Breakfast At Peggy’s

Peggy
September 23, 2016

Sigil suggested this dialogue and I had to draw it. In the grey-wash mode of a New Yorker cartoon. I would like to say “ala Charles Addams” what with being a big fan of his stuff as a kid but I was honestly thinking more of one of the modern artists whose name I can’t remember. The one who draws the really big ears and the super flat lower jaws.

Now I’m having horrible visions of Enmerkar and Peganthyrus as a comic strip about a couple who have been married for about forty years longer than they really ought to be. Kind of like ‘The Lockhorns” except with more biting.

watching Revolutionary Girl Utena: 11

Peggy
September 20, 2016

In which something I’ve seen thirty times finally registers.

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Coffee and Local Politics

Peggy
September 19, 2016

So a few years ago I drew a header image for the Seattle board on Reddit: “Snoo”, Reddit’s mascot, wrapped up in a scarf, drinking coffee.

After a while it got tweaked to be in the average colors of all of Seattle’s sports teams.

Today I got a username mention notification: the Seattle subreddit has redesigned, and people are debating if the new generic “material design” Snoo head is a suitable replacement for the old hipster Snoo.

Said hipster Snoo seemes to be loved enough that the new SeattleWA subreddit’s header contains someone’s traceover of it. This made me pretty happy to see!

So I decided to knock out a new one:

high res, transparent high res, transparent, no coffee radiance

I drew this new version of the little guy in about a half hour. And now I get to decide if I want to offer it for the old Seattle subreddit, or the new SeattleWA one – there’s a whole bunch of drama around really aggressive mods using the Seattle subreddit to promote their own businesses and delete a lot of local event posts and whatnot. If you mention the new subreddit your comment will probably get deleted and you’ll get banned. Which is really just kinda shitty. Dunno.

The Unicorn Hustle

Peggy
September 17, 2016

I’ve been playing a lot of No Man’s Sky lately. It’s the best simulation of hiking through a lurid 1970s sci-fi paperback cover I’ve ever seen. I think it might be my game of the year.

This is my headcanon of what’s going on when I play it with the ex hanging out on the couch next to me. And one of the rare occasions I spend more than an hour or two on a drawing – I think this was about eight or nine hours over three days.

Some friends who saw WIPs of this did me the honor of namechecking Jim Burns when reacting to it, but mostly I was thinking about the zillions of Baen books with covers by Stephen Hickman. Dude’s an absolute master of stylized shiny things. The signature on this one is a riff on his to pay tribute.

Me being me, of course, I made Illustrator do a lot of the work for. All those little seamlines with the shinies next to them? I drew a handful of art brushes and quickly slashed out lines using them; if the one I chose didn’t quite work, I could just change to another one or draw a new one.