© C Harris Lynn, 2011
A rambling melange of pop-culture.
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
The Fine Art of Sweets
SWEETS: A NEW ORLEANS CRIME STORY, the acclaimed noir-inspired comic book miniseries written and drawn by Louisiana native Kody Chamberlain, will soon be collected into a complete trade paperback through Image Comics. Chamberlain's gritty and richly illustrated series tells the story of a down-and-out detective trying to bring a killer to justice before his city and evidence are washed away by an impending storm. SWEETS is steeped in effortless local detail, recalling readers to the sights, sounds, and flavors of New Orleans.While Chamberlain's fans await the release of the new trade paperback collection, his work is being presented for the first time ever in a fine arts gallery setting at The Arcadiana Center for the Arts. The gallery exhibition is now open and available for viewing until October 1st, 2011. Arcadiana Center for the Arts will also host a release party and book signing for the trade paperback comic with Chamberlain on September 10th at 6pm.
"Kody Chamberlain's work in this exhibit transcends the genre of comic illustration with a depth of perspective and intensity of vision that can only be described as masterful," said Dr. Gerd Wuestemann, Executive Director, Acadiana Center for the Arts. "The chiseled technical detail of his work combines with solid psychological underpinnings to draw the viewer down the rabbit hole and lets us wander in strange and exciting landscapes."
"This is a highly unique exhibit. I was able to install my entire miniseries, with lettering, in a gallery setting," said Chamberlain. "The 117 pages of sequential story completely fills the space with only a half inch of wall between each page, the end result is a striking visual experience. This comic feels like it's alive in that room."
SWEETS: A NEW ORLEANS CRIME STORY, was the winner of the 2011 Spinetingler Award in the category of Best Mystery/Crime Comic or Graphic Novel.
Gallery details:
Kody Chamberlain - Sweets: A New Orleans Crime Story
The Acadiana Center for the Arts - Mallia Gallery
101 W. Vermilion St., Lafayette, LA 70501
337.233.7060 (phone), 337.233.7062 (fax)
Hours: Tuesday - Friday: 10 AM - 5 PM, Saturday: 10 AM - 5 PM
Admission: Members: Free; General: $5; Students & Seniors: $3;
17 & Younger: $2; 4 & Younger: Free
SWEETS: A NEW ORLEANS CRIME STORY TP (JUN110516, ISBN: 978-1-60706-413-8), a 136-page full color crime noir comic book, will be on sale for $14.99 in stores September 9the.
© C Harris Lynn, 2011
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Monday, September 05, 2011
Saturday, September 03, 2011
GDW Products 40% Off This Weekend
All GDW products are 40% off this Labor Day Weekend at Drive-Thru RPG. GDW was the publisher of some of the tabletop RPG The Weirding supports, including Dark Conspiracy. I used the Twilight 2000 rules set while designing Metrodome and the rest of the content, so you can purchase that stuff, too.
GDW was a great tabletop RPG company which made a lot of fantastic, now classic, tabletop games in its day. There are several items for under $5.00, as well as several that are available for free - including an introduction to Dark Conspiracy - so check it out!
You need the core book to use the Dark Conspiracy material @ The Weirding.
© C Harris Lynn, 2011
GDW was a great tabletop RPG company which made a lot of fantastic, now classic, tabletop games in its day. There are several items for under $5.00, as well as several that are available for free - including an introduction to Dark Conspiracy - so check it out!
You need the core book to use the Dark Conspiracy material @ The Weirding.
© C Harris Lynn, 2011
Friday, September 02, 2011
Cut the Crap, Comic Books
Last time I'm going to say this (I sincerely doubt the veracity of that statement, just so you know I'm not completely delusional):
Cut the bullshit, comic book publishers, and just entertain me.
I'm not buying a bunch of new #1 comic books (actually, I am, but we'll get to that ); I'm not buying three and four copies of the same comic book just to get all the various covers; if I miss-out on the first-printing of a comic book I really wanted because you intentionally underprinted it to ensure a second-printing run, then I'll swallow my completist impulse and buy the later printing... and, worst of all, I'll expect to still be disappointed in the product I purchase, no matter what.
I've said it often enough, I've said it loudly enough, and I've said it forcefully enough; now I'm saying it with my wallet. The amount I spend on comic books has dropped over 50% since this time last year and is going down even further in coming months, as I drop title after meaningless filler title to focus on the half-dozen or so titles I actually care about. I no longer care that I'm only getting parts 1 and 3 of whatever it is I want to read; I'll just miss that story and pitch those comics into the box without ever reading them - after all, I'm only collecting them. They aren't worth reading, anyway.
In fact, I'm about a year behind on every title I read at this point. I just don't care to read them, because they upset me. When I start reading a comic only to find out I'm reading the third chapter of a longer story, and that I need to buy at least two other comics to get the first part, plus six or seven more issues (of titles I don't normally collect and care nothing about) to get the rest of that story, I want to chuck that comic book across the room, walk over to where it lands, and piss on it. And that's only one of the issues I have with today's comics.
The only reason I'm buying so many #1 issues now is because I was already subscribing to the title under its original run. I admit I bought a few just for collectors' value, but I sincerely doubt they'll ever be worth much - especially since publishers have intentionally devalued the backmarket to make way for reprints and TPB so they can collect royalties, driving comic book store after comics shop out of business.
So I'm done crying over spilled milk - which, by the way, better not spill within 150' of any comic book published in the last three years or so, because it will crumple those puppies up like cellophane!
Cut the bullshit; drop the gimmicks and make comic books that entertain me and I'll start buying them again. Meanwhile, $50.00 doesn't go far these days, but it goes a lot further on basically anything else than it does on comic books.
© C Harris Lynn, 2011
Cut the bullshit, comic book publishers, and just entertain me.
I'm not buying a bunch of new #1 comic books (actually, I am, but we'll get to that ); I'm not buying three and four copies of the same comic book just to get all the various covers; if I miss-out on the first-printing of a comic book I really wanted because you intentionally underprinted it to ensure a second-printing run, then I'll swallow my completist impulse and buy the later printing... and, worst of all, I'll expect to still be disappointed in the product I purchase, no matter what.
I've said it often enough, I've said it loudly enough, and I've said it forcefully enough; now I'm saying it with my wallet. The amount I spend on comic books has dropped over 50% since this time last year and is going down even further in coming months, as I drop title after meaningless filler title to focus on the half-dozen or so titles I actually care about. I no longer care that I'm only getting parts 1 and 3 of whatever it is I want to read; I'll just miss that story and pitch those comics into the box without ever reading them - after all, I'm only collecting them. They aren't worth reading, anyway.
In fact, I'm about a year behind on every title I read at this point. I just don't care to read them, because they upset me. When I start reading a comic only to find out I'm reading the third chapter of a longer story, and that I need to buy at least two other comics to get the first part, plus six or seven more issues (of titles I don't normally collect and care nothing about) to get the rest of that story, I want to chuck that comic book across the room, walk over to where it lands, and piss on it. And that's only one of the issues I have with today's comics.
The only reason I'm buying so many #1 issues now is because I was already subscribing to the title under its original run. I admit I bought a few just for collectors' value, but I sincerely doubt they'll ever be worth much - especially since publishers have intentionally devalued the backmarket to make way for reprints and TPB so they can collect royalties, driving comic book store after comics shop out of business.
So I'm done crying over spilled milk - which, by the way, better not spill within 150' of any comic book published in the last three years or so, because it will crumple those puppies up like cellophane!
Cut the bullshit; drop the gimmicks and make comic books that entertain me and I'll start buying them again. Meanwhile, $50.00 doesn't go far these days, but it goes a lot further on basically anything else than it does on comic books.
© C Harris Lynn, 2011
New Tools
Hey guys,
Blogger released a new interface last night and I'm trying it out today. I guess I'm switching to it, if I can get it to work right for me, because you can still use the old interface. I'm giving it a test-drive for the moment, but it's all minimal and everything's moved, so it takes a while to get used to and to find everything and it's slowing me down.
I'm also working hot and heavy on the website, which is looking so much better than it ever has in its entire history that I sometimes tumble through it just to check it out. I still haven't seen the whole thing under anything other than Firefox, so you may get mixed results, but it really looks great. The content is largely the same, but there is some new stuff there. Just because the main pages haven't changed (much) doesn't mean the interior pages haven't! Come to think of it, there's quite a bit of new material there, a lot of it has just been added to pages that were already present.
Anyway, if you're a gamer, you really do owe it to yourself to spend an hour or so touring the joint.
Okay, so I'm still figuring this thing out...
Sorry. I meant for this to post later, but the time and date is screwed-up on my scheduler and I hit "Post" anyway - 12:57pm on this thing is 10:57am over here. I'm not sure where to change that, but it should have been changed already, I guess it just didn't "port over" to the new service...
UPDATE
I switched back to the old interface and this is why:
I wrote this yesterday and accidentally posted it too soon, so I drafted it and tried to reschedule it for later in the day. I thought it had posted yesterday, but it obviously didn't. The time was off on the scheduler (it was two hours ahead of my time), and I didn't notice a big "draft" notice beside it.
Some of these issues are definitely just an issue with being used to the old interface, but some of them are real issues with the new one, and I don't have time to figure out this whole new layout and setup right this minute. I'm going to play with it over the weekend, but for now, I'm sticking with the old Blogger interface so I can actually get some posts out the door.
© C Harris Lynn, 2011
Blogger released a new interface last night and I'm trying it out today. I guess I'm switching to it, if I can get it to work right for me, because you can still use the old interface. I'm giving it a test-drive for the moment, but it's all minimal and everything's moved, so it takes a while to get used to and to find everything and it's slowing me down.
I'm also working hot and heavy on the website, which is looking so much better than it ever has in its entire history that I sometimes tumble through it just to check it out. I still haven't seen the whole thing under anything other than Firefox, so you may get mixed results, but it really looks great. The content is largely the same, but there is some new stuff there. Just because the main pages haven't changed (much) doesn't mean the interior pages haven't! Come to think of it, there's quite a bit of new material there, a lot of it has just been added to pages that were already present.
Anyway, if you're a gamer, you really do owe it to yourself to spend an hour or so touring the joint.
Okay, so I'm still figuring this thing out...
Sorry. I meant for this to post later, but the time and date is screwed-up on my scheduler and I hit "Post" anyway - 12:57pm on this thing is 10:57am over here. I'm not sure where to change that, but it should have been changed already, I guess it just didn't "port over" to the new service...
UPDATE
I switched back to the old interface and this is why:
I wrote this yesterday and accidentally posted it too soon, so I drafted it and tried to reschedule it for later in the day. I thought it had posted yesterday, but it obviously didn't. The time was off on the scheduler (it was two hours ahead of my time), and I didn't notice a big "draft" notice beside it.
Some of these issues are definitely just an issue with being used to the old interface, but some of them are real issues with the new one, and I don't have time to figure out this whole new layout and setup right this minute. I'm going to play with it over the weekend, but for now, I'm sticking with the old Blogger interface so I can actually get some posts out the door.
© C Harris Lynn, 2011
Thursday, September 01, 2011
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