Must not droop in envy...must not droop in envy...maybe droop isn't the right word. Droop is too often used in conjunction with penises.

Glad you had a spiffy time!=)

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How in the hells does that chart work? I understand the terms, but I don't know why you'd need a chart of 'em.

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Well, um, I watched The Iron Giant and I bet that was totally as cool as your dinner...sniff, sob....

As I choke down the my tears of jealousy let me do the right thing and say "thanks for sharing". This is an interesting life you lead.

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Oh great, when Bill draws all over the table, he's considered an idiot, but when Scott McCloud does it, he's considered a genius.

*minces sarcastically*

Feh! Tonight, i'm gonna vent my misdirected rage by dolling up my copies of my Scott's books in wee little sailor suits and beat them senseless with a wire coathanger.

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As I just wrote in my blog, I spent the entire evening feeling like the conversation was flying over my head, too! Everyone was talking about all these exciting webcomics, and I was like "who? what? when?"

Anyhow, it was really fun meeting you - and nice seeing your comics. Shared hit really looked great in person - the colors are so vivid! I'm gonna try those trimarker things. (You should buttonhole or email Jenn (http://www.jennworks.com) to talk to her about scanning - she knows everything there is to know about it). I'm glad you enjoyed my stuff, too. Hope we run into each other again someday.

Barry (http://www.amptoons.com/blog/)

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Claire? CLAIRE!!! My names Claire too!!!!

*blushes*
sorry...that was random... yeah. ^-^

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You can all eat my shorts.

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Standing next to Barry has always made me pose like a goon. He just has this aura.

Nice to know as we grow older, some things never change.

Jenn M Lee

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Cool cool. I'm jealous. Really. Well, at least it's nice to know I'm not the only one to defile...er...draw on the restaurant placemats.

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ooooh! cartoonists!!!
ooooh!! pictures !!!!!!
ooooooooh!!! DINNER!!!!!!!!!

Score one for living vicariously through Livejournal! hoo-HA!!!
;-)

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Did you ask Scott where fart jokes were on his comic creator's mindset chart? :)

Cool photos and story!

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Well. It all depends on how you handle the fart jokes.

If you feel that the fart joke is everything, and must well up from unside you unmediated; that you must put your skills and talents solely in service of the fart joke--then you're an animist.

If you feel that the truly important this is determining what a fart joke is, what it can do, the forms it can take and the sentiments it can express, if you want to take fart jokes to places they've never been before--then you're a formalist.

If you want to polish your fart jokes, nail the timing, learn the techniques of fart farceurs of days gone by, digging into and bringing to life the repertoire of those vaudevillian petomanes, or just making sure you are the most technically accomplished teller of fart jokes in the world--then you're a classicist.

And if you feel that fart jokes are the truth, man, that you're gonna tell fart jokes raw and rough and whenever you damn well want, because people need to know this about the world, they can't turn away from it, convention doesn't matter, just say what you mean--then you're an iconoclast.

See? It's not so much the telling of the fart jokes as your relationship with them that matters.

--k (http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/).

PS: Apparently, Kevin and I were trying out for the latest Law & Order spinoff when that photo was shot. Yoiks.

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Law & Order: Special geeks unit

Officer Manley: Mr. McCloud, would you mind explaining these diagrams to us? Talk slow McCloud, the wrong words could land you in serious trouble and ripe for parody.

Officer Hanna: You'll have to forgive my partner, he never sees things in black and white, we just want to hear your side of this, we just want to find the truth and hoped you can help us. I think you can help us.

Officer Manley: I just find it a little odd how easily you can compartmentalize the entire comic field in two four little groups, doesn't that seem a bit easy? I find it easy. Maybe you’d like to explain your little diagram to a jury?



I painted Kip as the tough cop. His last name is Manley, and mine is Hanna, he wins.

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Oh, thanks, Kip, that makes so much more sense.

I kept looking at that diagram and thinking, "Scott's never steered me wrong before, so ought to give him the benefit of the doubt, but how in the hell did he manage to make a 4 quadrant model of the brain out of form, anime, class warfare, and iconic abstraction?"

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Woo -- I've met three, maybe four of these people! (I think maybe only one remembers -- but I have photos too1! I need to dig those up and scan them.)

The rest of you will have to wait your turn.

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Duuuuuude, which ones?

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In the distant, misty passages of ancient history (i.e., the early nineties) I worked with Kip on a mini-series called Necronomicon. At least one day, he dragged along Barry, and I think Jenn.

Scott I'm less sure of -- I was in our local comics store (Amherst, at the time) and overheard a conversation, and asked if he was that Scott. He said he was, but I'm since I'm not very good at recognizing people, I'm not convinced it wasn't someone pulling my leg.

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I remember visiting Kip working on Necronomicon, anyhow. Too bad they never produced it... I wonder if Kip is allowed to web-publish the screenplay he wrote?

As for Scott, he used to live in Amherst, so it's plausible that you ran into him there.

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OK, maybe I've met five people in that picture. (Or more?) I was the guy running around taking pictures and doing "making of" footage. Alas, I don't have any of that, I just have the stills and the trailer. I think I have the screenplay floating around (we all had a hand in that) and I know I sent a copy of the trailer (with some great Kip-acting-crazy shots) to the guy that runs the NecronomiCon in Massachusetts.

The legend continues!

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Oh, wait, that was an anonymouse.

And yeah, I knew Scott lived in the area (with Kip, if I recall) at the time, so I knew it was at least possible.

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Jeeze, Erika, your LiveJournal's being colonized by the nonexistent tome of the mad Abd al Hazrad. Read from it at your peril!

Glenn: we were all in Amherst at roughly the same times, but Scott lived in a house not too far from Halstead's apartment, with his wife Ivy and Zoe and Maddie, their dogs. Though they might have enjoyed crashing at our madhouse (for a time), we just didn't have the room.

Also: the screenplay Barry's referring to is the second Necronomicon screenplay that I wrote with Amy Glynn for Halstead and Co., once we all discovered we'd ended up out here. I don't think it ever got past the let's-wave-it-at-the-venture-cap-guy-and-see-if-he-bites stage. I still have a couple of copies of that second screenplay kicking around--overwritten, and with way too much dialogue (I likes talkin'), but there's still some good bits in there. One or two of them mine, even.

But: man, was that original miniseries thing fun. No-budget filmmaking in New England, ah; doing the horror-and-humor genrefuck; yanking Lovecraft's purple prose kicking and screaming into digital video magic. Whee.

Just don't ever show anybody that trailer again.

--k (http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/).

(We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion of comics, gender, kids these days, random Disney lyrics, artistic flatulence, and pants.)

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Huh, I didn't realize you'd been dealing with that crew after I dropped out of contact with them. So the anonymouse was Barry? A-ha! I had no idea there was a second script getting developed. Huh. Oddly enough, I think I heard reference to Amy the other day, but it was fairly oblique and obfuscated. Then again, maybe it wasn't her.

I'm afraid the trailer is out of my hands at this point. Just count yourself lucky I don't get around to digitizing it and putting it on the web. And yep, that was a fun shoot. Anecdotes a-plenty.

Why doesn't it rhyme?

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