Today’s score: Stamina Fail. Parenting Win. Husband Fail.

Sandra told me WEEKS ago that her short called “Stories That Bind” was up at The Lorelei Signal, an online magazine. I was supposed to link you to it BEFORE it vanished into the archives.

That happens on October 1st. See, honey? I didn’t wait too long!

Background: I’ve hiked the summit of Mt. Timpanogas half a dozen times, and done another half-dozen hikes to the Timpanogas basin. These were all when I was forty pounds lighter and eighteen years younger.

Jen Contino over at The Pulse was nice enough to do an interview with me (Von Allan). It's right here.

Lately, I’ve had something that’s been weighing on my mind, and I wanted to share it on the blog. It’s something I’ve shared with a few friends recently, but I figured writing about it here might help me focus my thoughts.

I feel like I’ve reached a certain point where I’ve plateaued as an artist. This not to imply I’ve reached a level of perfection or satisfaction with my work - in fact, I’d say I’m quite the opposite.

I wanted to share an invite to this online comics event:

Here comes Met@Morph, the first annual Web Comics Comic-Con and Conference held exclusively in Second Life!  The Comic Book Bin, along with The Center for EduPunx and the Institute for Comics Studies, invites you to attend the inworld gathering on Friday October 3, 2008.  The preliminary schedule features an international roster of web comics creators, Second Life comics creators, scholars, teachers, students, and designers.   If you have questions, please email Beth Davies, beth.davies@frontrange.edu.  You can see the conference schedule here. On October 3, simply teleport to Front Range, which will be public for the event.

Based on a doodle from the Bamboo pen tablet a few weeks ago. Threw some "inks" and color on her. Did it very quickly working only from a flat color layer and one multiplied layer for shadows. It felt good because it was very natural, much like my traditional media work.

Matt Bayne is a brilliant artist whose work I have admired for a long time. His 'Knights of the Shroud' strip on Girl-a-matic is excellent. His style is a little less cartoony and his subject matter a little more illustrative and emotionally-based that what we typically do here at the Tower of Ur -- i.e. his heroines are not all buxom babes in chaimail bikinies (though some certainly are, and for the most part they do all wield swords).

In this strip I thought I'd try to address why Bish speaks the way he does. The real reason is because I think it's fun to write that way, although it does take up a lot of space and I can't make every speech balloon this big.