If it wasn't clear from that last post, Myrrh and I have officially named the musical bits and bobs we've been doing at the Incubator "The Middle Sea." So far we mostly do moody covers, but there is room for growth in our organization.

But not this week. This Tuesday, the 13th, we'll be doing a version of Tricky's "Overcome" some time between nine and midnight at the aforementioned Incubator. It's both a literal cover and a conceptual cover, in that most of its loops are formed from various Isaac Hayes samples (not from "Ike's Rap II", however, which Tricky famously sampled on "Hell is Around the Corner").

Sadly the live feed at the Someday is no longer up due to their camera being thieved, but hopefully we'll have our own recording to post up some time after the show.

Unrelated proposition: Sometimes it's fun to play dress-up, y/n?

As per the Christmas tradition of the last six years, I put together a piece of art for my mother from her favorite fantasy series: book six, the Magician's Nephew. Also, a portrait of my little brother and his wife, referenced from a wedding photo you might recognize from an earlier post.

Tonight is the last Incubator of Two Thousand Seven, so Portland-peeps, come on down to the Someday and have a drink, buy me a drink, watch me draw digitally projected linework on their absurdly tall screen while Myrrh performs, watch someone else perform, perform yourself, perform someone else, whatever, it's all experimentally acceptable.

I defy you to bring it, Portland.

(PS: An audio preview of a piece we'll be doing tonight. Can anyone name the cover? Not you, Jim.)

First off, last week's Incubator sketches on the right. Myrrh showed up sans guitar and performed some truly inspired piano and vocal improvisation while I drew live, with assistance from Ryan Olson running proficient sound and providing effective intermittent electronic affectation.

Sadly, while the camera feed was up, apparently the sound was out, so it was not captured. Curses and fie, but so it goes. Ephemera! Let me show you it.

In fact, let me show you it on Tuesday, December 18th at the Someday Lounge, wherein we shall hold the Last Incubator of the Year. Come on out and show your affinity for hazardous creative endeavors. Take part yourself! Have a delicious sandwich, or just buy me a drink. ;)

Meanwhile, I totally spaced out posting the live drawings I did at Stumptown (not as tall as the screen at Incubator, but on a nice screen nonetheless. So here are the best of the bunch, beneath the cut.



Speaking of the Stumptown Comics Fest, 2008's show has been moved up to the weekend of April 26th and 27th! That's right, just seven months after '07. There's a lot of reasons for it, least of which isn't that APE has pulled the inverse switcharoo and leapt forward to November for 2008, leaving a pretty big gap in the West-Coast Spring Comics Show Circuit. Of course the original Stumptown Comics Fest was also in the Spring, so in a way this just means we're finally getting back on schedule. In another way, speaking as one of the show's organizers, dang that's close.

We'll have the new iteration of the website live in a couple weeks, and more info will be available then, including registration forms for those of you interested in tabling. For my own exhibiting contributions, I'm aiming to have not just the third book of Painkillers completed, but a 150+ page printed collection of the entire story to sell.