Welcome Interruptions

[den]

I'm hacking away at a JAVA assignment when there's a knock at the door. It's the postman, and he has this:



It's kevinpease's book! And he signed it! I was expecting him to sign it with a "Hi Batty" sort of thing. What I wasn't expecting was:



The "check you out" puzzled me until I read this this bit in the intoduction by Steve Jackson. I was blown away:


How good is that? The text, that is. Not the poor scan. I'm grinning myself to death here.

I wrote that story while Kevin was having a serious burnout. I thought I'd send a comic script to him so "all he had to do" was draw it, and we Patient Ones would get 3 weeks worth of Absurd Notions while Kevin had a rest from thinking up stories and scripts. I didn't expect it to end up on the Art By Other's page, and I never dreamed I'd be mentioned in the book.

I bow to you yet again, oh sky-blue one!


Me, By Kevin Pease.

Comments

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that too.

And, actually, it strikes me as not only a compliment to your skills, but also a subtle and extremely strong piece of praise for Cerulean -- Steve Jackson thinks Absurd Notions is so cool that he reads through the fan-art. ]B=8)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Yeah, how's that for an endorsement?

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to brighten your day. :=}

The question of why I never did turn that script into comics bears examining, for it was certainly deserving. I think it's because to make it canon, I would have had to iron out the mild Australian accents from the dialogue, and that would have robbed it of a lot of its charm. To me, a Story By Den Whitton (and all the distinguishing characteristics thereof) is every bit as valuable as a Comic Strip By Kevin Pease, so I felt it should be preserved in its original state.

Also, there's something special about the imagined visuals. When Craig read the introduction, he agreed and said that he had a very specific image in his head of the bats flitting around overhead that was unlikely to be matched by any drawing.

After all this, in spite of the reasons, I started to consider that maybe I should give it the treatment after all, but realized that if I did, I would be making a liar out of Steve Jackson in print.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I never thought I wrote with an accent. odd.

When I wrote the script I could see in my head each panel as though I was looking at a real strip. I've only ever written two "fan-ficts" for comics, and the other was a staight out short story. Steve Jackson is right; your characters work. And I think you should do the strip, but that's just me 8)

[weibchenwolf.livejournal.com]

Congrats Den. For some reason I find Strip 5 of yours the most hilarious, as in spit water on the screen hilarious!

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

Woohoo..

But you know this is NOT how I envisioned you as getting into print battydear..

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm slack. Sorry.

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I should talk..

we're both slack!

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

heee. Rock :)

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

most very way cool :)

Java and Mt. Rushmore

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

Java is evil. Evil, I tell you! As an ISO in the making, I have developed a knee-jerk reaction to applications that allow scripts to be run through my Internet browser. Many US entities are putting blocks on Java so that employees can't even access them. Incidentally, I'm told that business and government entities in the US are abandoning frames because many vision-impaired screen readers can't cope with them, and it consequently represents a vulnerability under the Americans with Disabilities Act! Eh. I kinda like frames...

I am enchanted with the idea of a miniature Mt. Rushmore sculpture in our parking lot, like the one pictured in the book you showed. It beats the 9-story high metal sculpture I'm watching them erect across the street. It looks like a hideous white metal flower, has taken two weeks of welding to stabilize, and I'm told will feature sheets of glass hanging off of it (I'm not kidding!) That's what we need in earthquake country with a budget deficit: a $250,000 sculpture with potential Guillotine blades hanging from it...

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

And yes, you do type with an accent! *grin*

[acelightning.livejournal.com]