Monday comic

So, things are taking a turn for the serious here in the world of Georgie and Arthur.

This is a series of comics that's currently about five long. There may be more.

--Abe

Friday comic time

So, I recently rediscovered my teenage love of Metallica. I've been listening to "Master of Puppets" and "...And Justice for All" while I do house work and write. I'm hoping to pick up a copy of "Ride the Lightning" and the black album soon.

I'm really enjoying Cliff Burton's bass playing. I love how, unlike most other heavy metal bassists, he actually plays his own parts rather than just doubling the guitar lines. The clicky growl thing his bass is doing on most of Master of Puppets is just crazy. And his melodic work is fresh and enjoyable.

I'm developing a new found respect for Lars Ulrich as well. His drumming original, inspired and interesting. I still hear things that he's doing that surprise me after hundreds of listenings.


--Abe

Dude in mud

This is that little guy I draw rolling in the mud. I kind of doodled this at work. He is awfully fun to draw. I am thinking of doing the 24-hr comic in September when I am taking a week off. I am thinking I might use this guy as a character. Though technically you are not supposed to do any prep work. But I have been drawing this guy for years. I first made up a much more stylized version of him in 9th or 10th grade in art class.

So Abe made some cookie dough the other day from the recipe on the back of the Nestle chocolate chip bag. They are pretty dang good. The funny thing is he is 34 and that is the first time he has ever made chocolate chip cookies. I baked that stuff all the time when I was in high school. Well, it cracked me up anyways.

I am almost done with the second Fraggle Squiggle Sock. I have started the toe and I think I have messed it up, but I am too lazy to rip back and fix it. It is just the toe and it will work out fine in the end.

This weekend, I am starting my Figure Drawing class with Nils Osmar. I am really excited. In the next month that I am taking the class, I will practice drawing the characters of a graphic novel I want to draw and write out the script. I have the very basic script, so I know the outline of the scenes I need to write, but I need to write the specifics. I am really excited because I think this class will give me the little push I need to start drawing people again. And probably better. I was never that great at drawing people. I have the Blues Lady painting for sale as a card on arachknits, and it is pretty good, but I think I can do better,

Belated 4th of July comic

Hope you enjoy it.

--Abe

What are these things you call car keys?

What a fun weekend. Friday we went up to mom's for lunch for Independence Day. We hung out for a bit. Then for lunch we had too much food. Abe made delicious Yankee cornbread from Abe's bread cookbook. Yummy. Mom made a Gigantic batch of potato salad (she makes great potato salad). She made even more for the five of us (Isaac was there too) than I made for the whole potluck at work on Thursday. She uses potatoes, mayonnaise, dill, eggs, salt, bacon. Maybe something else, but I can't remember. Sometimes vinegar. She also made corn on the cob (so Abe and I have been eating that for dinner lately, too - well, with dinner). And Jim made BBQ chicken thighs (yummy, but to fatty and they made me sick), and salmon. The BBQ was just Jack Daniels BBQ sauce, which is some of the yummiest BBQ sauce. The salmon was marinated in some homemade sauce of Jim's with garlic and brown sugar and something wet, but I have no idea what. Very delicious. And he made grilled zucchini. I had a bit of everything. I was so full I couldn't even eat dinner. Isaac was so hot (haha, they don't know the meaning of hot - it was perfect out after the heat of Seattle), he could hardly eat anything. Well, for him. He still ate more than I did.

Then we went to the pond to look for the muskrats. But we only saw one and just barely, so we went and look at the pics mom had taken of them before. Pretty dang cute. We also spent some time looking at LOLCats. Pretty funny. Then, of course, we played Boggle. Isaac took a nap, and Jim gussied up before his poetry reading.

And the it was time to go off to the poetry reading. I had ripped a knitting needle out of my project, so I needed to stay, but I didn't know where we were going. So Jim and Abe drove in and mom waited for me. I was going to drive us in in our car so that Abe and I could just head home. After a few minutes, Mom and I were nearly ready to go and then I remembered I hadn't brought my keys. Turns out those are necessary to drive the car. So instead of calling Abe (who didn't have his cell phone on him anyways), mom just drove us in in her truck and I would have to drive it back after the poetry reading and art walk.

Anyways, we got to the poetry reading and it was as much fun as a poetry reading could be. My favorite reader was an older gentleman named Malcolm. He had a big deep voice. And Jim's second poem was my favorite poem. The poems were all from a poetry thing where they gathered together and took turns writing lines on poems. They were in a neat bone exhibit at Mindport.

Then we went on the art walk. I think the Blue Horse Gallery was the first place we went. There is a comic book shop above it, but they were closed. Perhaps some other time. The Blue Horse Gallery had some fun stuff. They host a bunch of international trips. I would love to go on the one to Egypt. Or Ireland. There were some beautiful prints, though I don't remember the artist. On the way out, we ran into George Jartos. My mom has an old unfinished painting of his that I used to like to look at when I was little. It was weird meeting him after knowing that painting for so long. He seems like a nice fella. Pretty near exact what I had pictured. Then we went the the Wild Buffalo, a bar. I got carded. And there we looked at more paintings by George. They are amazing. I really like his art. So detailed and weird. Abe was not as big a fan, but it is just the kind of thing I like. I could look at it for hours it feels like. After that, we went to a couple other places, but I don't remember being as impressed. Abe liked a more modern one.

And then it was off to the Temple bar where we waited. We were meeting Jim and other poets and artists there. Well, mom and Jim were and Abe and I just happened to be there too. The service was awful. It is always awful when we go there. The food is pretty good when you can get it though. Mom and I were going to split a sundae, but it after 20 minutes I canceled the order. Abe did get his salad though. He said it was delicious. He made mom's night by giving her the tomatoes with mozzarella.

OK. So then we went home. And of course got home around midnight. Kind of sucked because first we had to drive back to mom's in the old truck, but we got to say good night to the very tired Isaac who had stayed at mom's to sleep before his 12 hours of work the next day.
Saturday was awesome and laid back. I don't even remember what we did.

On Sunday, I went to my cousin Jenai's baby shower. Best shower ever because she wouldn't let them plan all those horrible baby shower games. I gave her a cute little handknit baby cardigan in light green. Got a lot of 'ahs.' But then when another cousin and aunt asked me to move my car so they could get out, turns out I had locked my keys in my car!! So my super nice cousin Jenny very kindly drove me home to get the keys from Abe, who came back with us and drove home. It was really nice to hang out with Jenny. We had a good ride back. I just gotta get off my butt (or have less to do) and go hang out with her sometime. Hopefully, Isaac will get a hold of me so that for the 25th, when we go to see Harry Potter, we can also take some time to see Jenny. Maybe have some tea at the Village Yarn and Tea shop.

Also, the new AntiCraft is out. I actually like this one. The last one was all merkins, which I am not so into. But this one is all embroidery and I like a lot of it. In particular, I really like the Cthulu and veggies one and the rose on the apron. I think I might be making both of those.

Monday Comic

I was going to upload this one on Friday but we were up in Bellingham and I forgot to upload it the night before.

--Abe

An honest mistake really

After I drew this it occurred to me that bringing a bottle of milk to a "MOO-Aholics Anonymous" meeting is like showing up to an AA meeting with a six pack in hand. Ah well.

Apparently Arthur has some sort of video game addiction problem.

I'm spending my time these days learning as much as I can about starting and running a small business. My goal is to use the unfortunate circumstance of my months long unemployment to start a business that might eventually support both Angela and I.

Listening to Pink Floyd and baking some chocolate bread at the moment.

--Abe