New Year, New Things, New Ideas, New Plans

Hmm...Yes...If you haven't figured it out yet, I've found myself taking a slight comic hiatus for the holidays. I'm not gonna lie...It's been really nice; I've been playing a lot of Rock Band. But I'll have new pages soon. In the meantime, here is what new art I've put together so far in 2010.

Got some forum Christmas gifts:

And other stuff:

So-o-o-o-o-o... I've been entertaining the notion of beginning a larger painting series, with the intent of having, after about a year, enough material to fill a solo gallery exhibition. But I'm not quite sure what I want to paint! Right now, my three main ideas are
1. Golden Age inspired pulp literature...We are talking UFOs and dinosaurs and true crime and Lovecraftian monsters. Probably in a variety of media.
2. Fairy tales...Traditional tales of magic and wonder and scaring the snot out of small children all over the world, with my own kind of visual shenanigans going on. Probably in watercolor.
3. Something for which I think the working title--though not the final one, for obvious reasons--would be "Amerifuckingana". Basically, a continuation of what total balderdash I started in "Young Love in the Sherbert Ripple". Would be acrylic.
...Or do you have any even better ideas for what I should spend a year painting? Please let me know!

In other news, I am seriously considering the purchase of a laptop computer. I would use it for the purposes of writing, and store my various story notes upon it, and take it with me hither and yon to seclude myself in places without distraction (such as a coffee house) and get into the habit of serious writing. Make shit happen. I think this might be a really good change to my lifestyle. I will perhaps get this for myself as a birthday gift to me. (February 15th, if you'll recall.)

News today that is good and doesn't have to do with what I'm doing:

1. The Zombieland writers have been hired to write the screenplay for the Deadpool movie. They intend to be totally true to the character in the comics, and they plan to listen carefully to Ryan Reynolds' input.

2. There's gonna be a David Bowie tribute album to benefit War Child UK, probably in May, and MGMT and Duran Duran are contributing.

3. Sir Christopher Lee is recording a symphonic metal album about Charlemange.

4. Daybreakers opens in two days.

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Status: Fwee!...Listening To: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes...Been Reading: Jane Austen - Persuasion; Stan Lee & Jack Kirby - The Avengers...Been Watching: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Rock-A-Doodle