Archive for July, 2009
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I am exhausted.
This week, I helped run the local FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) baseball camp for the last four days from 9-2. Today was the last day of campe. But I also had a Men’s baseball game on Monday night and tonight. I also have a game TOMORROW night. So, after tomorrow night, I will have participated in some sort of baseball activities for 32 hours.
On another note entirely, many of you who follow me on Twitter know this already but I am no longer unemployed. I start my new job August 10th. I am excited and scared all at once. the only feeling that comes close to this is the same feeling I had when I was an 8th grader getting ready to head into high school. I’ve done one thing a certain way for ten years and now I get to do something new in an all new and different way. It’s all good though… it’s just a little weird, you know?
Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed my little Star Wars meets The Sound of Music take for today’s Capes & Babes strip.
-Chris
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I was originally going to make this part of my Heroes Con series of strips this year but I ended up forgetting about it until I took another look at one of the idea notebooks I was writing in on the way back from Heroes and realized I had forgotten about this gag.
So… here it is.
On the job front…
I’m getting a bit nervous that I’m not going to be accepted for any of the three jobs I interviewed with last week. All three said they would get back with me “early next week” – which means THIS week. But no call yesterday and no call today. After my baseball camp gets done tomorrow, I will send each one of them an e-mail to let them know I’m still interested in their positions.
We’ll just have to wait and see if THEY are still interested in ME.
As these past two weeks have shown, ANYTHING can happen… or NOT happen.
-Chris
How many of you were fortunate to go to THE CON this year? I was fortunate enough to see various clips of THE CON on G4 all this week. That was the gist of my experiencing THE CON.
Hopefully, for those that did get to go, you were able to find my good friends Joe Combs and Topher Davila somewhere on the floor. Maybe next year I might be able to go (especially if one of the three jobs I interviewed for comes through this week – Here’s hoping!).
-Chris
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UPDATE: I was mentioned on the Webcomics Weekly Episode #63 Podcast…
Well, SORT OF. If you have listened to the Podcast, when Scott talks about doing a Google Image search for Kris, he mentions something I did a little while before I started Capes & Babes. It was when Kris and Scott were going through Ray Ban sunglasses phase. I did a “Separated at Birth” joke with Kris. Here is the image Scott is talking about:
Now you all know the ONE Manga Roy has read and that would be “Deathnote”. 
How many of you are going to be in Dan Diego this weekend?
If you don’t know what’s going on in California this weekend, than you probably don’t know about the San Diego Comic-Con… one of biggest if not THE biggest Comic-Con’s in the country!
If you ARE one of the lucky few are going, than I want to GREATLY encourage you all to try and take some time out and visit two of my friends who will be there: Topher Davila and Joe Combs. They will be at the same table and Topher will have a copy of my “You Can’t Print Flick” book if you want to see it. He will also be handing out some of my postcards for me as well. If you want to check out Joe’s work, you can check him out three times a week at Business Casual.
Since the SDCC is so big, Topher has been kind enough to post a location map on his blog where you can EASILY find him and Joe hanging out this week. There are also some freebies he is giving out but you have to mention the blog in order to get them. Go to his blog for more details.
Hope you all have fun.
I am EXTREMELY jealous!
-Chris
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I want to share an e-mail I got just the other night from John and Brannan Blascak. John and Brannan met me at Heroes Con last month and while they were there, not only did the purchase a book but they also wanted me to do a commission sketch for a surprise birthday present.
The birthday present was for “Heather” who is a huge Harley Quinn fan. They came by my table late on Saturday and I wasn’t QUITE able to finish it before they had to leave that day but by they came by on Sunday just to pick up the commission. They really seemed to like it but then, after the con, I sort of forgot about it until I got the following e-mail last night:
We promised to send you a pic of Heather enjoying her wonderful drawing you did for us at Charlotte’s Hero-Con. It should be attached, let us know if you have any problems not getting the pic.
She put it up within two hours of receiving it and can’t stop talking about it. Sorry it took so long for us to write back.
Thank you again for such a wonderful b-day present.
John and Brannan Blascak
And here’s the picture of Heather enjoying her Harley:
Needless to say, that made my night last night!
Thank you so much for sending that e-mail John and Brannan. And thank you, Heather, for getting a big kick out of your Harley.
If you’re interested in getting a commission done…
Send me an e-mail at capesnbabes [at] gmail.com with the character you will like to have done.
The commissions are full color marker rendered on 9×12″ bristol board for $30. The $30 dollars covers the shipping and handling fee.
And, as I say at any convention I go to: The commission will cost you money but the humor is 100% absolutely FREE!
-Chris
So, it looks like Sunday was the official “The old guys just ran out of steam” day today – first, Tom Watson and than later on, Lance Armstrong. I don’t know if Lance can make up that 1 minute and 30 second time difference he has and, from the interview he gave to ESPN, it looks like he might be resigned to that fact.
Still, if he should finish the tour at second place (where he is now), that should be a HUGE victory especially given all the inner team turmoil his team was dealing with… would Lance still be in this position if he was on a team where HE was the leader? That’s a debate for people who are more experience or knowledgeable about bike racing than I am and I’m sure that will be brought up time and time again from now until the next TDF. It will be interesting to see what will happen next year if Lance decides to ride again.
And Tom Watson’s run was quite an amazing story. It’s just sad that there seems to be quite a few sports columnists out there that think what Tom did yesterday was a joke – or at least shows how unspectacular golf is right now. It’s amazing how we can look at one person’s sports achievement and marvel at it (like the 40 year old female Olympic swimmer whom I can’t seem to recall her name at the moment), yet we can look at another sport achievement and ridicule it for the exact same reasons.
The crazy thing about sports is its unknown and unpredictable nature – no matter WHAT the sport might be. Simply because an elderly athlete is “in the zone” for a particular sporting event doesn’t mean that sport is a joke – it just means that that guy or gal rose to the occasion on that particular day, week or Olympic where others couldn’t. Where is the criticism of Tiger not making the cut? Or Micholson being with his wife as she recovers from breast cancer surgery? Did any of these events help pave the way for Tom Watson’s remarkable run this weekend?
No.
Tom Watson was responsible for his own remarkable run this weekend.
Sometimes, great things happen in sports. No matter what the age, race or gender of the participate.
I we should relish and appreciate those moments. Not criticize them.
Just my own two cents on the matter.
-Chris
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The Super Art Fight was a blast last night. I actually came up with the idea for this strip while driving home with my daughter last night from Baltimore. We got home roughly around 1:15am or so.
There were six of us that had the opening match in which we “fought” against each other using the initial word “Transformation”. You would think, given the fact that I have a WEREWOLF in my strip that I might have actually drawn something related to werewolves but no… instead, I drew a “300 He-She Spartan” in lingerie screaming “The heart goes in the FRONT, SPARTANS!!!”. We only had 15 minutes to draw our “Transformation” before we had to move to another canvass and add to whatever was drawn on there.
From what I remember, here are some of the things that I drew:
Mickey Rouke’s “The Wrestler” attacking the Cloverfield monster (The Cloverfield monster was VERY POPULAR last night), I drew the “Where the Wildthings Are” kid trying to pick up a girl in a Starfleet uniform. The kid was saying “I’m a F’in’ MOVIE STAR NOW, Beeyotch!” while the female Trekkie was saying “You’re STILL a LOZER”. Oh yeah… the female? She was drawn WITH MY LEFT HAND!
I also remember drawing Spike Jones as… well, a SPIKE with sunglasses.
I also managed to get the Lochness Monster in there too.
That’s about all I remember drawing.
As soon as I hear about the video being posted, I’ll let you know but if you’re interested in learning more about Super Art Fight, you can go to their web site and find out more information.
It was a lot of fun. I can’t wait to do it again!
-Chris
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Okay… so I posted this strip last night, went to see Harry Potter this morning, got back a little while ago and realized I had named the file wrong. I named it so it would appear as TOMORROW’S strip instead of today’s strip. That can happen sometimes when you should be in bed instead of working on the strip.
Ah well. Anyway, here is today’s strip.
And, as a job update goes (for those that are interested):
I had two interviews last week and I got two calls during Harry Potter from two different companies that seem interested in my resume. So here’s hoping SOMETHING will come of at least one of those possibilities. We’ll see.
-Chris
Sometimes, you never know where or when you might get an idea for a strip so you have to almost always be consciously aware of things around you. Today’s strip is a prime example of that.
For example, last week I was in an elevator when a girl walked in with an Ambercrombie and Finch hoodie – only it had a zipper front and, in the particular way the shirt was folded, I saw “Amberombie” and that immediately triggered the thought “How can I make some kind of fun of Ambercrombie?” – and then, suddenly, “Amberzombie” popped in my head.
Once I had that idea, it was a no-brainer to bring back I.R. Hungré to see what he’s been up to since Marc interviewed him a couple of months ago.
So… that’s a little bit of an insight as to where these crazy ideas of mine come from…
-Chris
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Hey everybody… for all of you that live in or around the Baltimore, Maryland area, I have been invited to participate in SUPER ART FIGHT next Thursday night. If you want to learn more information, you can go here: Super Art Fight 4!
Also, for those that keep Twittering me about my current job search, it’s still on-going but I had two interviews this week. Both were for government contract work. Seems US Government is the only “company” out there now that are hiring any new designers – whether for print or for the web.
It’ll be a few weeks before I hear anything with either job interview. So, for now, the search continues…
-Chris
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