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I broke my computer.

No lie. it was updating and I was an idiot and I turned it off in the middle of an update. now it wont even go into Safe mode.
All my stuff is on there, including the beginning of week 8. 2 of this weeks 5 min. pieces. there should have been 3 or 4. but I missed some days. :P but Until I can access them I’m done with the 5 min. project. I’m working on a web comic which I thankfully uploaded all like 9 pages I drew to drunk duck before I killed my computer. their not up for viewing yet. they auto post every Wednesday. check it out here. this Wednesday is the second update.



{December 2, 2007}   Recomended reading

OK so, I’m still working on my left hand project. but i haven’t scanned any of the pages in. but it’s coming along nicely, I’m now able to write like a five year old.

but lets go onto some kind of topic with this post.
i figure web comics is a nice topic. and which ones I think give the medium a good name (a.k.a. my favorites.)

so i like allot of different web comics. mostly a look for a interesting concept with good writing.

Brink – is probably my favorite web comic at this time. it’s a slice of life drama about Devin and his relationship with a girl named five. their both participants in a program called Brink. and they both have serious emotional issues. really amazing writing, and the art is the kind you can look over a few times, just because it looks nice.

Errant Story – this is my fantasy escape. the black and white artwork is just amazing, and the story (now into it’s 31rst chapter) is epic, it’s about an errant (a half elf) who decides that for her final exam in school she will try to find an antient elven god, take it’s power, and then take over the world. along the way she and her familiar meet up with a gunman, and things get start to get really interesting after that. i really loved the fact that all the characters have nice 3dimentional personality’s, and they interact really well with each other.

Paper Eleven – this one’s finished. it’s also really abstract and disturbing. it’s got something to do with time travel, and spirits. but it’s amazingly done.

Gravity – another slice of life-ish comic. I’d put it into a similar genre as the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. it starts off focusing on a sister and brother, the brother gets lost in the depths of hell and his sister has to find a way to save him. after which the world of magic begins to show up all around them. it’s got really nice characters and a really mellow feel to it.

Train Wreck – the art isn’t the most refined, but the story is fun and kind of random. it’s not very far into it’s story. it’s kind of, once again, slice of life but it’s got more of a humorous tone in it.

Mastermind BTRN – this one starts with the main character dieing. but because it wasn’t her time to die, she comes back to life in a random point of time in the future. As she comes to terms with this situation she finds herself on the rebel side of a civil war. i enjoy the characters, and the stylized art is fun to look at.

Gone with the Blast wave – it’s kind of a video game comic in the sense that it’s got a bunch of army men, in a random post apocalyptic city. and none of them really know why their there. they just know their fighting the blues and yellows. except there’s no blatant videogame jokes. it’s witty and the artwork is amazing. the only downfall is it’s slow on updates.

I’ve got tones more that i enjoy, but I don’t really have time to write about them all so i’ll just post a few more links.

bad ass muthas
fandango
Dead Days
Kagerou

that’s all for now. enjoy my webcomic rotation :)



{October 10, 2007}   nothing special

so I’ve created a blog for my catastrophe of a web comic i call Mr. Happy’s Corner.
it’s been on a temporary piczo website ever since my web comic host went down a few months back. (R.I.P. Hyper-comix.) the name as the owners found out was infringing copywriters so it was gonna change anyways.

anyways, the blog which will be host to all things MHC (including the pages) can be found at, http://mrhappyscorner.wordpress.com
convenient no?

as well I got some booklets in the mail from NSCAD this morning. NSCAD is the Nova Scotia Collage of Art and Design for those who don’t know (it’s a university also… it just thinks it’s a collage.)
so I’m thinking I’m gonna end up in something like Bachelor of fine arts (this is for sure), and then a Major in either film, photography, or fine art. then get a masters in fine art so that i can teach afterwards.
that’s the plan right now.
it’s to bad sequential art isn’t yet recognized fully in the academic fields. hopefully within my generation that changes, but i wont get into a lecture about this (maybe another day ;P).

in other news, I’ll be trying to do some caricatures within the next few days (or just regular portraits) i’ll update about those again once i’ve done a few of them.

peace out till then
-Milan



et cetera