Guten Tag.45--Comi-conned

So yeah, I went to my first comicon this past weekend. It was pretty sweet. Saw Guy Davis, who has been drawing the B.P.R.D. series regularly for the past few years. Got to talk about the series a little bit while he did a cool sketch of Abe Sapien.

 

Also got to talk to David Peterson, who draws Mouse Guard, and is also from Michigan. My friend Sean and I were talking to him about how he does his comic, and just comics in general. He had some good advice about plotting the script and laying out panels. He also did a nice sketch of one of his characters, Black Axe for me. 

The cool thing is that this all happened within an hour of the doors opening, so I just walked around for the next 6 hours looking through boxes of comics. I guess that's how comicons go? Maybe it's just Detroit. I'm sure San Diego or New York is much bigger and has more stuff to do, but that's alright. The fact that there were less people than I expected meant it was easier to talk to the guests, so that was cool. 

Some dudes from Battlestar Galactica were there too. Commander Tigh and Chief Tyrol, for any nerds who follow the series...like I did... Anyways, they were cool to talk to. Aaron Douglas (Chief Tyrol) was talking to us about the Red Wings/Anaheim series, so that was cool. Some old dude was creeping out the girl who played Kat from BSG. He wanted her to sign a picture that was taken of him and her, in which he was wearing a shirt with a picture of him and her on it... It's like when you take a picture of yourself holding a mirror. And then he got down on his knees and gave her a box of chocolate or something. The dude sitting at her table, comicon security or whatever, I guess, was up in his face waiting for him to do something, but this guy was just being weird in a non-threatening way. Awkward. 

So overall, got a bunch of sweet deals on trades, got to talk to some artists/writers that I like, got to talk to some guys from a show I watched religiously, saw a few people dressed up like Deadpool and other superheroes, Storm Shadow(?), missed Taimak (Bruce Leeroy from The Last Dragon), etc. It was alright. I'll probably go back next year. 

Alright. Later. 

-ryan

Guten Tag.44--Finals

How is it possible to make it through the day on 3 hours of sleep? I'm just glad this semester is almost over. No more all-nighters for me.

-rh

Guten Tag.43--Unbiased Journalism

Just presenting the facts. You decide. 

-ryan

Guten Tag.42--Car Trouble (Edited 4.19)

So I've been listening to a number of composers lately: Holst, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Stravinsky, Belioz, Sibelius, etc. Thank you, Pandora radio. My oldest brother tells me that most of these guys' music falls under the genre of tone poems, not necessarily formal classical music, even though I wouldn't be able to make that distinction. (at least not yet, since I haven't studied or listened to enough classical music)

Anyway, tone poems stray from the formal structures and traditional scales found in classical music, and try to evoke a certain mood or match the persona or feel of a certain subject. It was a modern movement of the late 19th-early 20th century that was most likely inspired by the aftermath of WWI (acc. to my brother). I'm really digging it, as opposed to older classical stuff, because a lot of it seems more dynamic and chaotic. I like to think of it as classical music's counterpart to post-rock/post-metal music (Explosions in the Sky, Pelican, etc.)

Anyway, I'm glad that the sun's getting out more everyday. I like to be warm, not on the brink of hypothermia.

-ryan

Wow, just realized I didn't upload the strip before this one.

Here it is anyway:

alright. later

-ryan

Guten Tag.41 (I think this is a bad post naming convention. I mean, the number refers to the number of the post, not the number of the strip, so why..

...am I even numbering them at all? Shouldn't I just give them titles? I guess numbers give you a bearing of which post is more recent, but that's what the navigation bar is for. For now I'll keep the numbers, since I'm not clever enough to come up with a catchy title for each post.)

alright. comic strips. 

-ryan

Guten Tag.40--Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

So here's the second of my graphic-novel movie related Guten Tag strips.

I really want to see Watchmen. Even if there's not a giant squid bomb...

Gah. busy busy busy. I wish I could draw all day. 

Alright, take it easy everyone.

ryan

Guten Tag.39--'Catchup'

Alright, hopefully you've noticed the redesign of the blog. It's all thanks to the awesome skills I've been honing in my web design class so far. Oh yeah, scroll all the way down the page to get the full effect. I'll probably have to change it soon for spring, but knowing Michigan, that might not come for a while.

Anyway, I have been doing strips, so here they are. Suggestions?

later

-ryan

Guten Tag.38

hello hello. I'm all excited that it's going to be 45 or 46 degrees tomorrow. But I'll probably stay inside all day and squander this heat wave by doing 'homework'.

enough jibber jabber.

look, I made this:




-ryan

Guten Tag.37

Not much to talk about since last time, except for the fact that I've finally played Left 4 Dead. My lust for zombie genocide is momentarily quenched. 

Oh also, it's still one hundred degrees below zero here in Michigan.

Alright, later.

-ryan

Guten Tag.36

Long time, no see. Sorry. I apologize by presenting you with these original Guten Tag strips, free of charge:

Well, it's a new year, and already for me it's off to a good start.

My brother and his wife had their baby recently and she's beautiful. 

Madelyn Marsaili Hoffman. 

I can't wait until when they move back to the states.

Alright, have a good week. 

-ryan