JOURNAL

Journal

Weird Uncle Loot

March 29, 2010

It’s fun spoiling kids from a distance. I am a bit jealous, though maybe I’m just sending off what I would want if I were shrunk back to age 11. It’s quite possible my niece Hannah wanted a signed pro soccer ball, a 3-D MegaSmartPhone, a top-of-th...

Big Points in White River Junction

March 02, 2010

If the old expression about rain and showers holds true, I’ve just survived a short burst of a blizzard. A few deadlines decided to clump together, first the months-in-the-making relaunch of one of my first big website projects, topshelfcomix.com...

The Great Snailmail Experiment: Round 2

January 02, 2010

Happy new year folks! 2010 is going to be amazing, I can feel it in my chilled Chicago bones. Last year I decided to draw something every day in January to get 2009 started off right. Although it merely made me lose more sleep than usual, since I...

Turds for Sale—Cheap!

November 23, 2009

One of my first clients as a freelance webdesigner recently relaunched their site. This is the homepage from my design, a hand-coded site complete with custom cart and checkout, which survived for almost six years: It was replaced with this abomi...

Eatin’ Lazy: In the Spell of the Dripping Ham Jibarito

November 08, 2009

I’ve gone to the dark side. It’s hopeless. After being somewhat of a health nut, at least food-wise, for some 15 years, I’ve switched over. Yesterday I fought back a nasty hangover with about five pounds of greasy Chinese — not much is op...

Carl and Eva, Guest Appearance by Beluga

November 04, 2009

Wherein Nate holds his nose and blogs about pets. We always had cats growing up, often too many of them. Living in the country tends to produce litters. I don't remember there being as much of a moral imperative thrust upon all citizens that spay...

Oaktown and APE 2009

November 03, 2009

When I first tried screenprinting some ten years ago, everything went smoothly. We bought a large roll of crappy screen and haphazardly stretched it across barely-square frames held together with cheap staples. In Scott's parents' garage, we smea...

Honing my Cartoonist Impersonation at SPX 2009

November 02, 2009

Part of my reason moving to Chicago was to really embrace my self-image as a Cartoonist, finally moving away from self-image as Coder. I mean, I grew up drawing, and I grew up playing on my ancient Commodore 64. Not much has changed. But right be...

Drinking the Frog Soup

November 01, 2009

It's been a little over a month since my three-week stay in France and I figured I should post a bit more from my experience, partly from my cousin Kim harassing me about not writing much during the trip, but also because I have a godawful memory...

Sketches from SPX 2009

September 30, 2009

My France trip is more summed up by my photos and drawings than I could ever blather about with words. Translated: I’m too lazy to relay my experiences with another journal post with more details. I said I would, but just thinking about it bores m...

Un Petit Paris Blurb

September 20, 2009

Turns out Paris isn’t the best opportunity for keeping up a journal. For better or worse, I came down with a terrible (and hopefully one-day) bug that I had to spend the entire day sleeping off. I had planned to visit comic book shops with Damien ...

Bouring Ultimatuzzzzzz

September 10, 2009

In my continuing yearly movie review series, I’ve reduced the yawnsville Bourne Ultimatum to two sentences, accompanied by stills which capture the riveting camerawork: “Something happened to me.” “And I need to know what it was.”

This is Living!

September 08, 2009

I’ve been doing my best to fit into the slow-moving little village of Brantôme the last week. Farmers markets, thrift store shopping, lazy drives in the countryside, sitting by the river drawing medieval steeples, many luxurious meals, and of cour...

The Great White Honky Visits France

September 03, 2009

For those who somehow land on my blog but don’t hear me blathering in person, I’m spending the next 3 weeks in France. The first 2 weeks with my cousin Kimberlee in Brantôme, and the last week in Paris. I just spent the day walking around Brantôm...

The N-16 P-32 (Space Age Helicopter)

August 07, 2009

Found this in a recently unearthed box of relics covered with dust and other unmentionables. You can click on the images to make them larger .. if you dare.

It’s My Party and I’ll Drink in the Midday if I Want To

July 14, 2009

Today I turned 34 and I’m celebrating appropriately with La Fin Du Monde at 1pm. Thirty-three was a tumultuous year for me, but a good one nonetheless. From living with my girl and cat in sweltering LA heat with a corporate job and driving more t...

South Korea Minicomic Sale

June 24, 2009

Nate's aborted Korea minicomic! 32 pages of confused honky in Asia. New cover, now with cynicism. Indispensable and disposable!Out for a limited time because Nate hates self-publishing. Get it while he's still drunk!$3 Cheap! Sample pages:

Inside the Mind of Dave Roche

June 17, 2009

Dave Roche recently visited Chicago and penciled this genius comic. Between guffaws, I managed to ink and scan it in:

The Future of My Combover

April 15, 2009

Watching Synecdoche has renewed my faith in talking American humans. What a mindfuck of a movie — typical Kaufman. Brought a whole new meaning to laughing ‘til tears. I kept finding myself guffawing at the most inappropriate of moments. In many wa...

Eyeball Treats Power Planet Earth

April 13, 2009

It’s amazing how crafty the computer-machine is at distracting you from getting work done. I can sit in front of this thing for hours and step away, confused, wondering what just happened. I’ll run in from the kitchen to find a track on iTunes a...

Web-Based Xanax for Developers Supporting Internet Explorer

April 07, 2009

In between copious alcohol consumption to tolerate today's tax preparation, where I must ignore the stupidity of a year's worth of impulse purchases, I put aside a few minutes to finish a long unfinished yet incredibly useful side-project, ieh8.cl...

How I Learned To Miss The Wheelbarrow

April 03, 2009

Me in five years. I often try to compare webdesign with more established crafts. It doesn’t work. It’s just too young. There’s also the common conception that any 14-year-old with a few liters of Mountain Dew can make a website over the weekend. ...

Ticketmaster Can Suck It

March 09, 2009

I’m very excited about this: But I was not very excited about this: The ten dollar “convenience charge” is a load of crisp bull hockey. I want to say they should just hide that and make it part of the ticket price from the get-go, but I would ha...