not dead.

Right. I am definitely still alive. Over the last couple days the “wtf are you dead” emails have started trickling in, and no, no. Not dead, not yet. In fact, quite the opposite. Things are kiiiiiiiinda awesome.

After months and months and months of my tireless campaigning, Leslie is finally here in Portland. I plan to do whatever it takes to keep her here, up to and including hobbling her. So that’s been good. I’ve been squiring her about town, trying to show her all that Portland has to offer to a young, crafty, sassy, indie lass such as herself. And also making her watch a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the evenings.

The other big thing that’s been going on is all the prepress crap I’ve had to do for the second anthology we’re putting out at Puddleville, the graphic novel/comics group I help run. It turned into a biiiit of a shitstorm, but the more ridiculous grunt work is now complete; all I have left are the covers and a couple last minute finicky touch-ups and hopefully by next week it will all be DONE. DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE. And even though all this stuff is kind of a pain, I do enjoy it — tooling around on photoshop for hours on end, making obsessive, minute changes really appeals to the crazy in me — and I think the final product is gonna be worth it. I’ll put up a link to it in a month or so when we finally set up our online store, etc.

In the coming weeks I need to 1) move, 2) whip up a submission for another anthology, 3) finish up my own minicomic(s), 4) put together a for-real website/online portfolio, 5) continue to be reasonably physically active, and 6) make some money. Not in that order. My offline existence is taking over — and I know that’s supposed to be a good thing, and yeah, it is, it’s fun, it’s good, I’m enjoying myself — but I’d like to figure out a way to work some more good ‘ol fashioned youtubin and stumblin back into it. I don’t want my ash-covered computer to get too lonely.

ALSO. I finally put the license plates on my car today, a mere three and a half months after the date of purchase. New leaf? Consider yourself TURNED OVER.
[Image Source: Portfolio of photographer Benjamin Krain.]