Today, I got absolutely no art done. Instead I spent much of the day doing some bookshelf organization – I put a lot of stuff on the shelves that had queued up on the floor next to them, and on the coffee table in the studio. I had a good excuse to do this: Ian and Nero were going to come take my couch. They'd just moved into town, in a house with three other cartoonists, and no furniture. Now they have a couch. Which left my apartment amazingly quickly; a couch moves a lot faster when you have five dudes hauling it instead of one lady and her boyfriend!
Said couch has a history. I got it from Erin, who gave it to me when she moved in with her boyfriend, who had a better couch. She got it from another artist. It is chock full of artist farts, and will become even more so soon.
Meanwhile, my living room is much more spacious; the giant beanbag chair I've been using instead of the sofa is no longer crammed into the space between the couch and the wall with the TV screen. Instead it's got a nice healthy amount of space on all sides. I'm going to find a small table to put the 360 on and hide all the cables involved in that and the subwoofer, and then I'll be pretty happy with my living room!
Miss Fussyspider is, of course, MUCH happier with the state of the living room. It still needs work – it always will – but it's much tidier, and has closer to the Right Amount Of Stuff in it.
Of course, even as I say that, I had more stuff show up today…
The top two books are definitely going to Lucy this Christmas, along with some art supplies. The bottom two… well, maybe they'll stick around here, they may be a little advanced for her right now. Also I kinda want to pick up some stuff from them myself.
I may do some art today even with all of this furniture moving. Tonight's SICAGA, I figure I'll take my sketchbook and the ipad and work on the roughs for the “demon booty call” story I've been kicking around with Nick. I've already got one page sketched out, I'd like to have a few more soon.
I also announced the third stretch goal for the Rita 2 Kickstarter: if about 350 people buy a book, I'll drop the price, because I'll be able to order enough to get a lower price from the printer without having a closet full of the things for the next six years.