More (belated) March wackiness:



Of course, to cover the full gamut of New England Spring this year, I'd also have had to portray torrential downpour/record-breaking flooding, followed by faux-summer and very confused plants ... but what the hell, I was out of more interesting scripts and I just wanted to draw hair blowing around.

Note to self, for next time: if I'm too busy to script more comics, I am probably also too busy to hatch like that (in a timely fashion, anyway).

Also, last week I made my dad a birthday card based on one of my family's very random favorite films, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. (This is the third time I've made him something based on that movie - see this father's day card from four or five years ago. We really love that movie.) A couple of iffy photos under the cut (I didn't have time to scan): ( Never mind. I'll explain it to you later. )

Finally, a new strip - my "little" brother's comic debut!



This happened some years back (when I was still in college, and he in high school - he's graduating college this year, it's terrifying). Our weird day did not end there, but the second part is going to have to wait until I find better reference images.

I am concerned about the second & third panels on this. :/ Portraying motion is difficult! Input would not go amiss, if you(?) have any.

I love my (new) journaling service.

Someone with a grudge keeps reporting Dreamwidth to their online payment processors. They are unable to use Paypal and now Google Checkout because they refuse to alter their TOS to fit those services' demands. (Google is actually insisting that they should ban all adult content.)

I must remember to write up a check for a paid account this week. I love Dreamwidth's principles, and I'm grateful that they're standing up for them against this kind of pressure. I really want to see this site survive.

I don't have any erotica of my own to post, alas (maybe I'll try that sometime - non-Turtle related!), but in the spirit of things, a recommendation: Jess Fink's Chester 5000 XYV is some beautifully drawn comic steampunk robot porn. (That link is VERY NSFW!) Enjoy.

One more today, I think.



I originally gave this strip to my friend sae to use as a guest strip for her webcomic, The Littlest Elle. sae is one of my oldest and closest artist friends (and awesome just in general); her strip is equal parts adorable and wry, and I recommend it!

I drew this strip as a gift for my best friend; it recalls a history of pop culture-based in-jokes (but they're often related to fairly obscure pieces of pop culture). It's pretty incomprehensible to most people who aren't us, so I won't be including it in the Turtle Soup minicomic . . . but it means a lot to me, and I'm also pretty proud of a lot of the technical stuff in it. :)

In panel order, this strip refers (often vaguely) to: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape, The Sentinel, Due South (seasons 3 & 4), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, and "I'm Not Okay" by My Chemical Romance.

(I'll stop spamming now and post a few more tomorrow! Once I catch up, posts will probably be a very occasional thing.)

Hmmm. Having given this some thought, I think I'm just going to start posting comics and art here as I go. I'm probably not going to post older art, except for the Turtle Soup diary comics I've been working on for the last year or so.

Last March I decided to try doing a comic a day for a week, as an exercise. (I failed to complete any of the strips within a day, but it was still a great exercise, so I've kept working on it.) Here's the first one of those "daily" strips, though!