here are the next 2 pages...

i added some new pieces to the illustrations page. enjoy!

SO. saturday night i agreed to be in jasna's student film. i played a lesbian named captain cletus the lesser, and i only had one line. i was in four scenes tho. it wasn't porn.

anyway, so we were filming for about 8 or 9 hours on saturday evening, and since most of movie making is sitting around waiting for scenes to be framed or light to be measured or something, i got some drawling done. here are the first three pages of the ouija project, so far.

in most romance languages, the word for easter comes from the word pesach, the hebrew word for passover. in germanic languages such as english tho, the word's etymological origins are a little murky, but many think it comes from eostre, the anglo-saxon goddess of spring, fertility, and renewal of life. which would make sense, becoz her festival would be about the same time of year as easter, coinciding with the equinox, and the return of life to the forests and fields.

which got me thinking, the winter's been pretty stagnant, like it usually is. but in the last few weeks, i've been offered a spot in an art show, given a shot at doing a music video for new order, decided to find a new apartment in a new neighborhood, started collaborations with two different artists, started planning a brand new comic book convention for chicago, found two new freelance clients, and begun work on a graphic novel.

life is returning to the forests and the fields. :)

oh! also: i got the year in review newsletter from treehouse animal foundation yesterday. there's an article in there about the nine most miraculous kitty recovery stories from 2004, and mrs. cheng (bella) is one of them! they printed a photo of her and everything. we feel very famous. except they made a mistake and said she'd been adopted by a staff member. which i'm not. but still. hooray for the miracle kitty!

ok. sorry about that. are the dancing lepremachauns distracting? :)

here is a smarter st. patty's day related posting: go read the legend of oisin and st. patrick, it's pretty awesome. oisin married a girl who lived in one of those villages that apparently used to litter the irish landscape, you know the ones, where everyone's young and happy forever but the village only appears once every century or so. anyway, he'd been in this magical village for centuries, by normal-world standards, and one day he leaves, to find that ireland has completely changed, and been converted to christianity. eventually he runs into st. patrick himself, and they have a long conversation that does a nice job of embodying the conflict between irish paganism and christianity.

in the meantime, when was the last time you went and checked out shortpants? there'll be more gag panel challenges there by monday!

Here's a very long overdue portrait of austin musician mark rubin, who was kind enough to send me some awesome gypsy music. he rocks. :) click it for a bigger one.



oh! and here are the other portraits i did from the accordion festival last summer.




PS: the moral of the story is that if you send me presents, i will draw a picture of you.