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20 July 2007
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Comic of the Moment Pages 8 and 9 of Seaside Retreat!  
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EventsMy various books and I will be at the Portland Zine Symposium August 11-12, and also the Stumptown Comics Fest September 29-30, also in Portland, Oregon. At the Zine Sympsoium, I will once again be doing a workshop on how to make zines with open source software, including the Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, and my own software Laidout. Hopefully, this time I will not get really sick just before hand and come totally unprepared.
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24 June 2007
Comic of the Moment
A couple more pages of Seaside Retreat!
17 June 2007
Parkour Video
I spent most of the last 3 weeks figuring out how to make video on my Linux machine. Took a long time to hit on the right combination of software to use. I had never really done any video other than animated gifs on my machine before. Just in case anyone wonders, I ended up using a combination of Kino, Kdenlive, Blender, Ardour, Rosegarden, Fluidsynth, and ffmpeg.
Anyway, here's the result:
3 June 2007
Laidout Version 0.07
Ok, so I've still been a little lazy with the cartooning lately, and here's why: Version 0.07 of Laidout is now released. I finally got my version of "mesh gradients" more or less working. It is still in many ways "less" rather than "more", but it works enough to make a quick monkey anyway.
27 May 2007
Comic of the Moment
Ok, so I've been a little lazy with the cartooning the last couple weeks. I've been trying to make patch editing in Laidout work better, but it's an ornery beast. Anyway, here's page 5 of Seaside Retreat.
6 May 2007
Cartoons of the Moment
I spent the week on non-cartoon projects, so here's a couple of old rabble rousing ones from 2001.
29 April 2007
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Comic of the Moment
Here are the pages 3 and 4 of a short story I've been working on called Seaside Retreat. 
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 Also this last week, I finally released another version of Laidout into the ether. Laidout is my desktop publishing software I've writing for quite a while to help me make my art books. |
22 April 2007
Comic of the Moment
Here are the first two pages of a short story I've been working on called Seaside Retreat.
In other news, I'll have a new release of Laidout by the end of the week.
14 April 2007
I apologize for not posting anything last weekend. I've been busy with this, that, and the other.
In any case, here is the
Comic of the Moment
Here is the eleventh brand new page of Weak Daze.
To start at the beginning, click here instead.
31 March 2007
Comic of the Moment
Here is the tenth brand new page of Weak Daze, just in time for April Fool's day.
To start at the beginning, click here instead.
25 March 2007
Comic of the Moment
Here is the ninth brand new page of Weak Daze wackiness, for your amusement.
To start at the beginning, click here instead.
(25 March 2007)
Comic of the Moment
Here is the eigth brand new page of Weak Daze, for your amusement.
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Spherical Panoramas I've been making spherical panoramas lately that one can fold into a polyhedron like the one shown. I use my program Laidout to arrange 30 separate photos (taken with a special camera mount I made) and put them onto a page that can be printed out, cut, and folded up. Click on the picture to go to where you can download and make polyhedra pictures of a couple of scenic Portland spots. 
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Laidout I recently had the fifth allegedly stable release of Laidout, which now works with preview images. Laidout is my desktop publishing program for Linux that I've been in the process of making for a few years now. I use it to lay out my cartoon books. It can lay out pictures and lines in folded booklets, and even arbitrary polyhedra. No text yet, but I'm working on it. It's now a project on sourceforge.net!
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Consumption Issue Number 12, Stuff from Summer 2005 to Summer 2006 
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2 March 2007
Comic of the Moment
Here is the seventh brand new page of Weak Daze, for your amusement.
24 Feb 2007
Added one more old one to the Old Cartoon gallery. Next week will be an all new page of Weak Daze. I swear.
17 Feb 2007
Cartoons of the Moment
Added three really old ones to the Old Cartoon gallery.
The Stumptown Comics Fest has come and gone, and
I still have to finish compiling Volume III of Consumption! By Christmas, maybe?
The Portland Zine Symposium this year was a lot of fun, and some people even showed up to my Open Source Software for Artists workshops (emphasizing zine making)! There were a large variety of zines and other self published/diy projects. I tend to favor the ones resembling comics, and as such my favorites included the nicely drawn Capacity, Dash Shaw's stuff, Jesse Reklaw's Slow Wave, and Alec Longstreth's Phase 7 (Alec also co-wrote the Dvorak Zine).
I was also very happy to meet Lily who had a very creative application of my artwork. Send me postcards!
Sometime in good old 2006
Tinkering With The Gimp
I've made a patch which mostly even works that modifies the Gimp
to have transparent previews when using transform tools such as rotate and scale.
Previously, the preview was always opaque, and difficult to accurately place transformed data.
Ultimately, I intend to transplant my image squishing tool from
Laidout into the Gimp. This will most likely not be
finished for a while, especially since I now have to assemble Volume 3 of Consumption and finish up a little comics
mini befor the Stumptown Comics Fest in October, but you can keep track of my progress
on this page or via
this rss feed.
On the page, you can also get my vertical text html rollover generating python gimp plugin. Say that 5 times fast.
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