Fun_PosterBoy

These were some old posterboards I did for Yale Comics Club's booth at the Freshman Activities Bazaar. I wanted ours to stand out from the mob of posterboards, and I'm happy to say we succeeded: people would swing by and at the very least just glare at our poster from afar before carrying on dismissively. Oh how they would uncomfortably giggle when they realized that I realized that they had no intention of actually coming to our table (I would shake my head disapprovingly once we made eye contact).

Anyway, the above was my first effort at an unconventional poster. This mighta been how I met first total-stranger fan, actually: someone at the bazaar recognized my [first] OriChar, Kelly Ryan from Darling Find, on the poster so she came up to me to tell me she like my comics! Aww!

This was our most recent poster. This time starring Zero Like Me's dynamic duo with a featured spot going to the putrid mr. jack kelly, and guest spots for some other characters and random blown up panels and sketches. The blank bottom parts were to be covered by flyers and stuff like last year's. Drawing at that scale and with sharpies is pretty forgiving, so it's not as intimidating as you might think; it's actually pretty fun. It's just tricky and achey drawing that big on weirdly-shaped cardboard, but imagine if we had a team working on this rather than a soloist.

 

Anyway, another successful poster. I hope they continue experimenting in the ensuing years...

Reuxben

Design_blr.Vulf

This is an ancient char design, from when I was planning my very first narrative comic. I used Darling Find to stall for development time, but the dummy series ended up running the full season, went pretty well, and was my first taste of success. So this guy's story, BLR, ended up being too big for the Herald, so it never did make it to the show.

Currently working on a terrifying, super-traditional drawing, so I've been away from the tablet for a while; I actually had to get re-used to drawing on paper after all the recent tabletting. It feels so archaic to use paper. Layers is the noise...

Reuxben

Fun_Rec.Death

Forgot I had this--it's the recolored/book version of that Death piece I did for the Yale Record.

Do you ever get scared drawing something? I do. I am. Coming soon.

Reuxben

Fun_AlexisOnFire

This is my first real try at cel shading style coloring, starring my second-favorite Harvard rat, Alexis Blight, who seems to have set stuff ablaze in her Crimson-fury.

Fun Facts: Alexis Blight enjoys shopping at J. Crew and repping for Harvard, especially at Yale, and especially in front of Zero Zetsubo (the embodiment of Yale's collective imaginations, hopes, and fears, donchaknow!). Alexis Blight is one of those names you always have to say out in full. Like Cher.

Baa: As a weird hobby, I collect depressing memories, and one of my crown jewels comes from perhaps the most depressing place I've ever been: Harvard University. No joke. Made me just want to etc. etc. etc.

Gotta try cel shades again.

Reuxben

Fun_Strong

More coloring practice, this time off a sketch of a classmate from my least favorite part about my Yale education: Spanglish class.

The pun is based on Tara Strong, the voice of Ben from Ben 10, one of my top favorite animated shows. Also had one of the best theme songs, too. I haven't really been able to get into the spin off series, though.

Haven't slept in over a day as color practice continues. Really happy with how my next one came out...

Reuxben

Fun_Jenny

Introducing...
Individual Jenny!
High school was hard enough
before the ninja zombie robots!!

Coming this Fall 2000 and 10
to a theatre near you.

Reuxben

Fun_OldHabits

Old habits. They die hard.
More jijital jrawing practice, this time with multiple layers, which feels like the way to go; getting the hang of this, kinda.

Now to work on coloring...

Reuxben

Fun_Point

A sketch from today's tablet practice.

I'm trying different methods to help figure out how to draw on it like I do on paper, but I fear I should probably just make a point of focusing on getting coloring down.

Frustrating.

But for now, this is "penciling" on one layer.

...narf.

Reuxben

Fun_ForTheView

This is my first totally digital/tablet-drawn artwork, inspired by the impending adventures at:
clemenrich.tumblr.com
I bumped into both of them at a Stray Balloon show one night, and they're absolutely wonderful. Well, they need funding for their noble adventures, and if you feel inclined to learn more, you can find their pitch here. You might say they're kinda like the real-deal, truer Movement for Beauty and Justice--like, everything that organization should have been, you know? Anyway, they're pursuing something neat and worth checking out.

If you don't want to just give money away, you can always get some of his tunes for your trouble, which he's graciously offering for free now, so maybe that can be your sorta tote-bag free gift thing you get for donating. Like donating to PBS but with more rock and less Lord of the Dance.

Good luck and safe travels,

Reuxben

Fun_ColorKid

After some sage advice and some thankfully saved funds, my tablet, an Intuos4 (m), arrived Thursday, so now I need to get used to using a tablet asap--here's my first tablet coloring.

Now we just need a working scanner and everything'll be jake...

Also, as I always do, I totally forgot Removal's bithday. April 6, 2010, so a little over two months late on that...

Fun Facts: The original drawing debuted in a post that also included a belated birthday note. Freaky coincidence.

Well, happy 3rd, my little turd.

Reuxben

Fun_NewScan

We don't have any money, so I'm testing out the family printer's scanner after the revelation that I don't need to buy a dedicated scanner when our printer/faxer can scan, too.

And it worked.

Emphasis on the past tense.

It no longer works...

Great.

Hopefully this gets resolved soon so I can get drawings out to the people who need them...

Reuxben

Fun_JEe32

My senior year of college, I lived alone in Jonathan Edwards College room E32.

I slept in my own room and on a bed less and less regularly after Spring Break, opting to sleep at a desk in the JE library so I could always be close to JE's desktop publishing computer, its ample workspace, and the scanner.

I listened to Motion City Soundtrack while I drew my life away.

Wouldn't trade it for the world. Would do it all again in a heartbeat.

Yale 2014, don't blink.

Reuxben

Fun_PD.DoggieMojo3

This is the book version of this piece, my final Doggie Mojo installment for the Penny Dreadful.

So I've been in a drawing funk recently. I don't have that same hunger from back when I was in college. Speaking of which, it's so ridiculous to think of myself as an alumnus, you know? To be fair, I felt the same about being called a college student till around late sophomore year; I felt like I was a high schooler who had sneaked in somehow. It sucks now cuz just as soon as you think, Man, I can't wait to get back in the fall for that crisp New Haven autumn, you realize, No, that's it, man.

Watching SNL always reminds me of Yale, because it was one of my first memories (t)here. As a Californian, I was so excited to finally see the show on East Coast time. And I remember watching it in the beautifully cave-like, original JE buttery, and then later in the cold, empty husk called Swing Space, and feeling so unbelievably at home, more than I ever had anywhere else.

Call me psychic, but can I call it or what? Yay.

Reuxben

Design_moz.Maddie

This is Maddie the Hag, my version of the Wicked Witch of the West from my Wizard of Oz redesign project in my Literature for Young People class. She operates as a symbol for waste and general irresponsibility, which was actually kinda fun to think about since I'm usually quite self-conscious about being wasteful and all that.

Easter Eggs: Regina Spektor's hat and hair.

I feel like it's midterms--there's so much to do and it's all sorta due at the same time. I have to figure out what the highest priority is, but it's a really tough call since there's no clear cut distinctions. So I'm sorta paralyzed with what to do and when. Plus my little studio here is awful. I literally found cat pee on some of my stuff the other day because that's how our new cat rolls. Funnily enough he peed on my diploma case thingy.

Reuxben

Design_moz.Kashi

This is my version of the Scarecrow for my redesign project for the Wizard of Oz. His name is Kashi and he is probably my all-around favorite character. The professor liked him the most, too, out of all the other designs.

Kashi is the unwitting brains of the bunch. After years of feeling ashamed of his carnie-roots, he resolves to run away from the circus to join an accounting school. Along the way, he accidentally ends up joining another circus. Eventually Kashi meets our heroes and they convince him to join them on their quest to find the mystical, mythical Mage of Z.

Everybody's looking for something. Sweet dreams,

Reuxben

Fun_PD.DoggieMojo2

This is the book version of this piece, my cover for the Penny Dreadful.

The Penny Dreadful, alas, is likely on its way out of existence. I was with the publication since issue two, and I'm so proud of how far we came, but unfortunately I have a strong feeling it's going to die out by next year. I believe there's two people who could save it, though: him and her. But who knows.

Good news, bad news, GO!
Good News: I'm officially, tangentially a real-deal published author--I noticed this piece got published at McSweeney's! Yes, it's written by our old Record Chairman, but I pitched the original idea way back in the day and I even got to illustrate it. This news is particularly cool because the original ran back when the Record was still heavily rebuilding, but the piece was definitely one of the outstanding ones. And look how far the Record's come, too; it looks set to really thrive now. Absolutely awesome!

Bad News: I received some horrific welcome-back-home news--we're bankrupt! Absolutely awesome.

No pressure to go pro, right?

Reuxben

Design_moz.Onceproud

After three years of trying, I finally got into "Literature for Young People" last semester. For my final project, I re-imagined the Wizard of Oz as a Shonen-y title, the Mage of Z. This is my revision of the Winged Monkey. I see them as a clan of cursed Imps, who with fierce, blind loyalty obey the orders of whoever controls the Golden Cap that enslaves them. This is Onceproud the Felled Tyrant, Fallen King of the Imps. Other designs are here and here.

Easter Eggs: Andre, son, crown.

Fun Facts: Dog feet for loyalty, locks for slavery.

If you ever want to read the actual Wizard of Oz, don't. It's such an incredible let down from everything you imagine it to be, not only because of the implacable hype your imagination builds, but also from the text itself--Baum literally has all the cool stuff dangling right in front of you and then right as you're about to get to it he just moves on. I am not exaggerating--like, there's a scene of an impending battle with a deadly, giant spider, and it's dealt with in literally like one sentence. Another sequence that gets passed over is a series of attacks by waves of forty animals that are dealt with in just a few sentences. Those are just some of the battle-related glossing-overs.

There are many cool things promised in the book that just get completely passed over, like the guy had somewhere to be that night he was writing so he just stopped writing. So out of that frustration reading a so-shoulda-been-cool book, I put together this project, and hope to share some of my designs.

Go-go gadget Animorphs #4,

Reuxben

Fun_PD.DogieMojo1

This is the "book" version of this illustration for the Penny Dreadful. I think I wanna recolor this further...

Hey, did I ever tell you the weirdest fan interaction I ever had? This girl came up to me and went, "Hey, you're Reuxben! You do the Doggie Mojo in the Penny Dreadful! I love that!" I wanted to go like, "Yeah, I also do some comics on the side every now and then..." Haha. But anyway, it was pretty cool to be known as the "Penny Dreadful" guy for someone rather than the "YDN" guy, especially since that was my first time doing pure prose comedy writing (not comic or TV scripts, but prose), and yet it seemed to have gone over pretty well--so much so that a random girl felt compelled to come up to me and tell me that's how she knows me. Also, I feel like most of my college fans were female...what's up with that?

Speaking of which, I miss Yale. It hasn't really sunk in that it's all over, but it's getting there. I'm already in a quasi-nocturnal cycle...Yale was great for helping me structure my day. Now it's all me, and I don't have a scanner, a desk, or proper workspace, and it's blazing hot in sunny California...how long until my art reserves give out? How long until I have to resort to this for new art content? How long until I start showering daily?

Animorphs #3, let's dance,

Reuxben

Fun_PD.Boy

After hiding out in JE an extra day after a last minute flight-fiasco, I'm back in California, Internet's up, and I'm somewhat sad to announce that my book has SOLD OUT. Technically I just run out of copies, I haven't sold out of copies--it's a free Sudler-funded book after all. So if you didn't get a copy (or my word that you will receive yours in the fall), tough luck, buddy, that's it (sorry, Mom!).

Anyway, now that I'm in Yale-retirement and have the rest of my life to "look forward" to, I'm thinking of how to spend the rest of my days. It's weird. My first time waking up in California since Winter Break was this past Thursday, and it started to sink in that I was always just visiting Yale; I was never a resident. It's like it was only a dream. which I just now woke from, like it never really happened.

Ok, so I'll be posting the exclusive recolorings and some of the printings hitherto only available in my book, the first (cough) of which was actually featured last time, but this is the first color job, a revamp of one of my very first pieces ever for the Penny Dreadful.

I made a To Do list on the plane, and here's a bit of it:
-Lose weight, maybe via exercise for a change?
-Re-read my Animorphs collection
-(Re)-read the Everworld Series
-Clear my Fiverr Waitlist
-Project DF
-Project SHS
-Project BRB
-Project ZLM:A

So now we get to see who the real fans are, since Yale's been done for a while now, and now it's just me and you, Removal. None of those pesky fair-weather fans. And heaps of Animorphs to tear through (I've got books 1-39, 3 Megamorphs, all the Chronicles books, an Alternamophs, and even the "Meet the Stars of Animorphs" book about the TV show...). Removal book club, anyone? Animorphs #2, you're up next, kid.

Reuxben

Fun_GivenTheAx

My last post from Yale (from my home away from home away from home, the JE computer lab) shall be this apology to Laura Zax.

Sorry, Laura Zax. You are wonderful, as you well know. I am an idiot, as you should definitely well know.

Ok, I'm now off to fly back to California. Goodbye forever, Yale. I owe you everything, and I thank you for everything--regrets and all.

Also, am I the last 2010 in JE right now? Creepy.

Reuxben

YDN_sls.Leavin

Reach for your wallet too quickly in front of an important official's secret service, it's Sick Little Suicide #19, "Leavin" in which I talk about what even an executive order cannot make happen.

Does this one really count as a Suicide? It's not in the book, I can tell you that. But it is in the Commencement issue. I don't believe I've ever felt so un-self-conscious about a Suicide than on this one, even though it's printed bigger than any other piece. I didn't even know the issue launched on Friday until someone started talking to me about it. Surprise!

Welp, that's it for my undergraduate YDNing days. And my undergraduate existence, for that matter. When next we meet, I'll be an...alumnus...

Forget Vitamin C, this is how you do a graduation theme.

Thanks, Yale...it's been real.

Real disappointing. Now get out of my sight.

Kidding...

...not really.

...yes really.

...maybe really.

Reuxben

Fun_NobodyKnows

It is with great pride and joy I officially announce:

Nobody Knows Who The Funk Reuxben Is.
Advance copies are OUT NOW for people on the reserve list from the class of 2010 only, since it's a more time-sensitive case to get them their books. So if you are 2010, you should be getting your book soon. Just be sure--if you haven't already--to email or call with details on how/when/where to make the delivery! And preferably don't be in a crowded place for the delivery, I get sheepish(er) like that.

Anyway, this was a huge undertaking and I literally lived in the JE computer lab for a couple of weeks hurrying to get this and my other final Yale projects wrapped. When the proofs came in Wednesday, that was the first night in a good while that I slept in my room and on a bed, rather than at my library desk or on two library chairs facing each other.

There are still some unreserved copies left for anyone who wants them and you are certainly still welcome to write me for your free copy, but the volumes that are in at present are kinda limited to just 2010s, unless it's a spontaneous sorta thing, or if you will not be here in the fall. The non-2010 copies will be in on Monday and while I can deliver them until Tuesday, after the 25th you can pick up your copy at the JE Dean's office starting this fall.

Special thanks to the great and powerful Loide for her help with the book design. And thank you for helping make this possible! And ironic!

Reuxben

YDN_ill.Clintmon

And you thought we were done? What are you NEW?!

Usually I listen to rock while drawing but for this guy, I made an exception. I listened to Norm's run at Weekend Update.

So this is going to go in the Commencement issue, and it'll be a coloring activity! Grab your crayons and kiss you boola goodbye!

Fun Facts: I drew two presidents in 24 hours for the issue! This one was the more difficult one...stay tuned for the next one.

Reuxben

Record_Australia

This is the last interior art I ever did for the Yale Record...

Caption:
World map proportional to koala population
Ok, putting finishing touches on the book, while listening to one of my favorite Yalies (and trying to tune out Charlie Rose's constant interrupting). If they ever make a movie about Jonathan Coulton...

Also, fresh YDN art coming soon! Even I thought I was out, but they keep pullin' me back in.

Reuxben

Fun_NadieSabe

 

Nadie sabe.

Nadie.

Hasta luego,

Reuxben

Fun_LateNight3

This is the third in my Late Night Conversations series. They say Yale is famous for its Late Night Conversations you have among roommates and friends and stuff, but I've only been a part of about two or three in my entire time here, which is pretty ridiculous. It's so bad it's good, or at least it's comedically bad.

So anyway, I had my annual end of the year Late Night Conversations art session, as I was taking down my gallery show, which oddly enough took exactly one entire play of the Motion City Soundtrack LP cycle, minus Commit This To Memory, which is unavailable because my new laptop doesn't have iTunes yet and I haven't gotten around to transferring the album to Windows Media Player. I actually wanted to listen to as much of the Deltron 3030 album over YouChoob as possible, but couldn't get Internet in the basement. The title track indicates an incredible, must-hear story, though, and we're talking about rap, man. Rap sucks. Ok...usually. I like Del The Funky Homosapien. And I love (real) freestyling!

So, from the pin-wreckage of "I'm Uncomfortable and They're Making Me Do This" comes Zero Zetsubo. I heard a rumor he might not be in as grave a state as some may think...

Reuxben

Fun_TimeTurnedFragile

I'm Uncomfortable And They're Making Me Do This
The Art of Reuxben

JE Basement Gallery
5/8/2010 - 5/10/10

260+ Pieces of Artwork

Featuring
The COMPLETE Zero Like Me
The COMPLETE Sick Little Suicide
The COMPLETE Darling Find
The COMPLETE Quarters Crisis
The COMPLETE Monsta Crash
the complete, uncut, and expanded note to self by jack kelly

Escape! 2 Cover
Escape! Issues 1 & 2
Select Lighter Light
Comics Club Posterboard 2010
Record Animal Issue [magazine]
Record Interior Cover: Murakami
Penny Dreadful Issue [magazine]
The COMPLETE Doggie Mojo

Rarities
ZLM Goes to Oxford (Scene Special)
Select ZLM Paraphernalia
JE People Drawings
Reed's Comic
Fan Note
Enemy Note
JE IMs Poster
Sandy Gill Affair Poster, Orig.
Unfinished Suicide
Oz Character Design Packet
SUGARY DRINKS [installation]
Sophomore Poetry Corner
Herald Proof Page
Deadboy
Penny Dreadful Interiors
Record Interiors

Select Guest Art
-jack kelly
-Yoonjoo
-Amelia
-Zach
-Jinjin
-Spencer
-Anna
-Eric
-Anonymous Fan
-Anonoymous Enemy
-Howard Dean

"I thought you said you weren't having an official opening!"

"I know, I didn't...people just showed up."

Thank you to everyone who showed up.
Thank you to everyone who signed up for a book.

I am happy to have made you happy.
I am happy to have made you sad.
I am happy to have entertained.

It wasn't as uncomfortable as I was hoping for.

Reuxben

Fun_RoguesGallery

ANNOUNCING:
I'm Uncomfortable and They're Making Me Do This
A gallery show featuring the art of Reuxben

Saturday and Sunday ONLY at the JE Basement Gallery. Come/go any time, there is no formal opening or structure. I will still be assembling/disassembling the show as I continue to scan in the artwork for a special project.

Peruse uncut originals, sketches, and other interesting artifacts from my adventures with my imaginary friends, from Zero Like Me and beyond, spanning all four years of comicsing at Yale.

See the debut of several never before seen comics, including the revamped Herald Finale and more!

If you spot me, I am honor-bound to answer questions and talk to you, MAYBE even make eye contact.

UPDATE: THE EARLY REVIEWS ARE IN!
"Oh, wow." - R.I.G.
"--OhmyG--!" - C.L.M.
Stay thirsty, my fiends,

Reuxben

Fun_OnTheStack

Notable Quotable: [Tues, 5:44am] this book might not happen if prep takes 2 long...srsly, wanna assist? plz email!
Continued from Monday, it's more bookwatch; since I don't have the Twitter (I'm not sure if it's even worth getting at this point since I'm no longer relevant to Yale and not yet to the World), I'll use this post to keep track of updates on the collected comics book, which is Coming Soon(TM). So...

11:35am
Currently:#ZLM is now wrapped! All 111 plus the special editions, previously only available online, plus the revamped #HeraldFinale and more! Now I finally get to shower, brush my teef, then it's essay time. And then we start loading up the JE gal'ry then start scanning in the special features. See you , @SpaceCowboy!
Listening to: The Roots cuz the guns are finally drawn.

11:35am
Currently: Just got back from Tyco--the books will be in THURSDAY at the earliest, so 2011 and younger people will have to wait till fall semester to pick up their copies. 2010 people...I will look into mailing these out or tracking you down over our remaining time in #Paradise, shouldn't be too big a problem. This weekend's gallery show will be a preview of the book, then. I'll still include rarities and cool stuff I may or may not include in the book for legal reasons (if you come, I will tell you the TRUE stories behind the stuff, but you have to promise to keep it our secret). On the bright side, since it's no use gunning the book prep to get the books in by Monday, I will be able to make this thing extra nice, with all the features I envisioned. So the plan is fin scanning #ZLM, write my last essay, then start scanning in special features.
Listening to: Cake cuz "friend" is a four letter word.

10:29am
Currently: #zlm102 is in. Another huge favorite of people's. I like it too. I wrote it back in May last year, so it's also one of my oldest comics. I created @AlexisBlight for the very purpose of being in this comic. Almost done with the #ZLMs!
Listening to: Cake cuz the singer should be really unappealing but isn't for some reason.

7:33am
Currently: 100 down...11 to go...but first pass out time is now.
Listening to: At the Drive-In cuz that's some raw energy.

6:30am
Currently: Dude, #zlmzr19 took forever...
Listening to: Bloc Party cuz it seems like bands I start listening to break up soon after--Over It, ELLEGARDEN, The Matches, The Ivy League etc...

5:04am
Currently: Now into the last full month! Almost done! I hope I'll have time for the special features...! Also, just realized I haven't heard anything about the yearbooks coming in...how are we supposed to get our yearbooks?
Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack cuz they played Toads once and I almost got to meet them, but I had homework and couldn't wait up for them...

3:54am
Currently: All Suicides are IN! So glad I went out with a bang; I've been told #sls18 is some peoples' No.1 fav piece of mine. I like it cuz I beat everybody to the Why-Ying-Yang? party, including the esteemed second person to opine, @igEd. Writing #sls was always the most thrilling cuz the pressure was ridic.
Listening to: RADWIMPS cuz I won't be going to Japan any time soon...

2:57am
Currently: Finally at Spring Break. Sleepiness is settling in, but gotta have this done today or bust.
Listening to: The Postal Service cuz it sounds so bittersweet.

1:35am
Currently: Just finished scanning #zlm86. I showed the making of that comic to the kids I taught comics to at a local elementary school and they LOVED it! They were adorable about it, as only kids are.
Listening to: Kyosuke Himuro and Gerard Way cuz I like gang vocals.

^Thechnically Thursday^
\/Wactually Wednesday\/
11:39pm
Currently: So JE reqs I put on a gallery show for them to print books. Just confirmed dates. ANNOUNCING "I'm Uncomfortable and They're Making Me Do This," the mandatory JE gallery show for the collected comics of Reuxben, Sat/Sun ONLY. Don't expect anyone to show up cuz 1st, timing's horrible, and 2nd, nobody cares. But if you want to take a look, it's there. I'll include some ridic'ly special, stuff. I know you guys hate materializing, even using real names in comments. Me too. Honestly though, I would like to meet you guys...this thing's designed to entertain you/me, so if you have nothing better to do, please do stop by or write or something. It's lonely. I'm lonely.
Listening to: Cake cuz I want a girl with fingernails that shine like justice.

8:59pm
Currently: Just scanned in #zlm71! Meeeeeeeemories!! Funnily enough, I keep forgetting that kid's name! lulz.
Listening to: Reuben cuz its just screamy enough, which isn't easy.

6:19pm
Currently: I think some @JE guy mumbled "hey" to me while I was carting JE's supply of @Escape!s to the @JEnaggingTable. I'm only distant as a self defense mechanism; bas'ly, I always assume nobody's talking/listening to me. So if you want to randomly greet me, go for it, but could you please not make it so comically ambiguous as to whether you are coughing, moaning, or talking to me? Cuz I assume the worst. k thx bye.
Listening to: Reuben cuz it makes me think of Farnam for some reason.

5:55pm
Currently: Just distributed @ESCAPE! 2. Still a semester of ZLM to go...at least I didn't get the art travel fellowship to Japan I was counting on to guide my post-college life. One less thing to worry about, y'know? SWEET!
Listening to: Reuben cuz I need a place to rest my bones.

4:36pm
Currently: FINAL SEMESTER! GO! Also @ESCAPE! 2 is OUT NOW! Get it!
Listening to: Reuben cuz it's just a kick in the mouth.

3:26pm
Currently: Just scanned one of my personal favorites, #zlmzr11. Ok, I'm going to take a dump. Nobody steal my computer.
Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack cuz it's been a good year, I've been a good little worker bee, and I deserve a gold star.

2:18pm
Currently: Just met with @mongoose for an inDesign tour. Also just broke 51. Officially approximately halfway done.
Listening to: Jimmy Eat World cuz the sweetness will not be concerned with me.

12:31pm
Currently: Whew. That went pretty well shoutout to JE dining hall staff for being excellent. Ok, well-fed, sorta well-slept, so let's cock-a-doodle-do this. Assistant still would be nice, though...you'd get your name in the book...
Listening to: Tom Waits cuz man, he's pretty cool.

11:56am
Currently: Overslept! Scared to go eat cuz some idiot's prolly gonna try to steal my computer. I always eat at Commons but that's a 14 minute round trip, and can't risk this computer. Must eat at JE, but it's always crowded, they take forever to make burgers, and the non-grill food is usu horrific...ugh.
Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack cuz I wanna ask you to the promenade.

6:38am
Currently: All right, can't fight it anymore, gotta sleep. Sorry, progress. Must sleep...please wake me up, cell phone alarm clock...I fear I may have grown immune to you...
Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack cuz I wanna break dance with you.

5:51am
Currently: Ok...roughly half way done! Just scanned #zlm41 so that plus the ~10 tweaks means ~51/111 ZLMs...I really hope I can get to the bonus material...I'm wondering if it'd be more effective to stop production, sleep, and then sprint to the finish or not to sleep but continue limping onward.
Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack cuz it feels like oxygen or wind.

4:16am
Currently: May have dozed off for a tiny bit...but we're ~back in action...Just scanned the first Suicide that ever got cut #sls12...this'll be the first time it ever sees print!
Listening to: The Postal Service cuz I love their soft jams and how lonely they make me feel.

To Do:
Digitize specials
Hand off to Tyco
Print
Do the Gallery Show
Distribute books
Get Money

Status Logs:
All Zero Like Me are digitized!
Tyco quote and deadline received
All comics treated, awaiting digitization
All comics inked
All pages are collected, numbered

Reuxben

Fun_BookWatch

Notable Quotable: [5:44am] this book might not happen if prep takes 2 long...srsly, wanna assist? plz email!
This is a doodle of Frankie Paupunk from Quarters Crisis. Remember her? Course you don't--this is leftover art from 9/1/08!

Anyway, since I don't have the Twitter (I'm not sure if it's even worth getting at this point since I'm no longer relevant to Yale and not yet to the World), I'll use this post to keep track of updates on the collected comics book, which is Coming Soon(TM). So...

11:26pm
Currently: Just finished scanning in ZLM35, infamous to me personally because it started a rift that I refuse to believe is mended. I know how stuff can sit in the back of your mind no matter how much you assure someone it's resolved. So eternal apologies for the misunderstanding on 35...
Listening to: Reuben cuz their soothing and loud songs both deliver.

9:41pm
Currently: Now scanning one of my most famous comics, the infamous Fulmer Nelson, technically my second censored comic (and right while the YDN was jeering the Yale Press for censoring the Mohammad comics). Fulmer Nelson and its censored post have now been restored. Take notes Rumpus, if you even still exist, that's how comics is done; don't try to second guess me on how to do my job, thanks.
Listening to: New Found Glory cuz that cover'll pick you right up cuz I want to pass out right about now, but one of those MS-Word-on-the-Scanning-Computer chumps is eying me like a hawk...

6:52pm
Currently: ~1/3 done! Suspect books'll be in Sunday. Frustrating you guys are bas'lly all anony, so I've no idea who's even into my work til we meet face to face (I reserved copies for fans I've met, with remaining books going to reservers, and then dropping a few at dining halls. Thought my main audience = 2010, but come to think of it, most I meet are 2011...you guys move out ~12th?...ugh...
Listening to: Jimmy Eat World cuz I can't get enough of 23. I'm so hungry and tired....man...

4:12pm
Currently: Finished semester two of ZLM! It only gets harder because I started going twice a week the next semester, then 4x in the final semester! This is actually kinda fun, revisiting these and taking the journey again...is this what it was like for you strangers to read the random little bottled messages I sent out all these years?
Listening to: The Postal Service cuz I love that song and that singer is absolutely haunting.

2:57pm
Currently: Ah...man, now entering the pass out at any moment stage...fortunately you don't have to be too alert for scanning, or at least I know exactly what I'm doing so it's kinda automatic. Up to ZLM17.
Listening to: Reuben cuz need to stay awake.

11:59am
Currently: Looks like I've reached the point where I'm too tired to sleep...mild hallucinating has set in (these cool little worm things)...now entering my prolific Suicide phase; that was some action, man. Gosh, I hate being out of the game.
Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack cover cuz nobody does a cover like MCS.

10:30am
Currently: Brunch...hopefully that will recharge me...so tired...10 ZLMs down, 101 to go?! Not really, but sounds dramatic if I ignore the tweaks I've already scanned...sigh.
Listening to: Jimmy Eat World cuz Theo has no idea what he's talking about.

8:46am
Currently: Just fin'd semester 1 of ZLM, 3 more 2 go (and with every semester usu comes an increase in comics--I started Tuesdays, then Weds, then MW, then MWF/F! Gauntlet above: left's to scan, right's scanned.
Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack cuz they're great to rest/wring your eyes to!

7:56am
Currently: Aww, man the tiredness is starting to set in, eyes feel heavy...but on the +side...ZLM6 just made me lol. Haha...man...that's weird. I love how anyone, even the artist who made it, can enjoy visual art.
Listening to: RADWIMPS cuz their fast/rock-y songs are the best, but their slower songs are hit or miss.

6:59am
Currently: Done with the first 3 comics plus pilots and even some bonus material! Seeing this old stuff is cool cuz it's been so long I can now read it like it's new plus I get to see how far I've come artwise.
Listening to: The Postal Service cuz, well, take a look at me now.

5:44am
Currently: Finished all tweaked comics...now rescanning the remaining doods...21 pieces down about 150 to go. Just like pogeymanz!
Listening to: Cake cuz perhaps (x3) this book might not happen if prep takes 2 long...srsly, wanna assist? plz email!

4:44am
Currently: Wow--coincidentally digitizing ZLM4 now (4=Death in Japanese). Spotted this doodle below the comic...N started out way more violent (beheaded a dude in my early scripts). Feel like they'd never let me go where @thejinjin goes...
Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack cuz coincidentally the song's called "Even If It Kills Me."

4:13am
Currently: Digitizing the uncut (oooh) version of my first major controversial piece--Show Me Ya Moves (original post is now RESTORED). I feel dangerous. Someone get me a leather jacket and a 45-degree neck-crane.
Listening to: Arctic Monkeys cuz they are all about the ASBO.

3:40am
Currently: Still not even done scanning the tweaked comics but already discovered I've passed out!! BEHIND SCHEDULE!! (I got up pretty early Monday...)
Listening to: Bloc Party cuz they make me think of freshness, usually, especially this track.

1:50am
Currently: 8 comics scanned...about 162 more things left to scan...this is going to take forever...send help...
Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack cuz if you had to bet, MCS would be a good one.

^ TECHNICALLY TUESDAY NOW ^
\/ ACTUALLY MONDAY \/

11:48pm
Currently: All right...first one digitized is 106: Election! Keepin' it classy...
Listening to: RADWIMPS cuz I'm back on my trusty scanning JE Mac.

9:51pm
Currently: Everything's inked, tweaked, and stacked!! Scanning time!! When will it end? That stack is HUGE!
Listening to: Arctic Monkeys cuz man, that gets you going.

9:07pm
Currently: Two more tweaks and then we scan!! Aforementioned idiot exited my windows, so now I have to refind all my youchoob music...jerk.
Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack cuz it's never not a good idea.

8:20pm
Currently: Back from dinner and now some idiot using GMAIL is on the scanning computer. How did these lovelies get into Yale?
Listening to: Taking Back Sunday cuz I know exactly what goes on.

6:24pm
Currently: Oh man, working on ZLMZR 10 and I just received an email about the senior photo the very moment Taking Back Sunday hit the best part of "You Know How I Do." I need to stop narrating and relating my life through music...makes as much sense as living by horoscopes.
Listening to: Taking Back Sunday cuz we WILL stand for hazy eyes.

6:10pm
Currently: Only a couple more comics before scanning marathon...wish I had an assistant...or at least a Nyao.
Listening to: Reuben cuz I need to rock.

5:15pm
Currently: Tweaking ZLMZR16 and chuckling because for those who have asked about the ZLM finale, this comic is the most concretely all-answering; ironically it's all a dream! And now that comics's over, I have no more need for pursuing uncomfortable situations, so...screw the senior dinner.
Listening to: The Roots cuz I need rock and roll.

4:50pm
Currently: Just tweaked a bunch of comics still a couple left including a bigger update ZLMZR10 and got what I hope is the final version of the Escape! file off to the printers thanks to the indispensable @thejinjin, but it's chaotic.
Listening to: At the Drive-In cuz weren't you listening? It's chaotic!

12:42pm
Currently: Just got back my final project for Literature for Young People--a comic version/reimagining of the Wizard of Oz--and finished updating a bunch of comics, still a bunch to go, cuz some ABSENT gentleman is hoggin' the DESKTOP PUBLISHING computer while only using MICROSOFT WORD.
Listening to: Reuben cuz we out of work geniuses need to stick together!

10:42am
Currently: Finished updating SLS 8 Rip, now brunch then meeting with Tycho, then back to tweaking cuz some gentleman is hoggin' the DESKTOP PUBLISHING computer with MICROSOFT WORD.
Listening to: Cake cuz aww, man, that's smooth.

10:18am
Currently: Finished updating ZLM 23 Perdedor, now tweaking SLS 8 Rip cuz some gentleman is hoggin' the DESKTOP PUBLISHING computer with MICROSOFT WORD.
Listening to: Two Tongues cover cuz she sings like @thejinjin draws.

9:58am
Currently: Tweaking old comics cuz some gentleman is hoggin' the DESKTOP PUBLISHING computer with MICROSOFT WORD.
Listening to: The Roots cuz if I got beef wit you, you the last one to know.

8:48am
Currently: Revamping old comics
Listening to: Arctic Monkeys AND some annoying guy coughing literally every 10 seconds AND who is on the ONLY desktop publishing computer in JE yet is only using MICROSOFT WORD.

To Do:
Digitize files
Hand off to Tyco
Print
Do the Gallery Show(?)
Distribute
Get Money

Status Logs:
Tyco quote and deadline received
All comics treated, awaiting digitization
All comics inked
All pages are collected, numbered

Reuxben