Did you know that Sfé Monster created Rupert and the Jub-Jub Bird design I use in Skin Deep? It’s a FACT, JACK.
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• Update Borogove shipping list
• Answer email interview• Organize January tax crap
• Dishes
• Laundry
• Clean the bathroom
• Take out trash• Post reader question
• Draw another reader question
• Finish field guide illustration
• Work on Borogove sketchcards
I got a full day ahead of me! LET’S DO THIS
Not really a reader question, but I had a rough day and forgot to do a real reader question OOPS. Here are some sketches. Yes Nat is my female Heavy turned into a real character. I liked her design too much to just leave her as a one-off. Now she’s a roustabout and dates a Czech dekotora truck driver because IT’S MY STORY I CAN DO WHAT I WANT. I’m not sold on her name. Yesterday I liked Nat but now I don’t care for it so much.
WORLD-BUILDING IN ACTION, FOLKS.
I love these little buttholes. Wait, Hank Feebay isn’t a butthole. Bunker is kind of a huge one, though.
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Do you remember The Adventures of Pete & Pete? We do.
It was the best show ever: the precise distillation of all the strangeness and wonder of childhood. The sublime ache of that perfect summer you know will never come again, or a song you can’t quite capture.
Anyway, we love Pete & Pete, and we know some of you, do, too. So, we’re making a tribute zine, and we want you to be part of it.
Write or draw your favorite memories of Pete & Pete—stories, art, songs, comics, or anything else you dream up. Send ‘em to us by May 1, 2012. We’ll collect our favorites and print ‘em in a zine.
Contributors get a comp copy, plus a print-res PDF so they can print and sell their own. We’re not looking to make money from this. We just want it to exist.
THE FINE PRINT:
E-mail submissions to peteandpetezine@gmail.com by May 1, 2012.
Written submissions—essays, interviews, memoirs, poetry, whatever—should be .doc or .rtf files. No length limit, but bear in mind that it’ll be easier for us to place shorter pieces. We’re not really looking for straight-up fanfiction, but we’ll definitely consider any and all submissions.
Comics, illustrations, and other visual media should be .tif or .jpg files, black-and-white or greyscale (maybe if this thing takes waaaaay off, we’ll do a limited color run, but we’re not counting on that), formatted to fit a 4.25” x 5.5” page at 300-600 DPI. Again, no length limit, but bear in mind that shorter pieces will be easier for us to place. If you need a spread, please indicate that somewhere in your submission.
Keep it reasonably clean: if it wouldn’t fly on the show, we probably won’t print it.
By submitting work to Waiting for October via peteandpetezine@gmail.com, you give us the right to use it in the Waiting for October print zine and tumblr. Anywhere we use your work, it’ll be credited to you. If your work appears in the print zine, you’ll get a contributor copy and a print-res PDF. The whole deal will be under a Creative Commons license, and contributors are free to print ‘n sell copies.
We are in no way affiliated with The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Nickelodeon, Polaris, or anyone but our own bad selves.Stay pipe!
-Miles & Rachel
P.S. Special thanks to Kory Bing, who took all the pictures. You can read Kory’s comics here.
DO YOU LIKE ZINES? Well here is an Adventures of Pete and Pete fanzine started up by my buddies Rachel and Miles. We spent today taking photos for this and it is fun. I am excited about it!! SUBMIT SOME STUFF.
Hey I’m doing more illustrations for Seanan McGuire’s InCryptid Field Guide! This is the Garrinna! I love drawing thylacines DID YOU KNOW THAT?
Now stop asking
Drawing sea critters is one of my great joys in life.
Aaron Diaz of Dresden Codak took a shot at redesigning Nightcrawler yesterday and I like what he came up with and I wanted to draw it! Coming up with colors for the costume was a challenge, and I have a few different versions, but the top one is my favorite (thank you Magnolia for helping me out).
Nightcrawler’s classic circus costume is actually one of my favorites so I didn’t want to veer too much from the black/red/white color scheme. I also really love that Aaron added in swords to his costume, but after about a half-hour of wrestling with shoulder harnesses and scabbards and foreshortening I said “FORGET THIS” and left them off. Sorry Kurt.
My favorite thing about this redesign is that it brings Nightcrawler back to what made him my favorite X-Man: a devilish swashbuckling Errol Flynn mutant that gets drunk with Wolverine on the weekends. Through the 90s and 00s he turned into this brooding sadsack of a character that just wasn’t fun to be around. The fun of Nightcrawler was that he looked demonic but didn’t let that get in the way of him having a good time.
KURT WAGNER.
Hey! My buddy Dave (creator of Dead Winter and all around rad friend) has an item up in the Steam Workshop and gosh I’d sure be tickled pink if y’all could vote it up! He’s worked super hard on it and I think it is a pretty neat item!
Benign Kingdom Cover. Photoshop.
Hey so, if you’ve ever looked through this blog and thought you’d like an artbook from me, here’s your chance! Becky, KC, Evan, and myself just put up a Kickstarter for a series of art books called Benign Kingdom. Each of us did our cover and poster art with the theme “benign kingdom,” and I had to take the chance to draw Kaia and Dhio.
Watch the video while you’re there, you can see me nervously fidgeting around a bunch and holding a kitten!
The sound I made when I saw the Kickstarter for this was inhuman. Please back this project! It’s got SO MANY RAD PEOPLE in it! I want that hardcover book.
