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Post by Shevy on Apr 9, 2005 7:28:21 GMT -5
I read this book for school called Speak about some whiny bitch who's bitter and has no friends because she got raped and was misunderstood because nobody knew. That sounds like a funny book. I had to read this really funny book once for school about a young girl that wanted to be a dancer when she grew up, but she had AIDS and died. I just finished up reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. I was hoping it would have a strong encryption theme seeing as the whole theme of the book revolved around an unbreakable code which the most powerful brute force computer in the world couldn't get into because certain strings of the algorithm could mutate...but it was your typical Who Dunnit story with underlying love theme and generic twists one could see coming from a mile away. Now reading Desperation by Stephen King. |
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Post by slodki on Apr 11, 2005 17:50:57 GMT -5
i'm reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand but i can't really commit because i have monomania of the crocheting right now
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Post by smcproductions on Apr 19, 2005 13:15:27 GMT -5
i'm reading a book on drawing manga. not that my comic is going to be manga style, but gives me a lot of good pointers.
by the way, shev, the comic i've been working on needs dialouge and i'm about half-way done with the ink on all the pages, then i'll be done. my story is about 30 pages long. it's a years worth of work. i dont expect the other chapters to take as long as i've improved vastly. one of the main things that ate up my time was learning new techniques. not that i wont always be learning new things, but before i started working on this, there was a lot of stuff i just didnt know how to do. i thought i was a pretty good artist before, but there are certain things i had to learn to draw accurately (cars, buildings, armor, weapons, ect. not to mention perspectives that i had never touched down on). before all that, i'd just draw a demon or monster or something and consider it a complete work of art.
anyways, shev, about KITF comics, i know i've neglected our ideas for it. sorry bout that, but do you want to just use this comic for KITF when i'm done? i dont mind people downloading scans for free when it first comes out. maybe we can then sell merch and if it gets popular, just put samples of each chapter on the page and people can order if theyre interested. i dont know, i still have a buttload of work to do on it, but trust me, it's going to be impressive....and gory.....and disturbing.
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Post by Shevy on Apr 19, 2005 13:34:44 GMT -5
You bought that book so you could draw naken Sailor Moon characters.
As for your current comic, I'm cool with marketing it along side KitF, but I may have to pass if there's much porn in it. I'm already pushing the envelope as it is with my hosting service, so anything too graphic might get me booted. I'd have to check it out first and kind of play it by ear.
T-shirts would be wicked cool, though. I was just looking into some custom T-shirts through an on-line company. Unlike cafe-press they'll actually print on black shirts. I'm going to see if I can work something out with the guy who should be working on our database and see if he can whip up a shopping cart for us or something.
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Post by smcproductions on Apr 19, 2005 15:08:41 GMT -5
oooh! damn, it may be a no go there. i have a drawing of a lizard creature raping a dead chick while eating a fetus, and that's not even the worst of it. perhaps we can just show a few mild sample pages along with a warning that the comic is sexually explicit and sell it, or would the fact we're selling something like that in the first place be a no go as well? i dunno. i just gotta worry about finishing it before i worry about who's going to reject it for being too foul.
t-shirts would be awesome. i was gonna put the main villian (you've seen pics of this tendrilled demon in the quarry of skulls) on the front with the words "BONEYARD BATTLES", and on the back it would say "BATTLE UP, OR GET THE FUCK OUT!" but of course, i still gotta worry about finishing the comic first.
by the way, nude anime chicks are just about the easiest thing in the world to draw. right up there with stick figures and the baby blues funnies strip. if anyone needed a book to teach them that, i would suggest they not quit their day job.
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Post by 1:( on Apr 19, 2005 22:37:54 GMT -5
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Post by slodki on Apr 20, 2005 11:27:32 GMT -5
i read that link and it made me think about how my current creatie writing teacher loves stephen king, every class he brings up the stand as if it is the most prolific book ever. makes my head swim.
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Post by 1:( on Apr 20, 2005 11:35:41 GMT -5
My creative writing class destroyed everybody. Well, actually, it kind of made everyone's GPA look better. My teacher decided to give us all 100s. As long as we were writing, it didn't matter. What a joke...
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Post by sc00ts on Apr 20, 2005 11:44:37 GMT -5
i don't think you know what prolific means
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Post by 1:( on Apr 20, 2005 12:03:10 GMT -5
Dictionary.com says:
pro·lif·ic Audio pronunciation of "prolific" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-lfk)
adj.
1. Producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile.
2. Producing abundant works or results: a prolific artist. See Synonyms at fertile.
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Post by slodki on Apr 20, 2005 16:03:06 GMT -5
yeah, he does write in abudant amounts... thankfully the class is an easy a. so pretty much the same boat, lamp. i'm reading extremly loud and incredibly close up right now as well as devil is in the detail which i thought was hysterical.
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Post by slodki on Apr 23, 2005 13:27:32 GMT -5
the avow anthology
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thrashed
Hauptmann
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Post by thrashed on Apr 27, 2005 0:44:30 GMT -5
i just read that "a boy called it" book. thats some fucked up shit
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Post by slodki on Apr 27, 2005 11:36:56 GMT -5
like the part when all his skin peels off...gnarly. the follow up books are shitty they are all spiritual and don't have any gory parts just him grappling with being a father
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thrashed
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Post by thrashed on May 31, 2005 21:22:30 GMT -5
like the part when all his skin peels off...gnarly. the follow up books are shitty they are all spiritual and don't have any gory parts just him grappling with being a father the whole book is sick. why would that kid take that sort of abuse. He didn't want to rat her out either that was the most fucked part about it. |
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Post by sc00ts on Jun 28, 2005 7:27:17 GMT -5
man i finally finished playing through morrowind so i can actually devote time to reading again (books i mean, not just magazines/zines etc). started reading the silmarilian a couple days ago. pretty dry so far but i have a high tolerance for that kinda stuff so i'll see how it goes.
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Post by slodki on Jul 17, 2005 13:43:08 GMT -5
middlesex, jeffery euguines
prep, curtis... i can't remeber the last name
mix tape:the art of the cassette, thurston moore
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Post by 1:( on Jul 17, 2005 15:20:00 GMT -5
Been reading Into The Wild for my tutoring. It's actually a good book. You can take any Jack London type fictional character and write about his fictional travels, but this was about a real person.
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Post by slodki on Jul 17, 2005 16:57:36 GMT -5
the man who wrote into the wild... is he the same man who took a camcorder with him for just the first year to document and then ended up living out there for forty years?
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Post by 1:( on Jul 17, 2005 17:20:06 GMT -5
Probably not. The kid died in '92, his article in Outdoor magazine ran in '93, the book was put out in '95.
Although he did go to Alaska when he was younger.
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