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As I mentioned a few times on Twitter, I’m currently in Amsterdam on a research trip for my upcoming comic, Nightingale. =D
I can’t believe more stories aren’t set in Amsterdam. This city is pure magic.
Took a 70 minute canal ride around the city, got a lot of great reference photos- hoping to take a tour of/sneak into some tall buildings tomorrow, to get some rooftop/superhero angle shots.
Red Light district! Lololol
I also found the PERFECT Sofie’s house:
More pics coming soon! It takes forever to upload from this stolen wireless. >_>
After having dinner at a delicious Thai restaurant, my bro and I headed over to Boom Chicago, comedy improv club. I remembered them since befriending Heather Anne Campbell, an extremely talented and hilarious lady who was part of the cast during their Vienna show.
During the show, I was picked when they asked the audience if anyone had a business card. They gave me a short interview, asking what my job was, what was this business about Lady Gaga on my shirt (I was wearing this one. XD) Then,one of the actors impersonated me as if I were a Dutch politician. (Dutch politics were the theme of that night’s show.)
As if my entire evening hadn’t already been made by that awesomeness, on our way “home” to the hotel (which is very close to the red light district) I saw some strippers poledancing to Lady Gaga songs in a brightly lit window. I am truly among my people here.
Tomorrow we’re having breakfast at a place called “PANCAKES!”. No, I’m not exaggerating, that’s really their name… exclamation point, and all. XD
Hopefully I can catch an orchestral concert or a ballet while I’m here. A Nightingale research trip just wouldn’t be complete without a trip to the Concertgebauw. More updates soon!
Guiding Light by `Yamino on deviantART
Sneak peak of an unfinished, POSSIBLE future comic panel. Sometimes i get ideas for scenes and just sketch them out to see how they look, and I really liked how Young!Catharine turned out in this one. Note that she is wearing a novice uniform, like Claire’s.
By far the best of the trilogy. I’m hoping to see it again this week, if I can find someone to go with- the English version here is always practically empty, so I don’t want to be crying in a theater all by myself! (Believe me, you WILL cry when you see it.)
…I remember when Toy Story 2 first came out, and I made my own Jesse doll because I couldn’t find any decent official ones for sale. I wish I’d saved it, or at least taken pictures- it was a pretty impressive doll, with real cotton-stuffed cloth clothes I sewed myself (probably the first and last time I ever bothered trying to sew anything) and hands and a head I sculpted out of clay. It almost makes me want to try making one again now, but I don’t have that kind of time. XD;
I mean, just look at this screenshot. HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THEM.
Ever since that 8-Bit Alejandro song was posted, I’ve been thinking about how AWESOME it would be if Lady Gaga had her own videogame, or at least made a cameo in one. Just think of all the videogame powers she could have:
- Monster Claw- Her basic short range attack.
- Disco Stick – short range melee capability, long range light-based attacks
- "Sparkle Bra" - Medium to long range fire-shooting tits. Clearly would be the fan-favorite move, right after:
- Gun Bra! - Like "Sparkle Bra", only more powerful. Requires a more difficult combo to use.
- Video Shades – Perhaps giving her the ability to momentarily hypnotize her opponent.
- Poison – Maybe she’d offer the opponent a sandwich, only to cheekliy flash the poison bottle after they’ve taken a bite out of it
- Poker face – She throws a pack of cards like shuriken.
- Paparazzi - Cameramen appear out of nowhere, and snap blinding photos of the opponent, causing minor damage and momentarily stunning them
SUPER ATTACKS:
- Bailout – Gaga pulls a Telephone out of her hair, dials. A moment later, Honey B drives through and runs over the opponent with the Pussywagon, Gaga high-fives her as she drives by.
- Monster Call – An extremely powerful and difficult "Desperation" move. A giant anglerfish chews and eventually spits out the opponent.
- Twitterbomb – Gaga takes out her iPhone and tweets "Help, Monsters!" and a million tweet messages rain on the opponent.
And of course, her winning slogan? "I’m a free bitch, baby."
It would be pretty funny if she had a random scream attack too, like in that Youtube video we’ve all seen of her performing "Pokerface" live where she suddenly goes "AAAAAAHH~~!."
A move based on the hermaphrodite rumor would be pretty funny/awesome too, but I couldn’t think of anything witty.There are so many possibilities. What other abilities would she have?
I’ll probably do a live stream of my progress on this if I work on it tomorrow. <3
It’s been fun stretching the fashion side of my brain. I feel a lot more comfortable designing costumes and clothes now than I did a year ago. Although even then I remember my teacher giving me an A- on my notebook in which I was designing Sister Claire characters, complaining that I needed “More normal clothes!”
….SCREW NORMAL CLOTHES. I’LL BE FABULOUS IF I WANT TO! >8O
Jeremy “Sweetwater” Mullins was my webcomics professor at SCAD. Exactly one year ago, he fell off a cliff while hiking in New York, and died at the very young age of 31. Today marks the first anniversary of the death of the best teacher that ever was.
I was in a 2 hour long car drive with my mom yesterday, and I spent a good chunk of it talking about Sweetwater. You know some some people ask themselves “What would Jesus do?” Whenever I make any decisions regarding my webcomic, marketing, etc, I always think “What would Sweetwater do?”
Sometimes I wish I could have been at his funeral to get proper closure like all his other students. It really threw me a curveball, everything happened while I was so far away, I just couldn’t connect with it. Hiking? My pudgy, nerdy Sweetwater, HIKING!? It didn’t even sound like anything he would ever do! When people started posting about it on Facebook (which is how I found out) I was convinced they had it all wrong. It had to be another Jeremy Mullins from Savannah.
Even a year later I still get the feeling he’s still there at SCAD, waiting for me to take his Master’s class like I’d promised. Days after his death, I had dreams where he would visit me and crack up over what a huge prank he’d pulled on you guys, and how he was going to make a huge comic about it on his site, Sweetwaterisanasshole.com.
Instead of returning to SCAD, I’ll be doing a somewhat related Master’s in the UK this fall. I doubt a single day will go by when I don’t think about him and strive to make him proud. In many ways, he has completely changed my life.
I first started work on Sister Claire in his class, and I also discussed the early ideas for Nightingale with him. We created my portfolio site sitting together in a cramped library one afternoon. His enthusiasm and encouragement helped me get the courage to self-publish online after every editor I had spoken to told me to “forget about” working on the comics I had planned.
I can honestly say I would not be the same person without his teaching, humor, and friendship. And for that, I will be forever grateful.
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