Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
On a first-come first served basis, Ninave-Cindy volunteered and got
the job of writing (and occasionally updating) the everything you need
to know about the Comics page at Neilgaiman.com .

I was playing today with the Coraline website at mousecircus.com --
it's wonderful, haunting Stephin Merritt music, rats and cats that run
across the page, weird easter eggs and suchlike, screensavers and
e-cards and everything. I can't wait for it to go live.
  

    
When is it going live??
  

    
As soon as it's finished -- probably within the next couple of
weeks...
  

    
E-mail from Jouni:

Meg -- Thanks! Great links! Oh, and welcome to the swapmeet. Here, have a
fish!

I'm currently considering different techniques for the illustrations (black
ink would be easiest&quickest&cheapest, but there are other, more
challenging options... we'll see), so I'm not entirely sure how long it's
going to take, but when I have something worth showing, I'll post it. ;-)

Jouni
  

    
Jouni - Thanks for the welcome! I'll have to go find a nice bowl for
the fish...

Good luck on the illustration project! I can't wait to see how it
turns out, I went and read the poem and loved it!
  

    
I killed a Trojan last night. Proudly I slew it.
Deep in my registry it lurked. I gave it no quarter.
Nortons had fallen and PestPatrol saw nothing.
Still, Keyhook.dll kept appearing from nowhere.
Safe, in command mode, that was how I slew it.
Which is a DOS prompt, as in the battles of my youth.
System32.exe is no more. All of its proud posturing
Has gone for nothing. Now it is History.
Another dead Trojan. It is one with Achilles
And Paris and Helen, and the walls of proud Troy.
  

    
Er, sorry.
  

    
*boggle*

Don't be.

Phenomenal.
  

    

Hee. That was good. A daring battle deep in the registry. Verily, I am
amused.

Saw Star Wars last night. I recommend that everyone a) go see it, and b)
bring earplugs for the scenes on Naboo.
  

    
neil: you're on crack. hehehehehehehehehe

all: okay, I was invisible again for a fortnight. But this time, I'm
serious. I'm still (jouni) looking for t-shirt designs (jouni) so that
we can do well shirts (jouni) so if anyone (jouni) would like to send
me art, please do so? Then we can pick with one or ones we definitely
definitely want shirts made from. I'm going to be very official, and
say please send them to me by June 15th. There. That's a deadline. Now,
I feel all grown up.  Here are my doodles:
http://ljconstantine.com/wellians but those are only my doodles. ANyone
with doodles, email me your doodles and I'll put them up!
  

    
For a moment I wondered why Neil was writing poetry about condoms.  But all
became clear.
  

    
Neil, I have been to that computer mental breakdown land, so I won't
fault you for going crackers.

Tara:  I like the designs.  I'd be proud to wear all of them. 
Er...that is to say...not at the same time.  

Been pretty busy so I haven't posted in a while.  I don't think I'll
ever fully catch up.  *sigh*
  

    

I love the poem.  Love, love, love the poem.

Tara - I like the one with the fish!

Will you add a line somewhere about the goldfish swapmeet or some such?
  

    
Sinony whined as he
Said to the city folk
"Look at our tribute,
This carpentered horse;"
Someone objected in
Terms hardly metrical;
Up coiled some critics and
Ate him, of course.
  

    
Jouni,  take as much time as you need! I can't wait to see what you
do.

Meg, welcome to the fishbowl, and thank you for saying you loved the
poem. It's very sweet of you..

Neil,  all hail the fierce warrior!

Mike,  teehee, very nice!

******
I just got a phone call from Debbie, rousing me from my sick-ish
half-sleep, which reminded me:

Happy Birthday Mary!!
  

    
Taking the day off today. They're shooting a bunch of stuff I'm not in
today, and everything else I was supposed to do doesn't really need
me, so I'm staying at home and doing dishes and laundry and feeling
quite delighted to be doing so.

Neil - I salute you. I'd get all cocky and tell you how we mac users
don't have to deal with such nonsense, but with OS X, I'm not sure that
we're as safe as we used to be.

In other matters, the Artistic Director of my company is particularly
keen on my adapting Lafferty's "Six Fingers of Time" for the October
show. Do you by any chance happen to know of a more direct person to
contact about such things than the publisher? His agent, or his estate?

Tara - Go, Tara. Go, Tara. Go, Tara. Looking forward to owning one of
these shirts soon...

Madman - I'd have to agree, Star Wars is certainly worth seeing...
although I think that the reliance on CG characters and effects is
really hurting the film. Everything just looks so cartoony... the older
creatures may not have been very articulate, but they looked like they
were made of something real... 
It's quite a spectacle, though...
  

    
Yeah, I hate to say it, but I'm not sure that I'll see Star Wars in
the theater. The last one disappointed me for the reasons Dan mentioned
above. I'm more excited about Insomnia!

Neil- what everyone else said. Hahaha. And I hope everyone is done
being sick, and you're back to writing:)

It's Mary's Birthday? *skims back through posts* Happy Birthday! 

Maure- I, too, loved the poem:)

Okay. Moby's on TV. I gotta go. Bye-bye.
  

    
Erynn,  thank you :)
  

    
... who is blaming the worsening of her cold on the beautiful outdoor
wedding of her friend Mollie at the Palace of Fine Arts (rotunda) this
afternoon. Although the tourists wanting to take photos with all the
dressed-up-freaks was kind of amusing (in retrospect).

Hey everyone. Sorry I've been sort of gone for a few days. Mostly I
just wanted to pop my head in to say YES! and do a little happy dance -
for the launch of Coraline will be nearby, allowing me not to have to
take on extra hours at work to afford another road trip!

Erynn - I'll get back to you on Peter, it happens on Tuesday.
Personally, I'm not looking forward to it. I'm getting rather sick of
members of Bauhaus choosing *rush hour* for me to have to play driver.

Jouni - Yay! 

Everyone else who posted stuff that I'm too out of it to respond to -
insert appropriate witty banter here.

squeaks, who loathes cold medication
  

    
Poor squeaks....

Double that YAY on the Coraline event being in SF, and triple it for
it happening (probably) during the FIRST week on July, as I will be out
of town the following week and would have been highly put out to have
missed it.
  

    <scribbled by dfowlkes Tue 3 Jul 12 10:14>
  

    
Squeaks,  I sympathize .. I was sick all weekend. I hate that. Would
you do me a huge favor? Could you email me your address
(egregiousbalihoo@aol.com)? I had it, but I don't know what I did with
it, and I have something for you. Thanksh.
  

    
Erynn, the only thing I would add, though, is that Star Wars is meant
to be seen on a big screen.  It might change one's experience to watch
it on a TV.  Just a thought.
  

    
Erynn - I'm with Adriana. Big screen - big difference.

Maure - check your inbox. if it's not there, I'll get it to you
tomorrow when I'm awake enough to read your address correctly. (aren't
head-colds fun?)

squeaks, who just found out she doesn't have to drive in rush hour!
  

    
mouse/adriana- True. Though I saw the last one on the big screen and
really wasn't all that impressed. I hear that this one's better though.
So I might. 
squeaks- I hope your cold gets better. I would be so nervous if I had
to drive Mr. Murphy around. I'd probably crash or something while
trying to think of something witty to say.... Have fun:)

Erynn, now reading The Last Hot Time (and liking it)