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So I saw my cousin Saturday, and I haven't seen her for years, but she's been doing some really interesting work.



Like growing your own vaginal cells to create art. Its creepy and cool, and does what conceptual art is supposed to do.

So check out my cousin, Julia Reodica's, work at phoresis.org

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My brother wrote and performed this song. If you support the Big O and praying that he'll be a good president as he's hyped up to be, and like a bit of groove, please pass this along.

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From now on, we'll just refer to this comic as God(tm) or "God - trademark" when referred to orally. The title is still God(tm) (c) 2XX8 *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. All rights reserved. God and all related characters, titles, names and documents are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this deity with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. but none of you are sharp enough to remember that.

Anyway, Part 1 of "Meet Joeb Kim" is completed. As far as the story goes, nothing still makes any sense. Although, the next part will start to make sense.

But I have to rewrite it. And you won't see anything from the second part for a while.

So I suggest that you e-mail me at elanrodgertrinidad@gmail.com if you want to be updated. Although I don't expect too many e-mails because I haven't gotten to the really good part yet.

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I've been working on my own Tarot Deck for sometime. I've been replacing archetypes and symbols with those that are much closer to me. These are drawn, actual Tarot size, because I don't want to use reproductions of my art in a reading, but actual original art.


0. The Fool by ~theory-of-everything on deviantART

0. The Fool

Here we have young, "New Hope" Luke Skywalker. He is starting of on his journey, uncertain of the path ahead. "With the blast shield on I can't see anything!" He doesn't know where the path will lead him. Off the cliff? R2-D2 is his loyal sidekick. In the Rider-Waite Deck, it's a dog. I forgot what the white rose meant, but it was in the Rider-Waite Deck and I thought I'd keep it there.

4 of swords by ~theory-of-everything on deviantART

The Four of Swords

Han Solo in Carbonite. He's resting, contemplating, hibernating.

3 of Cups by ~theory-of-everything on deviantART

The Three of Cups

I'm sure there's a much more lengthy way to explain this card, but when I read, I just simply say "party".

In the Rider-Waite Deck, basically three girls with pumpkins on the ground. I chose anime girls [from left to right] Haruhi Suzumiya (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya), Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangeleon) and Haruko Haruhara (FLCL). All are forecful sort of characters which I find charming in a fictitious girl.

7 of wands by ~theory-of-everything on deviantART

The Seven of Wands

A Shaolin Monk fights off enemies. Usually the conflict seems to come out of nowhere. There's a conflict.

9 of pentacles by ~theory-of-everything on deviantART

The Nine of Pentacles

Basically, I replaced the woman in the Rider-Waite version with that robot from Laputa: Castle in the Sky. I usually read this as a sort of satisfaction, but with possible troubles. Though, I'll admit, I don't get this card in many reading and don't know it as well.

I've been having a lot of downtime at work, and unfortunately, I don't have photoshop on my machine. So I haven't had time work on mine or anyone's comic during the day. I think I'll post five new cards every week.

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For those of you who aren't fanboys, P. Craig Russell is one of the best comic book illustrators alive.

Anyway, on lurid.com there's some videos of Mr. Russell breaking down his work for us.

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Labels: comics, Lessons in Cartooning

2008 was an interesting year, but I'm glad to see it go because most of it was spent "funemployed". Although I am thankful for several things, like people who actually read my comics and the high profile job which looks good on a resume.

But I should gear up for this year and try to create some nice goals for myself.

1) Publish A Dream of Conscious Thought on Lulu.
Some years ago I started a comic book company with some high school friends. This company failed miserably. At this company, I started a full color comic book called A Dream of Conscious Thought. It was a metaphysical sort of love story and was a way for me to deal with some love-life drama. Since that time I've gone through a relationship, gone on a few dates, and have found ways to make Ms."Love-life drama" feel very uncomfortable. So I'm not as emotionally motivated to finish the book, but its something I ought to finish. So probably after I'm done with the first part of God™ (and its only a few pages away from part one from completion, I'll prep A Dream of Conscious Thought: book one for Lulu which can be ready by spring or even earlier.

2) Finish my Tarot Card set
Maybe a year and a half ago, I started to redesign the Rider-Waite Tarot with symbols of my own (a lot of Star Wars and Kung Fu). I want to finish it and actually do readings with it (because it impresses chicks).

3) Take Yoga classes and maybe a dance class
I'm thirty and I don't exercise. Besides, I heard people who took Yoga have a better awareness of their body and doing that would probably help me with animation and some weird stage performances that I'm involved with. I wanna take a dance class because I don't want to dance sarcastically like a hipster when I'm drunk.

4) Re-design this site
I forgot what my hit average is. But it isn't bad for a horribly designed website. Sure I know Flash and I'm sure I could take a class, but I really don't have the time for that. I'd rather put my energy into making comics and art and have someone else worry about scripting. I would really like a forum for this site because I've found on reddit.com, people having interesting discussions about The Devil and The Monk and Speak No Evil that can potentially go in interesting directions. But this is something I could probably worry about when I'm on hiatus. I'm not sure when that's going to happen, and really, since my pockets were emptied out last year, the later the better.

These are the main things. I might quit smoking this year, but then again I've been saying that for the past couple of years.

Labels: comics, God(tm), holiday, Life, my work, Speak No Evil, updates, Work In Progress