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lentil
16:32 / 24.10.02
I'm done, man, done done done. I wasn't exaggerating when when I said i didn't even have enough money for photocopies at the moment. But my better half gets paid tomorrow so it'll be available for all to see very soon.
 
 
Sax
17:10 / 06.11.02
Bumping this up in case anyone from the Conversation comes down for a nosey.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
19:02 / 06.11.02
What was un-PC about it, you arse?
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
23:47 / 06.11.02
I've been ever so hesitant to get in on this game, but...what the hell. This is looking like a big load of fun on toast, and the stuff produced thus far is fantabulous. Although I'm never pleased w/my artistic abilities, I think I'd like to give this a go. And I'll be re-entering studio classes (again! at last!) next semester, so maybe I could commit to a piece a semester as my art education progresses? Eek. Visual arts equivalent of stage fright setting in at the thought of it...
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
00:47 / 07.11.02
P.S. So long as, for the moment, you lot are content w/someone who loves to draw but who is, for all intents and purposes, self-taught and probably a bit questionable in the talent department...
 
 
moriarty
01:43 / 07.11.02
Sigh. Looks like there's no escape.

Things are really rolling. I asked my brother for help on the website. I'm also going to get my ex-roommate Krew if he can help out. We'll be planning the site for the next month, and all three of us are free of school and employment for the month of December. After that, we'll be in tweaking mode. I'm thinking that if we have a decent backlog ready we can go live as of March or thereabouts. Maybe we can do a preview with Sax and Lentil's Valentine's story the month before.

My brother has also caught the bug and is currently locked up in his room working out his Shifter story.

I have a couple other surprises I'm working on that I'm keeping under wraps for fear of jinxing them.

When we know we're ready to roll, I'm hoping to really publicize, even outside of the 'net. I've been looking for an excuse to poster around my new home. I was even thinking of making up fake flyers for the fictitious club from "Name's Not Down" and passing them around.

For now, it's good that we have a core group of creators to establish the Shifterverse. If everyone's serious about a potential "real" comic, then we should hold off until we have enough quality stories to fill something like a four issue series. I think it would be ginchy if we pulled it off, though.

Anyways, you all kick ass. For real.
 
 
Sax
06:14 / 07.11.02
Sounds good, Moriarty. I'm getting all excited, now.

And Flyboy - Un-PC fears were simple Barbe-anxiety about white hetrosexual blokes making weak puns about menstruation in comics. And the fact that all Jenny's suitors were male. Although, thinking about it, I suppose the monster could be female.
 
 
lentil
12:31 / 07.11.02
sez Sax: Sounds good, Moriarty. I'm getting all excited, now.

Yeah boy! I'm feeling some momentum on this thing. I'd like to echo Sax's request that we do this thing proper, on paper and that. Good point from moriarty about doing this seriously, I certainly agree that we should wait until we have a lot of quality work rather than rushing something out, although getting four issues together might mean that we're sitting on completed work for a long time.

Groovy. Well, I'm certainly up for jumping back in with a new story. I think I'm still working out my comic style, as well as the process of collaboration, so I expect to achieve a cumulative improvement in subsequent contributions. Sax, if you'd like to dance again... or maybe we should shift the teams around a bit? Open to suggestion here.

And a thought I had the other day: I reckon we should ask the Fool to do a cover. I don't want his Jenny design to go to waste.

Deric: Jump in!
 
 
Captain Zoom
01:37 / 08.11.02
Anyone heard hide or hair of kegboy of late? I sent him a script ages ago, but I've not seen him around recently. Any artist wanna have a look?

Though I think I erased all my un-backed-up writing yesterday, so I don't actually know where the script is.

Y'know, I'm all for constant states of evolution and such, but I'd really like to see this sucker one day. Looking forward to the website.

Zoom.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
22:40 / 08.11.02
In talks w/impulsivelad w/r/t a Shifta' story sometime in the near future. Have already received a script, in fact (!!!). Not sure when I will be able to get underway properly, but hopefully soon.

Here is a collection of some of my "lovely" half-finished, half-arsed drawrings that I scanned in for Mr. Impulsive, but that I will share w/you lot, as well (you lucky lot, you...). A mere sample of the flava that is to come ("Is that cilantro? I hate cilantro.")...
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
23:32 / 08.11.02
You're clearly a very disturbed young man, Deric. Good to have you on board.
 
 
Persephone
01:30 / 09.11.02
Wow, Deric. I like that series of three panels in the middle, the dark-colored ones. And that froggy thing underneath those!
 
 
Tamayyurt
14:47 / 09.11.02
Disturbed? That's what I like! And I hope my script does his art justice. If anything, I'll do another... I can crank out these mini-comics like a queen bee cranks out drones!

Oh and Deric, if those are sketches I'd love to see you finished work!
 
 
lentil
23:24 / 09.11.02
Deric, that looks excellent. That vacant - looking gurning thing near the bottom is absolute genius. Can't wait to see what emerges.

Rah rah rah for the Shifter team.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
15:46 / 11.11.02
Thanks for the words of support. That eases my nerves a bit, I must say!

Most of that stuff was pretty much tossed off in a matter of a few minutes. I do most of my drawing in class when I should be taking notes, while drinking at the café, etc., meaning I rarely sit down for extended periods of time w/the intention of drawing. I've just in the last couple of months started to experiment w/inking over my penciled stuff, so I can't really guarantee how my Shifter pages are going to turn out. But then again, I rarely spend as much time on my drawing (w/the exception of the panels that Persephone referenced) as I'm planning to on the Shifter pages. That should work out in my favor. I hope.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
22:10 / 14.11.02
Nothing terribly special, but here are some quick character sketches I've done this week. A half-assed preview of sorts before the work proper gets underway.
 
 
lentil
12:55 / 15.11.02
Cool. The top middle's my fave, with the beatnik scarf one at the bottom left a close second.
 
 
The Strobe
09:12 / 25.11.02
Hey folks. Just thought I'd pop in... someone said something to me, and I had this idea to try my hand at writing a comic... and I so I've basically got this pretty good Jenny/Shifter idea buzzing around my head now. Will try and get it down on paper soonish. And I cannot draw for shit, so thought I would announce intent here.

Anyone interested? I might have synopsis/some script written tonight or tomorrow, possibly. And I might need to run some ideas past moriarty, because he seems to have the best handle on the character and her limitations. But yeah. I've got an idea. It's not bad.
 
 
Sax
14:46 / 09.01.03
(Politely but firmly...)

Well?
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
23:31 / 09.01.03
Well. This is inconsequential, granted, but I just got some photos back from a trip to Prague last November, and here's me in what can only be described as a 'jazz bar'. The absinthe had recently kicked in...



... and I was thinking "jenny everywhere's everywhere, right...? so..... if she's everywhere.... she should be here... on the wall..... this wall...... hang on.... there..... someone take a photo, I bet this looks well smart...."
 
 
mixmage
00:51 / 10.01.03
gimme link to scalable stencil - I welcome Jenny to Birmigham UK!
 
 
mixmage
00:52 / 10.01.03
hmmm... where else can I take her to in 2003?
 
 
sleazenation
07:06 / 10.01.03
that pic just *has* to beused on he jenny everywhere biog page.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:05 / 11.01.03
Nelson Evergreen = Comics Rock God!
 
 
lentil
11:48 / 11.01.03
But I thought you said he looked like the guy from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs......
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:16 / 11.01.03
I was either a) lying b) deluded, c) drunk or all of the above. It happens.
 
 
Sax
06:31 / 13.01.03
Lentil, I'm putting the finishing touches to a new Jenny story ("NOT A D REAM! NOT A HOAX! NOT AN IMAGINIARY TALE!"") if you're interested in sharpening the old pencil...
 
 
Sax
06:32 / 13.01.03
That'll be IMAGINARY tale.
 
 
lentil
11:22 / 13.01.03
ooh, gosh, Sax, I hate to say this, but Impulsivelad has kinda gazumped you, he sent me a script a couple of weeks back which I'm going to start next month. Plus I've been sitting on an idea for a solo piece of Shifting Lentilism for a while now and am eager to get started on that.

I'm really sorry man, I didn't know you had anything in the pipeline.
 
  

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