Oscars 2008

Well, my personal favorite There Will Be Blood didn't win Best Picture. But at least Daniel Day-Lewis got the well-deserved Best Actor. I was afraid they were gonna give one of those "You sucked in this, but you've done good stuff before" oscars to Johnny "I look like a fourteen-year-old goth on a Southern plantation in 1860" Depp.

There, I said it.

Anyway, I'm glad that didn't happen.

I'm such a sucker for Hollywood. I was weeping ten minutes into the ceremony. And I'm not ashamed.

I don't think I need to tell you why this is one of my new favorite Achewoods ever.

Feb 20's page:

I'm not sure why I think this is funny, but I really, really do.

I'm the first to admit that Good Crook was not written as a webcomic. I wrote it as a single book with a definite end. I hope it doesn't seem too slowly paced. I'm a little nervous to talk about this stuff here because I don't want to seem too down on my own work. I'm not; I'm very proud of this, but I do have some worries as I imagine you have to in order to hopefully start improving. (I'm also sometimes very doubtful of my skills as a colorist, and just generally transferring a page to the screen. It always looks to me like something's lost in the process. Oh well.)
I've got a decent bunch of readers right now- I'm pretty much where I sort of wanted and expected to be after the first few months of the comic. We're sort of nearing the hundredth page now, and I hope to get the comic out there a little more. I'm not totally sure how to do that, but... wish me luck. All of you who read, thank you! And those of you who have talked about and linked to the comic- it means a lot to me, more than I can say.
If you read, please don't hesitate to tell me what you think! I'd love to talk to you guys.
I hope this post doesn't seem negative. It isn't! I feel like my life is going pretty well right now and I guess I'm sort of trying to transfer a little more of that to my comics. Or something.
Anyway, there was a recent bunch of arrests of mob bosses from the Gambino family, and one of the guys they got owned the restaurant a block away from my house. We always called it "the mafia restaurant." It's weirdly satisfying to find out we were right.

There's a new picture for Valentine's Day up at the top of the page there. I drew that entirely while watching The Graduate, which is a pretty good Valentine's Day movie if you ask me. But in my "Viewer's Cut", Ben runs to the chapel at the end, bangs on the glass, yells "MRS. ROBINSONNN!" and then they run away together.

I mean, come on. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

I also just want to say that panel 4 there is pretty much the perfect Jackie moment. Getting seriously offended when someone doesn't believe an obvious lie.

Just saying.

This is one of the only times where I drew the expression EXACTLY how I wanted it.

ENJOY.