| Portland Food Map! |
[May. 16th, 2013|12:51 pm]
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Our recent trip to Portland was so much fun that I thought I'd celebrate one of the best things about it - the food! - with a map of all the great restaurants we hit when we were in town. I wish we'd been able to spend more time, and eat even more - gotta go back!
If you're planning a trip to Portland, can I recommend The Zinester's Guide to Portland? It's an amazing guide to free and cheap stores, activities, and places to eat - and it's published by the truly excellent Microcosm. Enjoy! |
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| Melissa Loves Nerd Poker |
[May. 10th, 2013|07:01 pm]
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My #DDnD character Melissa loves Nerd Poker! She’s been spending all week listening to this rad podcast by comedian (and #DDnD king Reilly Brown’s collaborator) Brian Posehn - and friends! - about an ongoing LA DnD game. It’s a hilarious mix of bad guy slayage, Borscht Belt humor, backdoor charisma-bragging and just plain nerdiness. Melissa has a total girl-crush on Mildred, a kickass dwarf. Of course, being an elven cleric, Melissa likes to get some bible study in at the same time…gotta get ready for Monday! |
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| Dungeons, Dragons and Drinking - plus, Portland! |
[Apr. 23rd, 2013|07:04 pm]
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Recently in the Hypothetical Island studio we've been exploring the world of Dungeons and Dragons - pretty hilarious, since we're all hard-core nerds but we've never (with the exception of a one-year stint by studiomate Reilly Brown) actually played DnD before.
To make us feel better about the fact that it's taken this long to check this off our nerdy to-do list, we've christened our meetups at Brooklyn's Lucey's Lounge Dungeons, Dragons n' Drinking - and we have a Tumblr to match!
Here's a drawing of my character, the slightly portly Elven cleric Melissa, hang-gliding her way to my next destination, Portland, OR. I'll be selling The Strumpet at this weekend's Stumptown Comics Fest - Stumptown is now officially Strumptown!
See you there! |
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| New Episode of The Black Feather Falls Up Now! |
[Apr. 18th, 2013|12:20 am]
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There's a new episode of The Black Feather Falls up on Activate right now!
Set in London in the 1920's, The Black Feather Falls follows Tina Swift, a young American woman oblivious to the lingering trauma of World War I surrounding her. When a disabled veteran is murdered and found outside Tina's shop, her insistence that justice be done draws her deep into this history.
In this episode, she's getting to know Miss McInteer, a woman is met the victim the day before the murder.
Read it from the beginning here...lots more to come!
Also, I'll be tabling with The Strumpet at the upcoming Stumptown Comics Fest, 27-28 April in Portland, Oregon. Hope to see you there! |
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| Composers of note: Ambroise Thomas |
[Mar. 15th, 2013|07:19 pm]
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Sketching at work...this time it's Ambroise Thomas, composer of Hamlet (the 19th century opera version) and teacher of Jules Massenet (to whom Laurie Anderson dedicated "O! Superman!").
In other news my studiomates and I have started up a game of Dungeons and Dragons - check out the sketch blog we've created to go along with it. Artists involved include Reilly Brown, Robin Ha, George O'Connor and James Smith...pretty cool! |
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| The Black Feather Falls continues on Activate! |
[Mar. 13th, 2013|01:51 pm]
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The Black Feather Falls has new pages up today - check 'em out!
We're up to page 11 and Tina's brush with a homeless man's murder makes her decide to shake things up in her own life, bringing her out of St. James and into the bustle of Fleet Street. She's on the hunt for a new job - but what will she really find, in the offices of the Tribune?
While the story develops, I'm working on a cover for the first pamphlet collection (as well as roughs and story edits for part 2!) Any opinions? The six frontrunners are above. |
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| The Black Feather Falls - Brand New Web and Print Comic - Up on Act-i-vate Now! |
[Feb. 27th, 2013|11:52 am]
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It's been a little while since I've had a brand-new project to announce - so this is big news in Lindnerland. With the launch of The Black Feather Falls today on Act-i-vate, I'm embarking on a 120 page mystery odyssey. And it all starts with the page at the top of this post.
Set in 1920's London, The Black Feather Falls introduces Tina Swift, an American flapper in a foreign land. When she discovers a crime on the doorstop of the shop where she works, Tina's consumed with curiosity (a curiosity to which the police seem entirely immune).
It's slightly grim subject matter, as the victim is a veteran of the First World War, and has suffered terribly - as Tina observes - in both life and death. To solve this mystery she will have to try and understand the incomprehensible, as the roots to this crime lie in the trenches on the Western Front.
I love mystery stories and have been itching to write one forever. Many thanks to Act-i-vate and its editor Simon Fraser for welcoming this story - as they have great work by cartoonists like Michel Fiffe, Dean Haspiel, Molla Crabapple and many more.
If all goes well the pamphlet of the first chapter will be out in the Spring from London's Soaring Penguin Press...keep your eyes on the blog for updates. |
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| Chicks on Comics Show in Berlin, Opening Soon! |
[Feb. 19th, 2013|07:08 pm]
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Thanks so much to the amazing Maartje Schalkx for the invite to have a piece in the Chicks on Comics spring show in Berlin, Germany. They wanted us to do work on the theme of feminism - so I got down to brass tacks.
The show starts on March 14th, and it'll be at Galerie Futura with a fun panel discussion on the 16th. Some of the South American members of the group will be flown over for this super-interesting event, so it's worth checking out. |
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