another wonder woman

hmmm, since it's been over a week, you'd think there'd be a lot to post... but with the two kids during the day and working on the dc licensing gig after the family's in bed, i haven't had much time for anything else... besides a few tv shows, which i'll get to in a bit.

we DID get a chance to visit our good friends jamie and karen at the hospital after the arrival of their beautiful baby daughter (good luck with her, jamie!)... since johnny couldn't visit, he's been going on... and on... and on... and on... about going to play at their house and see the baby (who's quite the cutie, i gotta say)...

should be (well, kinda have to be) done with this dc gig next week, so i can get back to a big pile o' commissions and get ready to head down to charlotte for heroes con (and before that, have johnny's big 3 birthday party)...

so, we've gotten to the end of another tv season... heroes seemed a bit anticlimactic, but still interesting... 24, well, it's over... sopranos is looking like it's gonna end with a bang (the last one was just crazy good), the office was great (if you didn't check out creed thoughts over on nbc.com, go do it now! man, i'm really loving that character these days... and the very last bit with ryan = priceless!)... and lost?! i won't spoil anything, but i'm glad i stuck around, 'cause it really picked up and i'm loving what's going on... but GAH, another show with a 9 month wait for the next season?!)... still haven't watched any of the latest veronica mars (figured i'd try and enjoy'm, since that's all we're gonna get... which is a shame, but it's not the first time a GREAT show got cancelled because it couldn't find an audience... at least we got 3 great seasons, right? although it does make me wonder about people when the pusscat dolls show gets better ratings)

okay, back to work... oh and here's that wonder woman i mentioned...



-c

the creature from the black lagoon

okay, here's yet another canson commission... always fun when it's someone/thing i haven't drawn (the upcoming list including josie of the pussycats and jasmine from aladdin, as well as hermoine, should be fun)...

still working on the dc licensing gig, not much else going on here workwise (which is good, 'cause that dc job is keeping me plenty busy)...

thinking about getting together a second canson sketch book for charlotte (although, since i didn't have the first one at last year's show, i might wait 'til baltimore, now that i think of it)... hmmmmm.

sox are on fire these days, dice-k finally showed us what he's really capable of last night and lived up to the hype... very nice. (funny that as a life-long red sox fan, i keep thinking i'd better enjoy this streak now, since the season's barely started... we'll see come september)

don't watch many commercials these days (thanks, tivo!) but i do catch those mac ads once in a while (downloaded and am enjoying the quirky book by john "pc" hodgeman)... as a mac owner, i do find some of those spots funny - not necessarily true, however... especially the mac "genius" spot, seeing that my experience with a "genius" was far from successful (me, after waiting about an hour - "hey, i think there might be a problem with my powerbook's drive, but i'm not sure", genius- "oh no, that's just the cd disc drive, sounds out of balance... it'll be fine for the time being, but you might want to replace it in the future", me- "um, okay... thanks" while thinking i should back up the drive again just in case, which i didn't get to do since the next time i started it up when i got home from the apple store, the hard disc crashed... and while i didn't get any "cryptic error" message like they say pcs get in another spot, i just got a question mark in a folder... not much more encouraging, if you ask me)

okay, enough rambling, back to work!

-c

what i'm listening to as i type this... "the else" by they might be giants

"two fer" tuesday

one of the great things about being in new england here is the changing of the seasons... spring is back and all the trees are starting to bloom (and the kids can play outside again)...

got to see a good game up at fenway ... ugly first inning from dice-k... 5 (runs on 2 hits? ouch.) but it got better.

had a good time up at jetpack comics on free comic book day ... and then spending a few hours at my local shop on sunday.

work moves along on commissions and the dc licensing gig... who knows, maybe i'll get motivated and start contacting editors at dc and marvel again soon...

here's another piece i did for hitoshi and his most impressive collection (check it out on the comic art fans gallery... sorry i don't have the link handy)...



so, there's an end in sight for lost... good for the storytelling, i think. (this season really bounced back after an uneven start... so did 24, to a lesser degree...) season (and series) finales are on the way in the next few weeks, looks to be some good tv.

-c

bring on the sith...

wow, what a beautifully sunny thursday here in new england... been working hard on yet more commissions and a fun job for dc licensing...

was able to catch a sneak of spider-man 3 last night. it was pretty darn good, although it seemed to try and fit an AWFUL lot into the story (with way too much connecting of story elements)... and a few bad "funny" moments ruined the momentum for me... but great action (maybe a bit too frenetic at times) and character development. i'm still thinking the 2 movies i wanna see this summer are superbad and knocked up.

heading up to fenway tonight to see dice-k in action, hope it's a good game!

man, i LOVED that new hellboy book that came out this week (duncan fegredo is easily one of my favorite artists working today... brilliant stuff!)

oh, yeah, here's a few star wars pieces i did for john higashi (hence the title of today's post... although i guess it should be "bring on the bug guys and trooper droids" but that just doesn't sound as cool)...




-c