What I Did in April 2009
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 Schwadesign:
- BioProcess - project management
- Highlander Charter School - writing website content
- PASA – writing/editing website content, brand messaging
- PAL - Content development and search engine optimization
- Providence the Creative Capital – website strategy and content development
- Brown Political Theory Project – information architecture and sitemap development
- Advocacy Solutions - web strategy for medical industry campaign
- Proposal writing for a number of clients; prospect meetings
- Process improvement meetings and actions
Cat-Eyed Boy Vol. 2, by Kazuo Umezu
This volume finishes the earlier volume’s interminable Band of 100 Monsters. But, as the book proceeds, the stories become better/weirder, the art more polished. The story about the father pledging his son to a snake featured the most shocking event in a comic I’ve read recently; I actually did a double take.
Buy Cat-Eyed Boy Vol. 2 at Amazon
Books: 25/52
Convention Reminder: Split Lip at MCAF May 17
Hey Folks - just a reminder that I’ll be at the Maine Comics Arts Festival in Portland on May 17 selling Split Lip Vol. 1. This is the first year of the show, but it looks to be shaping up terrifically well, with guests including Becky Cloonan and Gabrielle Bell.
If you’re in New England, or maybe southern Canada, you should consider coming out. I’d especially love to meet you if you’re a Split Lip reader.
Hope to see you there!
Meathaus SOS, by various artists
Another installment of the long-running alt.comics anthology that earlier introduced me to Tomer Hanuka, Farel Dalrymple, and James Jean. Those issues felt like revelations, worlds opening up. This one, though offering some pretty art (and a surprising number of horror comics), feels a little heavy with the unappealing, undercooked alt.comics I dislike.
Books: 25/52
A Drifting Life, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
An impressively compelling 800+ page autobiography in comics form. Tatsumi’s life tells the story of the early years of manga and how he helped pioneer things taken today as standard. I think, like Tatsumi, I’m going to tie on a headband every time I sit down to write comics from now on.
Books: 24/52
