Diary comics, February 2013.

These are my journal comics from February of this year.

Steam comic.

Hand comic.

Time lapse comic.

Lame book comic.

Cover comic.

Advice comic no. 1.

Advice comic no. 3.

Hair comic.

Love comic (for Rachelle).

Free association comic.

Inertia comic.

Equilibrium comic.

Fluff piece comic.

Nightmare comic.

Metacomic.

Non-canonical comic.

Gag comic.

TV comic.

Information comic.

mostly banal: the gag(strip) reflex

Thanks to everyone who's commented on these last few strips. I apreciate the support.

I guess I am a diarist again.

mostly banal: first impressions

This is starting to get a little less Porcellino, a little more "me."

Good thing or bad? You decide.

forces are converging against this blog

I never took my computer to the shop last week. I've had it all this time and just took the week off of posting.
I can't really say I missed it.

My frustration towards Mostly Banal comics has been increasing for months now, and the arrival of several more interesting (to me) opportunities has split my focus and decreased my interest in keeping up with a regularly scheduled blog/comic. I still think the underlying concept I had is sound, but right now I lack the focus to sufficiently implement my ideas. I'm scaling back the "journal comic" aspect of this blog again - in favor of a looser "sketch blog" - until I can work out whether I can realize my original concept in a more satisfying way (or whether it's even worth trying).

That being said, I am not leaving this blog to seed. I will continue to post artwork, cartoons and various little formal experiments (you know, like a sketchblog) as I focus on more finished comics work.

I don't expect vigorous posting (as if I have ever been accused of that) but I hope that those of you who have found something of interest here will stick around. As I said, I have several projects in the works that I am very excited about.

I may return to the original Mostly Banal concept, but not until I feel that I can do it right.

I appreciate everyone who has followed this blog through it's ups and downs and I do hope you'll hang on for what comes next.

Why I Like The Black Keys

Obligatory Linkage: The Black Keys (.com version)

Not that it's keeping me up nights...

oops times two

oops times three

On Monday's comic I got the track listing for the Cloud Cult CD, "The Meaning of 8". I was going off of my instant download and used the order that iTunes gave me when I imported it there. The real track list (from off of their website) is as follows:

1. Chain Reaction
2. Please Remain Calm
3. Chemicals Collide
4. Pretty Voice
5. Brain Gateway
6. Take Your Medicine
7. Your 8th Birthday
8. Dance for the Dead
9. Everywhere All at One Time
10. Purpose
11. A Good God
12. Shape of 8
13. The Girl Underground
14. 2x2x2
15. Thanks
16. Alien Christ
17. The Deaf Girl's Song
18. Hope

Not sure where "The Song of the deaf Girl" goes, but I imagine between tracks 17 and 18 (though with my record for this week, I'm probably wrong there too).

Sorry about that.
Stupid iTunes.

Impressions from an Emergency Roompart 8 (the end)

That's it.

impressions from an Emergency Roompart 5

world changes, slowly

Apparently Tuesday is the new Monday. Imagine that.

Lotsa overtime at work - wearin' me down...

Two Nights, Two Shows

I have kind of mixed feelings on the Joanna Newsom show. Her performance was amazing - and I would definitely recommend seeing her live - but their were a lot of little annoying things to deal with that night (waiting forever for the show to start, sound problems at the beginning of the set, and I'm ashamed of the audiences behavior - especially toward opening act Billy Birdman)
I was already a huge fan of Joanna Newsom's music, however, and I found her performance worth muddling through the other stuff for. Really amazing, with the orchestration. Her new album is out now too. Incredible. Cannot recommend it enough.

Cloud Cult's show, on the other hand, was the kind of show that would make you a fan - even if you had never heard of them (and I suspect that was just the experience many in the audience that night had.) It was a near perfect show - the band was great, the sound was great in that little room (I hear that room is magic, or something), and it was just an excellent experience. Cloud Cult has 4 albums available and they said a new one is coming soon. I heard some of their new stuff at the show and it sounds pretty good!

All in all, it made for a memorable weekend. The whole thing was well worth all the shit I got at work for not coming in this weekend when everyone else had to.

Eraserhead?

Because I haven't done a Sophie post in a while...

Back to just pencils again. I had fun playing with the brush for Futureman, but I didn't really like the inks (with a Micron brushpen) on the last post and there's a certain unfinished charm to the pencil work that fits the "sketch-blog" idea. This is probably how most of these posts will be, for a while.

The Last Few Weeks: Birthdays, Parties, and Rain

Yay! Calamity!

Go read What Happened?, my CALAMITY! story.

And then read the rest of them too. I particularly enjoyed The Inevitable Fore-Knowledge of Death by Jon Morris, End of the Scone Age by Brodie Brockie, and Turpentine by my buddy Neal von Flue (who has a song to go with his comic).

Long Weekend

Here're some pictures of the damage from all over town, courtesy of my fearless wife, Rachelle, and her intrepid friend, Shannon:


Lotsa trees down:



Check out this camper:




More trees




And flooding too , WHEEEE!


This scary scene was on my way to work.


These kind of things were all over town. Pretty scary. We can consider ourselves pretty lucky that we got through all of this relatively unscathed.

Do You Remember Rock N' Roll Radio?

So I drew and scanned this yesterday but stupid Blogger was down and I couldn't post it. I drew another one today that kind of builds off of this one. I posted that before this one so with any luck you'll read this first and scroll down for the rest. If not then sorry. Just pretend that you read them in order in the first place. Come on it's not so hard...


stupid Blogger...

Rock N' Roll Radio - part two

WHAT?... I have a BLOG??

I'm still around. And I'm not done with that pig/opossum thing I was drawing yet.
Here's a closer look at the Katamari illo.

War Protest