PIPE DOPE #65

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Another week down! Sorry this is going up a bit late today, and sorry again for going Tuesday through Saturday--a schedule which, I'm afraid, I may have to follow yet again next week. Every time I think I might have a chance to get things back on track for Monday through Friday, life intervenes. Ah well. So it goes.

For anyone actually looking at this on the day it's posted--Saturday, May 7--don't forget that it's Free Comic Book Day! And for anyone who doesn't know what that is, it's the one day outta the year when, if you go to a comic-book store, you can get a free comic book! (The title kinda says it all, I guess.) I'm planning on stopping by Hollywood's own Meltdown Comics later this morning to check out some of the rad activities they've got scheduled to coincide with the book giveaway.

Alright, then. See you back here hopefully on Monday, but more likely on Tuesday, as Pipe Dope charges full steam ahead into Act 2. Yo-ho!

PIPE DOPE #64

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It's been awhile since we've seen Buff and G the D, but fear not! More of them soon. See you tomorrow to wrap up this week!

PIPE DOPE #63

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More midnight-oil burning on this one. And here I thought shifting this week's Pipe Dope schedule to Tuesday through Saturday would make things easier.

Digging deep into my iTunes, I listened to Farmhouse, Round Room and The Story of the Ghost while penciling and inking. If it wasn't already clear, I've temporarily eschewed the sort of "method" music listening that had me listening to '90s jams last week. But who knows what'll happen tonight...

PIPE DOPE #62

 

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Burning the midnight oil for this one, friends. Literally--it's midnight as I'm typing this.

Pencils and inks were done while listening to a slew of music from Two Gallants.

And now I'm off to bed...

PIPE DOPE #61

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Welcome back to another week of Pipe Dope, and apologies again for slipping back to the Tuesday-through-Saturday schedule this week. I'm really, really hoping that next week (which marks the long-anticipated return of General the Dog!) will see me getting back to Monday through Friday. Keep your fingers crossed, dear readers!

Pencils were done partly in silence, partly while listening to NPR news (on KCRW); inks were done while listening to God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise by Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs and Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes.

Speaking of what people listen to while working, the question was asked during a panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday that featured Daniel Clowes, Dash Shaw and Jim Woodring. Woodring's answer--recordings of frogs--will haunt me forever...