gear to find a job)? Or do I have to wait another semester (and get to take fun things like prepress and comics 2)?

In the meantime (while I procrastinate about calling the aforesaid advisor), I think I’m gonna be rewriting that script I did at the beginning of summer. It’s technically fine, and it would work, I guess, but… it’s pretty blah. The problem, of course, is that I don’t know how this new one’s gonna go. Well, that and I have some new ideas for the world buzzing around in the back of my brain, which I haven’t really been fast enough to catch yet and take outside. (The other day? Three separate flies magically appeared in my room and tried futilely to fit through the holes in my window screen.) One of these ideas involves a comic based on things/people/places/imagery in Smashing Pumpkins songs, which I am not going to do, but can’t help being intrigued by nonetheless.

I am halfway through doing a test page, though, which, once inked and scanned, will allow me to try a number of coloring methods.

In other news, I finally finished Watchmen, which is indeed quite awesome, though somewhat in the way that Tale of Two Cities or Catcher in the Rye make the great books of literature list.

And I saw Stardust on Sunday. I do think it was quite good, and funny, and a faithful adaptation of the book, but I also think it was missing a little something—like it could have been the greatest movie of all time, but woke up late the day the professor was going over that topic in class. It might just be that I need to see it again. :3

These two were my final project. The theme we had to work with was borders and boundaries.

Oh btw, in case you… well, you probably hadn’t noticed, actually, but alice.xepher.net is officially gone.

But now, more prints!

(a visual incentive to remind you to actually look behind the cut, where there is indeed more goodness, should you care to comment…. <shifty eyes>)

These are all xerox-lithographs, which means they’re one of a kind. Damn straight, too, they’re kind of a pain. That last one was a required "experimental" print done on regular print paper, tracing paper, and uh… a ziploc bag, glued and cut and taped together.

So yes, if you hadn’t figured it out, the lack of posting for (three?) weeks is indeed due to school starting.

I have editions of 5 for the first three (they’re linocuts), which have to be sent in at the end of the semester. The fourth is a xerox-lithograph monoprint. It’s kind of a pain, but I could technically do an edition of that, too. I also have a few not-quite-good-enough-for-the-editions from each of the first three, so if you want one and you can’t wait, I can send you one of those.

In other words, any project I was working on pre-semester is irritatingly on hold. Yes, it bugs me. And no, I can’t do shiny, random things for my prints. I asked.