| Peter is the Wolf: Book 2: The Ever changing face of Feetlebaum. |
[May. 25th, 2012|03:40 am] |
He's determined. He's published. He's got car troubles.
Professor Feetlebaum is one of the supporting cast of Peter is the Wolf.
A put upon Professor of Parapsychology & Cryptozoology. 
And one of the Main 4's annoy-tagonists.
Of course, when he was introduced, it wasn't known if "guy in VW beetle" would show up again, in any context, and as such, not much effort was put into his design. And as his appearances increased, and his car, a VolksWagon New Beetle was further demolished, something happened.
I really didn't like that initial drawing, so he changed. His hairline came forward, got bushier and a tad more "eccentric", and his mustache took on a more definite shape.
He's a fun character, named by Kris Overstreet from a classic sketch comedy character by Doodles Weaver. He's a publish-or-perish sort, the kind of person you always hear on the radio plugging his latest book. That is, if you stay up late enough, and listen to AM-only stations, or perhaps just the HAM radio from your basement whilst wearing a tinfoil hat.
And while his basic, stereotypically professorial look of tweed jacket with leather patches has remained, his gear also varies somewhat from appearance to appearance,losing his "1/32nd Cherokee" medicine-wheel bolo tie in favor of a "No one can take a person who wears a bowtie seriously" bowtie. (Yeah, I grabbed the most recent article as of this writing. Funny thing is, Sherman Alexi already mocked the "1/32nd Cherokee, 1/1 NewAger Stereotype" in his book Indian Killer.)
And there you have him, the person most desirous to uncover the secrets of cryptids, and last person the local Pack would ever want to trust the secret to. An 'open-minded', yet utterly opportunistic academic, exaggerated to the level of parody that only real life could ever accomplish fully.
Now, would you kindly buy his book? Or ours? |
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| Peter is the Wolf: Book 2 Production updates. |
[May. 18th, 2012|03:01 am] |
Just thought I'd share an example of what I'm trying to accomplish, now that I'm finally getting down to brass tacks and trying to complete PitW Book 2: Life in the Dog House (I think that's what the title is supposed to be).
So yeah, going back and not only editing an image, but re-drawing parts, I'll try to do this here and there when I can, or when it's necessary. Kris Overstreet already emailed me a laundry list of edits and corrections, and we also have to figure out A) how many pages will go into each version of the final book, given this is... at least a good 20 pages longer than book one; and B) How we're going to fund it. I'm pretty sure, given the content, that Kickstarter would be a non-starter as an option for us.
Another edit I realize I need to do is change Peter's T-Shirt in chapter 1 from the "I'm a Faygo Kid" that he's wearing. A simple series of edits, but we don't have permission to publish that, so... I've got to have him wearing something else. Relating to the current comic, Brooke & Cyndi don't have much going on on theirs, either.
My hope is to quickly draw up a Tiki-Lee-Lee's hat & shirt logo.
Speaking of which: Tiki-Lee-Lee's is named for a Lovecraft reference. It's structure is inspired from a local eats that I love Bray's Hamburgers, substituting their Donkey holding a burger statue with a 15-foot tall penguin (once again, bouncing back to reference At The Mountains of Madness, which I must confess I've yet to read). |
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| Motivational Mondays! |
[Mar. 26th, 2012|12:26 pm] |
And why I need to quit eating at cheap chinese buffets.
Childish, I know.
But hey, since Kim Harrison has a new book out:
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| Movie We-Views: The Hunger Games |
[Mar. 24th, 2012|01:37 am] |
Okay, so I won't open this up with "Get your ass to mars" like all my comments about John Carter, but this is likely to be the next big book series movie adaptations, and the first big movie release of the year, if the midnight showings and Friday night lines are anything to go by. It's no Harry Potter, personally, but it's also no Twilight, thankfully.
The movie does do some interesting satire, on what I'd call the "Britney Spears Machine" as the heroine Katniss and the others are turned into pop icons-of-the-moment, 15 minutes of fame and disposable in every sense of the word. They're taught to play to cameras for the home viewers and smile to the big money, whom they will rely on to be sent gift baskets while in the field. There's also a bit of "The Spartan Way" with District 1, and I wonder if they get more into that in the further books/movies.
Anyhoo, the main gripe I have is the camerawork. The shaky-cam versus controlled shots do eventually find a rhyme and reason, but in the early scenes, dammit, there's just no ability to focus on... well... the squalor, properly. And it does little to enhance an action scene, merely being used to cover up the lack of fight choreography. Not that they'd have much of an excuse for that, merely being amateurs with 4 days worth of limited survival training.
I'm also, can I say, oddly, a fan of President Snow's "hating" the "underdog"? I just wish they'd given him a bit more to say. It's almost an accidental critique of the Arab Spring revolts. For Generic McVillainBoss I'd like to see a bit more justification for The Hunger Games mentioned in the movies. I'm getting tired of 1-dimensional evul in young adult lit.
**EDIT**
Now that I think about it... "the underdog" is kinda an @$$hole. Bigoted, racist, homophobic good-ol-boys into their footbawl and bread and circuses... F*** THE UNDERDOG! Oppress that douchenozzle for all you're worth! Keep that fascist foot on his neck, keeping that hillbilly jihadist on the ground is what's keeping them from beating up on queers and wives! Damn... this hard cider is pretty good. I am a lightweight drinker!
Hey, and you can tell it's the future, because everyone dresses like a moron. Just like in historical movies, you can tell it's the past because... everyone dresses like a moron. This is the only time in your life when anyone will ever be sensibly dressed. Like Lady Gaga.
**END EDIT**
All in all, it was a good movie, though I doubt I'll see it twice, like I did John Carter. John Carter was in both 3D and D-Box. (PROTIP: Any movie with Horsies, see the D-Box.) |
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| Motivational Mondays! |
[Mar. 12th, 2012|02:58 pm] |
Now Mr. Copper, Mr. Crime-Stopper, there ain't nuthin' wrong with what we're doin'...
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| Motivational Mondays! |
[Mar. 5th, 2012|01:21 pm] |
Dey Back! With a bit of Queen's Blade
Ugh, lent be wearin' me down. And I've been doing a lot of Overtime in the run up to Furry Weekend Atlanta, where I have a table. |
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| Oh, ghod, Kenny Rogers meets Anonymous? |
[Mar. 2nd, 2012|01:07 am] |
Why is this in my head?
It was a warm 4Chan eve, on a board marked for Random,
Met up with Anonymous, we were booth wired on caffeine
So we took turns a sharin' the worst weblinks we could think of
when I reached for my brainbleach, he sent me a meme-
Newfag I've got no life, 'cause I fap to those webspaces
of knowing what the cards were, by the way the held their eyes.
And if you don't mind my saying, I can see you're out of aces,
For a taste of your whiskey, I'll give you some advice.</i>
Now ever Anon knows, that the key to survival, is knowing what
what to raid upon, and spoofing ISP
You got to know how to troll 'em, know when to fold 'em.
Hmmm "Know how to Troll them"... gotta poke around in that. |
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| Motivational Mondays! |
[Feb. 27th, 2012|02:03 am] |
About time I started this up again!
Did a bunch of these while cleaning up files on my comp over the weekend. Turned a bunch of bmps into jpgs to save space, and got inspired. |
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