Mandarr, Bradley and Neil Grayston OMFG!!!
So, I have been back from Pacific Nerdwest for a couple days now. Trust me, I needed the recuperation days! WHAT A BLAST! We ended up getting back home around 2AM Monday morning, after a 2 hour bus ride and a ferry ride, I didn’t even wake up till almost 1PM. I’m feeling very rested, so now it’s time for updates! ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
May contain spoilers.
The excessive production for the original version of this song grates on my ears, and the unemotional quality of Britney’s robotically over-processed vocals leave me empty. On the other hand, I love the minimalism and torchy vocals in Sliimy’s version. He sounds more like old school Britney Spears than even Britney herself with his smooth and seductive vocals. The Sliimy’s male gender changes the context of the song to something more subversive than just a lament about a woman’s cheating lover. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To all of the moms out there in our audience, I hope that you had a lovely Mother’s Day. I took mine out for a fabulous brunch buffet presented by the A.T. The Black & White restaurant. There’s nothing better to start the morning with a chocolate fountain, beautiful desserts, fruits, veggies, a decent selection of potatoes, asparagus eggs Benedict, salmon and roast beef. It was so yummy. As for me, my cats allowed me to have a nap. That’s a good enough gift for a cat mom, in my opinion.
On other news, I started planting leafy greens on the non-certified organic plot that my husband and I share. Our radishes are beginning to show up, and everything is growing according to plan. In the agribusiness end of the farm, my husband and everyone else working there finished potato planting. It’s a joy to see living things grow out of the ground, and it’s a relief knowing that the weather is finally cooperating. There are few pleasures in life greater than knowing where your food comes from, especially when that knowledge inspires your art. If you’ve ever wondered why much of the action in a few chapters of Rasputin Barxotka takes place on a rural setting, it’s because I adore living in the country.
As Mandarr mentioned in the last post, we had to accelerate our updates this week. I have thumbnails featuring all the pages that I posted this last week for your viewing pleasure. Some the pages depict a prison rape, so please be prepared mentally if you suffer from triggers related to sexual assault. The scene in question was so difficult for me to draw without going into tremors or crying that Narphy La Mancha had to handle the pencils and inks. I’m not kidding. A big thanks also goes out to Skaja for making the update acceleration possible. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here I am, getting ready to go out the door and onto Pacific Nerdwest. I’ve got all my stuff neatly packed and bungee corded to my hand cart, and it weighs a ton! Super excited for the meet and greet mingle tonight, as you can see, I am wearing my pretty summer dress. 
It’s also a gorgeous sunny day here in the Northwest, so I’m living it up, maybe I’ll even get some color. (I’m so Washington White right now!)
The official start of the con is Tomorrow at 11am, and I’ll be at booth 11 in the far corner setting up at 8am! What else can I say? I’m so stoked! I’m pretty sure I’ve got everything I need, but it’s too late now to turn back. LOL! My boyfriend, Brad can only ask me so many times to go over a check list before I just say, “to hell with it, I’m packed!!!” I also can’t wait to meet Neil Grayston, Fargo from one of my favorite shows, Eureka!
In case you are wondering why we made a full week’s worth of updates in a single day: Vas has just informed me that we’re one-week ahead of schedule in finishing our hiatus work. :D
I hope to see you all there at Pacific Nerdwest!
Mandarr
I had so much fun at free comic book day this past weekend. This year’s FCBD marked the first time in a decade that Loki could take time off from work to attend the event. Visiting our local shop, Granite City Comics proved to be a total blast. We spent a few dollars on trade paperbacks, in addition to getting some pretty cool freebies. My personal favorite no-cost book was The Tick‘s FCBD special, which turned me into a total puddle of nostalgia. To my great pleasure, I resurgence of indie labels comic books appears to have taken place, and it included many titles that originally started out as webcomics. It’s nice to see this art form making a comeback thanks to the Internet! YAY!
Meet Rasputin Barxotka colorist and assistant art director, Amanda “Mandarr” Wearstler, in person this weekend at Pacific Nerdwest. The first-printing paper version of The Unwanted will debut at the event, and will be available for $15 per book. Mandarr will have lots of cool memorabilia available for sale at the table, including original art. She is very excited to meet all Rasputin Barxotka fans who are able to make it there!
Advanced tickets are $20. Tickets will sell for $25.00 at the day of the event.
Time: May 10 – 12, 2013
Location: The Leopold, 1224 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA
You can find us at Table 11
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Yes, we are still on hiatus, but that hasn’t stopped us from keeping up with the daily updates.
If you want to read the pages that I edited out of the webcomic, be sure to get the Cursebreaker eComic. The price is super reasonable, so be sure to get it, because awkwardness, boobies and booties are awesome.
Back on Barxotka, this is Tsar’s gritty-as-fuck back story. It will be posted over the next forty-three days, so be sure to check out the daily updates.
We are experiencing a delayed spring where I live. It seem like we’ve been getting more snow over the spring than we have over the entire winter. If you are experiencing foul spring weather too, take heart, because you’re not the only one. If you need to vent, feel free to use the comments section, because I really feel your pain.
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