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Made some fonts using this neat-o website:

http://www.yourfonts.com

My fonts can be downloaded here:

http://cainmark.pbwiki.com/PrintStudio

The fonts are copyright 2009 by cainmark. Some Rights Reserved, CC BY-NC-SA, Use them in anything, but don't make money off them by selling them. And if you modify them, give them the same license. Thanks.

I had a dream where a woman was wearing this dress. She sewed on red velvet patches herself. All her family and friends were outraged. 3 strangers found it interesting.

Word.

http://www.daveexmachina.com/wordpress/?p=2297

These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 08:53 "Brother Theodore" is a really strange performance artist. Seems like Andy Kaufman took over from him. Walk on all fours. Quadrupelus. #
• 14:17 Eating a sandwhich and reading Bill Moyers book On Democracy #
• 22:28 Eating a pizza and reading comic books while listening to an old interview with Stan Freberg. And twittering while I surf my Netvibes. #

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More information here:

http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 01:15 Looking at this website www.frankandollie.com/ as I just found out that the last of Disney's 9 Old Men passed away Monday. #
• 22:13 Watching Star Trek: The New Voyages, soon to be Star Trek Phase II. Good enough fan effort to actually get the real Sulu and Chekhov to act #

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Devon and I saw Persepolis Sunday. It was fantastic! I knew it would be good since I'd read the graphic novels, but I wasn't prepared for the really cool stylistic choices they made with the backgrounds and camera movements.

This is a movie I would have gone to Nashville or Atalanta to see in the theatre, but it's here in Huntsville! Yay!

The kid at the ticket booth said almost derisively, "Do you know it's in French?" "Um, yes." Then he kind of grunted as he gave us out tickets.

It had subtitles, but it was still a mostly visual story. The voice acting was great even though I didn't understand a lot of the words, the tones were perfect.

Good stuff.


There was an older couple across the aisle who were getting on out nerves because they kept talking during the movie. When it was over the man said, "That is exactly the way it happened. Exactly." The woman with him said, "They know."

Then Devon felt bad about being irritated, since by then it was pretty obvious they were Iranian. I didn't because I still don't like when people consistently talk during a movie.

If you're an old school superhero comicbook fan like me, you'll find the comment thread to this comic book urban legends post hilariousl:

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/01/31/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-140/

I love that we can see these online now!

2008 Animated Shorts nominees

http://www.ozoux.com/eclectic/archive/2008/02/01/2008-animated-shorts-nominees

Both Roy Scheider and Steve Gerber died earlier this week.

This post sums up eveything I started to write about Steve Gerber:

http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/02/12/steve-gerber-creator-of-howard-the-duck-1947-2008/

And his after-blog has some great remeberances of the man and his writing:

http://www.stevegerber.com/sgblog/

and this is a good write-up

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/steve_gerber_1947_2008/

Howard the Duck was incredible for the time it was written (Forget the movie, I'm talking about the ground-breaking comicbook). In the 1970s, you never saw questioning of everything like that anywhere else. And his run on the Defenders with the Headmen and Nebulon and the Bozos was fantastic. His Foolkiller miniseries is still one of my favorites, and I've been really enjoying his take on Dr. Fate in Countdown to Mystery, which sadly, may never be finished now if he didn't plot to an end point. Great writing from him and his ideas will be missed.


Roy Scheider was a great actor. He was the Sherriff in Jaws and a thinly-veiled Bob fosse in this part:

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_02_10.html#014805

20040912 The Huntsville Skyline from the Huntsville Visitors Center

Searching for Count Dante

http://thesearchforcountdante.com/html/worldsmostfamousad.htm

Action Philosophers comics previewsm at Evil Twin Comics (Having started wearing a goatee in the past couple of years--I know nothing about the signifigance of that.)

http://www.eviltwincomics.com/aphil.html

Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier series of comics, The New Frontier was incredible, well deserving of the award and recognition they got. If this:



is anything close to it, it's going to be great.

==Lydia Gold Skate Park==


Located at 200 Cleveland Avenue, NW (behind the Historic Huntsville Depot, between Church and Meridian Streets near I-565)

a FREE venue open to the public from sunup until sundown; named for Lydia Gold, an area skateboarding activist in the 1980's.

http://rocketcitywiki.pbwiki.com/Outdoors


I bought a good portion of my comics from the Tattoed Lady in the late 80s and early 90s.

Lydia Gold was the one who introduced me to the old black and white move, "The Haunting", based on The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (who also wrote "The Lottery". I could never really thank her enough for that. She passed away too young.

His Little Nemo in Slumberland and other works are now in the public domain. So why aren't we seeing more of his work online? Because everyone should see it. It's gorgeous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo




http://www.archive.org/download/Gertie/GertietheDinosaur.flv

And about his Rarebit Fiend strip:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/joshua_glenn/rarebit_fiend/

Lots of public domain early American Animation at he Library of Congress' American MAmeory site:

Origins of early American animation:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@FILREQ(@field(TITLE+@band([Gertie+on+tour--excerpts]++))+@FIELD(COLLID+animat))

-Delirium (Sandman) - Neil Gaiman and Jill Thompson

So this is stuff I'm working on in bits and pieces. Both are coming along, but both are way too late and nowhere near finished for entering into the Rocket City film festival (past deadline now anyhow.)

http://cainmark.pbwiki.com/ProductionPage