ARCHAIC 10 in stores!!!

im writing this late oct. 9, to inform you that ARCHAIC #10 (my first issue all penciled and inked) comes out tomorrow. i thought it was supposed to be out on Oct. 31....but i was wrong. so i guess that's good news....or bad, because i wanted to go pick up some 'desolation jones' trades, and i cant show my face in the comic store for a few weeks for fear of feeling like a giraffe amongst a gabble of geese.....

oh well....maybe i'll go see 'across the universe' again....or watch my new set of 'avante guarde' cinema.

There are many ways of getting around ignorant folk

i had this posted on my myspace page, and wouldn't you know it, some asshole got their panties in a bunch over the fact the character aint wearing a bra. well, sucks to you, whoever you are. deal with it. some people dont like wearing tops. men get to go around shirtless, so why not women. Well, myspace deleted the pic. obviously this image just bugged someone that much that they had to go and do something about it rather than having the balls to message me and express their disgust in my carefully covered pencil-rendered tits. i dont get pissed easily, but here's a big ole FUCK YOU!

A fresh start: JUNE

So after a month and a half of stress, thinking I wasn't going to pass a mandatory language class, (because the language and mathmatical part of my brain ceases to function at normal capacity), I checked my grades....and I PASSED! That means I oficially have a BA of Fine Arts (unless they F*** up somewhere in academics and tell me some class I took does't count or something)

Anyways, some may not really care, but to me that is such a tremendous relief. I have been doing comics for the past year and doing school full time as well as working part time at a retail job, and it has been one hell of a juggling act. Not to mention I somehow managed to pay my way through school all on my own with grant writing, scholarships and financial aid. So I think I can finally take a month to just exhale and relax and de-stress myself after all those years of college. And shop like any girl would like to...graduation reward shopping! yahoo!

So I'm currently working on the second half of issue 11 for ARCHAIC. And because I just finished the tedious rendering of a cover, I thought I would share. I use a pentel mechanical pencil for everything, 05 lead. Nope. None of those fancy art pencils or different grade graphite things or whatnot, just ole' trusty. I actually got so attached to this particular model of pentel mechanical pencil that I bought about 10 in backup in case the one I use ever decides to spontaniously combust.