UPDATE! The White Death.
Ok, today has just disinergrated into serious suckage. Anybody got a joint?
February 21, 2008
The White Death
The white death is coming! Where are the children!!??
Apparently, there is a pretty intense storm heading this way with snow and ice in the offing. I might get tomorrow off! Actually, that would be really nice. It would give me an extra day to get ready for S.P.A.C.E.
Today is fluctuating between serious suckage and not too bad. I was REALLY late to work because of traffic. Specifically, because of the ridiculous set up on Campus View Boulevard. This street is extremely busy in the mornings. There are several corporate buildings along it and it is also the street most used by commuters to get to Route 23 and I-270. There is a spot where there is always a Columbus police officer directing traffic so that employees can turn left into these buildings. It’s a major pain in the ass and a unbelievably poor use of the cop and taxpayer money. I sat on that street this morning for a least 25 minutes because the cop had the traffic so backed up. Plus, in this short stretch there are four traffic lights and none of them are synched as far as I can tell.
I got so angry this morning about this that I wrote the Dispatch, WCMH, WBNS, WSYX, the Chief of Police and the Mayor’s office. So far, I got an automated response from the Dispatch thanking me for writing. I just can’t understand why this cop has to do this. Why can’t there be access made into these parking lots so that the people just have to go to the light instead of backing the cars up to the freakin’ bridge!
It’s also Thursday which means the other NP is working today. This woman is the poster child for fuck-ups. A student will come in for a sore throat and she ends up treating them for depression! Our appointments are a half an hour long. She usually ends up spending an hour treating something besides the chief complaint. It’s frustrating. I have to watch who she sees so that we don’t end up running behind. We usually do anyway. ARRRGG!
I want to put Janice Dean, the weather lady on FoxNews in tomorrow’s Chad. When I put public people like that in the strip I usually ask permission first so I emailed her. She answered right back and said fine! I thought that was really nice of her. I just hope she doesn’t mind that I am going to have her aggravating Chad!
February 15, 2008
Random Goodness
The new book is ready. It’s a good one, too, much better than Standing at the Edge of History. I have a Sunday Comix meeting on Sunday and I am going to bring the proof. Hope they like it!
Now I just have to figure out how I want to do the Hatman comic. I have a vague idea for the cover. I’m no good at design. I’m a jokester, not a graphic artist.
It is so freakin’ cold here. I am sick of it. The sun has been out yesterday and today and it really perked me up. A’course, that isn’t going to last. Jackie told me the other day that her fiancee calculated that Ohio gets about 90 days of sun a year. I’d say that’s maybe a low number but it does stay gray in the winter here. Bill Watterson is right. An Ohio gray sky is different. Maybe it’s being an Ohioan, but the winter sky here is just…different.
Tomorrow is my Dad’s 81st birthday, or would have been. Not gonna be a pleasant day, even though it’s Friday. I hope this gets easier soon. I am also sick of crying and I only have two Xanax left. Gah.
I had a very nice IM chat with Max Ink today. He is an interesting guy. I’m glad we’re becoming friends. He understands how the crap in your head can weigh you down and make the drawing harder. He also told me to stop looking at my Stat Counter. A wise man, indeed.
Speaking of Stat Counter, I got a hit from Fox News the other day. It wasn’t the Bill. He’s on vacation this week and he wouldn’t be bothered with actually reading the comic. I emailed Megyn Kelly and asked her if she read it but no response as expected. Maybe it was Roger Ailes! WHA HAHAHAHA!!! That’d be great! I did email him once. There was a little rumor floating around about two years ago that FNC was going to do a primetime newscast so I emailed Mr. Ailes and told him I thought Bill would be excellent at that. And you know what? He responded! (Yeah, Roger Ailes wrote me back, Bill. Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it.) He was very nice and told me I was mistaken about the show but not about Bill’s talent. Wonder if he ever told Bill about it. Doubtful. He’s a busy guy. World Domination is tough, just ask George Bush.
February 11, 2008
February 8, 2008
Another Video (or videos)
This is from a short-lived show called Home Movies. It was on Cartoon Network for two or three years. The first season was the best one. This is one of the shows from the first season. It’s great and I hope you enjoy it.
There are 3 videos.
February 7, 2008
FINISHED!
WHEW! I’ve finally finished the Hatman adventure. Yeesh! I don’t think I am cut out for storytelling. I’m a gag-a-day kinda gal. I have several nice jokes tucked away in my notebooks. I leave a trail of notebooks and Post-It notes wherever I go. I got a new desk at work today, one that was made in the last twenty years. I emailed Shawn to tell him and he writes back,”Did it come complete with Post-It notes all over it already?”
Anyway. I worked really hard on that episode. Even though if you printed it out it’d only be a page or two at least, it started to get all Ulysses on me. I have ADD. I’m not MEANT to have to focus on something that long! It was wading through quicksand. I am so glad it’s done. Now it’s just a matter of getting it printed. I want to have some to give out at S.P.A.C.E.
February 4, 2008
Paranoid Normal State
Last week rather sucked. A cherished friend of the family died on Sunday. Wednesday I took Mom to the funeral home for the memorial service. While we were sitting around waiting for another person, Mom told me a ghost story. She said that recently my brother was trying to salvage stuff from his hard drive that was perilously close to dying. He called her while he was doing it to tell her that all of his files easily moved over to the new hard drive except one that contained a bunch of pictures of Dad ( he died in June 2007). He said no matter what he tried he couldn’t get that file to move. Mom said to him, “Let me talk to him.”
My Dad was cremated and his urn now sits in the bay window in my folk’s living room. Ma says she talks to Dad all the time. My sister Ann asked her once, “Doesn’t it bother you that he doesn’t answer?” to which Mom replied, ” He didn’t answer me when he was alive so why should it be any different?”
Anyway, so Mom apparently sat in Dad’s chair and told him that John wasn’t trying to delete him, just move the stuff to the new hard drive. Mom told me that John told her that about five minutes after he hung up with her the file moved over to the new hard drive, no problem.
Now, I know there is a logical explanation for that and I would appreciate any bored IT tech explaining to me why that happened.
However, Mom told me this on the evening when we were mourning a good friend and I am tottering at the brink of menses so of course I kinda freaked. I blew off two gallery shows and Max is disappointed with me.
Readership for Chad has dropped like a rock. I know it’s because I ‘ve been so inconsistent. I’m trying to get back on track. I hope that being at S.P.A.C.E will bring it up some. Oh well. At least, I have the comfort that the folks that ARE reading are reading because they actually like the comic.
Speaking of SPACE, I am hoping to have a book of my single panels for sale and maybe some T-shirts and stickers. I’ll have to bring that up with management (read Shawn). I want to be at the Expo both days, doing penance for last week. I’m also thinking that I ‘d rather do comic shows than gallery shows. The gallery shows are nice and they get the work noticed but that’s about it. Think I will leave those in the capable hands of Matt Wyatt and Max. They both make art that is at once both comic and beautiful. Matt has a wonderful obsession with wordplay and his Katz and Germ comic makes me laugh out loud. He should submit to a syndicate because it’s that good.
By the way, I’d like to pass on a little advice. Show your love for people even if they piss you off because you’ll regret it if you don’t and you won’t get haunted thus reinforcing the niggling thought that your loved one didn’t like you all that much. You can use that for a signature line if you want.
January 23, 2008
The Real Chad Cleanly
This is Bill Hemmer . He’s the real Chad Cleanly or rather the person Chad is modeled on. Can you see the resemblance?
