Sorry ive been quite dormant lately. its hard for me to work up the Gusto to get anything done lately... summers been lazy, and ive been a little depressed recenly. hehehe so ill just fill you in on some things that have happened lately.

first of all, with the last of my birthday money, i made a 100% spontaneous purchase, but i dont regret it at all. what was it? the Calvin and Hobbes collection "Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons"! i am VERY happy. i am an insane Calvin and Hobbes fan, and this collection marks the LAST comic collection that i had yet to purchase. so now i can say that i own EVERY CALVIN AND HOBBES COMIC EVER PUBLISHED!!! hahaha i even have the special "10th anniversary" book. hehehe

i am just a major fan of Bill Watterson. the way he expresses his views through the separate personalities of calvin and of hobbes, i just love his stand on issues. i can so relate to him. Reading calvin and hobbes is a bigger experience to me than just chuckling at some witty comics, its like reading insights into my own mind! seriously. i realized also, that since ive been reading the strip since i was a kid, it seems that it has also played a part in shaping my personality and world view.

i also realized that since this is the first book ive bought since ive been older than 10, hehe, i find that i wind up thinking more about that author, his approach in drawing, his inspiration, what hes trying to teach with the strip and things like that, rather than just taking everything for face value as just a little kid and his tiger....

suffice it to say, im inspired.

the result, i guess, is that most of my drawings as of late have been in a psuedo-comic format. not an actual comic-strip per se, but with frames and speech bubbles. that sort of thing. and ive sort of ressurected the genre which i kindof created by accident with my "whiteboard series" [link] . everyone loved what quite generally came to be known as "the Bean people" and kept asking me to do more. i like it as well, but i never felt the urge to do it again. i dont really like forcing things of creativity, so i didnt do much with it until recently.

so ive got a good helping of Bean People illustrations (theyre not as beany though. hehe) that ill be putting up here on my gallery soon.

make sure you check em out!

thanks for reading. see you soon!

OH! and i got a mohawk! hehehe its so much fun!