I didn't find much cleaning out the basement that looked like it could be sold. But I found these:
Look at all these old children's books! A couple of them are in tough shape, but most of them are still decent and a few of them are minty (in condition, not scent - hence why they're all being aired out here)! I got the okay to auction them on Ebay if I could clean them off. As I did, I found some surprising things within.
One of which is this strange little Campbells Kids recipe book. I think it belonged to one of my aunts and she gave it to me when I was little. This page in particular fascinated me. To this day, I have never attempted to make a Flagpole Salad and I may have to now, so that I may enjoy the wondrous taste combination of pineapple, banana, cherry... and mayonnaise.
What is it with post-World War Two-era cookbooks and (let me be generous here) unusual taste combinations? And mayonnaise?
I'll admit it, I'm very curious to see what these vintage Disney Little Golden Books go for. They are definitely the most interesting part of the collection. I like how some of the stories are condensed in hilarious ways (in "Pinocchio", the encounter with Monstro is reduced to one sentence). Of these, the "Snow White" book is the most fascinating, as it includes a scene that was deleted from the film:
Ah, the bed-building scene! I still haven't reviewed the library books I recently read about the stories behind the Disney Animated Canon, but I will mention that "Snow White", if it had included every idea cut from the original script, would have been about three days long. The reason for this? Simple. This was their first feature, and the animators had no idea how much they could add or subtract to the story to make it feature-length.
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ROFLcon, MIT's big dang celebration of internet culture, is this weekend! But apparently, a lot of people already knew that, because all the tickets have sold out. The image accompanying that news on their blog is perfect.
We can still attend it, though, in a manner of speaking. It's an internet culture convention, right? Well, if I'm understanding things correctly, they're going to stream the whole thing.
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Photo of the day!
As promised, here's my spring bulb garden as it looks currently. All the work I did in October was worth it:
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Addendum: I can't believe I forgot this, but this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day! (You'd think this would be easier for me to remember.) Go visit a comic book store near you and get some free stuff.
So in case you're wondering why new posts have been very sporadic, it's because I've been preoccupied with helping my family clean out the basement. Fortunately, I have some cool things to write about. Like this really, really old thing I made (you will have to click for the big, as usual):
Oh... Oh God...
Now, occasionally, I will find an older painting or drawing that will make me realize just how much figurative space there is between the person who drew it and the person currently looking at it. The scary part comes in when I realize both those people are me. This is very definitely one of those times. Now I think I remember the context, at least. I was asked to paint a backdrop for some fantasy-themed sculptures made by myself and other students (I haven't found any of these, sadly). The result was this thing right here, which looks like fourteen-year-old me (best guess at my age at the time) decided to throw every crazy idea I ever had at an unsuspecting sheet of cardboard. Let's look at some of these things in detail. I really like this dragon/mountain guy. He's so cute. It's funny how this is essentially the same face I use on cute goofy characters today. The anatomy's usually less confounding, though. Look at those nostrils! Many parts of the painting look like I threw neon, glow-in-the-dark fabric paint at it. Remember, it was the early '90s. I have no idea if it still glows. Love the hell out of the river. It has heard of this thing called "Physics" and wants nothing to do with it. It also proves that "Kidd Video" still had a big impact on me, years after it had been canceled. (Someday, I will tell you how much fun it was to be a girl in high school championing and cheerleading for animated films and series nobody else in my peer group had ever heard of. Oh, wait, that wasn't fun at all.) But then... there's that thing in the upper-right corner. Seriously, what in the holy f*** even IS that?!? I get that there's a giant face, and a bunch of different iconic buildings stuck together, but... I have no idea what the hell is going on here and I'm SCARED.
So... SCARED... Thankfully, I can rest assured that all the other old, old art I've made is accounted for. Anything else is probably lost forever, never to be uncovered again... right?
(Cue the foreshadowing music again, but make it more ominous this time.)
I found some less-scary, more-awesome things in the basement too. Some of them are unspeakably awesome. Worth Ebaying in fact. Before I auction them off, they'll be the focus of the next post.
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Now, speaking of kids painting, I just watched "My Kid Could Paint That" recently and... wow. Just... wow.
This is the fascinating -and, in many ways, haunting- story of Marla Olmstead, a painter who has unwittingly dropped a bomb in the middle of the abstract art culture. She has been compared to Monet and Pollock. She arrives at a gallery showing chewing a cookie with her mouth open and donning her best macaroni necklace. She playfully puts handprints, Mickey Mouse heads, and dribbles of puff-paint in her work. Art critics have read heavily symbolic meaning in her paintings, and believe her work deserves to be hanging in the big, famous art museums in New York City. She relaxes by playing with her collection of My Little Ponies and jumping on the bed. She is likely to answer any question with "I dunno" and hasn't got a grasp on the fact that people are shelling out thousands of dollars for her pieces. She is also barely three feet tall and *isn't old enough* to fully understand the fact that people are paying a lot of money for her paintings, or why she gets to go to a special party at an art gallery every so often, or why her father turns all white when she says her brother made one of the paintings, even though this is normal for her, because she doesn't yet understand that her father and her brother are not somehow extensions of herself, or even that they existed before she entered this world.
Because, you see, Marla is four years old.
This movie is a must-see for anyone who gives a crap about art. But there's a part of me that wished I had a pint with me so I could take a drink whenever I wanted to scream at the adults onscreen, "SHE'S FOUR!!!!!" I'm not going to say what happens (lets' just say that the film-maker set out to make one documentary and circumstances caused him to make a very different one), but I wound up feeling so bad for this kid caught in the middle of this spectacular debacle. She's blissfully unaware that, in the space of one year, she's gone from a prodigy with a dedicated fandom, to a disgusting fraud, to... well, there's a moment where the director basically says with images, "Look, draw your own conclusions. I want to stay out of this."
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Let's just dive right in and I'll share my thoughts. Click the picture to access the large size, as usual. Starting in the lower-left corner and spiraling clockwise...
Sara Richard's stickers and Sketchbook. The fishing kitty now proudly resides on the protective case thingie on my MacBook. I never really mastered ink and brush, so I am in awe of Sara's beautiful line art. That, and the sheer amount of art she's produced.
A Schedule of Upcoming Guests/Topics on Sci-Fi Saturday Night. Someday, I will do a post about all the podcasts that have helped me keep sane while Photoshopping. "SFSN" is a semi-local 'cast and I have nothing at all bad to say about them because they love my rabbit illustrations. Inbound 4: A Comic Book History of Boston. An anthology created by the Boston Comics Roundtable, and a fascinating read to boot. The old Mug-and-Muffin coffee shop has been immortalized for all time.The Tick Comicon Extravaganza. I am not going to get too crazy here. It is a comic about comic book conventions, and it stars Quincy's own superhero.
Fat Cat Funnies' Distracula. Speaking of Quincy, it turns out Fat Cat Funnies is based here. A local publisher! A wikkid local publisher, if you will! Awesome.
(Barely visible) Mouse Under Glass by David Koenig. Actually, this is the book I brought with me to read on the T. It's pretty interesting and I will review it and another "secrets of Disney" book I finished earlier soon.
"After Watchmen, What's Next? Brad Meltzer's Identity Crisis!" That's how I'm reading the title anyway. There were similar abridged comics like this at the autumn Boston Comicon. The best of them had excerpts from all of DC's comics that could remotely be considered dark and/or edgy. At least with this one, I got to learn for myself what everyone else already knew about the Identity Crisis storyline. Spoilers: Imagine sitting down to watch "The Thin Man", and suddenly in the first act, the film jump-cuts to the ending of "Seven". The actual "not so much sad as tear-out-your-heart-and-stomp-on-it" ending to "Seven". I'd like to be exaggerating right now.
"Penny Arcade" the books! "Trish why in the world would you buy collections of a comic you can read for free online?" Well, because there's something about a book. I always liked comic strip compilations (I will admit I was never really all that into "Calvin and Hobbes" until I found the first collection.) Mainly, it's because the sheer size of the "PA" archive intimidates me. Plus, the writer's comments on the strips are often hilarious. Glad to know I'm not the only person who looks through their old art and sometimes goes, "Oh dear Lord... tell me I didn't really draw THAT..." (Cue the kind of music you hear in movies when Foreshadowing happens...)
The Boston Independent Film Festival schedule. While searching for their website, I learned that Boston suddenly has (at least) two film fests! As someone who enjoys nice things, I should try going to both. This festival starts next week, and some of the films sound fascinating. Wish me luck in convincing other people to go.
Various random business cards! I got to trade a lot of cards with people. Urchin Punch had a lot of neat stuff at their table, but sadly there does not seem to be much at their website yet. "Silver Circle" is an independent CGI animated science fiction film with kind of a cool origin story. I may have to dedicate an entire post to it later. The Angry Penguin is a little strange, but how could I resist that sticker? And it should surprise nobody that New England has it's own branch of the Ghostbusters and a Storm Trooper Garrison.
Donald Duck Free Comic Book Day abridged comic. I was intrigued by this for two reasons: 1) Free Comic Book day is in May. 2) This is a Halloween-themed story. It was too weird to leave.
And finally, my Pokewalker, which (it's hard to see) racked up about 51,000 steps... and I still don't have a gimmicky Surfing or Flying Pikachu! This makes me feel angry!
Ah, anyway. Overall, a great haul and a great time.
The sad, sorry state of affairs for the ecologically (and economically)-minded artist like myself is that there were never that many good green Sketchbook options. Thankfully, most chain arts and crafts stores have recently started carry at least one tree-friendly Sketchbook brand. Still, it's much easier to find a wide variety of green Sketchbooks in specialty stores (ie, locally, Dick Blick and Bob Smith Stationers). Here are a few that I've used over the years.
Aquabee Tree-Free Hempdraw. I got this for under ten dollars at Dick Blick. It was an absolute joy to draw in. Great texture, loved watercolors and colored pencils, and it scanned nicely. Here's an example: There's a noticeable texture with some natural fibers showing in the pages. The only thing that bugs me actually isn't the book's fault, but the fact that certain people may freak out at the giant pot plant on the cover (seen on newer versions of the Hempdraw). Methinks Aquabee should have taken a few more things into consideration when choosing the cover art. Most of the people us art-types hang out with wouldn't care, but we all have to deal with the "Hey, are you drawing?!" crowd once in a while.
Pentalic Nature Sketch and Cachet Earthbound. Nature Sketch (after heavily modifying the cover) has great, heavy paper for watercolors. The large size does not play well with scanners, and I'm not sure if it's recycled. You'd think it would be. A percentage goes to the American Wildlife Fund so... there's that. Here's an example of what mine looks like inside: The Cachet Earthbound is practically iconic by now. It's got unbleached, natural fiber, brown recycled paper that's durable as hell. It'd be perfect for outdoor sketching... if I could ever find a spiral-bound version. That said, the standard hardbound Earthbound can be found at WallMart and the like. Here's a drawing from mine:
Canson (and others) Recycled wire-bound Sketchbooks. I won't get too detailed here. This is the first Sketchbook I ever drew in. I get all sentimental about it. Lokta paper: This is paper made out of a variety of natural and recycled fibers. That means you've got a weird variety of textures to draw on. Now, if you're the kind of artist who just draws for the sake of drawing, then this is fine. If, however, you ever want to look at your sketches a second time for reference -- or you want to not have to break out the hair dryer every time your Sketchbook gets mildly damp (seriously), it's not the best choice. Which brings us, inevitably, to... Elephant Poo Paper! Take a minute. Let it all sink in. Now, I may have mentioned before that I have a bit of the OCD. So my reaction to this is, "no. Just no." But for those of you who aren't big babies who go 😱 at animal feces, knock yourselves out. Just remember what I said about natural fiber papers. You don't get much more natural fiber-y than this. I like how there's the option of Panda poo, cow poo, and horse poo. That's a good place to end this; horse poo. ---- Out of nowhere, there is an excellent Onion AV Club Blog post that takes the announcement of the long-in-development-limbo "Mighty Mouse" movie as an incentive to make some wonderfully astute comments on this "Lets turn every animated series into a movie" thing. Or as they describe them, "remaking of some childhood cartoon into a disingenuously winking, cacophonous, computer-sculpted hybrid that neither satisfies nostalgic adults nor placates their mewling, ADD-afflicted children." True that.
I have not seen the new "Clash of the Titans". I will admit this up front. Honestly, I don't really want to see the new "Clash of the Titans". But this stupid movie has inadvertently brought up some things that bother me:
1) It turns out some people will take any CGI, even the not-so-good CGI in "Clash", over the Ray Harryhausen stop-motion in the original. This makes me unspeakably sad. So I went to the library and got An Animated Life to read. This is a big, huge book I've salivated over for a while, so I was elated that they had it. I'll review it soon.
2) The 3-D in "Clash" was added as an afterthought. This fact has been wildly reported. It was thought that people wouldn't pay extra for crappy 3-D... but guess what?
3) This plot point. (Deftly illustrated by the wonderful Coelasquid [naughty language warning], who has done an entire series of comics based of ridiculous things in "Clash".)
4) But I think the thing that bugs me more than anything about this remake of "Clash of the Titans" is this: Of all the things they changed from the original "Clash of the Titans", couldn't they have swapped the Kraken out for, I dunno, some scary sea monster out of ***GREEK*** Mythology?!? It isn't like they don't have a surplus of them.
In other movies I have no interest in seeing news, I am sincerely disappointed that the movie entitled "Furry Vengeance" is NOT about "Secret of N.I.M.H." fans out for justice, as the title would suggest. Because I would watch the hell out of that movie and so would you. Admit it. ---- Sketch of the day! How about some happy after all that uncharacteristic vitriol. Yaaaaaaay!!!
The latest series/season begins sometime this summer. You know, I was never a fan of Scooby (even as a kid, I could recognize a formulaic series and cheap animation), but I have to give Hanna-Barbera some props. The Mystery Machine gang has been at it since 1969. Now this begs a question: Does this make "Scooby Doo" is the longest-running animated television series of all time? The issue preventing him from holding this record seems to be that there technically hasn't been one single "Scooby Doo" series running all this time. (Incidentally, I count maybe fourteen different series in which Scooby was involved, ranging from the original "Scooby Doo, Where Are You" to the very strange "Scooby Doo Movies" to the infamous "Scooby and Scrappy Doo" and the most recent [and also strange] "Shaggy and Scooby Get a Clue". As usual, my fellow OCD-sufferers at TV Tropes have made a good list. Mind you, this does not count any of the movies, cross-overs, ad infinitum.) Wow... I... just wrote two paragraphs about "Scooby Doo". (Sits for a minute or two, utterly mystified.) ---- Sketch of the day! Forgive the misspelling (it's just a sketch, so it's okay), but I think we may have to start some wild fan speculation about this soon:
I'll have my Comicon thoughts after they're organized. It is going to take me a long time to sort through my freebies, purchases, photos, sketches, and contacts. As always, I had a lot of fun and met a lot of really awesome people and exchanged lots of business cards with other illustrators. Illustration isn't a very social career choice, so anytime large numbers of artists get to talk face-to-face is fantastic. That feeling of nerdy belonging is very rare. Plus, it's like Christmas 2 if you like to read. To anyone joining the Blog after meeting me there, welcome! I'll be writing about drawing, animation, film, literature, and anything else interesting that comes up. For those of you standing, please hold on to the handrails throughout our journey and please stay clear of the doors! Por favor mantangense alejado de las puertas! 😁
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Sketch of the Day! Finished piece, rather. Meet Smok Wawelski. Click the image for the "all sizes" option.
IN LESS THAN 30 DAYS THE BCC IS BACK! April 10-11, 2010 Starring Jim Lee & Mike Mignola, and Sergio Aragones (JUST ADDED)!
REMEMBER we have a new location: The Westin Boston Waterfront (425 Summer St.). There are two Westin's in Boston. Make sure you go to the Westin Boston Waterfront.
Our guest list is mind blowing. Check it out...
Jim Lee, Mike Mignola, Eric Powell, Joseph Michael Linsner, Jim Starlin, Bill Sienkiewicz, JH Williams III, Billy Tan, Steve Rude, Michael Golden, Ben Templesmith, Skottie Young, Joe Jusko, Cameron Stewart, Mike Norton,and many more!
We are also happy to announce media guest Amber Benson who played Tara Maclay on the hit TV series - Buffy The Vampire Slayer!
As an added bonus Marc Chiarello, Art Director for DC Comics, will be doing on site artist portfolio reviews both days. Do you have what it takes to be the next great DC artist? Sign up at the show!!
And wait, there's more...
1. Sunday only there will be a costume contest and speaker panels featuring Jim Lee, Mike Mignola, and Eric Powell.
2. Exclusive signed limited edition prints for The Boston Comic Con by Joseph Michael Linsner and Bill Siekiewicz will be available at the show for sale. Get there early before they sell out!
3. BCC T-shirts featuring Eric Powell's The Goon and Mike Mignola's Hellboy will also be available for sale. We are printing only a small supply of these shirts, so get 'em while you can.
The Boston Comic Con is hands down the best comic book show in New England featuring over 21,000 square feet of comic book artists and vendors. The BCC is privately owned and is not affiliated with any other shows or promoters. We are dedicated to delivering the fun, magic, and excitement that's supposed to be a comic con. If you didn't have fun, we didn't do our job! You won't wanna miss this! See ya in April. 'Nuff Said. ----
Now, there is a bit of sad news unfortunately. The Comicbook Artists Guild does not have it's own table this year -- however, we're making up for it by hosting an event after the Convention. Come on Saturday afternoon for more information. ---- Last Feederwatch Friday of the Year! Had some laughs, did some science! Rock Pigeon 3 Mourning Dove 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 American Robin 2 Northern Mockingbird 3 (!!!) Song Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 2 House Sparrow 11 ---- Sketch of the Day I was getting a little tired of the headlines this little guy was inspiring.
Hey, Spewey* I think I heard somebody drop off a package in the porch. Would you be a deer of an Oviraptor and retrieve it please? * - Yes, Spewey. Seemed apropos for an animal fingered for eating some other animal's eggs (it's a damn shame Oviraptor eggs look just like Protoceratops eggs. Except that they have little Oviraptors inside.) In case you don't get the reference, read this. (Angry clucking...) !!! ... (Series of elaborate clucks and tailfeather-shaking that roughly translates to "Hell and Yes.") ---- Sketch O'Dedae! Yes, the team has changed a bit since I made this, but I'm going to paint an update when I'm finished with the story:
Home stretch everyone. Just in time too, as it's already time to start thinking of Boston Comic-con this weekend!
This was the very first water park and it too has a strange history. It doesn't look like it'll ever be reopened. I only really have one memory of this place and it was of me and other kids being yelled at to get off the rocks. Meanies; we only wanted to be Ariel for a minute or two.
Man, remember when you had to hunt high and low for "Nightmare Before Christmas" memorabilia? Back when "Nightmare" first arrived in theaters, Disney had the damndest time figuring out how to sell it. It was actually originally released under their Touchstone banner. Toys were produced very briefly and quickly disappeared from Disney Store shelves. Now they're marketing it to hell and back. All this stuff and not a single tree ornament.
This photograph nicely encapsulates why we all hate Dinoland. You can be a serious place where there's a walk-through garden with realistic dinosaur sculptures and a very respectful attitude. Or you can be a wacky place with goofy dinosaurs and the kinds of cheesy carnival things you'd see at the Yarmouth Clam Festival. You really shouldn't try to be both at the same damn time.
One of the things I was most looking forward to this trip was the aforementioned EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival. EPCOT often has lovely gardens anyway, but they pull out all the stops during the Festival. You like character topiaries? Then you have to visit Disney World in the spring.
This is just a small sample of how amazing the place looks during the Festival. Tinkerbell's Fairy friend here is giving visitors a "21 Butterfly Salute" (um... yeah.) You can also see a hot air balloon that Tinkerbell built so that she could fly all over Neverland. (Don't ask why she needs a balloon when she's a Fairy who secretes magical dust that allows anything to fly -- oh, wait, they retconned that. Dammit, Disney, that's the worst Weaksauce Weakness since Green Lantern and the color yellow.)
Anyway, this is all in front of Tinkerbell and Friends' Butterfly Garden, where you can see all kinds of insect-friendly flowers...
...and occasional further proof that Disney still isn't used to dealing with the unpredictable whims of non-robot animals. (Linking picture just to be safe. Butterflies mating may not be safe for work... I can't decide whether it'd be weirder if it is or if it isn't safe for work.)
Don't you love it when life imitates "The Simpsons"?
And finally, the Pin Lanyard!!! I think the six-legged Mary Blair Mural sheep is my favorite (though it isn't as rare as I'd expected it would have been).
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Sketch of the day! How about some Spoonbills?
So, did everyone have a fun April Fool's Annual Day The Internet Is Useless?
By far, the most interesting parts of our trip to Disney World were the parts where we went to see attractions that had been closed down for some reason or other. In one case, the attraction's building was at least still in use. In the other... well, you'll see.
Many EPCOT fans around my age lament the closing of the Wonders of Life Pavilion. Heaven on Earth for a biology geek like myself, the building opened in 1989 and focused on health and fitness on one hand and anatomy and physiology on the other. It contained three major attractions, including a multimedia show directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale and the (at the time) most state-of-the-art motion simulator ride in the World. Walt Dated World, naturally, has many photographs of the building, attractions, and signage.
Normally, you cannot enter the Wonders of Life building as it has been shut down for almost five years now, hoping for a new sponsor. The building, thankfully, is still in use on very rare occasions. I noticed on EPCOT's special guide map for the Flower and Garden Festival that Wonders would be open under the name "Garden Town". It's only open on certain days, but I had to see it.
As you can see, the layout of the original building is mostly still intact, except that the murals along the rim of the dome have been painted over and most of the signage is gone -- but not all of it. The building was *just* similar enough to what I remembered that it was a little sad to explore it. I had some interesting conversations with the cast members working inside, that's for sure.
By far, the funniest was trying to convince the people who didn't remember this pavilion that this theater used to hold a film about the making of... something else. Rather, some-ONE else. Yes, there was an attraction in Walt Disney World where they discussed human reproduction. Still to be answered: Is the middle of an already overstimulating Disney World vacation really the best time to have this subject brought up, maybe for the very first time for some kids?
Now when we booked our trip, we got a little booklet of vouchers for various little fun things (as if there isn't enough to do in the theme parks already). The most interesting was the discount on a boat rental. We took a boat out onto Bay Lake and took a cruise around for a different perspective. And then we saw this island:
Pretty isn't it? Very lush and wild; not something you'd expect just a few minutes from Cinderella castle. It took us a minute to realize that what we were looking at was Discovery Island.
Another little slice of Heaven for the nature nut, this little island was a cult favorite for many guests. Walt Dated World recounts the strange history of the Island. For us, it was just plain wild to see what happened to this abandoned Disney attraction.
People, this is the real life Jurassic Park. (OK, Jurassic Park as depicted in the terrible sequels, but the point still stands.) Everything built by humans has been overtaken by the plants and the island is now ruled by dinosaurs (really). I didn't have any clear photographs of the various birds that have taken over the Island, but I did detect some smug smiles on the Black Vultures Condors...
Here's a sketch:
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Bonus: Here are some old photos I scanned in a long time ago. And I'm willing to bet they're from Discovery Island in it's heyday. Click for... bigger, but still blurry.
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I found out -I literally just found out through a random website run by an exhibitor- that Anime Boston is happening... today (and, well, the rest of this weekend.) I don't think I can skip Easter to attend this event, but I figured I should give my readers a head's up. Also, attendees, don't take your nerd rage out on random people from New Hampshire, OK?
By the way, last weekend had PAX East (I didn't even realize and, frankly, that seemed more up my ally than this weekend's con), the FIRST Robotics competition, and the Flower Show; next weekend is Boston Comicon. There are going to be some exhausted nerds in the northeast. I'd never expect all these events to run all at the same time.
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Hey remember when I said that the promotional photo of the guy playing Aang in the not-exactly-hotly-anticipated live-action "Avatar" movie was everything anyone would ever have to say about film adaptations of animated series conveniently summed up by one picture? Yeah. I now have an even *better* promotional picture that will handily sum up everything anyone would ever have to say about film adaptations of animated series. Here it is. I will warn you, I am linking it instead of embedding it because it at worst will make your eyes bleed and at best will make you just... just not care anymore. (Plus, it is bound to scare some children.)
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It's Easter Weekend! Celebrate with a three-part review ofa thematically appropriate movie trilogy at The Realm!---- Feederwatch Friday!
Admit it, you're going to miss this.
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 1
American Robin 1
Song Sparrow 2
House Sparrow 11
