What! SNK, are you trying to kill me?! ...Okay I'll buy your stupid game. T__T I really need to replace our arcade stick.

Sketches from Supanova follow - it's pretty standard subject matter from me, but I was bored and passing the time okayyy

( 5 pics )

And ze fanart... basically I've been playing Garou for a week straight... DAMN YOU SNK

( Rock x 2, P4 x 1 )

Edit: oh god what the hell Australia

Supanova is done! Sales were okay... not as great as I expected, but I think I've been getting spoiled by zine fairs. XD;

As usual, I caught up with lots of people and picked up some sweet sweet comics and art... for some reason I also picked up a gigantic bruise on my upper left arm. Not sure what happened there.

What I was totally not expecting to see there was The King of Fighters XII, playable on 360 and PS3. IT'S KOF TWELVE GUYS, KOF TWELVE. The changes are so weird (whatttt is Kensou's outfitttt?????), but it's soooo pretty. The release date for Australia (360/PS3) is the 28th of August, eeee I can't wait!!





The guy on the right in the above pics was an interminable tool who played Joe, Joe and Joe with little regard for fun or variety. I bet he plays Ken all the time in SFIV, too. >:( Thankfully every match on Sunday was a lot more fun to play.

The KoF distributor had Battle Fantasia too, but I already gave up on that coming out after Red Ant tanked and asked mirness to bring me a copy from the UK a few months back. I watched a bit of Tekken 6 being played at the Atari booth (they distribute Namco games here) and that was pretty interesting.

Here's a link to my flickr set that lets you view the friends-only pics - I wanted to hide the shots of my table from a certain social network lolol. Most of the public pics are under the cut if you are too lazy to leave my journal!

( Various fun pics, mostly cosplay )

I drew an amazing lot too. Rock Howard is suddenly in all of my pics again, surprise surprise. I'll have to scan them in during the week!

Now that that's over... I have more time to play Garou and The Sims 3 ahahaha :DDD;

I kinda didn't realise I won a Manifest table... guess I should go! I have things to sell and promote, for once. It'll be a super-whirlwind trip, I'll be trying to tie up all of my loose ends at work before we head off to the US the next weekend.

The Manifest website is pretty terrible from an event organisation perspective... they don't even include start and finish times for the event. How am I meant to book flights or figure out when I'm meant to turn up? Is this magical information reserved only for people who register, or do they actually want people to come?!

Anyway, who's going? Can I crash with anyone out there in LJ-land, or should I just book myself into some snooty hotel near the Melbourne Showgrounds? XD

I somehow won a prize in Comikaze24 this year?! I definitely wasn't expecting that. Thanks to anyone reading this who voted for me, because I actually voted for someone else... and not out of sheer politeness either, I really really liked their entry NAMI-CHANNN XD;;;

Lots of people I voted for won stuff this year heh heh A_A But seriously it was all awesome! I haven't had that much fun reading in ages.

Here is a slightly suggestive artbook promo pic as thanks!! I am very very excited about this, especially after seeing the test print and labouring over the design for so long - caleyndar and poshua and RAE are in it too and their art is all fantastic~ go go fujoshi crew~

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Our super hot artbook will be available at the BL Here! table alongside our assorted wares (by sb_mcinnes, caleyndar, RAE, poshua and yours truly) at Supanova Sydney this weekend. YOU MUST COME, IT IS zpxlng's BIRTHDAY.

Hurr I just finished printing my 24 hour comic, gonna spend tomorrow evening stapling! Girl knows how to party.

Approximately a week ago:

mirness: You know how you really liked the cartoony aspects of Sims 1 and didn't really like Sims 2 because it was too realistic? Sims 3 kind of brings those bits of Sims 1 back.
fluffyduck: Hmmmm. Is there a Mac version?
mirness: Nah, I'd have to wait for ages.
fluffyduck: G-good. No Sims for me, then!

Approximately an hour and a half ago:

Good Game: Check out our review of The Sims 3, with footage highlighting its strangely cartoony aspects!
fluffyduck: ...
The Internet: Oh hey, you know the Mac and PC versions came out simultaneously, right? Also even your three-year-old laptop can play it.
fluffyduck: ...):I

Approximately ten minutes ago:



SHUT UP MIR I CAN HEAR YOU LAUGHING FROM HERE

Oh god I can't wait

I've been a member of my current gym for two whole weeks now!! It's one of those trendy circuit gyms but the fees are lower and it's women-only, so I figured why not? So far I've done four workouts and a tai chi class (SLO-MO HADOUKEN), which is pretty damn good for me in every way. I'm really enjoying it; it's so much more social and personal than when I was a member of a certain giant gym chain, and I do feel like I've gotten my energy back. I realised tonight that I can't even remember what I did at work once I'm about a quarter of the way into the circuit... which is actually a good thing!

As promised, here are my highlights from Comikaze 09. What I really recommend is that you read every single one of them, because the quality this year was incredibly high! I laughed, I cried; in once case I actually laughed until I cried. So much wit! So many cool twists! People were being so darn nice and supportive to each other too... it was heartwarming to see. Thanks tedprior for convincing me to participate this year T^T

General favourites:

Pinn by tiny_monster - GAAAH IT'S JUST SOO CUUUTEE! (I like how all the working girls in the crowd make comics about work... but I also love reading them so nyerr)
(The Lives of Those Who Are) Not Us by Biccy Wong - cute art and a nice neat twist.
Exchange Day by Jen Breach and Trevor Wood - a hilarious concept illustrated well.
Hold On by Donna Morgan - absolute proof that 1. good writing makes for a good comic and 2. "I can't draw" is a pathetic excuse not to try making a 24-hour comic >:D
How to (Draw a 24 Hour Comic) by Nick Hunter - w-w-what is this guy he is amazing! And then I looked at his blog and his inkinggg aaa! He may be terrified of me when I say hi at Supanova but oh well XD
Cryptopher Rabbit by Jing - I love comics about eccentric weirdoes who just seem to be dancing to their own beat, and this is that kind of comic. Like many of this year's comics, it is also witty as all get-out. (Okay and she wrote stupid fangirly references to things in there too and I love that.)

Mature faves (requires registration):

Plush Love by C. Braes - I LOVE THIS and it is by a first-timer which blows me away even more. My hands-down favourite out of the lot, it's so solid and expressive and funny all at once!
Innocence is Bliss by Robert Raccoon - this is the one that made me laugh until I cried. The art's so simple but hot daaamn that is some witty writing under pressure.
Hidden Seek by Samantha Ee - oh man the aaart *argggl* and the story and pacing are nicely done too.

It seems like several artists/creatives on my flist are feeling a bit fragile lately, so here is a really inspirational blog entry I read this morning by Stealth Magazine's Mark Pollard. Wise words and well said!

The stars have aligned and therefore I have updated my website!

I think I've finally stumbled upon the right combination of design, CSS and scripts to keep it reasonably pretty and up to date now. In a fit of energy and inspiration, I reuploaded all six of my 24 hour comics... I'll try to track down some of my other short comics during the week and add those too. ComicGallery is so sensible and ridiculously easy to use. ;_;

Speaking of 24 hour comics, I spent most of last night and today reading them! This year's event was a bit lower key than usual but the quality of the entries was amazingly high... I am extremely impressed by what I've read, from veterans and newcomers alike. I will post a list of my favourites next entry! :D

Holy cow, I got to 24 pages with no title page and minimal cheap tricks. A few pages are kinda NSFW and while I started the comic in the General forum, evilhayama reckons I should have seen the porn coming a mile away and just started my thread in the Mature forum to begin with. We can hope, right?

I know exactly what's wrong with it but hey, when you end up with ten pages to draw in half as many hours you kinda... don't give a flying toss any more! Personally, I like what I ended up with.

Pulp Faction thread (may become registration-only when it gets moved to the Mature forum)
Folder o' jpgs for everyone else

Now to go get some sleep before dinner, I am wrecked. _o_

I'm attempting the 24 hour comic again this year and I have no idea why :DDD I start in about forty minutes.

Today is Drawing Day, too! If you're in Australia, aren't doing the 24 hour comic and have an hour to spare, consider participating in the Cambodian/Australian comics exchange that John Weeks has set up - your mission is to introduce yourself in a single comic page drawn in an hour. The target is 12 people on either end of the exchange!

Full details are at Comics Lifestyle.

Calm down, PS3 people, it's not an exclusive. *pats* (I might even play it, if it really dispenses with stealth!)

Tonight I went with mirness to a panel discussion about storytelling, particularly in a local and community context. Seriously, I'd never thought of Underbelly as historical fiction until it was being shown right there in front of me with the writer talking about it. It was really interesting, and the handful of short films we caught afterwards were great - Parkroar's Parkour Pilgrims was a definite hit with the audience. I always find it inspiring to hear other people talk about their process, especially when it's the process of coming up with and then distilling ideas.

blackguard23 sent me the most EPIC MAIL EVER to show me Japan's GTO stamp. Yes, a GREAT TEACHER ONIZUKA POSTAGE STAAAMP. You should really read that comic, Max, it is the longest manga series I have ever bothered reading and possibly the only seinen series I've been able to sit all the way through.

Today was apparently a good day for mail because FontShop Australia mailed me their latest font book out of the blue. Oh baby, type and paper were so made for each other. ;A;

I'm picking up Star Ocean 4 and Rhythm Heaven tomorrow but I started Persona 4 and EA Sports Active already and I joined a gym and am basically busy doing social things or drawing (sometimes both!) for all of June so I'm not sure if I will ever get to play these games I am buying aaaaaaaa.