Sketches and Pictures: May 2004 Archives

Y'ever meet somebody for the first time after knowing 'em for a while online, and they're pretty much exactly as cool as you always thought they would be, in exactly the same way you always thought they would be? Yeah. That's Melly.

Melly's visiting from Texas, and Melly gave us glasses. MONSTER GLASSES. These are one-of-a-kind, she etched 'em herself. She was passing 'em out like breath mints tonight, and I am so thoroughly impressed by this.

I dunno why she wasn't already on my friends list, but she's there now. Check her out, spread the love.

You know it's finally getting warm in Chicago when the homeless come into bloom down at the dogpark.

Sure, they don't winter well, and the bike cops have to chisel a few bumsicles off the park benches every January. But the colors!

Found a dead pigeon in front of my apartment building today.

I put it in a shoebox and brought it inside and I drew it a little.

I would have liked to do more, but it had things on it. Brown-green crawly things. Things that had already eaten its eyes. So I just took a bunch of reference pictures instead and tossed it.

I think Maria will probably have pigeon wings when I do the next chapter of Sparkneedle in August. Up until now, she's always had these indistinct sort of raptor's wings, but I like the idea of her wings being more common and less impressive better.

Did I forget to mention that? Yeah, Sparkneedle's going on hiatus. Just for a few months, though. You can read about it in the comic's afterword, this week's update.

When it comes back, it'll be one of three series I'll be updating simultaneously. When d'you spoze I'll finally burn out and have a stress-induced breakdown? Place your bets, folks.