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alexandraerinNews For Today
New phone. I was able to save some of my contacts, those who were tied to my Google contacts or whose phone number is on Facebook, but if you had my phone number before please send me a text with your name just in case.
The biggest news items for the day are in the preceding post. They started off as a paragraph in this post, but kind of sprawled.
Personal Assessment
Pretty good. Not as great as yesterday, because yesterday I didn't do as good a job of going easy on things as I did during the days I felt like crap. But pretty good. No serious physical complaints.
Dreams From Last Night
Kind of a cross between the video game Borderlands and the Justice League. Details are sketchy.
Random Link
Nicky510, a cute and funny webcomic that's sure to provoke a lot of comparisons to/memories of Calvin & Hobbes. I feel it both benefits and suffers from the comparison... the nostalgic moments it evokes are one of the things that kept me paging through the archive, but in seemingly deliberately creating a comparison between his work and Watterson's, the cartoonist has stepped into a rather large roomy pair of shoes.
It's not going to be one of my favorite comics, but the moments where it really shines it brings back what I loved about what was my favorite comic strip of yore.
Plans For Today
I've got some email filtering rigamorale to sort out. I'm also going to be doing writing for Monday. That's probably going to happen in the wee hours, as my sleep schedule has been migrating forward and I only got up around 4. If I do a chapter tonight, then I'm starting next week with the beginnings of a good schedule pad. If next week goes at all like the past two weeks have gone, this means I'll be writing Wednesday's chapter on Monday and Friday's chapter on Tuesday.
New phone. I was able to save some of my contacts, those who were tied to my Google contacts or whose phone number is on Facebook, but if you had my phone number before please send me a text with your name just in case.
The biggest news items for the day are in the preceding post. They started off as a paragraph in this post, but kind of sprawled.
Personal Assessment
Pretty good. Not as great as yesterday, because yesterday I didn't do as good a job of going easy on things as I did during the days I felt like crap. But pretty good. No serious physical complaints.
Dreams From Last Night
Kind of a cross between the video game Borderlands and the Justice League. Details are sketchy.
Random Link
Nicky510, a cute and funny webcomic that's sure to provoke a lot of comparisons to/memories of Calvin & Hobbes. I feel it both benefits and suffers from the comparison... the nostalgic moments it evokes are one of the things that kept me paging through the archive, but in seemingly deliberately creating a comparison between his work and Watterson's, the cartoonist has stepped into a rather large roomy pair of shoes.
It's not going to be one of my favorite comics, but the moments where it really shines it brings back what I loved about what was my favorite comic strip of yore.
Plans For Today
I've got some email filtering rigamorale to sort out. I'm also going to be doing writing for Monday. That's probably going to happen in the wee hours, as my sleep schedule has been migrating forward and I only got up around 4. If I do a chapter tonight, then I'm starting next week with the beginnings of a good schedule pad. If next week goes at all like the past two weeks have gone, this means I'll be writing Wednesday's chapter on Monday and Friday's chapter on Tuesday.
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Screening your comment for the phone number.
on 2011-01-09 09:46 am (UTC)I've been a bit phone-phobic, though I'm getting better about that... but exchanging phone numbers doesn't come naturally to me, so I'm not surprised if we didn't do that.
I do hope that you make Wiscon, but I understand the cash thing.
Nicky510
on 2011-01-09 03:42 pm (UTC)There's no overt "please compare this to Watterson" dynamic going on (in my head at least). There's a ton of similarity between his childhood and mine (apparently) so it's not surprising that there's going to be some similarity in the base material. And there may well be some unconscious channeling. I read a LOT of comic growing up (and after grown), and C&H was one of them. But so was Peanuts, Bloom County, Far Side, L'il Abner, Pogo, Buck Rogers, and so on and on. They're all probably influencing me to some degree. But when I come up with an idea it really does simply start as a proto-idea that grows as I chew on it. The toon you linked to (the chalk one) sprang from a discussion I had with one of my children years ago and it evolved from there.
Anyway, a little feedback from the cartoonist, for what it's worth.
Toonfully yours,
Crow
Re: Nicky510
on 2011-01-10 09:09 am (UTC)