The Office (Series One)

One of the most difficult aspects of working at home, aside from the ever-present lure of my bed and fridge, is the constant need to reinvigorate myself creatively. One cannot really produce quality work when one is not inspired, and finding inspiration in the hallway between my drawing table and my bedroom is rare, even on days when my cat is at the top of her game. Every once in a while, however, I get smacked upside the head with a rare gem.
A friend handed me the 2-disc DVD set of The Office (Series 1) and told me that it was hysterical and that I had to see it. For the uninitiated, the series (there are 2 to date, each running 6 half-hour episodes) is a BBC production written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. It's shot documentary style and revolves around the daily routine of a small office of paper manufacturers/distributors, in which the Boss (played by Gervais) is an unapologetic weasel who lacks any hint of honour or conviction.
There's no laugh track. No soundtrack. No really contrived, convenient moments and the subplots are wonderfully subtle in their execution. Relationships between the supporting characters progress at a slow boil across the series and pay off wonderfully by the end. It's paced almost flawlessly. Said characters are altogether familiar, unique, lovable and painfully awkward; in certain cases, the show can be agony to watch because the characters (particularly David Brent, the Boss) place themselves in excruciatingly embarrassing situations a la Curb Your Enthusiasm.

This is what comedic television is supposed to be. I'm officially inspired and salivating to see Series 2.

iCandy gets 3D!!

I first met sculptor Claudio Setti at the Toronto Comicbook Expo this past August. He was a very cool guy and was very inspired by, and enthusiastic about iCandy. When he told me he wanted to make an iCandy sculpture for fun and practice I dismissed it as pillow talk.
Then he shows up at my table at the Toronto Comicon a few weeks ago with the beginnings of a sublime thing of beauty, and he's been updating me with progress pics ever since, so I thought I'd share...
Notice the modelsheets in the background.

We have Peektors

Well, here it is 3 am and I haven't moved from this seat in hours and hours. I even blew off my poor, sick girlfriend, but about two thirds of my gallery is finally up and rocking.
My eyes, they bleed, but the ugliest part of the task (cough--thumbnails--cough) is over with. The majority of the material is a straight port from horhaus v2, but it is recategorized (subject to change on obsessive whim), and new stuff is seeded throughout.
The big shiny new thing is the iCandy section with a whole whack of pages from the first two issues. Even if you've seen the comic, check it out - everything looks better in RGB.
Thank you for your attention.

Bamf

I've been informed, through several sources now (some out of the blue), that I'm featured prominently on the X-Men 2 DVD! I haven't seen this yet, but apparently if you navigate to the supplemental material and check out the history of the X-Men in comics you'll see numerous shots from the X2: Nightcrawler book I drew.
In addition, I'm told that Chuck Austen, the writer of that particular work, said some very nice things about me, which will no doubt cause me to blush when I finally pick up this deev. (Thanks, Chuck!)

We are now a duo

The second HOR is on the scene. Hopefully word will trickle across the Atlantic to Glasgow and Brenden will join us soon.

Gallery

I've finally put up a rough version of a gallery for myself (Kalman and Brenden will follow, once I can cut & paste code I'm happy with).
I'll be breaking up images into categories based on projects, and the side bar with links, etc, will be tailored a little more to the individual (with better pictures, hopefully).
Pop-ups seem to work, so I'm satisfied for now.
Back to Superman!!

Duck or Chick?

Which is it?

Infestations

I don't know where this came from, but it never stops being funny.

Imagine encountering this in the morning!

Another Post Already?

Yes, it's that time of the week again. In a grand effort to procrastinate, I'm fiddling with the computer and learning a few things about Movable Type, Blogging, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
All instead of working.

Superman #201 will be officially underway as of today, though...

A New Beginning?

So here it is. A new, bare bones direction for the Horhaus site. I don't know when this baby will be up to snuff, but even an unfinished page like this is preferable to what we've got now in terms of updateability.

If I can just figure out how to make it work...