tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73834035470186672332024-03-13T07:53:34.208-07:00Tragic Relief SketchblogI'm a cartoonist living in Seattle, here are the things that I draw.Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.comBlogger346125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-51124875024284869442014-08-04T10:30:00.000-07:002014-08-04T10:30:15.046-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was tagged in the Writing Process Blog Tour by my friend <a href="http://denisstjohn.blogspot.com/">Denis St John</a>. Check out his <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/100315778/the-complete-amelia-series?ref=pr_shop">Amelia</a> comics if you like 70's horror movies.<br />
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Since I write more with images than words, I figured it was only right to draw a comic for this project.<br />
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I'm now tagging <a href="http://sstaylorbooks.com/">S. S. Taylor</a>, writer of mysteries and graphic novels, <a href="http://ghostcatcomics.blogspot.com/">Annie Murphy</a>, cartoonist and tarot card expert, and <a href="http://dlasky.livejournal.com/">David Lasky</a>, and cartoonist/graphic novelist and fellow Seattleite.<br />
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Also, I know I don't post here too often anymore. You'll find more frequent updates at the main site, <a href="http://www.tragicrelief.com/">http://www.tragicrelief.com</a><br />
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Thanks!</div>
Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-45927433540777146942014-02-02T20:55:00.001-08:002016-02-02T09:01:06.681-08:00Hourly Comics 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-65099100085809772762014-01-07T08:10:00.001-08:002014-01-07T08:10:42.744-08:00Comics on the Web<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Washaway is nearly sold out, and I'm not sure about reprinting so I decided to just post the whole thing <a href="http://tragicrelief.blogspot.com/p/washaway.html">here on the site</a>. This story was being serialized a few panels at a time on my old website, but I broke the thing before the story was finished. <br />
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If anyone is upset by the ending- you've read my comics before. You should know better.</div>
Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-59602139144569685792013-09-03T10:55:00.000-07:002013-09-03T10:55:51.882-07:0031<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hey! Long time no...write. So I took a break for summer, and since the stores have already started all their "Back to School" nonsense and sunscreen is on 70% off clearance, summer must be over. Even if it is still a million degrees outside.<br />
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So here's some things that happened while I was away:<br />
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<li>I moved the <a href="http://www.tragicrelief.com/">website</a> over to tumblr, for easy updating. It does mean the webcomic archives are gone, but nobody read that nonsense anyway.</li>
<li>Rob Clough reviewed <a href="http://highlowcomics.blogspot.com/2013/07/new-comics-from-colleen-frakes.html">a bunch of my comics</a>, and <a href="http://highlowcomics.blogspot.com/2013/07/ccs-powered-anthologies-irene-2-and.html">Sundays 5</a> (I've got a short comic in that anthology).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/go_look_colleen_frakes/">The Comics Reporter</a> was nice enough to link to the afformentioned tumblr site. And they wished me a happy birthday! </li>
<li>I survived <a href="http://comicsbeat.com/spx-exhibitor-registration-ignites-table-geddon/">Tablegeddon 2013</a> and will be exhibiting at the <a href="http://www.spxpo.com/exhibitors">Small Press Expo</a> in a few weeks. 10 days, according to the countdown on their site.</li>
<li>Speaking of SPX, they were nice enough to write up an <a href="http://www.panelpatter.com/2013/09/spx-spotlight-2013-colleen-frakes.html">SPX Spotlight</a> of my comics on their blog.</li>
<li>The Graphic Canon vol. 3 ended up on the <a href="http://www.sevenstories.com/news/graphic-canon-vol-3-on-nyt-best-sellers-list/">New York Times Bestseller</a> list!</li>
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Hey. It's been a couple weeks since I updated this blog. And it'll probably be a couple more until I update it again. Been looking at the website and blog lately and it feels a little...old. Stale. Posting is going to take a back seat to the site re-design for a little bit!</div>
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This is my current to do/to draw list. There are too many things on it. Some of them don't even make sense ('Calendar'? What does that mean, why did I write it? Did I promise to draw something for a calendar?) </div>
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Here's a photo of my desk right now, with the four comics I'm working on sorted into separate piles. There's also two other comics I'm supposed to finish before the end of the summer, that I haven't started yet FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. </div>
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Tragic Relief 14, the "Washaway" story that's been running over on the <a href="http://www.tragicrelief.com/">comics site</a>, will be ready for VanCaf. Probably. I mean, it's all done except the cover, I just hate drawing covers and have been dragging my feet on finishing this.</div>
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And it's easy to drag your feet when you have a <a href="http://nymphonomena.com/">really exciting project</a> to work on. </div>
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Here's the conventions I'm attending this year, and the brand new comics I'll have there:</div>
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Vancouver Canada- <a href="http://www.vancaf.com/">VanCaf, May 25th and 25th</a> with <a href="http://www.brewforbreakfast.com/">Nomi Kane</a> and <a href="http://comicscurator.tumblr.com/">Jen Vaughn</a></div>
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*New mini comic- "I Should Have Dumped You When..." a collection of gags based on my unintentionally funny life (sample page above)</div>
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<a href="http://www.stumptowncomics.com/">Stumptown April 27th and 28th</a> (been waitlisted again, fingers crossed)</div>
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Diary Tunes time again! <a href="http://paperrocketcomics.com/">Robyn Chapman </a>organizes this cd exchange every year, I think this is the 6th time I've gotten to participate? I kinda look forward to this all year. <br />
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Since it's <a href="https://twitter.com/MarchMODOKMad">March Modok Madness </a>time, thought I'd repost this <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/75168250/4x6-watercolor-sketch-of-whatever?">commission</a> from 2005- </div>
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-3167948414038446122013-02-26T08:19:00.001-08:002013-02-26T08:19:27.499-08:00Valentine's Card<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Did you know that <a href="http://www.brewforbreakfast.com/">Nomi Kane</a>, <a href="http://comicscurator.tumblr.com/">Jen Vaughn </a>and I mailed out 203 Valentine's cards this year? </div>
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Well really, they did most of the work. I drew my part of the card and then helped fold for like an hour, then it turns out I'd folded all of mine wrong Nomi had to redo them. Then I went to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/colleenfrakes/8488746487/in/photostream/">Texas</a> and left the ladies to finish up all the work. Don't know why they put up with me. </div>
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Here's a video Jen made of <a href="http://comicscurator.tumblr.com/post/43110305554/this-valentines-day-i-made-a-collaborative-love">putting the final card together</a>. </div>
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Isn't that neat? Use it as a cat toy! Hang it from your review mirror! Decorate your Valentine's Day tree (that's a thing, right?)! </div>
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Did you get a card? If not, send me an email [colleenfrakes at gmail dot com] and I'll add you to future mailing lists. Getting real mail is much more fun than emails. </div>
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On an unrelated note, there's a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/124787763/cheerleading-tryouts-9x12-painting">new painting up in the Etsy shop</a>. It's a bit more than I usually like to charge (I'm an advocate of <a href="http://www.aisling.net/bus/cheapart.htm">cheap art</a>) but it's also larger and more detailed than the usual sketches I post there. Also, I need money to go to <a href="http://www.cakechicago.com/">CAKE</a>. </div>
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-11548945206632489542013-02-21T09:20:00.002-08:002013-02-21T09:20:41.135-08:00Cartoonists at the Theater 4- The Buried Child<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/finearts/default.aspx?id=2842#buried">The Buried Child</a>. Directed by Prof. Rosa Joshi, the play features students Samuel Asher ('15), Meme Garcia-Cosgrove ('14) Jacob Swanson ('15) Matthew Weingarten ('14), Lucas Kiehn-Thillman ('14), Emma Bjornson ('16), and Marshall Lewis ('14). <br />
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Hey! I got to see a play on Tuesday and do a bit of sketching in the dark. The performances were all great and everything was very professionally done. What I've been struggling with since seeing it is the tone of the play. The title (Hey, dead baby! Not a spoiler if it's in the title!), the music, the set, everything suggested to me that this was supposed to be a backwoods horror play. And in a lot of ways it fits the genre- isolated rural family, unexpected city visitors, suggestions of inbreeding. The whole thing felt very creepy, I kept expecting a hand or something to pop up from beneath the floorboards.</div>
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"You sit here all day and night, festering away! Decomposing! Smelling up the house with your putrid body! Hacking your head off ‘til all hours of the morning! Thinking up mean, evil, stupid things to say about your own flesh and blood!" </div>
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The Buried Child runs from February 21 – March 3 at the Lee Center for the Arts. Tickets are $6 for students, $8 for SU faculty and staff, and $10 general admission. Go check it out! <br />
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-56451218680745523632013-02-04T07:52:00.000-08:002013-02-04T07:55:15.612-08:00Hourly Comics 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Friday was hourly comics day. I spent most of it being tired and grumpy, since I'd stayed out too late every other night that week. But I decided to inflict a comic on you anyway. <br />
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-39901818070672854392013-01-30T14:42:00.001-08:002013-01-30T14:43:40.789-08:00Wednesday sketch<br />
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"Cheerleading Tryouts" </div>
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Sometimes I draw a thing, and it turns out to be completely wrong for it's intended purpose.</div>
Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-43438256071678520272013-01-23T10:16:00.001-08:002013-01-23T10:25:00.503-08:00Advice from the Pros<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday (<a href="http://smoo.tumblr.com/post/41285017063/dont-give-up">and bleeding over into today</a>) the internet <a href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/i_dont_have_anything_to_offer_this_debate_except_wisecracks/">exploded with reactions </a>to some professional advice offered on the <a href="http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/behind-the-scenes/when-to-give-up/">First Second blog</a>. I agreed with Callista's post. I also agreed with everyone's reactions/advice against it. <br />
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Thought today I'd offer a sampling of some of the advice/criticism I've gotten from pros over the years, good and bad. All of it's paraphrased (though I have an annoying talent for recalling conversations), and I've given credit when I could remember who said it (I have an annoying habit of forgetting names). Corrections welcome. <br />
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I can't not write. If you don't have to, then please don't, because I don't need the competition- Bill Ransom (a lot of people have said something similar to this, but he was the first I heard it from)<br />
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Your art is either too cartoony or too realistic. Pick one-James Sturm <br />
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I like the art, but the story is too thin-an editor <br />
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I like the story, but the art is too spare-a different editor, on the same book <br />
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Use the colors as they come out of the box. Stick to bright tones, don't mix your own colors- Color designer Jenny Hansen <br />
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Try to use subtle pastels as much as possible. Gray is a great color- Bill Griffiths <br />
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Colors looks best when you muddy them up a bit- Seth <br />
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Use the colors as they come out of the box. Stick to bright tones, don't mix your own colors- Color designer Jenny Hansen <br />
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You should always dress for work. We are professionals. -Seth <br />
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The best thing about being a cartoonist is you can wear pajamas to work- Everyone else <br />
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AND SO ON. Guess my point is, almost everything I've been told at one point in my career has been contradicted someone else further down the line. And they're both right! They're just telling you what has worked for them. So, do whatever makes you happy. <br />
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Drawing <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/01/23/prince_screwdriver_hear_the_new_song_which_suggests_a_new_album_might_come.html">Prince</a> as a superhero makes me happy. </div>
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-50349642259985473222013-01-09T08:26:00.007-08:002013-01-09T10:26:06.527-08:00Sketchbook Wednesday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I mean to update this thing every Friday. Not sure how it got to be Wednesday. Might need to invest in a calendar. Also feel like I don't write enough on this blog, just throw up a bunch of drawings and run away. So here's some random information along with random sketches. <br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/colleenfrakes/8359577605/" title="skunk by cfrakes, on Flickr"><img alt="skunk" height="441" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8355/8359577605_e7bdeefaed.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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Yesterday I was sick and walking home in the rain, and I thought about quitting comics, <a href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_holiday_interview_2_dean_haspiel/">like you do</a>. Then this morning I got a nice email from a cartoonist I admire, and a <a href="http://starshipzineship.tumblr.com/post/39328685946/boxcarbooks-received-a-lovely-package-in-the">couple</a> of <a href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/random_comics_news_story_round_up010913/">shout-outs</a>, and I'm over it. It's easy to feel like you're working in a void. And very easy to be pulled out of it. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/colleenfrakes/8359577551/" title="rolling-pin by cfrakes, on Flickr"><img alt="rolling-pin" height="289" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8216/8359577551_d021a949c6.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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Like all my artist friends, I was gifted at least three sketchbooks this holiday season- this is not a complaint, they will all go to good use. One was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/642-Things-Draw-Journal-UNNAMED/dp/0811876446">"642 Things to Draw</a>". While the paper stock is crap, it's nice to have a prompt on those days where I Just Don't Want To Draw Anything. <br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/colleenfrakes/8360640778/" title="hammock by cfrakes, on Flickr"><img alt="hammock" height="401" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8075/8360640778_5101213c2b.jpg" width="500" /></a> <br />
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Hey! Rob Clough was <a href="http://highlowcomics.blogspot.com/2013/01/minicomics-morgan-pielli-andy-warner.html">nice enough to review</a> "<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/109755219/here-at-the-end-of-all-things-mini-comic">Here at the End of All Things</a>", written by <a href="http://seantcollins.com/">Sean T. Collins </a>and drawn by me, and also covers minis by a couple of <a href="http://www.morganpielli.com/">CCS friends </a>in the same post.<br />
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Washaway is still updating every Monday and Friday over at <a href="http://www.tragicrelief.com/">the website</a>. Seems appropriate, as it is <a href="http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish/razorclams/current.html">razor clam season</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/colleenfrakes/8359577307/" title="embroidery by cfrakes, on Flickr"><img alt="embroidery" height="318" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8463/8359577307_a0a87ef957.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Is it still a sketch if you use a needle and thread? Embroidery also helps on the days when I Just Don't Want to Draw Anything, at least it's still Making Something. There's been too many of these days, lately. Could blame seasonal depression, but in Seattle that's a year-round excuse. Until next week.<br />
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-2345920585741747632012-12-28T21:12:00.002-08:002012-12-28T21:12:40.888-08:00Blowing Up The Internet With a Sketch Bomb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-90946681183010711012012-12-21T08:02:00.000-08:002012-12-21T08:02:01.944-08:00Happy Whatever!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Second the disclaimer- I am not 100% sure I'm allowed to blog about this. Or, even talk about it. I did email some other people involved in the project, waited two weeks (which is like, a year in internet time) and when there were no responses, decided to just go for it. Send me a "cease and desist" if it's really a problem. <br />
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And now an explanation of the title- Someone (I think it may have been <a href="http://www.cartoonstudies.org/index.php/2005/09/01/james-sturm/">James Sturm</a>?) told me early on in my career that 80% of the projects you try for aren't going to go anywhere. And most of the time, it's not anyone's fault. Projects have a way of dissolving. So you have to try a lot. </div>
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Back in like, 2006-2007, when the first class of <a href="http://www.cartoonstudies.org/">CCS</a> was deep into the thesis panic, the opportunity came up to create a dvd insert comic for a movie. This was the second comic of that kind that CCSers had worked on, the first was for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Broadcast_(film)">Last Broadcast </a>dvd release, but because of where my trip home had fallen that year, I was only nominally involved in the project- think I may have helped scan a few pages, but that was it. This time I was excited to be involved from the beginning, and was even part of a small group of students who drove over to Edgewood (the movie's studio) in Rutland VT to see a rough cut of the film. And...yeah, it was bad movie. But fun bad, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095483/">so bad it's almost good</a>. I mean, it starred <a href="http://www.annanicole.com/">Anna Nicole Smith</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Marie_Laurer">Chyna</a>, so our expectations weren't that high. <br />
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So, notes in hand, we all put aside our theses (thesises?) for a few months and got to work on the comic! A first draft was completed pretty quickly, sent off to Edgewood, and...then we waited. And waited. And waited and waited. My specific job on this project was acting as the liason between Edgewood and the CCS team, so I was calling and emailing them weekly with no response. When I finally did hear back, it was to let us know that all work was on hold due to the death of the film's Associate Producer...it took a few minutes for things to click. Anna Nicole Smith and her son were the Associate Producers. Living in a small town in rural Vermont, holed up in the studio trying to finish a thesis and (what was for most of us) the first paying comics job of our careers, we'd missed the news. </div>
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-31590733982450649482012-12-03T00:30:00.000-08:002012-12-03T00:30:00.690-08:00Comics!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Assuming I pushed all the right buttons, there will be new comics on the website starting...NOW! <a href="http://www.tragicrelief.com">www.tragicrelief.com</a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-69876805481260373102012-11-26T00:01:00.000-08:002012-11-26T00:01:01.414-08:00Or maybe I'm just afraid of the future?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hey! I drew this during some downtime at work a few weeks ago, then didn't post it because I was afraid of getting comments. Then I remembered that I almost never get comments so...there ya go.
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-48010588376361988962012-11-15T11:21:00.002-08:002012-11-15T11:21:42.766-08:00New Paintings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070759284420925543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383403547018667233.post-90332575463127892382012-11-10T11:18:00.003-08:002012-11-10T11:18:44.150-08:00Short Run 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hey! Short Run was last weekend. I can't remember why I stopped doing post-convention write ups...Probably because I tend to be complainy. But no major complaints here!<br />
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It was a really good show, sold a lot of books, had a <a href="http://www.alicebluereview.org/">lovely tablemate</a>, saw a lot of friends and reminded them that I totally live here now, and made it through the weekend without <a href="http://www.alicebluereview.org/books/williamsartbook.html">breaking anything</a>.<br />
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Oh yeah, and no one seemed to know where the after party was. But that's okay, I did have a lot of awesome comics and zines to read. Next year, wanna meet up for milkshakes at <a href="http://www.ddir.com/">Dicks</a> in Queen Anne? It's closer. <br />
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Sunday after the show I headed to the Olympics with fellow CCSer and Only Skin cartoonist <a href="http://onlyskincomics.tumblr.com/">Sean Ford</a>. It was beautiful gray, foggy and very Western Washington.<br />
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Hey! I'll be at the <a href="http://www.shortrun.org/">Short Run</a> festival on Saturday. You should come because it's free, and I'll have a new mini that I'll be staying up all night to put together due to a lack of time management skills.<br />
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Find me at table 17 with <a href="http://www.alicebluereview.org/">Amber Nelson</a>, who totally just got a shout out in <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/suggests/15071095/short-run">The Stanger</a> as one of "the funnest names in zines and literary events right now". It's true! </div>
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