felixmarcus

BORKED THE SITE!

felixmarcus — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:25:39 +0000

Yep. It’s pretty broken. I tried taking the RSS link off of the old menu-bar, and the whole damned thing just crashed. Had to delete my custom ComicPress theme (*sniff*), and fiddle around with files via FTP. Insert picture of “I have no idea what I’m doing!” dog here.

Long story short; the site will look like crap until my life starts to make sense again (could be a while).

EDIT: Oh hey. Retro backup-version. Neat. I got rid of it for a reason, but it’ll do for now.

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felixmarcus — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Fifth and final page of my class project. Done! Would have liked it to be less wordy, more showy, but just ran out of time. MJ

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felixmarcus — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Page 4.. text.. wall… MJ

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felixmarcus — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Wall of text. Wall of text! WAAAAAALLLLLLLL OF TEXT!!! MJ

On spambots… (Copied from Spartachick)

felixmarcus — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:51:48 +0000

Sorry!

I forgot to mention that I’ve disabled commenting of any kind. Unless you get in touch with me to create a user/contributor account, the discussion side of the site no longer exists. I was getting a bazillion fake users signing up, and figured that wasn’t a good thing, so I shut the whole operation down.

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felixmarcus — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Second page of my class project. MJ

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felixmarcus — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:00:00 +0000

First page in all it’s gory– d’I mean glory. Glory. Aeneid: Conquest of the Heavens – Book 1, Part 1, Page 1 Fixed a typo… little out of it right now. Cold + lack of sleep + too much caffeine = Hey look! A Zebra! MJ

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felixmarcus — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:00:00 +0000

So my class project turned out to be a bit of a train wreck. Instead of sweating it, I just decided to do what I want. Yup. Page one tomorrow. MJ

Aeneid Project Teaser

felixmarcus — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:00:00 +0000

This was going to be the first page of my Aeneid project, but will now have to settle for being a teaser. MJ

Exciting News!

felixmarcus — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:33:04 +0000

So, hey. Long time, no see. How are things?

Enough small-talk! I’ve got something to announce:

As part of my upper-year course on Greek and Roman Epic, I get to create a graphic novel based on the Aeneid. Well, part of the Aeneid. Actually, just two pages of the Aeneid. The thing is, I like drawing, and I like adapting epic literature for use in my comics, so I’m preparing to go a little crazy with this project. My plan is simple: I’ve got twelve weeks of class, and there are twelve books in the Aeneid. I hope to boil each book down to about three comic pages, making this more-or-less a thirty-six-pager. A few books might be longer, a few will be shorter.

Needless to say, this is a huge task for me. The last time I produced 36 pages in a year was back when I first launched Spartachick, and even that was a bit iffy at times. The goal here is to develop a simple style that can be sketched, inked, and coloured with little aggravation on my part. There will not be a lot of depth, shading will be minimal, and the laws of perspective will, no doubt, be shattered.

What do I hope to achieve? The project is worth 50% of my final grade, which provides some impetus. Honestly, though, I see this as my last real chance to get back into the game. I miss drawing, and let myself down when I gave up. I need this. I need to feel that my work matters in some way (even if it’s just for some class project). My hope is that this project will force me to streamline and solidify my workflow. Drawing used to be natural for me; setting aside time, sketching ON PAPER, writing, planning, imagining.

Anyway, I’m barely making sense to myself right now, so I’ll just end it here.

Bye for now,