Well, I must say I’ve been working like a fiend to get my Abe entry in for I Am the Last VCR before Cait and I leave to visit her parents in Charlotte this weekend. I thought the Inspiratomatic was as in-depth as I would get for our little artsy community, but boy was I wrong. I’ve spent all day and all night for the last week and a half on this damn thang. A three-page comic, in color, and in the Stan Lee-Jack Kirby-Steve Ditko Marvel Manner. It sorta rocks my own face off. There, I said it.

Last night: a breakthrough. Sometimes one’s mind is not in any state to read a New Yorker article. Each sentence takes at least ten minutes, and drawing a drawing will do much better to help said mind to relax while remaining engaged. I hadn’t drawn Buchwald the Repentant Demon in a long time, and it looks like he’s been very lonely.

The Inspiratomatic has gotten a really positive response from my dearly beloved, so I got a domain for it. I’m gonna see if it can’t make at least a minor splash in the Blagoblogosphere. Just a heads up. So look out!

Speaking of Dr. Strange, I drew a picture of him (below). In my never-ending quest for accurate detail and my nerdy desire to stay “on model,” half way through doodling the occult surgeon, I looked up drawings of him by co-creator Steve Ditko on the Google. I had read through his adventures in the Marvel Essentials format, which is a big soft cover, black & white newsprint book. I thought the crazy character designs and psychedelic dreamscapes were basically the coolest thing to ever happen in super hero comics. Then, thanks to the Google and Sanctum Sanctorum Comix, I saw it in color. Whoah. God bless those little old ladies in Connecticut that meticulously cut out all those halftone screens in these acid candy rainbow hues.