Bites Spread The Infection/Heaven

New daily drawing up at Partyka: Bites Spread the Infection.

Also, Dustin Harbin now has his first set of "Heaven" images up: Lumberjack Heaven.

Whee!

Thanks, Olga/Hi, Dustin

A huge thank-you, again, to Olga Volozova for being our guest at Partyka for the month of February. Here's a bit from her "Baba Yaga in Santa Monica:"

Coming up in two days is Dustin Harbin, who'll be rolling out a Partyka-exclusive* set of visions of Heaven that will knock your socks off. Color us flattered.**

*well, for March. When convention season rolls around, it will become an incredible mini.
**a sort of seafoam-green. Like envy, but self-directed, as if you could not believe that something so awesome was happening to you.

Solve Your Problems/Plague Carriers

New daily drawings are up at Partyka. Here are the two most recent: Solve Your Problems and Plague Carriers.

Pink Meteor 2

New daily drawing up at Partyka: Pink Meteor 2.

Knife Salesman/I Went To A Puppet Show

New daily drawings up at Partyka, including today's, Knife Salesman.


In other news, I went up to Brooklyn two weeks ago for the Paping Puppet Show at Desert Island. John hauled the pieces of his puppet theater down from the Bronx in a mind-bendingly small sedan, and then Sean, Adrienne and I helped assemble the thing.

Here are John and Sean talking about how to make the thing stand up. Adrienne's hand is visible at left.

Here is John performing the actual labor required to make a puppet theater stand up. By the way, when I say I "helped," I actually mean "Gabe let me eat a burrito in his store." Thanks, Gabe!

(this image taken from blockmagazine.com)

Following is a picture of the theater as assembled. Most of the action takes place against the backdrop at the very top, with title cards and some supplemental puppeting happening in those recessed square bits on the front face. It's three acts performed to prerecorded narration, music and effects; it's all sorts of charming.


Here's the population of the shop after the show ended. You can see they've been charmed.


Sean and Shawn talking to Peter, the source for the story behind the show's second act:


In the proud Partyka tradition of fucking-around-ery, here's me taking a picture of a mugging Mr. Cheng while Mr. McCarthy tries to cram all the puppet show bits back into John's car.


After the show ended, we ate at the renovated Kellogg's Diner, which wasn't half bad. We also got into a digital camera duel with Roger, who was sitting a few booths down. This is a picture of him taking a picture of us:


Good times. Then I got onto a bus for two hours.

Our February Guest: Olga Volozova

New on Partyka this week: our February guest Olga Volozova, whose book "The Airy Tales" came out from Sparkplug not long ago. Here's a page from "Mukumaka Lives in the Rain:"



...also, thanks again to Damien Jay for guest daily-drawing in December and January.

Scott Pilgrim is a Verb

...Scott Pilgrim is a doing word.

(via perpetua)

-Baby, I am going to Scott Pilgrim you all night long.

-I Scott Pilgrim the taste of a fresh pizza.

-I used to Scott Pilgrim Radiohead, but lately do not find myself interested in their music.

(library school/back pain/poor work ethic no new drawings yet sorrysorrysorry)