July 21st, 2010
Some Things About Blue Monday
It’s difficult to think of a better smelling workplace than a coffee shop.
Tomorrow morning is Crazy Daze! I will be working in Blue Monday 5:30-6:30am, and then hitting the streets and sales! With coffee and cousins! We will probably all have to eat Alaskan donuts for Dad’s sake, and Mom and Aunt Virginia are having us carry around cut-outs of their faces to take photos with (seriously). So if you’re Downtown, come find us to get your picture taken with Fake Sarah Currier and Fake Aunt Virginia!
July 21st, 2010 at 8:30 am
Actually, we don’t have a Fake Sarah Currier…
July 21st, 2010 at 11:04 am
world music/andrew bird oh yeah
hahahahha!
July 21st, 2010 at 11:16 am
Man. Crazy Daze. You know, this is the FIRST EVER Crazy Daze that I’m missing?
how sad.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Coffee beans are amazing. They’re right up there in my mind with coins from foreign countries and handfuls of marbles, in the “Amazing Treasures I Would Keep In a Box (Were I Still Seven Years Old)” category.
Have I mentioned how much better your comics have gotten in the past year? I wasn’t going to say anything, because then it sounds all awkward and like the stuff you were doing before was shite (which it wasn’t), but as an outside observer, I’ve really noticed a difference in your composition and just the confidence with which you decide what to say and what to leave to the eye. I’m sure it doesn’t FEEL that way at all, but it looks (and reads) amazing. It’s strange how just spending so much time on one thing can actually make such a difference, isn’t it?. And of course you’re good anyway. I was reading “French Milk” by Lucy Knisley the other day, and all I could think was “Pfft. Athena’s Berlin stuff was better than this.”
Also, one of my potential roommates is working for a place that offers a “life changing bible study” for people who have recently had abortions. Oh, Texas. How I am utterly confounded by thee. But hey, you let me drink beer and float in the river. So I’m okay with thee anyway.
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:40 am
Hey Athena -
Thanks for eating an Alaskan Doughnut for me. It’s a big job, I know, but it’s an important one.
Sometimes I eat two. Hopefully Jack or Tom can help out.
July 22nd, 2010 at 3:48 pm
The panel with the faces outside the window is art. When are you going to make a large comic strip for the pantry door? It is a blank canvas, waiting for your touch.
Phoebe: You never made a life size “Sarah Currier on a stick!!!!!” I am bummed that even my paper likeness will miss Crazy Day. It is sunny here in NH…
August 31st, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Phoebe: We made one just in time!
Marie: Heh, I figured you’d appreciate that…
Evan: It was the rainiest one in my memory! A good one to miss.
Elizabeth: Thank you so much for saying that! It’s nice to hear. I sure have put a lot of hours into making these comics over the last two or so years. It’s good to know people can see the ways they’ve changed over that time.
Also, Texas: I want to go there. Some day. So…keep living there, if it continues to suit you. Someday I’ll make my way down to Austin for a visit, I swear it!
Dad: I couldn’t eat a whole one! Phoebe and I split it.
Mom: Dang, I should put something on the pantry door again! I took all the other stuff down in January for Indy Comics Week at the Source. I just keep forgetting.