.here we go.

1. tick is at the print house. it should be back, bound and beautiful, by the middle of may. if you've got any fingers you're not using, you should cross them for me.

and then we're gonna have a party. you should come.

2. the website is up. if you don't believe me, go click on something. there are sample pages from the comic, desktop images and t-shirt designs, cartoons, good things. and more on its way.

3. this is a strange feeling, you know? not unfamiliar, not unmanageable, but maybe not to be dwelled on, either.

and so we're doing an anthology. yes, an anthology, and not only to distract ourselves, but also because there are just too many good things you've never seen, and your ignorance is not becoming. we're going to make a big, versatile, beautiful comic book, and then you can read it, and we'll all come out on the other side notably more attractive for our trouble.

if you're aware of something good and graphic and sequential and un-or-under-appreciated you're afraid i may overlook, or if you yourself are good and graphic and sequential and un-or-under-appreciated, let me know, okay?

okay.

.all manner of matters.

1. i was in manhattan last week laying down some guitar and mandolin tracks for alexa woodward (whom you may remember from the broken circles show at niagra). she's one of those one-take people you hear about (but never actually meet). needless to say, the experience was somewhat intimidating. these are going to be freakin' awesome recordings, and they should be finished soon. i'll keep you posted.

2. thanks to the generosity of my alma mater (to which i may actually have to start giving occasionally), i finally have tick all scanned and ready to go. the quotes are rolling in from printers, so hopefully the order will go out in the next week or two.

3. i did some animation for the good folks over at wicked east productions some moths ago, which is up on their hiply-yet-elegantly refurbished site. it features my one-time english and hypermedia professor, the acclaimed hypertext novelist micheal joyce, talking about one of the prettiest books i've ever read. we did it in h.d., and a lot is lost in the downsampling, but you can get the idea. i'll put a slightly higher-res version on my site when it goes up in a couple weeks.

in the meantime, i'm just day-jobbing it while i work out the details of all this self-publishing nonsense. more to come.

k


sunset lake, poughkeepsie, ny, in the autumn of maybe 2000.