"Never trust a socially adept cartoonist."

I’ve been reading some comics-related weblogs, starting with the sidebar of The Comics Journal’s ¡Journalista!. Via BugPowder I found this Adrian Tomine quote:

Through his responses, the artist depicts cartooning as a path only for anal-retentive and antisocial types who could enjoy sitting alone in a room all day. "I always feel a notch away from being Jack Nicholson in The Shining," he tells his fans. "There's something about drawing over and over again in little boxes that's damaging. Never trust a socially adept cartoonist. Their work probably isn't good."

So there’s some hope for me.

Actually, it’s not true. Carla Speed McNeil (creator of Finder, the best comic being published today, and yes, I know I’ve said that before) is quite charming and socially adept. I’m sure plenty of other cartoonists are too.

Small world

I was skimming through cthulhia’s friends page, and I found chanaleh, who seems to be my Bacchante from the weekend. (Here’s a photo, from an earlier party. And here’s one of Cthulhia, who’s prettier in real life.) And it looks like she knows ladymondegreen. Only five-thousand people in the world, really. The rest are all computer graphics.

Hurty feet

The plan for today was to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sketch stuff for a while, then finish up with a treadmill session at the gym. I got to the Met only an hour before closing, so I bagged that idea, stopped off at Midtown Comics to see if they had the Kissing Chaos TPB and the first volume of Wish (they did!), and then went to the gym for 45 minutes of walking at about 3.5 MPH on a surface whose incline changed randomly.

So now my feet hurt, but it’s the good kind of pain. Well, one of the good kinds of pain. I wonder if there are any workout-oriented BDSM scenes out there. I’ve seen commercials that imply that weight machines are exciting someone’s libido. (Just curiosity, honest!)

Slightly larger variety of body types today, since I showed up during the post-work rush.

Have I mentioned my intent to try and have at least one illustrated entry each day? Or that oohs and aahs would not be unwelcome?