Valerie Is Not Paying Attention In Class

Recently I ran across a stack of old notes from high school & my first year of college. They were completely covered in doodles -- far more doodles than notes. On some pages, I would forgo notes completely and just draw.

One of my favorite methods of passing the time back then was to draw random squiggles, then figure out how to turn them into figures of people & animals & stuff.

Also, note the use of Watchmen's Rorschach in one of the pages.

In the last page, I decided to combine the doodles with my school-work and hand in a comic strip as an English assignment.

And, just in case you're wondering -- no, I did not exactly live up to my potential in high-school. Though I was an honors student in college. I honestly don't remember a lot about high-school, except that it provided me a lot of time to draw.

Things I Like To Do When Nobody Is Looking

10. Listen to the Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" and sing along.

9. Pull the skin back under my eyes to simulate a face lift.

8. Maniacally hit "refresh" on my stat counters to see the numbers move.

7. Read Mark Millar's "Fantastic Four."

6. Wrap a washcloth or shirt around my cat's head like a kerchief and say "you're an old washerwoman, you're an old washerwoman."

5. Watch "Date Movie."

4. Pull out my old poetry from when I was in college and reassure myself, "you were a fucking genius."

3. Type normal words on Google Image Search with "Safe Search" off and see what sort of depravity shows up.

2. Eat the crispy noodles that came with our Chinese food that I'm not supposed to eat.

1. Doodle pictures of my boyfriend with hearts and rainbows in the background. Sometimes I add unicorns. Sometimes I give the doodles to him, but not the ones with the unicorns.

Bueller...Bueller...Bueller

Hey all, sorry I've been tardy/absent with my blogging today --

I'm up to my butt in planning for both MoCCA Art Fest and the Lulu Awards this weekend -- plus work -- and plus work that is sort of fun but in the end is also work. Lots of work. Workworkwork.

Somewhere in all of this, I have to find time to buy kitty litter. Or else...well, you don't want to know "or else." It involves lots of foul-smelling pee and my clothes. Or the couch. Or a nook with some comics in it that for some reason resembles a cat box.

A few "bullet points" on issues that have come up, as always love your two cents & feedback

• I am truly in awe of the brass pair of ovaries Hillary Clinton has. I mean really. Ruthless campaign, holds the nomination up until the very last vote, then says: "I should be Vice-President." Best part -- it's all politics all-around. Now Obama & Hillary are all smiles, are going to do joint appearances together, etc. Gotta love politics.

• Meanwhile, Erica Jong on Huffington Post writes, "...losing my last chance to see a woman in the White House feels like shit." And, "...it's clear that the faults we tolerate and even overlook in men, we see as glaring in women." I think the latter is true. But I really don't feel like shit. I really like Obama. So does George Lucas. Which reminds me of the cover of Rolling Stone a month or so ago, entitled "A New Hope." It all goes back to the realm of the fanboy, folks. Circle of life.
  

• So now Newsarama looks like every other big comics news site out there. Yay.....But seriously, it's a nice design, though one I fear the individual columns are going to get lost in. The rudimentary multi-link extravaganza of the good old days gave all these columns a lot more equal weight. Now you've got either somebody's weekly column or some big comic book movie to promote in those boxes on the "front page." What is going to get more space in this picture-dominated layout? Edward Norton in green contact lenses. Easy.

• So Howard Stern has made up with Rosie O'Donnell? This is like Armageddon.

• I know the winners of the Lulu Awards, I know the winners of the Lulu Awards...

• Dick Giordano's White Viper is debuting at Comic Mix this week and you should all check it out and show your support for this living legend...

• Ebay looks like it's unofficially phasing out their auctions in favor of buy-it-nows. This sort of sucks balls. I live for those auctions where for three bucks I can get 10 pounds of crap.
  

• Was going to see the Hulk movie today in one of those free preview things, but I'm really too bogged down with work. Always up to hearing some advance reviews, tho.

• OMG, it's New Comic Book Day already????

• Finally: buy official Ferris Bueller sneakers...