Here's an interview with Pittsburgh's own Strawberryluna!

I just watched the highlights from the Penguins game last night.
Is that really what the Minnesota Wild wear?
Are they supposed to be Santa's elves?

Also, DJ Mary Mack will be spinning next Tuesday at open studio!
Come and shake your booty as you print!
How awesome is that!
Very!

I guess I need to buy some candy to give out...to the three kids who'll come by...Halloween ain't what it used to be around these parts...back in my day we used to put on our Star Fleet uniforms and we used to...!...I wish I had a Star Trek uniform that I could wear now...that was a great costume...nothing beats having themed costumes with your siblings...we should've done that more often with all four of us having related costumes...actually, did we only do that once...with the circus? Anyway, happy Halloween.

My postcards have shipped! It's a shame I never send postcards.

You'll notice he doesn't say anything about bug powder...

It's all up! All at once. Page at a time. With commentary.
I think everything's in order! Enjoy!

16 pages up. You're gonna have to wait until later for the rest (I almost said "until tomorrow" but it is tomorrow!).

The 24 hour comic is slowly going up. I think it's most readable on its very own blog (two delicious options: one page at a time or, easiest of all: all at once). Flickr has extensive commentary if you're really bored.

Moo.com gave away 100 sets of their new postcards through Drawn.ca yesterday. Guess who was lucky enough to actually be in time to get one? 20 cards. 10 images from my Flickr page. On the house. Nice!

I got a full night's sleep but I'm still exhausted. Making 24 hour comics is a young man's person's game. Hopefully I'll have the strength to scan it in over the next few days. My brother got an exclusive first look and he laughed a couple times. That was a good sign.

It's all a blur. That seems to be the normal state of my memory. I should probably seek serious professional help. I guess my starting point was that I knew if I was going to do it I was going to go with what I feel comfortable drawing. I didn't feel the need to give myself any more frustration than was absolutely necessary. So, convicts it was. Then, storywise, it was just a matter of setting up the situation, trusting my decisions, and letting it play itself out. I also helped that I'm pretty good with a deadline.

I should really go take a nap.

Hey! I get to sleep tonight!
I'm really looking forward to that.

That's it.
I hope I got everything I wanted to get with the Wite-Out.
I hope I didn't misspell anything.
I hope I didn't mess up the numbering and I only really have 23 pages.
Good night.

Still need that cover but I'm not gonna sweat it.
It's just gonna be text probably anyway.
I still have four hours and twenty minutes to finish up.
I couldn't have done it without this picture.
I'm really tired.
And hungry.
I wonder if I made any huge errors that I'm not seeing?

Finished!
No, wait, I don't have a cover!
Shit!

Still awake.
Starting to lose it.
Thumb hurts.
22 pages.
Only 5 panels to go.
And a cover.

This is getting crazy.
Tensies!

Blasted out two more.
Finally got to the part of the story that's all convicts.
I can draw convicts in my sleep.
Hopefully it won't come to that.
Hand hurts.
Really looking forward to the splash page.
Damn you, four panel grid!
Also, I love Scott McCloud.
He called me an "innovator of the future!".
This post is too long.
Back to work!

16 pages.
Pausing to brush teeth.
Mind going.
Damn you, Scott McCloud!

Twelve pages! Twelve and a half hours to go! Can I get to the end without sleeping? Good thing the Steelers don't play until 8:00!

Eight and a half hours in. Ten pages strong. Feeling tired. Thought of horrible, horrible ending. Will post on Flickr when done. Breaking to watch third period of the Pens game and give wrist a breather.

I didn't find out until yesterday that today is 24 Hour Comic Day. You may recall that I did one in 2004 (pencils without inks, very shaky). That 24 Hour Comic Day was most memorable for being on April 24th which was the day the Steelers picked Ben Roethlisberger ("With the 11th pick the Steelers select Ben Roethlisberger." "Who?").

Anyway, I woke up this morning with ideas in my head so I figured I'd go again. Started at noon, six pages done. I'm "inking" this time. It takes me about two hours to do three pages using my background free style. Back to work.

"The hobo’s kitchen smelled of boiled yams,
but all the food tasted like the bottom of your shoe."

So, I went to see Ratatouille again yesterday and I wore my Enrico Casarosa Haiku 5-7-5 shirt. Beat that for nerdiness.

Does anyone know a good place to buy a fake mustache?

"What's wrong with your nipple?"
"What's wrong with my nipple? What's wrong with your nipple?"
"Touché."

And, just like that, it's warm again.

I think I was in a light hibernation this morning.
I want to go back.

Good morning, friends! I have been keeping my sunshine from you. A thousand pardons! It's time for our semi-bi-monthly update! Rapid fire style! Since our last update I started working out, drove to D.C. for an awesome party where I sang karaoke Brittney Spears, worked open studio, played the drums, discovered the joys of hitting with a wooden bat, sang Jilted John karaoke, saw Superbad, went to the opening of the awesome Yinz Got Posters? show at AIR, watched the Steelers beat the Brownies, shaved my head, went to Delanie Jenkins' opening at the PCA, watched the Steelers beat the Buff Bills, worked open studio again, drew strange vegetables, went golfing in the sweltering heat, watched the Steelers beat the 'Niners, worked open studio for a third time, watched the Steelers lose to the Cardinals, cut the grass, drew strange horses, printed strange horses with kids at the Sewickley Heights History Center, watched the Steelers beat the Seahawks, and went golfing again in much better weather except that it rained for about three holes. Also, watched a bunch of playoff baseball. Whew. More regular posting to begin in about a week and a half, I can feel it.