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A drunken Christmas rant from me that probably steals from some better quote. I went down to LA for New Years and had a great time.  It is almost heartbreaking to me how different people treat me here.  They are very nice and sweet and women I am attracted to actually tend to like me back. Ihttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2012/01/memoria.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-2684441986757853008Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:38:00 +00002011-12-07T14:57:50.786-08:00I drew one picture on this post on a table at Za's(a pizza place in Oakland) in crayon.  My friend Paul was up from LA and I drew him when he was busy eating the garlic bread.  I think I drew him last time I was there and posted it(maybe two years ago). Who Is Jake Ellis The comic Who Is Jake Ellis written by Nathan Edmondson and drawn by Tonci Zonic is highly recommended.  My problems with http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/12/now-wait-for-last-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-6206163704623629665Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:41:00 +00002011-11-23T19:19:12.280-08:00I'm pretty sure I mentioned how much I like the tv show Community.  Joel McHale is my man crush and probably the best dressed dude on tv(Eric from True Blood is my other man crush).  I have a total pervy crush on the school girl.  And everyone else is great on it too(especially Abed and Dean Pelton).  They had an episode where they were going to have a Pulp Fiction party and be all referencial, http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/11/torquasm-rao.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-7143071586615139509Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:30:00 +00002011-11-09T22:41:30.649-08:00"Nothing but the truth could break me.  What is harder than the truth?"  -Patrick Rothfuss, The Name Of The Wind - an appropriate quote in a book I was reading today Just a recap:  Low point of the Adrian characters life, calls a girl, it goes disastrously, he reevaluates, draws a shameless comic about it, feels bad about it, desperately sleeps with some girl, feels bad about it because he http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/11/august-27th-part-1-this-is-not-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-4368695575394289323Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:50:00 +00002011-09-14T04:24:50.795-07:00This one is a quiet little interlude.  Or just one of those days.  The next one is at least a three parter(maybe more).  So it's going to take a while.  All the main character make an appearance on one weird day of super highs and super lows.  Or maybe I just stub my toe and complain about it for thirty pages.  You'll just have to wait and see.  I added storyboards/layouts for the next episode ifhttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/09/august-26th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-1636795237776247014Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:28:00 +00002011-09-09T04:28:59.941-07:00Funny thing is this is exactly how I plotted this years ago.  I drew and inked it and then suddenly thought, oh shit, didn't I have a phone conversation in this comic already that ended like this?  I didn't actually, it was just another dumb message I left earlier in the story.  But then I remembered I specifically wrote that one(which also happened) playing it as what happens from these two http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/09/august-25th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-6891593223164074036Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:34:00 +00002011-08-31T17:34:49.276-07:00For this chapter of August I was going for a sort of Dante's seven circles of hell, but the hell is my brain and the circles are what I think about. There was a lot of ways to go graphically.  I could have done a cross section.  I could have made my character walking through the twisted labyrinthian corridors of my brain tissue(maybe in another comic). But instead I went for a multilevel http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/08/august-24th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-1886037944449199309Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:18:00 +00002011-08-31T17:30:16.046-07:00  This is the 23nd part of my 31 chapter August comic*(don't know why I said 22nd before).  And that is one part of my graphic novel Thought Balloon Man.  It's about a time in my life where I hit rock bottom and then found some inspiration to change.  And its vulgar and funny and sad and smart and mean and dumb.  Like life. It started when I made up this idea for a bunch of short comic http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/08/august-23rd.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-3165418021642623924Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:53:00 +00002011-08-09T00:17:40.717-07:00My job   I've been writing like a madman lately.  I edited all 100 pages I currently have of August(the pdf with chapter pages and stuff amounted to 100, and that did not include work I had done for Thought Balloon Man which August is just a chapter in, and a few pages I have done that were not added).  It was torturous because those were really experimental for me and I was just working on ways http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-i-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-6257186305080652272Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:52:00 +00002011-07-27T20:32:30.239-07:00Thought Balloon ManGame Of ThronesSketchesThis is the first year in ten years I missed Comic-Con in San diego.  It got harder and harder every year and less fun.  But it still has it's delights and I'm sad I missed it, but I'll live.  But when I watched G4 and they had some coverage from the show first they showed Kate Beckinsale which made me yell no way at the screen and then just to twist the knife they showed Jessica Beals somehow http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/07/gestalt.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-7928552314161663327Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:15:00 +00002011-07-13T13:06:21.464-07:00George R. R. MartinGame Of ThronesHyperionI don't know if anything is made for anyone.  But A Game Of Thrones feels like it was made for me.  The book is one of my all time favorites(the third one in the series is my personal favorite, they somehow get even better by a lot).  It tells stories the ways I like them.  Complicated, but never boring, filled with unexpected surprises and interesting characters with deep back stories and http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/07/game-of-thrones.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-3932861995618960227Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:25:00 +00002011-07-08T21:05:50.231-07:00Green ArrowPaintingMusesketchI got a new car about a month ago.  I really needed a new one, because mine was about a week away from breaking down and it wasn't worth putting more money into it.  I made up my mind that I would only spend a certain amount on a used car.  I ended up getting this midnight blue 2004 BMW 330(I think that's the number).  It was a good deal and I got it for under the amount I budgeted for.  But http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/07/sol-draconi-septem.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-7484337859779780740Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:31:00 +00002011-07-02T12:52:45.463-07:00sketchInksStarmanGirlsIn a better mood this week.  Got work done(comics) and wrote a detailed plot for a future one.  My rule to writing is that it has to be interesting to me at all times and hopefully interesting to the reader and this comic is really fun to write. I drew this picture of Jack Knight from one of my all time favorite comic series, Starman.  He was a great chilled out guy who loved antiques and didn'thttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/07/waiting-in-sky.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-3053791416710378265Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:12:00 +00002011-06-17T19:24:39.618-07:00"If asked, I grant you that I would speak poetry to you, and that you have a grace and beauty which moves me to interesting speculation, but I would not load any part of my dark burden upon one as exquisite as you.  Any relationship between us, other than formal, would necessitate my unwilling shifting of part of that burden…Go while you can , lady, and forget Elric for he can only bring grief tohttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/06/sailor-on-seas-of-fate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-2514442617906359311Sun, 12 Jun 2011 02:28:00 +00002011-06-11T19:28:12.957-07:00PigtailsSketchesBatmanI figured out what I like.  Basically across the board, I mean.  I was describing something and I said something along the lines of "you know, like when a chick gets bitten by a vampire and she gets all sexy and stuff. "  That led me to think how all women in vampire movies got sexier after they got bitten.  Then it led me to think how I just like vampire bitches.  Like Dracula's wives in Francishttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/06/double-edged-sword-of-confidence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-6137515724795195638Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:17:00 +00002011-06-11T22:08:22.545-07:00OliverBeanI've been reading this non fiction book about Area 51 and the declassified truth behind their aviation programs.  One of the most dangerous thing to happen when you are flying a SR 21 Blackbird at mach 3 is one of the engines turning off. It used to happen all the time.  You'd get an un-start in one engine, the whole plane would fly out of control, one engine trying to work at mach 3, spinning http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/06/un-start.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-781702493865265489Thu, 19 May 2011 03:03:00 +00002011-05-18T20:05:13.064-07:00inkExoticaMovie ReviewsMermaidIllustrationAmber HeardI just put a cup inside another cup and my cat Oliver was sitting next to me trying to figure out how I did that, just for a moment, and then I'm pretty sure that moment suddenly became a somber disappointment inside him that no matter what, he'll never know how I just put that cup inside that other cup.  And then he winced a little.  A sting of understanding that this was just one of a million http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/05/100.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-7277807836667535553Sat, 07 May 2011 07:37:00 +00002011-05-07T12:43:41.578-07:00It's free comic book day on Saturday.  Go to your local comic shop and they'll give you free comics. It's that simple. Go right now, I'll still be here. I was watching that Burger King commercial with the esteemed Miss Turkey.  It's basically the best commercial.  And I guess I never saw the beginning of it because the other day I was watching tv and of course I wouldn't fast forward past Miss http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/05/cubist-pubis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-1954925507425671679Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:45:00 +00002011-04-17T03:45:52.651-07:00Before we play catch up I just wanted to demand that you all watch A Game Of Thrones on HBO or On Demand or whatever.  Okay, maybe I only saw the fifteen minute preview, but I have spent so many goddamned hours with that book and it's sequels.  It is one of my top five favorite stories.  I love it on that level.  I have no idea if they can pull this off on screen but the fact that it is even http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/04/blarney-stone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-805227176654531158Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:45:00 +00002011-03-12T03:10:42.194-08:00A friend and I decided that I had a satyr-like look to me.  I was saying how it had something to it, that idea, and how weird it is that sometimes mythical frame works and cliches and archetypes are based on something real, or something real thats been distorted into a myth, and because it had that small bit of truth to it it thrives and becomes a solid myth.  But it was a while before I looked http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/03/synchronicity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-8327888655734274154Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:52:00 +00002011-02-25T05:29:30.424-08:00SuperheroesDrakes BayAngelo MooreSketchessFishboneDouble-Devil My birthday is this Saturday.  I will officially be in my mid thirties.  But hey, Year Of The Dragon is next year and that is my sign so I plan on kicking ass.  Until then I have several plates to spin and several projects to finish. I looked for wrinkles this week.  Found nothing but faint marks where they would be.  I'm 35 and the de-aging serum is finally working.  I'm still losing weight http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/02/double-devil.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-1758630943910067461Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:17:00 +00002011-02-14T19:56:56.902-08:00TalentPiranha 3-DThought Balloon ManWeezerMuseHank MoodyCalifornicationpencilsThe FountainSketchesLegosacrylicNow a days I try to live my life as a zen creature.  My total freedom gave me the chance to just live.  Wake up, do whatever, shower, eat a little, draw, do whatever, do some chores and get out of the fucking house and see some sun light and maybe, since I usually wake up late, after that stuff go somewhere pretty, go home, eat, chill out, draw, work out, shower, draw, watch a movie, paint, maybehttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/02/almost.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-7471393161378570927Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:43:00 +00002011-01-31T18:35:36.053-08:00TalentThomas PynchonRobert Downey JuniorFreaks and GeeksIron Manrubberfunny or dieThrees CompanyH.P. LovecraftProverbs of Threes Company: When the girls give Jack advice on women, they tell him, "Women can tell what a guy is thinking."  Jack replies as plainly as possible, "If that were true, you guys would have kicked me out years ago." I just read that James Franco(Spiderman) has made a documentary about Three's Company that is edited to show it all as dark.  If he pulls this off he will be legendaryhttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/01/mucho-maas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-340791240272013526Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:01:00 +00002011-01-11T23:07:36.398-08:00Cheryl SmithThe Duke Of MeatCinderellaJoan JettNetflixThe RunawaysI'm beginning to think my mind is turning into a probability engine.  I've been having these insane deja vu/coincidental things happening to me lately.  It just gave me new ideas for stories in some further Phillip K. Dickian world I one day want to write. But instead of going into quantum physics and alternate universe theory I thought I'd go down an example of the weird way my mind works on anyhttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/01/snap-crackle-pop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-5317115360632307053Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:45:00 +00002011-01-01T23:51:48.089-08:00In Fallout 3, New Vegas I was outside of New Vegas in Freetown when I went to the Morman temple and found what I was looking for, a woman who was half dead with skin falling off and in a cowboy outfit.  I was hired by a casino to find this type of girl for their more expensive clients.  So I asked her if she wanted to be a whore and she said no.  Luckily my speech skill was really good and I had http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-can-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)1