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Monday, December 30, 2002 All the way up to 65 now. So when do I lose you to Girlamatic? Who's drawing that?
Posted by Tom @ 10:41 AM EST Friday, December 27, 2002 Finished #63 and managed to watch "Sense and Sensibilty" in the same evening. Drew the crocodiles and bought our plane tix to Ape too. Busy night.
Posted by Tom @ 01:29 AM EST Monday, December 23, 2002 Yeah the strips are great! I had that Baldy idea before I read your last two Baldy strips. Other ideas become integrated: Does the king hear the record? If not, why? (Fen takes that, too? - from Baldy) Or, the king "knows" the record - plays impressed and takes Baldy with him with record in tow. Or merely throws Baldy in dungeon. I prefer the King really being impressed and giddily wanting to learn the human statue routine. Seems funny. The record comes later. I don't know what you've got in store for the final revelations, so I'll let you work those out. I like Fen's appearances and disappearances at important times. I have to figure out how to draw Fen as well as Vernielle sometime soon. PS- Don't need to aim for a final page count for the story- whatever it works out to be will be great, and we can end it there. Just want it to be best it can be!
Posted by Tom @ 01:06 PM EST |
Action is hard to write! It doesn't come naturally to me. I hope you like these scripts okay. Excellent Baldy idea! Especially with all the King statues around. I'm gearing up for the King to meet Baldy, and this is a good direction. Must also have a strip getting back to the war, and the citizens' preparation. I love having so many balls in the air. Posted by Shaenon @ 12:25 PM EST |
Re: The new roughs: holy moly- there's so many! It's all action- that's the easiest to write! I know your game Garrity! I haven't read them yet but I trust they are mad cool.
Ok- a few images come to mind. Baldy as a real statue in the palace? The King playing statue in the palace next to the other statues to avoid being caught somehow. Maybe getting pointers earlier on from Baldy? Nice! That's what- the king should stop to see Baldy, be impressed. Next we see him getting pointers. They like Baldy so much they drag him behind the elephant on a wheeled board to the palace. There, among other chaos, the record is revealed, etc. Hope you're still thinking about the war, too! It seems the cardboard flats people have to run over Trunktown at some point. Or vice versa but probably the former. I don't want to, but I sense I HAVE TO draw a massive battle scene with entire calvaries of soldiers. And or civilians with cardboard tubes. Thanks for these! Merry Xmas!
Posted by Tom @ 11:08 AM EST Friday, December 20, 2002 Yes! Thank you so much! And the Thimble Theater group is for pre-Popeye strips! This is amazing! Posted by Shaenon @ 07:58 PM EST |
Good question:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beforetheoneeyedsailor/
Subscribe to the individual emails or you dont get the attachments, and thats the whole reason for signing up. Where did I hear about these groups anyway? The Journal Board? Posted by Tom @ 03:35 PM EST Thursday, December 19, 2002 I plugged those into the Yahoo! Groups search field and got nada. Why do they make these things so bloody hard to find? Posted by Shaenon @ 07:41 PM EST |
Actually, that line might be might serve that purpose. I don't think I would ever have Hutch call himself a bum, but that line is funny, direct and reveals an understanding of his role in the cosmic drama. In Yahoo groups, try beforetheoneeyedsailor, krazyandingatz, and walletfamily_1919-1939. Posted by Tom @ 01:09 PM EST Wednesday, December 18, 2002 The "Polly and Her Pals" list is just called polyandherpals. Now you've got to tell me where the Krazy Kat, Gasoline Alley, and Thimble Theater ones are, because I can't find them! I'm so glad you liked the Hutch line. It is an immense honor to have written Hutch correctly, even once. Tim Weber says that next I have to write a line for Hutch you don't like, but which you have to admit is true Hutch. Posted by Shaenon @ 06:58 PM EST Tuesday, December 17, 2002 Oh man- Hutch's "I'm a bum. I know I don't have a chance" is brilliant. Made me so happy. Posted by Tom @ 11:45 AM EST Monday, December 16, 2002 What's the name of that list? Cause I'm on Krazy Kat, and the Thimble Theater one and the Gasoline Alley one (I can give you those names) but I don't know the others. Yes 55 was a real joy. your drawings kicked my ass. I won't have time to draw until Thurs probably. French Xmas strips will run after 51 so we'll be good for 2 weeks of those.
Posted by Tom @ 07:47 PM EST |
Oh, man, I love the triumphant Baldy at the end of 55! And Vernielle with the armadillo. These are so wonderful. Of course, this means I have to write some more stuff. Okay, I'll get 'em to you tonight. I went in today and added titles to the new strips on Serializer. Hope they're okay. I'm on the "Polly and Her Pals" mailing list now, and I've been soaking up the titles on the 1930s strips. Posted by Shaenon @ 06:54 PM EST |
Oops- I meant 55 Posted by Tom @ 03:13 PM EST Sunday, December 15, 2002 Post script to your posting! Yes! I love it when clearly something drags out cause you get a lot of jokes out of it. I love when that happens best. Can't wait to see what all this is going to wind up to. By the way, the story ends when you decide, so don't think it's got to be xxx number of strips long. go with your instincts and we'll format it later, and the serializer 6 month mark is not so terribly important, really. You go girl! Posted by Tom @ 07:24 PM EST |
Shaenon- I am TOTALLY UP TO DATE now, having drawn every last one of your strips. I'm going to offer people signed up on our list a special look at how we do this, cause #54 is a perfect example of something I couldn't have drawn without your brilliant layouts. I still suck at Vernielle, and made some experiments with her. I'll get her yet! t Posted by Tom @ 07:22 PM EST Friday, December 13, 2002 Yeah, I've been kind of overworked and frazzled on this end. Fortunately my work for the book is 99% done now - I just need an intro by Joey and a nice copy of the strip they're putting on the back cover, and I'm good to go. Whew. I'll send some more Trunk scripts soon. I've suddenly had a lot of ideas. I expected that conversation between Vernielle and Baldy to last just a couple of strips, and instead I got a bunch of gags out of it. Now Baldy needs to play the record, and Faustine needs to attack the castle, and Hutch and Owen need to get thrown into the dungeon, and the armadillos need to get in everywhere... this is fun! I also really feel like I'm getting a better handle on the characters. What a relief. Posted by Shaenon @ 07:35 PM EST Thursday, December 12, 2002 It's not really hell- I shouldn't complain. I've just had to scavenge for time to draw. Hate it. Anyway, huzzahs all around! Posted by Tom @ 01:42 PM EST |
Omigosh the royal palace is so perfect! This is great! I love your Vernielle. She looks kind of like this little alien mad scientist Andrew draws. I do like drawing her, though. I can't draw the King at all, but I can draw the chicks. I'm sorry your life is hell right now. It has not been good for me of late, either, but things are getting better. Posted by Shaenon @ 12:52 PM EST |
Wow those new ones are so good I can't stand it. Your Vernielle is so much better than mine. I can't get her down yet. Think I'm going to copy your drawings more, especially that pic of V hugging the armadillo. I did 51 and 53 last night. 52 I'll do tonight. Posted by Tom @ 11:36 AM EST Wednesday, December 11, 2002 You may not have noticed, but I sure as heck don't auto-update Trunktown. But that said, yeah I can show you what I did when I tried it out. 51-53 are almost done. 51 has an elaborate castle shot and another 4 characters in the last panel, so it is taking a while. Oh and my life is hell right now. But anyway, yeses all around. Posted by Tom @ 10:59 AM EST Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Yeah, a week of the French strips is tres bien! I'll get you some more scripts. The stuff for the book is almost under control, so I've got a bit more time. When you get the chance, could you show me how to set up an auto-update thingy for the Narbonic site? I'm clueless. Posted by Shaenon @ 06:39 PM EST Monday, December 9, 2002 Love the new ones! I'm almost done drawing them believe it or not. So- need some more soon. Here's a plan. At strip 50, we take a two week vacation and run the french strips? C'est bon? Then you can get me some new strips in the mean time and we can get caught up. 50 is in the bag by the way. I have to attach more in the FTP file too, I know. So busy right now. But I will! T Posted by Tom @ 05:16 PM EST Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Hey, yeah, that's fantastic! We can easily do seasons! And eventually... a clip show. Oh boy! I think the current storyline will finish around March or so. There's still a lot that needs to happen. Obviously. Posted by Shaenon @ 12:11 PM EST |
Here's my new model/paradigm/idea: SEASONS. A new SEASON of Trunktown starts Augusts 2002! Or something like that. In other words- finish up this storyline, maybe in March or something, that's season 1. Sooner or later we get to season 2. When the time is right. Who's with me? Joey always said MT and serializer was kinda like HBO. Posted by Tom @ 01:18 AM EST Monday, December 2, 2002 Go ahead, take a week off. We're going along at a pretty good clip. Just be sure to announce it on Serializer in advance. And thanks for the quote! It's still one of the highlights of my total LIFE. Posted by Shaenon @ 05:18 PM EST |
Of course it is. Have your publisher talk to my people haha. Isn't that what the quote was for? Anyway- yeah! I definitely think we gotta take a week off to catch up. I suddenly got swamped again. But I will have the two last ones drawn in just a few.
Posted by Tom @ 03:56 PM EST |
My publisher wants to know if it's okay to quote your sickeningly glowing praise of Narbonic on the back cover of the book. I feel so terribly terribly sophisticated, talking about my publisher. Oh, yes, my PUBLISHER just sent me the new cover design. My PUBLISHER needs about two dozen more strips from me or he's going to kick my ass. Have I mentioned that I have a PUBLISHER? Do you need more scripts? I'll send some tonight. I can't believe I'm up to the assault on the palace already. Posted by Shaenon @ 03:07 PM EST |
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