Once again, I hop along home.
I have had many gracious and generous people willing to host me here in Portland, my bags started getting heavy and my urge to be able to literally and figuratively stretch out my feet grew strong.
I apologize to all of you who I wasn't able to meet up with, or who I wasn't able to meet up with in enough detail. But of course, I had a great time.
Also, luckily, you will no longer be starved of your DAILY SCATTERPLOT.
- Hop hop hop
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glowing_fish- December 4th, 14:47
- Getting close to Portland-ed out
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- glowing_fish
- December 3rd, 17:35
So I have had many fun visits so far, and its great to see all of you, and my various hosts have been very gracious, and I just love the energy here and all.
BUT!
Carrying around bags all day and the like is getting close to not-very-interesting, and all the comforts of home are starting to call to me.
I shouldn't get melancholy just yet, but I am kind of dreading being back in Montana and thinking "so now what?" which might actually end up hitting me like a lead sap to the stomach.
At least I will have my cat, no?
And I might end up trying to do a WILT CHAMBERLAIN to pass the long lonely month of December.
- Small Press Spotlight on Andy Ristaino
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- cartoonart
- December 1st, 13:03
Small Press Spotlight on Andy Ristaino
Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition: December 19, 2009 – March 14, 2010
Beginning on December 19th, 2009, the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Andy Ristaino.
Andy Ristaino is a cartoonist and animator currently residing in the San Francisco. Originally from Franklin, Massachusetts, he has been drawing comics ever since he could. His first published work, a comic strip based on Greek myths entitled Myth Conceptions, appeared in The Pompeiiana Newsletter when he was in high school between 1992 and 1994. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design majoring in illustration/animation, during which time he self published two issues of his martial arts comedy zine Nightblade The Nearsighted Ninja, and drew a back up story featuring the character Dangerman, in Oz Squad from Patchwork Press.
Ristaino’s first solo book Life of a Fetus, a story about a bored baby who decides to jump out of the womb early and go on a road trip, was published by SLG comics in 1999 and ran for seven issues. This was soon followed by the spin off series The Babysitter, A send-up of Japanese pop culture. All three issue of The Babysitter have recently been collected by SLG comics. Ristaino’s work tends to focus on themes of the strangeness of life and the fragility of the human psyche, claustrophobia, and the odd space between understanding and incoherence. He looks at storytelling as something liquid.
His work has appeared in numerous comic anthologies such as Meathaus S.O.S., Spectrum 16, Tales of Hot Rod Horror, Spark Generators 2, Pet Noir, Go for the Gold, and the soon to be published Popgun vol. 4 from Image comics. His children’s comic the Uncredibly Confabulated Tales of Lucinda Ziggles was a regular fixture in the now defunct Nickelodeon Magazine.
Ristaino anticipates the publishing of his next SLG graphic novel Escape from Dullsville, a 288 page collection of Life of a Fetus with over 80 pages of unpublished material, sometime in 2010.
For more information about Andy Ristaino’s works and upcoming events, please visit http://www.skronked.blogspot.com and http://www.skronked.com.
- The surfing has begin
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- glowing_fish
- November 30th, 14:27
I am at the PSU library, and am starting to feel guilty because there are like a dozen people in line, but I am out of Vancouver, and going to be hanging the O in the PDX until people get tired of me, then I am going back to Montana.
I still like walking around in the "cold" just fine. For now. My marginal utility might fall below the point of diminishing returns soon.
Hope to see you if I haven't yet!
- I must be in Vancouver, because I keep on having Sublime in my head
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- glowing_fish
- November 27th, 14:11
Hold up people I've got something you all should hear
Holy Matrimony's not for me, rather die alone in misery
Because I was always that boy meets girl,
fall in love get married and forget the world
Etcetera
Yesterday was the rain I forgot about, but not it is bright and clear and I am half-past lost. At least I have Walgreen's store brand pop.
- And I'm waiting for a bright holiday, (holiday)
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- glowing_fish
- November 26th, 1:56
Vancouver =warm and brightly electrically GREEN.
I don't know if the seasonals came back, they were starting when I left.
I've already seen some of you, but of course not enough!
And I feel sad, I am stalled now at 49 for Iron Noder. Keeping up with the ping-pong-ping of letter writing, though, although I have to do one for today. The cohesion level might be low.
- Page Summary
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- glowing_fish — Hop hop hop — 2 comments
- glowing_fish — Getting close to Portland-ed out
- cartoonart — Small Press Spotlight on Andy Ristaino
- glowing_fish — The surfing has begin — 3 comments
- glowing_fish — I must be in Vancouver, because I keep on having Sublime in my head
- glowing_fish — And I'm waiting for a bright holiday, (holiday)
