| I guess wombats are basically tiny, fat, Australian bears. |
[May. 14th, 2009|12:14 pm] |
Have I promised you that I would draw something for you sometime in the last, oh, six months or so? And then utterly, utterly failed to deliver on that promise? You are the reason I have not been posting comics and won't for a bit yet, because now that the minicomic is finally put together, I have time for you again. (Embarrassingly, there are several of you.) And so in lieu of stories, here are some little sketches, two thirds of which I didn't even draw myself!
Let me tell you about another comic artist you might like: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) americanbeetles! The woman is an ACTUAL ENTOMOLOGIST, I SHIT YOU NOT. And she lives in Australia, and she loves Bob Dylan, and she's ridiculously cute, and she draws the most adorable comics! I am harboring a tremendous girlcrush on Ainsley.
Anyway, a long, long, long time ago, she offered to draw cartoon portraits of people, and I elbowed my way to the front of that little line, promising I'd draw a portrait of her in return. She drew these two little pictures, both of which look ASTONISHINGLY LIKE ME, more like me than anything I have ever drawn myself! Aaaand she included a lame geology joke! <3 <3 <3
 
Did I own up to my end of the bargain? Oh, ho! Of course I did not. Not until today, more than six months later!
(Now that I have uploaded this tiny, hilariously amateurish portrait and posted it next to Ainsley's, I am thinking this was just an all-around terrible idea!)
SHE IS AN ENTOMOLOGIST AND SHE HAS HUGGED A REAL LIVE WOMBAT. And I will fight you for her love.
Incidentally, this song has felt mildly anthemic lately, and do you know WHO HAS ALSO HUGGED A WOMBAT?
Incidentally, you can still buy comics from me RIGHT HERE. If you've already bought one, it will be mailed to you by this weekend! There has been a mild delay because I felt compelled to draw little things on them, things like worried-looking animals and disappointed-looking foodstuffs. And so that is what is up with that. |
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[May. 5th, 2009|12:15 am] |
Okay, so! I went to Stumptown Comics Fest a couple of weeks ago, for all of a couple of hours. I met the disarmingly charming tiny_vice, and the pleasantly mysterious maria_sputnik, which is to say that both of them were exactly what you'd expect after reading their comics. And I heartily recommend that you do, because they both make some very fine comics!
I made some comics, too! In a book and everything!
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Minicomic #3: THIS WAS NOT MY YEAR
This minicomic is twenty-eight pages long and contains one comic that has never been seen here on rosiedee, and never will be! It is not a terribly great comic, mind you (or it would be seen here, on rosiedee). However, it will make you feel very special to hold that one comic in your hands, knowing that all the moochers reading on the internet do not know some small and unimportant detail about my life that you will know! Plus, comics just plain look better on paper, it's so true.
It is four dollars for this here book, and that is with shipping and everything. (Do you live somewhere that is not the U.S. or Canada? Then add an extra dollar to the price and paypal me directly at rosiedeecomics at gmail dot com).
And! I printed up some more of last year's minicomic, which is almost as nice! And you can get both of them, if you would like, for $6.50! How exciting!
 
Minicomic #1 exists only to embarrass me, and will probably never be available again, ever. But maybe! I don't know.
Anyway, I think we should celebrate. With a cake! ( CAKE CAKE CAKE! ) |
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| To the upswing! |
[Apr. 16th, 2009|03:14 am] |
I think it is probably a hard thing, to be my best friend. Ben regularly gets what I imagine must be totally maddening emails and text messages from me, in which I am panicking about the newest completely ridiculous situation I have unintentionally managed to manufacture for myself and I NEED HIS HELP RIGHT NOW. He pretends to be cranky about it, but I know he loves it.
Well, not without a lot of complaining to his coworkers, who then know an alarming amount of detail about my personal life when I meet up with them!
(By the way, if you find yourself in a particularly tumultuous phase of your life, you could do much worse than handing over all your major decisions to your coldly logical engineer friend.)
Anyway! Being my best friend is not the worst thing in the world. For instance, I love making cupcakes for people's birthdays, and I put an extraordinary amount of thought into figuring out what kind of cupcake best represents each one of my friends.
( Ben's cupcake representation... )
What sort of cupcake are you? When I go to my favorite cupcake shop, I always pick this one, but I think we can all agree that such a cupcake does not actually represent me very well as a person at all. |
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| I run on beer and nachos. |
[Apr. 2nd, 2009|01:01 am] |
Oh, right. Hello there.
I meant to post something last week, but then I hung out with counterfeitfake, who I guess has the ability to speed up the passage of time! And so: I intended to go home and ink a comic in time to post it before my self-inflicted weekly deadline, but I went to bed instead.
This week, we resume our regularly scheduled programming and attempt to make up for last week's absence with 1) a comic making fun of Texas, and 2) a comic making fun of me. You know, the usual affair.
1) MAKING FUN OF TEXAS AND ALSO ILLITERACY
2) MAKING FUN OF ME AND ALSO COMPULSIVE OVEREATING
(Eric = counterfeitfake)
Oh, and I might as well mention it because it's starting to pop up on my friends list in places: I will be wandering around at Stumptown Comics Fest later this month, with a new minicomic on hand to trade! I will not be at Emerald City ComiCon this weekend, because that is for dorks. |
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| I think this is the last thing I have to say about bacon for awhile. |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|01:33 am] |
It is one of my greatest regrets that I took a hiatus from cartooning during a time when I took up residencies in both Texas and Louisiana. I lived in a perpetual state of ohmygod ohmygod this would make the best comic!!! for two whole summers, and now all of it has been run through my sieve of a memory and lost forever. I've got a couple wisps of stories left, though.
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It's been awhile since I posted a cookie recipe, huh? Let me make up for lost time with a completely overambitious and ill-advised recipe, then.
( I am beginning to suspect there is something seriously wrong with me. ) |
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| Comics about every food I have ever eaten, I guess: |
[Mar. 2nd, 2009|01:36 am] |
For reasons I still do not fully understand, it turns out that if you create basically anything themed around bacon, the internet will show up clamoring at your doorstep. You would think that after a sudden and rather unnerving spike in attention, I would commit myself to a higher standard of quality in my comics and strive to create something equally charming this week. But of course, I have done no such thing.
Instead, I have drawn a comic about a rutabaga. INTERNET FAME, YOU ARE MINE.
Also, my stepdad is one of my favorite people in the whole world, so I guess that was a pretty good plan of his.
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Can I use a bit of this modest increase in popularity to tell you about some other comics, comics that you might enjoy even more than mine?
I have been in a strange place for the last few months where on paper, it kind of seems like maybe everything in my life is falling apart at once, and yet I am the happiest and calmest I've been in ages. I have learned to take great pleasure in small, quiet things, and joedecie's comics somehow manage to channel my mood exactly. They are so perfect and so lovely, and I like to imagine you might think so too. |
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| Stop me if I've told you this story already. |
[Feb. 23rd, 2009|12:50 am] |
Someday, you and I are going to be sitting at a pleasant little pub together, chatting merrily away, and we'll decide we're hungry enough to order some food. We'll flag down the waitress, who will arrive shortly to take our order. I'll order the nachos. You'll order the bacon cheeseburger. You'll briefly notice a trace of unease flicker across my face. I'll look as though I'm about to say something.
I will not say anything.
The rest of our meal will be awkward in a way we can neither fully identify nor resolve. When the check arrives, we'll go our separate ways and we'll never wish to see each other again. This is the future you have condemned us to. Just so you understand what it is you have asked of me.
THE PEOPLE GET WHAT THE PEOPLE DEMAND,
AND THE PEOPLE DEMAND THE BACON STORY:
( OH YEAH THE BACON STORY BACON STORY )
Basically, my first job set up completely unreasonable expectations in my mind about how exciting the rest of my working life might be. |
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[Jan. 29th, 2009|12:47 am] |
Oh my, but it's been a week. I am drawing comics about things that happened four years ago instead.
It matters not, since I apparently never have anything new to say, just the same things over and over again:
While I was working on this comic, I asked Ben to remind me of a story I tell over and over. I think it took him about ten seconds of thought before he turned to me with a heavy sigh and said, "THE BACON STORY. OH GOD, THE BACON STORY."
Hi, Doug! <3 <3 <3 |
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| Meet the new bar, same as the old bar. |
[Jan. 21st, 2009|12:11 am] |
Man, I have been thinking about it, and 2008 wasn't the worst year I've had, but I haven't been able to say I've had a real live good year since 2004. And so far, 2009 is pretty okay kind of I guess! I spent New Year's Eve at my favorite terrible hipster bar getting roaring drunk with someone who's been my very good friend for almost a decade now, and it felt like the right way to start things off.
I am generally pretty against resolutions in general — I prefer to measure years between birthdays anyway — and you can probably see that I have in no way resolved to post more comics in a timely manner.
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| Compounding problems, my phone was actually in the freezer. |
[Jan. 8th, 2009|12:31 am] |
STAY TUNED! Next week, I will probably have a very timely comic about what I did for New Year's Eve!
If LiveJournal is still around, of course! Though if something unfortunate does indeed happen, I guess that would finally motivate me to do something with rosiedee.com rather than just redirecting it here. Which you just found out, if you were silly enough to click on that link just because it was there.
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Hey, in addition to owning a KitchenAid mixer and making excuses to wear skirts even in winter, I knit things. OF COURSE I DO. I am under the impression that at least several of you also knit things, and I think we should be friends on Ravelry, if we are not already, okay? In these anxious, uncertain times, it is important that we LiveJournalers shore up our lesser social networks, no?
 
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