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The Week’s Twitter Updates for 2010-03-08

  • Assuming I didn’t mess anything up, I’ve placed my first semi-Split Lip-related t-shirt order. #
  • Conan, what is good? When you finish a novel, wonder what to read next, and a big box from Amazon is waiting at the mailbox. #
  • House of the Devil = Aesthetically dead on; dramatically a good deal too slow. A few nice bits at the end, though. #
  • Now _that’s_ a Friday. Thirteen pages of script and a new Split Lip story is done. Next: Korean food. #
  • There’s a good chance I’m in the middle of writing the most disturbing Split Lip scene ever. Kind of awesome, kind of queasy. #
  • @joschwa Whoa! That is _awesome_! Congrats, man. Hope it’s yours in no time at all. in reply to joschwa #
  • Three pages of Split Lip script on a queasy stomach seems like enough for today. #
  • More accounts of treating tapeworms in the 1800s than anyone dared hope possible: http://bit.ly/dvyJnO #

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The Week’s Twitter Updates for 2010-03-01

  • @elizabethgenco excellent. I was just listening to Jody Stetcher’s version of The Wind and Rain. Great stuff. in reply to elizabethgenco #
  • @elizabethgenco Oh boy do I agree with you! (Big surprise, eh?) What are you enjoying today? #folkmusicnerd in reply to elizabethgenco #
  • More Pieces of Meat at Split Lip today. Front page bug still happening, but the story marches on: bit.ly/9AXTX5 #
  • Just ordered the second printing of Split Lip vol. 1 to prepare for the 2010 con season. My vol. 2 order will be coming soon. Exciting! #
  • @artelliott I can only imagine. Was it sexy or violent? Or both?! in reply to artelliott #
  • Recent research reading for Split Lip: http://bit.ly/9akWNf #
  • Cracked a Split Lip story I’d been poking at for ~ a year but couldn’t make work. Now it does; time to write about tapeworms & colonial USA #
  • Tahini in the keyboard. A peril of eating lunch at your desk or a disturbing euphemism? U-Decide! #
  • Today’s vocab word: obloquy (defintion: http://bit.ly/128DPI); resulting from this article: http://bit.ly/d0YIZR #

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Pluto, Vol. 7, by Naoki Urasawa

pluto vol. 7

After last volume’s seeming-conclusion, I wasn’t sure this installment could retain the momentum that made the series so good. Wrong. Here, Urasawa delves deeper into the mysteries of the past and introduces an interesting flashback technique. Can’t wait for the conclusion – the mysteries’ unraveling promises to be more compelling than the fight.

Buy Pluto, vol. 7 at Amazon

Books: 11/52

How To Make Webcomics, by Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, Dave Kellett, and Brad Guigar

how to make webcomics

I wasn’t sure this book would be that useful. I’ve been doing Split Lip for years and this book’s aimed more at newspaper-style humor strips than short horror comics. Well, I was wrong. My copy is now full of turned-down corners as reminders for great ideas I need to come back to.

Buy How To Make Webcomics at Amazon

Books: 10/52

The Week’s Twitter Updates for 2010-02-22

  • @TeamGinfrida And to you! in reply to TeamGinfrida #
  • Straw Gods, a new Split Lip story, has been sent to @tjkirsch for him to start on the art. With that done, my weekend can begin! #
  • Whoa. Get a sense of the depth of the Mariana Trench: http://bit.ly/9RIyIb Those who finds depths scary may freak out. Awesome stuff. #
  • @hugecranium Right? That’s the cost of the print edition. Kinda misses the point of digital distribution. in reply to hugecranium #
  • I’m not the only one who thinks the NYT wanting to charge $30/month for its iPad app is totally crazy, right? http://bit.ly/93eQ6c #
  • Just watched creepy Finnish horror movie Sauna. Reminded me of Ravenous and j-horror. Atmospheric, uncanny, worth seeing. #
  • Didn’t plan it for tonight, but revision to new Split Lip script is done. One last read through and @tjkirsch will have it by the weekend #
  • @bhardt I know! Loved the bible quote tattoo. Next lakers/celts is tomorrow, bit starts at 10:30. in reply to bhardt #
  • @stacieparillo Yup. They also had tempeh and veggie sausage. Good stuff, though I kind of want to fall asleep now. in reply to stacieparillo #
  • @stacieparillo Had a very good meal there recently, too. Tonight, United BBQ: sandwich, 2 kinds potatoes, coleslaw, soda, cornbread for $15 in reply to stacieparillo #
  • Also, pretty excellent profile of Kobe Bryant, if you like that kind of thing: http://bit.ly/bD8zeM #
  • Vegetarians of Providence, I say unto you: try United BBQ. Mmmmm. #
  • 2nd draft of the latest Split Lip story is underway Re-arranged scenes, revamped dialog, layered in new theme. Really coming together. #
  • @colinmeloy I was hoping it was this X-Pac - http://bit.ly/bzSaaX - running for office. The reality’s worse. in reply to colinmeloy #
  • Testing Skimmer, a desktop Twitter/FB app, for a client. #

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Another installment in my regular series of posts detailing, in brief terms, my professional life for the previous month. Last month, I spent my work time doing the following: For Schwadesi

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Blink and You’ll Miss It …

… but I’m in this story that Time.com did at King Con Brooklyn. I’m only there for about two seconds, though, so if you don’t already know what I look like, you̵