Mom and Dad

So…that was the ‘gap’ in postings that one is NEVER supposed to do! The Google-bots are going to think that my weekly update schedule is a lie and never index again! I am a virtual pariah; I have abandoned my ‘post’ (hah!)…and all that. Well, by way of explanation, I have spent the last four weeks baby-sitting my IT consultant business and making sure a couple clients didn’t have a data apocalypse. It all worked out, and everyone seems ok for now – so back to my non-paying, utopian transition into full-time artist which will take…the rest of my life?

I started to work on the writing elements for my first web-comic again today and it felt great. Because the website will have only one or two one-page installments a week, it will be the first thing to get off the ground – pretty soon. I am thinking end of April. It would be even sooner, but I need to get back to consulting IT to myself and S’n’K as ‘client’ and get the Drupal site online. I want the whole thing to be Web 2.0 from the get-go, so you guys can tell me in constant feedback what a putz I am…only then do I have a chance of transitioning from being egregiously bad to tolerably bad!

The first ‘episode’ of the web comic is going to be focused on Soo’s journey through the womb. No, really, this is going to be a fun topic. The NewBirth Sindikat has quite a bit to do during the gestation of one of their members…really their inventions and interventions begin before that in planning sessions for new parents, nano-bots that interact with the sperm-egg dance, etc. It is key to remember that there are ‘high fast’ elements in this womb-process who experience the womb-year as a million subjective years…or a billion…

And you will get to meet Soo’s folks, which will add a lot of depth to your understanding of her later in life, when she appears as the protagonist of the for-paper-print series (the web-comic is a free, parallel product that will continue after the print version chapters start coming out bi-monthly). I had fun creating how they look using ‘genetic’ algorithms to morph an image of Soo’s face using factors that push mom in a Chinese-African direction and dad in a Russian one.