Eyes Without A Face

- After probably twenty hours of inking i finally finished the line work for the new Skallander album with Type Records. This is what i meant in an earlier post when i said i was making things harder on myself then they had to be. This would have been no problem if it weren't for the fact that its about 26 inches long. And at the moment i cant really say if i am happy with it or not, because i am fully aware of the long hard road ahead of me with coloring this thing. The plan is to have it finished by the end of the weekend...i can only hope.

I somehow managed to fix my site feed for this blog, thanks to the help of Matt Hellige. I still however am not able to get it to work through thunderbird, and i am hoping this is only a problem i am having and not everyone else:

http://www.ghostco.org/blog/atom.xml

Something i forgot to mention in the last post i made was an absolutely remarkable movie we watched the other night called "Eyes Without A Face". It's a French horror film from 1960, about a doctor trying to replace the face of his terribly disfigured daughter. Incredibly groundbreaking, considering that doctors are just now doing facial transplant surgeries. Almost as prophetic as the twilight zone episode about plastic surgery. All horror aspects aside, the movie is absolutely gorgeous....full of that noir crispness that just overloads my mind. Incredibly moody, long scenes of silence, mid-century France, futuristic dog cages, beautiful music, eerily beautiful women, terrifying masks, and well....homicidal plastic surgeons. There really isn't anything about this movie that i don't absolutely love, not to even mention the fact that the package and DVD menu design is spot on awesome. but thanks to blockbuster online it skipped for the last 20 minutes, so i have no idea how it ends! And no, this movie is nothing like Face/Off.

I learned today that i have stupidly and unfortunately missed the deadline for the next Meathaus book. Incredibly disappointingly. I had some strong ideas cooking. But i am hoping to get a chance in the near future to put some stuff together for myself, and hopefully submit it to whatever the next anthology that comes up is. All this talk about hating comics and now when i finally suck it up and actually have an idea to produce, i fuck it up.