Been Busy. You know?
The above picture is by Talia Felix and it is my favorite so far of the collection that Jhonen has been reaping of me as a ham obsessed monster. You may remember the conversation. Though there have been perhaps more ambitious and certainly more disturbing pictures, Talia's illustration best represents me when I am writing ShutterBox, ham and all.
Segue .
Speaking of ShutterBox, we have informed our dear editor at Tokyopop that we'll be turning in our final pages for Book Four by this Friday, the third of November, leaving only our edits and repairs and the Castle Tour Section for the back of the book to be turned in by November the thirteenth. We begin Book Five on December the first, although the script for that instalment is already half written. ShutterBox Book Four is four months late and I don't know when exactly it will be released (I'll let you know). This makes sense when I consider that we lost two months last November and October moving old ladies into rest homes TWICE, that last February Tavisha came down with the most virulent and debilitating flue I have ever seen (although we love Katsucon, we don't love its plague, and I don't think we can risk attending again next year), and that, finally, I accidentally erased my entire computer last April, destroying at final count, thirty two pages of finished work. That gobsuck bastard called Superstition tells me that this year was the Year of the Dog, and that I, having been born in the Year of the Dog, should have benefited from my canine affiliation. LIES! This is why I love cats more than dogs. They don't lie. They just cut you. Nevertheless, I would like to ask whatever Zodiac freakbeast is in charge of next year to kindly take a jump and leave the fate of ShutterBox Book Five to us.
Today is our twelfth wedding anniversary. PRAISE US!
-Rikki
(LiveJournal version of entry here: http://rikkisimons.livejournal.com/19421.html)
Happy Anniversary!
As to the pictures - good to be loved, is it not?
"...the pig...haunts me..." - Dib
Posted by: Chris Wallace | October 31, 2006 at 06:51 PM
Happy anniversary!
And I always suspected dogs weren't to be trusted. Here's hoping next year treats you better.
(2007 is, for the record, the Year of the Pig...so I highly recommend you lay off of the ham, just to be on the safe side. ;D)
Posted by: Laura | October 31, 2006 at 10:49 PM
Bwahahaa, excellent drawing. Now off to browse the rest.
Good job getting Book Four on its way and a day-late Happy Anniversary!
Posted by: James Cooper | November 01, 2006 at 09:13 AM