In a few short days, I shall put away my store-clerk mantle and resume work at Powerhouse Animation Studios to the purpose of kickass character animation. I can't wait

In other news, Capstone Comics Publishing (and by association, myself) won't be hitting the Dallas Star Wars Con after all due to some 11th-hour misfortunes. Sorry if there was anyone who cared to see us

Still drawin'. I fear I can't show much yet, but ohhh I'm drawin'. I hope I can show my efforts to you guys someday soon!

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[added 10/24]

I almost forgot to tell you guys I'm going to be a guest artist at the Capstone Comics Halloween Blowout, October 1st at 2121 Parmer Lane in Austin! Owner John Mitchell has lost his mind -- Come Halloween, one day only, his store shall open with the biggest sales of the year and bringing in guests and players from all around! Come one, come all! Shake hands with the master statuette-sculptor Clayburn Moore! Get your picture taken with Thor and Darth Dude! Score some crazy-cheap comics! Watch in awe as myself and other artists doodle yet another Batman for prepubescents! There will be fun! There will be cameraderie! There will be cake!

(the cake is a lie.)

Join us!

Okay, a few developments: I've managed to find myself working on a comic series, Reichenbach for Capstone Comics Publishing; I'm designing a website (possibly two); and I'm illustrating a children's book -- With the possibility of a further six :\ Naturally, all have deadlines. I'd be a lot more secure about all this if not for the fact that I have to work it all around the full-time day-job I just started -- But then, if not for said job I'll starve. Guess that leaves no time whatsoever for commissions (which is okay; no-one expressed interest anyway ), and not really any semblance of a personal life.

And I've let my messages-list pile up. Again. Sorry guys

Assuming I survive to late October, and I can swing a three-day RTO without getting fired, I hope to hit the Star Wars Fan Days convention in Dallas with the Capstone crew. Come on up and say hi

It's true!

[added 8/17/09]

By the by, it looks like I won't have internet access for about the next week. Sorry if I'm even later than usual responding to things.

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Continued from 's journal...

Comment and I will:

a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
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Just had a curious thought while I was glancing at the DA front page a minute ago -- Cultures are remembered by the art they leave behind. Three thousand years from now, suppose an archeologist uncovers the stuff we're producing now. They'll see our furries, and our superheroes, and our piles and piles of homoerotic art. In some cases they'll find combinations of all the above. They'll see our fan-arts of videogame characters. They'll see our Tolkein fantasies and our Shirow sci-fi's. But in three thousand years, with the map rewritten a dozen times over and all pop-culture context long forgotten, what will they make of all these things?

Will we be known as worshippers of the Nintendo Pantheon, praying for the Hero of Time to come again to save us from our tribulations? Will we have harbored spirit-animal identities? Will we have been the great, forgotten culture that raised glittering skyscrapers, communed with alien life, and mastered space-travel and the creation of artificial humans? Will we be the next Ancient Romans and be reknowned for our jaw-droppingly bizarre sexual practices? Will the Silmarillion be a holy text?

Me, I'm banking on a bright future for those perplexed archeologists learning anew how their ancestors wore spandex to channel aspects of The Super Man.

In other news, Photoshop is sitting idle with a neglected landscape painting I'm supposed to working on instead of typing this.