“Most people are killed by sharks.”
Sweet! Shark Fear, Shark Awareness online archives… (pdf format. If you have windows you should use foxit reader rather than that awful adobe stuff…)
Printing…
I think I need to read up on intaglio printing. I wonder what kind of tools I need… I’ve only ever worked with techniques where the ink was on the surface, but the test prints from the brass plates pretty clearly indicate that I’d get a better result putting the ink in the bite…
Stumptown…
Another Stumptown Comics fest come and gone. I met a lot of very nice folks who asked me lots of questions and seemed to enjoy my work, so that was cool. My tablemates Toonlet and Serena had a good Stumptown too, as far as I can tell.
Spent a lot of the time being tired, because I was up too late on Friday, and then last night I stayed up till 4 am making some new etchings to use for the cover to Shot to Death.* The idea was that on Sunday I could answer “yes” when people asked me if I printed from my plates, but although I got a bunch of test prints done, my plan to have issues to hand out to people was foiled by some computer files that seem to have mysteriously vanished. Scanning and recoloring will be required. I apologize to anyone if I seemed a little extra surly.
There was cake on Sunday, because it was two days before my birthday. The responsible parties have been thanked/are full of bombs.
*This means that Shot to Death is done and there will be updates over the next few days…