It's Neogrammarian's birthday today. And as a gift, I'm not writing this entry like a pirate. But you could run it through the translator if you really feel the need (link from This Modern World, but it's probably all over the bloody place today. . .)
And, apropos of nothing, anyone read any good comics lately? Something in a nice, tortured, melodramatic Gloomcookie or Jhonen Vasquez sort of a vein?
Or Finder. I'm flexible.
Further apropos of nothing, except the comics obsession, ˇJournalista! (which I seem to be reading a lot these days) linked to yet another Kyle Baker interview. Finally, I said to myself, I can find out something about . . .
TO: What is your connection to Birth Of A Nation (the graphic novel written by Aaron McGruder and Reginald Hudlin)?
KB: I'm illustrating Birth Of A Nation, which will be published by Crown Books next year. I'm not sure how much of the story I'm allowed to reveal at this time, but I can tell you it's funny. Crown has a bunch of graphic novels planned for next year, and Birth Of A Nation will be the first. I'm having a ball working on it. I think it's scheduled for spring 2004. My deadline for finishing the book is September 2003.
. . . never mind.
Well, except for the release date. And it's funny. Kyle says so, and the man who wrote and illustrated Why I Hate Saturn knows the funny when he sees it.
Not that I'm suggesting anything.
Wait, yes I am.
Happy birthday, love. Hope Julie shows the same amount of restraint that I have here.
*blink blink*
*sniff*
Thanks, Aaron.
[&, excepting one phonecall, I won't be talking to Julie until she gets off from work at midnight, when it is NO LONGER TLAP-day].
[Sorry, gifts, like compliments, I am bad at recv'ng].
Happy Birthday Neo!
Oo, oo, I just got the Finder: Dream Sequence graphic novel, how exciting, now I can read the footnotes and figure out what the hell was going on in that story. Or not figure it out.
I enjoyed The Iron Wagon by Jason, that was a nice gloomy little world to spend some time in. And the costumes were great. Yes I know, they're just drawings.
Lisa, not familiar with Iron Wagon. Will have to check that out.
And I loves Finder, as do all good people. But yes, the footnotes do help sometimes. That's an incredibly dense world Carla's created there. . .
Neo, oh bugger.