CONTORTED PASTA

Back in 2011, the animation department at Disney wanted to put out an anthology of comics, like the story department's Torch Tiger and Rocket Johnson. To make a long story short ... it kind of fell apart. Well, completely fell apart. I was one of the few who actually got my comic finished, and I sat on it for a while hoping things would get sorted out, but the ashes are cold now, so here it is. Enjoy?



( Seven More Pages of Full-Colour Mad Science! )

The original anthology idea was to have a little flipbook in the outside corners, so if you're wondering why the text or composition is a little off, that is why.

THIS JUST IN: a thoroughly decent clip from Re-Animator: The Musical!

Better than coffee! (If you don't mind starting your day with plagiarism, a nice beheading, and some reagent...)

THANKS octaveleap!

If the prospect of being hanged in a fortnight concentrates the mind wonderfully, the prospect of getting eight pages coloured and lettered in that time, after hours only, is at least a pale shadow of that ... so that's my 'lack of focus' problem cured. And if, as the physicists say, time was invented so that everything didn't happen at once, and space so that everything didn't happen to you, they clearly overlooked April 2011, because holy cow, all the things ever OMG. Where were you all in March when I was sunk in a dreadful malaise of feeling useless and unwanted?

Anyway, despite nearly throwing away my flash drive and then having all but one computer in the lab not recognise its existence last night, the comic's nearly done!  Then within the month I shall be seeing Re-Animator: the Musical! It's based on the movie, which bears about as much resemblance to the original stories as Disney's Hunchback does to Victor Hugo's, but come on – The Musical. There will be much snickering. And the timing could not be more hilarious. (see: everything at once.)

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Some goodies dug up from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society in the course of my research –

• Two of my Favourite Things in one sweatshirt, for much personal hilarity!
• Vintage Fonts! I am actually considering buying the CD as there are some dead useful ones not in the free pack. Should've done it before the deadline! Ah well. Maybe for Episode 2. Oh no no don't want to think about episode 2 right now ...
• Old-Timey Documents in PDF ... that's some gorgeous redesign work.

What better way to celebrate the 141st anniversary of the Confederation of Canada than with some horrible fishy froggy demon creatures? Let's visit the lovely New England seaside town of Innsmouth.


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Sorry for the large file; I rather liked the way it scanned so I didn't greyscale or adjust levels which usually brings down the file size.

JN: The sixth column

I had the opportunity to take an after-work character design class taught by some of the best artists in the studio, so naturally I jumped at it. In the first session we were encouraged to bring in characters from outside projects we might be working on; the narrator and accomplice in the Herbert West stories had been giving me problems so I decided to tackle him.

( Boring Drawings of a Boring Guy )

Mr Lovecraft reminds me of the thought Mr Schama placed in my head: that I need to study the Puritans more in order to better understand the U.S.

' ... the product of generations of pathetic Puritanism; kindly, conscientious, and sometimes gentle and amiable, yet always narrow, intolerant, custom-ridden, and lacking in perspective.'

~ From The Plague-Daemon

Unfortunately most Americans' familiarity with their Calvinist founders stops at the Grade 2 Thanksgiving Feast reenactment. Puritans ... they were the ones with the buckled hats and big white collars, right? You mean Pilgrims. They landed at Mayflower and had Thanksgiving and nine months later America was born. The end.

Ohhh, historical ignorance.

I promise there will be drawings tomorrow.