Comics

I kind of abhor the term "web comics" as, while I understand it is simply a way to differentiate a subset of the overall comics medium, I feel like it has a stigma attached to it so I simply avoid using it as much as I can.  I've been reading a lot of new comics lately though, and I thought I'd create a list of links here to share them and sort of keep track of the ones that stand out.  The problem is, there are a lot of good ones, but there are a choice few that have simply hit the mark for me.

http://amultiverse.com/ - Scenes From A Multiverse by Jonathan Rosenberg
http://gunshowcomic.com/ - Gunshow by KC Green
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php - Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ - Diesel Sweeties by R Stevens

That's all for now, I may update this list later.

The Shark

Gonna be trying to do some cleaning up around here over the next few weeks.  I'm going back to the studio to finish everything up this Friday!  In the meantime, gotta make everything look nice and consistent so I can effectively try to promote this record.  Being an independent artist is like being a record label and an artist all at the same time so I'm grateful to my Sphere Music Group family for helping me keep things together!  I probably won't have much else to say here from now until the album is out so now you can begin to wait anxiously if you like...  The Shark is coming!

The final countdown

Well, this is it. All features and guest musicians are arranged, all songs are written and demo'd, the recording sessions are planned and scheduled. Rehearsing with EyeJay Thursday to get the drums down and then after this weekend, if I don't have a full album recorded, it won't be for lack of trying.

No turning back now!

Progress, schemes and dreams

So work on writing for my project has been progressing nicely. I've got most of my album done being written, just trying to crack the last two songs for it and go back and refine what I've written so far. It's always funny to me how the process of creating songs from scratch feels like cutting and pasting a collage of ideas and mashing it flat and trimming off the dangling bits until you have something that resembles a well thought out piece of work. 

EyeJay has been helpful and patiently letting me use his brain to help produce the demos out so I have a good foundation to teach someone drums to and then record at eagle audio some time in august. I'm pretty much doing the whole thing on my own cause it's easier than finding session musicians but I can't play drums and I'm trying to get a little string section together to perform on one of the songs. 

Lots of planning and doing coming up, the not so fun aspects of creativity. I'm looking forward to having the project in my hand to be able to give to people especially since I've seen the art development so far and it's looking pretty good if I say so. Justin Kiehl killing it as usual. And that is it for my update!