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Dante destroys a Macbook Pro. Daycare woes. My mom’s birthday

June 4, 2009 in FAMILY, MY WEEK, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

THE SIMPSONS NEWS

I’ve had an erratic work week. Staying late because I had to make up hours. Trying to get my section done but not being able to because over 50% of it needed to be revised by the board artist before I could work on it. It was very frustrating. I still need to finish it all. Time is running out.

FAMILY

So Dante decided it would be fun to destroy his mom’s Macbook Pro. He got a bottle of water Alesha had left by the sofa, poured it over on the sofa and on Alesha’s Macbook Pro which was near by and pretty much destroyed it. It no longer works. It was terrible. We couldn’t believe he did that. Alesha and I were VERY upset. Not exactly something we needed have happen.

We made an appointment for the next day at the local Mac store so they could check it out and see if there was anyway to salvage it. That became it’s own fiasco. I came home from work that day and at the last minute, I thought it might be a good idea to make it a family trip. It took us ten minutes to get to the place once we were ready and we were twenty minutes early for the appointment. Unfortunately, as we were all getting out of the car, Alesha realized she had forgotten the Macbook. Freaking out, she got back in the car and went back home. Meanwhile I was with the kids at the mall not knowing what to do and feeling like it was all my fault because it was my idea to take the kids, which is one of the reasons Alesha forgot the computer. When it was near time for the her appointment I showed up to the store and was going to explain the situation to the Mac people when they called Alesha in. As I was waiting, I called Alesha a few times to keep tabs as to were she was and how close she was to getting back. It was very tense. The kids and I stood at the Mac store for a good twenty minutes waiting. I was hoping that they would call Alesha up late. Munchkin seemed like the only thing she was concerned about was making as much noise as possible as she ran around in a circles. Dante wanted desperately to get out of the stroller he was in so he could mess around with all the fun stuff he saw. It was all I could do to keep him quite. Meanwhile there was a screen that kept showing who was up next and the person that was ahead of my wife was called up. Alesha was not there yet and I was getting a bit panicked. The last thing we needed was yet another thing to make Alesha miserable. She was feeling bad enough about having lost her computer and worse, some things in the computer she hadn’t had time to back up.

I called Alesha one last time, only to find out that she had parked and was on her way over. I was relieved. She showed up before they had called her up and I left her there to continue to wait while I took the kids to the food court and bought them Pizza.

Alesha discovered that to fix her almost three year old Macbook Pro, it would cost $1300.00 so instead, she bought a $900.00 Macbook and called it good. It’s a down grade from the Pro but she’s actually fine with that. Too bad we had to spend that money, we really wish we didn’t have to.

Dante is no longer allowed to even LOOK in the direction of a computer anymore. I won’t allow it.

FAMILY

My Mommy had a birthday last Friday. Like a good son I gave her a call on her birthday…at 7:30 PM. Yeah, I didn’t remember until I got home and was already winding down for the day. It’s embarrassing. I was so disappointed in myself.

Well, anyway, on Saturday Alesha, Munchkin, Dante, Juan (my brother), Deborah (his wife), Paolo (my nephew) and I went over to pass the time with her. We had a good time just being there. Munchkin and Dante played the whole time. My mom was happy. We had an amazing dinner and generally had a fun time.

Happy Birthday Mom!

MY WEEK

The lady that takes care of our kids couldn’t take care of our kids this week. She was in the hospital trying to find out what some swelling on her feet was all about. He checked in on Friday and by Monday night, had not even seen a doctor about it yet. It sounded terrible.

In any case, we need to find different way to take care of the kids. Tuesday I stayed with the kids but had to make up the hours later in the week. Wednesday, Munchkin’s Godmother, Carolina, did us the favor of taking the kids for the day. Today, Alesha took the kids with her to work and is having a half day. Friday will be be the same.

Please pray for Linda who takes care of our kids. Here’s hoping everything turns out okay.

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New crew. Attempting to read my comic books in peace.

May 28, 2009 in FAMILY, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

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Started on a new crew this week. Going back to what I was doing in show 2. Working on getting a story reel ready for show 4, to show the producers. We have three weeks to do this. The pressure’s on…again.

FAMILY

We had a very active Memorial Day weekend. The kids were kept very busy. Beginning on Friday, they went to work with mommy for half the day and had a great time. Then on Saturday, we went out of our way to take them out for a walk at Victoria Gardens where they got to ride on a choo choo train and ate ice cream. On Sunday, we went over to a get together at Alesha’s uncle’s house where the place was specially set up for all the kids that were coming. Our kids had a blast.

Unfortunately, the kids had TOO much fun during those day because, come Monday, they wanted to go out and do more. Alesha and I, on the other hand, just wanted to stay home and rest, in our own way. To me, this pretty much meant, spending the day reading comic books. At one point during the day, I took Munchkin out and we rode around on my skateboard and played in the play ground but when we got back I just sat down and began reading. Well, the kids wouldn’t have it. They wouldn’t leave me alone to read. They were going to play with me no matter what. So most of the time, when I was on the couch trying to read, the kids where playing…on ME. They were jumping, dancing, yelling, screaming, running, climbing, on top of me, the entire time I was trying to relax and read my comic book. What am I, a juggle gym? I think Monday was a busier day than all the other days put together for me. I was glad to come into work on Tuesday so I could get some rest.

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The new Star Trek movie. First Communions and fevers. Obama and Notre Dame. Board games into video games, video games into board games.

May 21, 2009 in BOARD GAMES, CATHOLICISM, FAMILY, MOVIES, THE SIMPSONS NEWS, VIDEO GAMES

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Working late for two days straight again this week. Need to make up the hours because I’m going to be missing a day of work to take care of the kids for a day. My work load isn’t too crazy but the scenes I need to do are pretty complicated. I’m working on a new crew right now. I’m helping out for the week. I’m not sure what happens afterward. Hopefully I get put on a new crew. Right now, the show I’m helping out on, is a show from last season. This is their last week to ship everything. I’m feeling the pressure.

FAMILY

Big day for Carolina’s family last Saturday. Angelita, Carolina’s youngest daughter, did her First Communion. We were all very happy for her. Afterward we gathered at their house and had a First Communion party. Munchkin had a fantastic time. She had so much fun that when it was time to go, she left crying.

Meanwhile Dante and Alesha had to stay home. Dante had a fever late last week. He wasn’t doing very well at all. Still, in spite of the fact that he was burning up, he insisted on sitting down to eat. He also wanted to walk around and play. He wanted so much to do what he always does, but the poor boy found himself not being able to do much. By the end of the week, he was back to normal. He just needed to spend at least one weekend at home without going out anywhere.

CATHOLICISM

I went to get my lunch on Monday from the kitchen at work. As I was walking back to my desk I overheard a conversation at a table in the kitchen from my fellow co-workers talking about the whole Obama/Notre Dame thing. Of course, most of the people I work with are on Obama’s side of the debate; and of course, they saw it as a purely political thing. “Conservative Catholics” vs. “Liberal Catholics”. Their conversation was also the typical anti-Catholic prejudice, you hear everywhere. “Those Catholics don’t know what they’re doing, they have it all wrong, they’re holding on to ancient things that don’t mean anything”…etc. It ruined my lunch. All I heard was a couple of sentences but it got me sooo steamed up it just ruined my lunch. I couldn’t stop thinking about all the things I would say to them and how I would say it. How “I would SHOW THEM”. How my arguments would make them look foolish. How I would show how much smarter and more intellectual my view was. How arrogant, heartless and mean an angry Catholic could be…which is, of course, the reason I couldn’t do it and didn’t do it. I was too angry to say anything that wouldn’t have done more harm than good. It wouldn’t have been a conversion about the topic at hand so much as an exercise in arrogance and pride on my part.

I wondered though, if I HAD said something in a calm, collected, and charitable way, if they would have seen it as a political argument rather than a logical one anyway. I wonder how much I would be able to say to them that wouldn’t have sounded as if I was politically “Conservative” instead of just Catholic. Why is it that if you live your faith as it is taught by the Church you are automatically “a close minded, ultra conservative, right winger”? Why is it that being unfaithful to your Church and faith is celebrated as being “progressive” and open minded? Yes, I understand that there are political Conservatives that are Catholics. I also understand that there are political Liberals that are Catholics. Yet, that really shouldn’t be the issue. The issue should really be about whether you are a FAITHFUL Catholic or not. You shouldn’t put you parties or political views ahead of the dogmas of your faith. If you do, it only goes to show which one of the two is your REAL Religion. In the end, it just made me sad.

MOVIES

I used to like Star Wars more than Star Trek. I thought that Star Wars, in general, was a bit more fun and Star Trek was a bit to “hard sci-fi” to be as fun. Then George Lucas released his Star Wars prequels and pretty much ruined the fun of Star Wars by making three movies that never actually captured the fun of the original three.

Along comes the new Star Trek movie and does to Star Trek what Lucas couldn’t pull off with Star Wars. It updates the Star Trek franchise, makes it fun, captures the essence of what made the original Star Trek work (the characters), takes away the dryness of Star Trek, adds some action and makes it cool to like Star Trek. Yes, the intellectual parts and the hard science, that made Star Trek truly geeky, are missing, but what we get in it’s place is a good fun time. Hopefully, some of the intellectual stuff will make an appearance in the next movies, for now, I’m happy with what they gave us.

BOARD GAMES/VIDEO GAMES

Haven’t written about games in a while so I just thought I’d write about a board game that will become a video game and some video games that have become board games.

Dungeon Twister

Andy and I played a game of Dungeon Twister last Friday. He beat me, but I think the game would have kept going. On hindsight I think we messed up a rule that would have changed the way we saw the last move of the game.

Andy really likes the game. He’s liked it ever since we played it for the first time months ago. It’s a dungeon crawl-ish chess game with a modular board whose parts twist around. There is no luck in the game. It’s all tactics and strategy. Here’s the Description of the game:

Dungeon Twister is a 2-player high level strategy game where 2 teams of adventurers with various powers are trapped in a dungeon. The board is composed of 8 rooms that can be moved and rotated by the players. Each turn, a player is able to spend actions to move around the dungeon, pick up and use items, battle with the opponents team, or turn and move the rooms of the dungeon.

The goal is to reach 5 victory points. Points are collected by moving adventurers out of the dungeon or by killing an opponent’s adventurer. Treasures are disseminated across the whole dungeon and will bring the adventurers well-needed powers.

Each player has the same characters, each with different powers. Some run fast, some fight or disarm traps. The cleric heals, magician burns everything in sight and the goblin is so weak that the simple fact of getting him out will bring you two victory points.

Combat and actions are managed via cards. To move, fight, heal or turn a room, you must manage action points obtained by playing cards. Those cards are not drawn but selected from a set of cards by both players. Both players have access to the same panel of cards at the beginning of the game so the game is really about managing the resources and adapting to the changing environment.

It has recently been announced that a new version of the game is coming out called: Dungeon Twister 2: Prison. This version of the game will actually be different and yet will still play the same as the original and it will be “backwards compatible” with the original. It will be coming out in December. The interesting part is that the game will also be released for Xbox live through Hydravision at the same time.

Skirmish Wars: Advance Tactics

A few years back, when the first Advance Wars game came out for the GBA, I bought it and totally fell in love with it. I played that game once for an entire night. I started playing it at around 7 or 8 pm, looked up after some hours had gone by and discovered the sun was rising. It was just such a fun game. I didn’t buy the new ones that came out after that, Mostly because (like the Street fighter games) the new games where pretty much, more of the same and I hadn’t (and still haven’t) unlocked all the maps in the game I have, and the original allowed you to make your own maps as well. Theoretically I can keep playing the game without needing to buy a new one. Besides, I haven’t played the game in a few years.

Just found out from the Purple Pawn website that someone has made a free print and play version of the game called Skirmish Wars: Advance Tactics. They put it up on BGG and I downloaded the pdf. It looks great. They made the maps modular so you can create your own scenarios and everything. I’m so going to print it out. I just need the figure out how “fancy” I want to make my version. I’m sure Andy will be up for a game. I just hope the game doesn’t take too long to play.

Above is a screenshot of what the original video game looks like. Below is the board game version.

Just looking at the picture make me want to play it. It looks so fun.

FITS

From the mind of Reiner Knizia comes FITS. It’s Tetris the board game. It sounds great. He really came up with a great way to translate the game into a tabletop game.

FITS (Fill In The Spaces) is essentially a multi-player Tetris . Each player has an inclined board on which they place different polyominoes – like Blokus pieces, with three, four, or five squares. Cards are drawn from a pile to tell the players which piece to take. The pieces may be rotated and reversed before they slide down the inclined area to dock to other gaming pieces, but unlike Tetris cannot be slid horizontally once dropped. Scoring is based on quantity and configuration of squares left uncovered.

Unlike original Tetris there is no time pressure but like Tetris there is no player interaction as every player is engaged with his own board.

This game is now on my Wishlist under “Must have”. Definitely looks like a game most people will want to play if I was to bring it out.

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Tired and overworked. Mother’s Day. Graduations.

May 14, 2009 in FAMILY, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

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This week started out crazy. I hadn’t quite recovered from Mother’s Day weekend (more on that below) and I went to work tired and groggy to finish up the work I need to do. My deadline to finish everything for this crew was Tuesday. Yet, that Monday, I was going to leave work at 12:30 pm and I wasn’t gonna come back that day (more about that below). Knowing that would happen I had stayed late the week before to make up the hours I would miss. This still didn’t help me get over how stressed out I was.

I finished what I could that day and left. The next day I drove myself to work and was even more tired, stressed and groggy than the day before but I kept moving on. Late last week we had gotten some help from other crew members when production realized that three people wasn’t really enough to get the reel looking as good as it could. I still had my chunk of work to do and I had also found a “Post It” note on my computer, when I got in, telling me I had been given even more scenes to work on, on top of the ones I had already. I managed to finish all my work by midday and I was given more work to do as a reward for my effort (which I expected). I had worked, without a break (including a lunch break) all day and I was feeling pretty worn out so I decided to take a breather. I went out to the parking lot, called Alesha and rode my skateboard around as I talked to her, for about 10 minutes. This helped a little. After getting back I managed to finish all the work I was given and even some work that wasn’t exactly assigned to me since I knew, no one would do it, so I took it upon myself to get it done. That was that. Once done, I was told what crew I was going to help out the next day and I packed my stuff and went home.

I was exhausted emotionally, mentally and physically. The last three days had really worn me out a ton. I discovered from a text Alesha sent me, that we were out of diapers for Dante so I stopped off at the store. While at the store, Alesha sent me another text telling me that Munchkin refused to go to bed until I got home. The exact words of the text where: “Your daughter is waiting for you. She says she has to wait for daddy.”

I hurried with the shopping and got on my way home. Finally pulling into the house I got out of the car without getting any of my things out and went inside. When I opened the door Munchkin was standing there excitedly hopping from one foot to another, waiting for me with an enormous grin on her face. I bent down and she came up to me and gave me a hug. I picked her up and I held her tight. Then she asked me:

And my day was worthwhile.

FAMILY

Mother’s day Alesha flew out the door to go to church and then came back for a few minutes before she flew out the door again to be with her mom. Meanwhile the kids and I got ready to meet my parents, my brother, Deborah and Paolo at church. We had plans to go to the Griffith Observatory that day. After church, we had a quick snack and we were on our way. We all had to take separate cars. The observatory parking was full and the kids and I had to park on a side road at the bottom of hill, quite a ways from the observatory. It was a long hike up the hill with the two kids and a heavy diaper bag. I regretted not bringing a stroller along. After barely surviving the trip up with only some scrapes and bruises on Munchkin, we met up with everyone and went into the observatory. I hadn’t known they had remodeled it since the last time I was there. It was great. I had a fantastic time and so did the kids. Munchkin was was really into it. Dante was a little under the weather but he started feeling better after a while.

After our day at the observatory was over, we headed back to my parent’s house for dinner where we were joined by Alesha, my cousin Carolina and her family. Much playing was had by all the kids. Later we all ate dinner and that was really fun too. Unfortunately we had to leave fairly early because it was a Sunday and I had work the next day. Munchkin went to bed late that day. Alesha did also. She still had some last minute corrections to do on her thesis. She need to turn it in the next day so she could graduate and get her Masters Degree. Especially since, her graduation WAS the next day.

I worked from 7 am to 12:30 pm Monday because Alesha dropped me off and was picking us up to take us to her graduation. It took place in the amphitheater at Universal City Walk. Tired and stressed, I was not looking forward to it. Especially since I was going to be taking care of my very tired little kids who were still recovering from the day before, by myself (or at least till my parents showed up to the graduation). Dante had the sniffles.

Having learned my lesson from the day before, I brought the double stroller with me this time. I walked he kids around City Walk and Munchkin was fascinated. I couldn’t help wondering what she would think if I was to take her to an amusement park. Dante was very sleepy and groggy. We all ate some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I had made for us as we walked around.

I was keeping in touch with my parents the whole time because I didn’t know if I’d be able to handle the kids by myself once we got in the theater. I went in eventually, and I discovered that I couldn’t. Once in the lobby, I took the kids out of the stroller and they were so happy to be free that they were running around everywhere, causing chaos, making people trip all over them and bumping into everyone. Munchkin is now potty trained and when she needs to go, she lets you know. Well, she needed to go, so off I went with the kids the diaper bag and Alesha’s purse (which she left me to look after) to the bathroom where I processed to help my daughter pee while making sure Dante didn’t get into any trouble. It was darn crazy. I wasn’t happy at all. Especially since, I needed to change Dante’s diaper because he had pooped and I needed to go to the bathroom myself. Meanwhile I still hadn’t gotten a seat in the theater because I was waiting for my parents to show up.

Turns out they were in the theater sitting down, right around the corner from where I was at the lobby. After meeting them, I had some much needed help and I went I got to change Dante and when to the potty. Meanwhile the graduation had started and I was missing it all. To make a long story short, half our time was taken making sure the kids where okay and the other was taken trying to see bits of the graduation and listening to bits of the speeches.

We ended up meeting up with all the rest of Alesha’s family when it was all over and Alesha had made plans to go to the Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Pasadena. I was not looking forward to doing that since the kids where already in pretty bad shape and the dinner was scheduled to take place at Dante’s bedtime. Thankfully, my parents offered to take the kids home with them instead of going to the restaurant, which helped a ton. We went to the restaurant and generally had a good time. I say “generally” because around that time I checked my phone only to discover that the assistant director of the show I was on, had given me call and I had missed it. I called him back, only to get his voicemail, so I left a message. The rest of the dinner I was worried about what the call was about and all kinds of horrible things were going through my head. Later I found out that he was just wondering what scenes I was working on so he wouldn’t hand those out to someone else.

We got home late that night after picking up the kids at my parent’s house. I was really beat and not looking forward to another long day, but as you read above, it turned out okay.

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Second to last week. Public Domain Superheroes. Baptisms and old friends.

May 7, 2009 in COMIC BOOKS, FAMILY, SUPERHEROES, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

THE SIMPSONS NEWS

This is the last full week I have to work on the the episode I’m on. Tuesday, my work load doubled. I have more work than I think I can do. Still, I’m going for it. I have to figure out a way to get it all done. Wish me luck.

Okay so, as of the time of this writing, this is the last of the drawings we’ve done of the superhero versus thing. Once again, Tommy drew something I can’t put up on my site so if you want to see it, you have to go CLICK HERE. When he showed me the pencil drawings I was planning to put it up, and then he colored it and added some details that I thought were a bit inappropriate so…

Paul‘s drawing I can’t put up so here’s my last one:

I drew Spider-man (Marvel Comics) Vs. Batman (DC comics). Yeah, this is reeeaaally stretching it. They fight because their main mode of transportation, in their respective comics, is swinging around the city. Which is to say, I was using any excuse to draw these guys together. I couldn’t help myself and gave Batman “Astro Boy” boots.

Interestingly enough, after I finished the drawing and handed a copy to Paul. He told me I should ink it. Paul is really into inking right now. I told him I might but I’d rather start drawing new drawings than keep working on ones I just finished. I then said, I’d probably go back and ink all the other drawings I’d done, just so that I can get some practice in at some point.

The next day, when I got to work, I found this on my desk:

It seems Paul had gotten a bit of extra time and decided to ink my drawing. Not only did he ink it but since he has been obsessing over inking and he’s been studying Michael Golden‘s work, he decided to ink my drawing in Michael Golden‘s style. The thing I found most interesting about the drawing was that he fixed the things I was most annoyed about in my drawing, namely, that the black had pretty much covered up most of the details of the characters. Paul took in upon himself to add a secondary light source when he inked the drawing, adding a new dynamic to it. Only after seeing what he did, did I kick myself over not having thought to do it myself. It was a good choice on his part.

COMIC BOOKS

A kinda of weird thing happened to me this weeked. It started sometime last week. I was listening to a Role-playing game Podcast were in there was and interview of a game designer. I’m not sure which podcast it was or who the designer was, but they were talking to him about his superhero roleplaying game. He mentioned that he had made “stats” of some public domain superheroes and put then in his game. I thought to myself, “Public domain superheroes?” So later in the week, I recalled the interview and decided to look up these superheroes and I found them. About 100 or so Golden Age superheroes that were never copyrighten and that had fallen into the public domain.

I then discovered how there had been attempts over the last ten to twenty years, by different companies to use and revive these character, without much success. After reading the characters’ their bios, I got excited and wanted to do a take of some of these characters of my own.

May 2nd was Free Comicbook Day. I went to the comic store with Dante, my Brother, his wife Deborah and my little nephew Paolo. Among the comics I picked up was a free issue of Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen, and lo and behold, one of these Golden Age public Domain characters was in the comic. That was a pretty big coincidence. Then doing more research, I discovered that these same characters had made their way into Alan Moore‘s hands (of Watchmen fame) a while back and he had written them into one of his Tom Strong comics (issues 11 and 12), which I owned. I took out my copy of the comic and was blown away. I had read the thing before but I didn’t know that the characters had been public domain. Then I discovered that Alex Ross was having a go at these guys too in his Dynamite comics run, currently on sale. So it seems everyone knows about these guys and I’m really behind the times.

In any case, I think that’s pretty cool. It makes me want to try to do something with them. I think I have an idea for one of them already. We’ll see if I can actually get off my lazy bottom and do it.

FAMILY

My mom got mad at me because I forgot to write about my nephew Paolo’s baptism last week. I had forgotten all about it. Work is really stressing me out right now. It’s almost all I think about. It was a nice baptism. Hurray for Paolo! She also got mad because I didn’t draw a cartoon about it. Well, I only have so much time in the day. I’m working on a commission right now that’s taking up all my drawing time. I wish I could do some cartoons but I can’t.

In fact, I wish I had the time to draw a cartoon about what happened THIS weekend. My Godmother’s daughter Lili, her husband John and their daughter Stella came over to visit from out of state. Stella is the same age as Munchkin and they are both very energetic little girls. I was really excited about their meeting. I wanted Munchkin to meet Stella so bad. I’d seen and read a lot about her from the photos that Lili sends my mom. Well, I won’t go into much detail right now because maybe at some point I might have the time to do that. What I WILL say is that the day was full of fodder for cartoons I don’t have the time to draw. Here’s hoping I can at least get ONE done at some point in the next couple of weeks.

Love you Lili, John and Stella! It was great seeing you.

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Happy Easter! Deadlines. Again with the Superhero Versus Superhero. Dante’s teething

April 16, 2009 in COMIC BOOKS, FAMILY, SUPERHEROES, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Happy Easter everyone!

He is risen…

THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Stressing out this week. This is my last week on this particular crew before I go on to the next one. We need to get done with this show this week, no exceptions. We are officially two weeks late on it. It either gets done this week or it gets done this week. Meanwhile I’m making up the hours I missed because I had to stay home on Monday with the kids. Daycare was closed on Monday. If it doesn’t seem like I’m going to get done, I need to stay and do overtime. We aren’t in a good place right now. Man, I hate the pressure.

Meanwhile, our crazy superhero drawing thing continues. Here are some more drawings we did a few weeks ago. I’m not putting up Tommy‘s drawing because I wasn’t sure it was appropriate for my blog but if you want to check it out you can go to his by clicking here.

Paul drew Man Thing (Marvel Comics) Vs. Swamp Thing (DC comics). Not too sure what exactly is going on but I think they are trying to squeeze each other’s hands real tight. They fight because they are pretty much the same archetype. Both are swamp monsters with the word Thing in their name.

I drew Dr. Fate (DC comics) Vs. Dr. Strange (Marvel Comics). Again, these guys are fighting because they are also the same archetype. They are the masters of magic in their respective universes and both have a Doctorate. I always wanted to draw these guys and this was a great excuse. After trying to figure out what I could have them doing, this obvious silly idea struck me. Most of the gags we’ve come up with haven’t really been all that funny, but we actually care less about the gag and more about the excuse to draw the characters. Technically I could just draw them actually fighting without the gag, but it’s just not as entertaining for me. I want to tell a story, even if it’s a light hearted one.

Wanted to draw some pretty women for this one. Black Cat (Marvel Comics) Vs. Catwoman (DC comics). Same archetype (ex-female cat burglars with a cat themed costume, who turned into good guys. Or at least aren’t exactly bad guys anymore). This drawing was a complete failure on my part as far as getting the idea of what’s going on across. This was meant to represent them both coming into frame at the exact same time and being surprised that the other person was there grabbing the same thing. Unfortunately, the drawing doesn’t read that way at all.

FAMILY

This was the first Easter that my daughter was aware it was Easter. She had a blast. Saturday, we woke up early, went to a park and went on an Easter egg hunt that was organized for little kids there. It was my sister-in-law, Deborah’s, idea. My mom and dad where there as well. Munchkin had a lot of fun. Dante didn’t really know what was going on. He hung around and looked around. He mostly just got tired. I came away with the realization that I need to take Munchkin to more parks. She was so happy just running around on the grass and seemed to find all kinds of thing that would entertain her.

Later that night, after coming home from my parent’s house (which is were we went back to, in order to have lunch). Alesha went to Easter Vigil Mass while I stayed and took care of the kids. Three hours later, she came home with a big smile on her face. By then the kids where asleep and I was at home watching The Passion of the Christ. A movie I should have watched on Friday but I didn’t get around to.

The next day, Munchkin and I went to Mass together. On Good Friday, when she discovered I was going to church, Munchkin asked if she could come along. I told her she couldn’t, mostly because if was almost her bed time, but I did tell her she could come with me next time if she wanted. Well, Easter Sunday, she said she wanted to come with me so we went. The Mass was an hour and a half long and by the end of it, she was ready to leave the church but she was pretty well behaved through out most of the Mass. She especially likes the “kiss of peace” because she likes shaking everyone’s hands. She’s asked to go to church with me three times now and one time, when we were playing with her toys, she played that her toys left the house to go to church. I wonder what’s going on in her two year old head?

Later that day, we went to the house of one of my Wife’s best friends and Munchkin spent her time there Easter egg hunting, playing and eating candy. We left in the afternoon in order to give Dante and chance to nap. We went to my aunts house where we spent Easter with my family. There, Munchkin spent her time Easter egg hunting, playing, and eating candy. She had a great time and was crazy high on sugar all day. Dante was miserable because he was tired and uncomfortable. Mostly because he’s teething again, his gums were swollen and he had a blister on his tongue. Poor kid. I spent pretty much the entire time taking care of him.

The poor boy has had quite a difficult weekend. Monday night was a terrible night for him. He’s slowly getting better now. Still, I feel so bad for him. Dante didn’t have a good Easter. Maybe next year.

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More superhero versus superhero. Bit of a layoff scare. Day at the pool

April 9, 2009 in COMIC BOOKS, FAMILY, SUPERHEROES, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

THE SIMPSONS NEWS

I’ve been really enjoying my job the last few days. Mostly because of the non-job related drawing I’ve been doing during my free time (see last week’s post). Somehow, after all that other drawing, when I get back to doing work, it’s a lot more fun. It feels like I’m drawing the characters in a new way, or maybe doing the other stuff has helped me approach the characters different. In anycase, I’ve found myself enjoying drawing the Simpsons characters immensely.So here are some more drawings my friends and I did:

Tommy drew Submariner (Marvel Comics) vs Aquaman (DC comics). They’re fighting because the are both fish controlling, Kings of Atlantis archtypes. Ironically, Aquaman is more famous but Submariner is actually a much older character.

Paul drew a Mad Magazine inspired drawing of Green Arrow (DC comics) vs. Hawkeye (Marvel Comics). They’re fighting because they are basically the same arrow shooting superhero archtype. I like the way that Green Arrow‘s arrow went through Hawkeye even thought it was his boxing glove arrow.

I drew Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics) vs. Dr. Manhattan (DC comics). They fight because they are both naked, cosmic, bald guys. Silver Surfer doesn’t quite appreciate Dr. Manhattan’s exibitionism. Not quite sure why I don’t like this drawing much.

My next drawing was of The Hulk (Marvel Comics) vs. Solomon Grundy (DC comics) They fight because they are both the big, strong, dumb, monster archetype. While drawing this one, I made a small brake through on how I could best approach drawing hands.

Tuesday I was told that Friday the 17th was my last day at work. After that day I would be on hiatus. Couldn’t have come at a worse time. A few weeks ago, I spent a lot of money because one of our cars needed a tune up and then two weeks later I ended up paying our property tax. Our bank account hasn’t recovered yet and the next two paychecks weren’t going to help at all. They won’t even get us out of the red. Like I said, it couldn’t have come at a worse time. I was told they will try to find me some work if they can.

The next day, I got an e-mail from the show’s new producer asking me if I can jump on another show. I told her I could. Man, that was just too close. Guess the praying I did the day before helped out a bit.

FAMILY

Had a good time the last few weekends with the kids. The weekend before, I took out their little electricity powered Hummer my Father-in-law got them (click HERE to see what happened the last time) and they rode around the housing complex. It was very funny to see them driving around in that car so I took video of them. They ended their drive by the playground, got out, and played for an hour or so. They had a great time.

Last weekend I took them to the playground again and on the way back, I told Munchkin that, if the weather was nice the next day, we could go swimming at the pool. The next day (Palm Sunday) was a very hot sunny day and Alesha, Munchkin, Dante and I went swimming. Munchkin was very excited. Unfortunately the pool water was freezing. It was so cold that no matter what we did, our bodies couldn’t get used to it. We ended up spending the whole time in the jacuzzi. THAT water was boiling hot, but we were at least able to get used to it. Dante loved the water. He couldn’t get enough swimming. Munchkin, is usually afraid of the water but she became very brave this time around and walked around in the jacuzzi. She even asked to get picked up so we could help her “swim”, which consists of us holding her up and moving her around. This is something she hasn’t ever done before.

She even had a scary moment in the pool. She was walking around the jacuzzi, which has a step all around for sitting which is just right for her to walk on, and she took a step off it. At that moment I happen to be looking away at Dante “swimming” with his mommy. When I turned back to look at her, I saw her go under, in that very same second, I gently picked her out of the water. I didn’t make a big deal out of it. She just stared blankly not realizing what had just happened. I held her and told her it was okay and that I had her. I wiped the water from her face and carried her back to the jacuzzi steps. I thought she was going to start crying or something. She just began coughing. It was all an act. She’s a bit of a drama queen. It was obviously fake coughing. After I put her on the stairs, I waited, expecting her to leave the pool or at the very least, not leave the stairs. To my surprise, she got up, went back into the jacuzzi and began walking around again. She was a little shaken, but overall, she was okay. I’m very proud of her.

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Munchkin gets sick again. Went to confession. Thinking about creative activities

March 26, 2009 in CATHOLICISM, FAMILY, SOME THOUGHTS, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

THE SIMPSONS NEWS

I feel like I’m not getting enough work done. I’m working like crazy but it feels like I’m not getting anything done. I don’t know why that is. Maybe it’s because the scenes I’m doing are complicated or maybe it’s because half the stuff I’m doing is on the computer and the other half is on paper. There is also the fact that some of the scenes I’m working on need to be printed out on paper so that I can work on them; only it’s a big pain to do so and I end up spending a lot of time printing the stuff out and trying to get the size of the artwork to work the way I want.

Been staying late the last few days to make up the hours I didn’t work last Friday. More on that below.

FAMILY

Last Thursday, Alesha stayed home with Munchkin because she came down with some sort of stomach flu. Munchkin spent the whole day laying down, taking in liquids, watching cartoons, and going to the poddy. She seemed to be doing better by the end of the day so Friday morning we woke her and Dante up to go to daycare. I gave her morning sippy cup of Pediasure (doctor prescribed) and we left the house. Five minutes letter, we heard a gooshy splat sound coming from the back seat. Alesha said, “Oh no.” We both turned around only to see that Munchkin had vomited her Pediasure all over herself. As we stared, she then proceeded to projectile vomit the rest of it all over the back seat of the car. Needless to say, we turned the car around and I told Alesha I was going to stay home with Munchkin this time.

After rushing to clean up the back of the car, Alesha was on her way. Meanwhile I got Munchkin comfortable, and put the blankets and coats she had puked on (that where in the back seat and protected the car from the puke) in the washing machine. Munchkin, once again, spent the day laying down, taking in liquids and watching cartoons, although she DID sleep for a veeerrry long time at midday.

By Saturday, she was definitely better. The day before, she could hardly get up. Saturday, she was walking around happily. Alesha and I had a lot to do during the weekend so we asked my mom if she would mind taking care of the kids for the day. She told us she would love to. Alesha went over to Munchkin and asked:

So off we went. I ran errands all day while the kids had a blast with my mom. It was a very eventful couple of days.

CATHOLICISM

One of the errands I need to do this Saturday was to go to Confession. It had been about four months and I really needed it. The church I went to had some fairly long lines. I hate that. I’m always afraid that I won’t get a turn. On the other hand, long lines are a good thing. It means people care enough, and know enough to go and take advantage of the Sacrament of Confession; which I always see as a reflection of the spiritual health of the parish. Still, I don’t like the long lines.

The most interesting part about Confession this time around was my penance. The priest told me to take out my Bible, open it up to Psalm 51, read it to myself at first, then read it out loud and pray it to God. He told me, praying the Psalms out loud was a very Jewish way of praying them. I don’t know if that’s true but I did as I was asked, and I must say, it’s a very moving way to pray a Psalm. Not only that, but Psalm 51 is an amazingly appropriate Psalm to pray as penace. Though I didn’t know it before I read it, I didn’t realize I was already familiar with it (or at least parts of it). The Psalm is one of the Psalms, always read in the Liturgy of the Hours. It was one of those, “Ah ha! So that’s where it’s from” moments for me. I might read that Psalm from now on after Confession, even if I’m not asked to.

SOME THOUGHTS

Been sending e-mails back and forth with my friend Raul (see the bottom of last weeks post). He’s been sending me copies of the pitchbibles of the shows he’s been pitching around the animation studios. I must say, I’m very impressed with them. Not only with the fun ideas he has, but the amount of work he puts into them. Everyone of his pitchbibles has the outline of a complete episode plus a few quick hooks for other episodes. They also have drawings of the main characters and a history of each.

This has got me thinking, what have I done that is anywhere near as complete as those? NOTHING! I have a ton of ideas of my own. I keep a book near my bed where both Alesha and I have written out germs of ideas or even written out slightly more fleshed out concepts. For some ideas, I have small doodles, for some I have tried designing the characters; others, I have even gone so far as to try to write the outline, but none of those ideas have been done to completion. Even the ones I have done the outlines for I have had to re-edit some story flaws, only to find myself get stuck somehow on how to fix them and they end up being left incomplete. I mean, wasn’t I suppose to be working on a webcomic. Well, where the heck is it?

Seeing Raul‘s out put is very inspiring. It’s made me want to come up with even more ideas of my own. Not necessarily to sell as kids cartoons like he’s doing, but just fun ideas for stories that I think would be cool to write. In fact, on the way home on Tuesday, I came up with four that I haven’t seen anyone do before (I googled them and they don’t exist). I immediately wrote them down in my “idea book” when I got home, but will they go anywhere?

Also, I’ve been thinking of maybe doing some freelance drawings for some role playing game magazines as well. Just to do something different. But in order to do that, I would need to draw something in the style of what they’re looking for as a portfolio piece. I’ve been meaning to get to that, but I haven’t done it. Why? Why is it, that when I get home, the last thing I want to do is draw? I just want to relax. I don’t want to keep working. Not only that but I when I have any free time where I can actually do something creative, I don’t. It seems like, I like the idea of drawing and writing all these creative things, but I don’t actually like doing them. Yet I get all excited about them when I think about them and I can’t wait to get started on them. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I have to somehow find a way to discipline myself into completing SOMETHING or I’ll spend the rest of my life wishing I had.

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Simpsons co-worker in surgery. Met my nephew. Crazy for Mickey Mouse. Friend’s site

March 19, 2009 in FAMILY, THE SIMPSONS NEWS, WEBSITES

THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Another slow week at the show. Which is great. Better than a hectic stressful, frustrating week. This weeks big news has little to do with the show and a little bit more to do with one of my fellow co-workers. He recently went on voluntary hiatus in order to go into surgery yesterday for something he has to take care of. If all goes well, he’ll be in a loooot of pain but he will be in bed recovering for four weeks and hopefully he’ll be fixed. Please pray for him and a fast recovery.

FAMILY

So we FINALLY got a chance to go meet my new nephew Paolo. Took us long enough. He’s sooo little. You forget how small new borns are. He seemed like a quiet, calm, little baby. Alesha held him and she was LOVING it. We got to see a slide show of pictures that documented when he was born, as well as the days since. It was really nice. He’s got so much hair on his head. I couldn’t believe it. Munchkin and Dante were bald for so long when they were smaller. Paolo has more hair than Dante has now. I was very impressed. Deborah (my sister-in-law) looks great and seems very happy. I’m very glad everything is going so well with them.

It’s very strange for Alesha and I to have “the big kids”. Our kids aren’t “the babies” anymore. Seeing my nephew and pictures of my niece, really opens our eyes to the position that our kids hold in the family now. It’s difficult to see Dante as being a role-model of any kind though.

Hurray for little Paolo!

FAMILY

Okay, so that whole superhero cartoon thing didn’t last more than a week with Munchkin. Not after she discovered I had a collection of old Mickey Mouse cartoons on DVD. The cartoons are so old, that Mickey still has dots for eyes. She loved them. She wanted to watch them anytime she could. If she was at home, she asked me to put them on. It was a non stop Mickey marathon. Thankfully, I think she finally got sick of them because lately, she hasn’t asked to see them.

On the other hand, I have to say that I’m glad she asked to watch those cartoons. I’ve had that DVDs for years and never put them on and watched them. Those are some really great cartoons. I’m more an old Warner Brothers cartoon fan, they appeal to me more and I think they are funnier, but those old Mickey cartoons, though not as funny, are very entertaining and are animated beautifully. Thanks for making me aware of them Munchkin.

WEBSITES

Speaking of Disney cartoons, my friend Raul Aguirre, ex-Disney animator, Character designer, storyboard artist, and animated show director extraordinaire has put up a website showing off his awesome artwork. Check it out. It has the animated cartoon he co-created, co-executive produced, Wrote, Directed, Storyboarded, Slugged, voice directed, and voice acted in, for Nickelodeon. Free entertainment. Who can pass that up.

Way to go Raul! Love the site.

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We watched the Watchmen. Dante walks. Munchkin watches Superman

March 12, 2009 in COMIC BOOKS, FAMILY, MOVIES, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Well, not much to report for this week. Just working on finishing up the show on paper. It’s good to be back drawing on paper but I miss the ability to time my own scene and look at how it will work with the dialogue. Still, it’s fine. I’m having fun. Hope this job lasts a bit longer ’cause I don’t want to be laid off anytime soon.

FAMILY

Dante has started walking now. He’s very proud of himself. On Monday, he mostly did it between spaces that he could see a definite end point. Such as, from the couch to the living room table, or from the living room table to one of us. If he would take a few steps and see everything he might be able to walk to was more than ten steps away, he immediately would go back on his hands and knees and begins to crawl.

By mid week, he was confidently walking toward nothing, then he would look around, stop and walk in another direction. He would then crawl if he lost his balance. It’s great to see him get more and more confident. It’s also darn funny to watch him walk too. I’m sure by Friday of next week, he won’t be crawling at all.

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Munchkin has gotten into wanting to watch Superman and Justice League Cartoons. I don’t know why. She suddenly decided she wanted to watch them. She went over to the DVD shelf, pointed to the Superman and Justice League cartoons, looked up at me an said, “Supaman, Supaman?”

I think her favorite heroes so far are Superman and Batman. She likes Superman because he can fly and Batman because…well…I have no idea why she likes Batman. Maybe because she’s played with a Batman action figure before. I’m not exactly sure what she finds so entertaining about the cartoons either. This weekend she watched two seasons worth of Superman Cartoons and one DVD worth of Justice League cartoons. By “watched”, I mean, she had them playing in the background while she played with her toys. She would occasionally look up and watch for about five minutes before going back and playing. Although, when she grew tired of playing with me or her toys, she would sit down and watch an entire episode. Even though she wasn’t watching them all the time, the moment one of the DVDs ended, she insisted on putting on another.

The cartoons are not anywhere near the kind of thing she’s used to watching. They are very action oriented cartoons. Lots of superhero fights in them. Lots of life or death situations with many things at stake and very serious themes. Very complicated stories that would just go ever her head. I think she has gotten used to watching action oriented cartoons from watching Disney cartoons like, Tarzan, Treasure Planet and Lilo & Stitch. Little by little, she’s learning the names of all the Superheroes in the show. She now knows that Hawkgirl’s name is Hawkgirl. Although, every hero that talks with a gruff voice, she insists on calling Batman. I find it funny and strange, yet I can’t help but feel a bit proud of her for being such a geek. That’s my daughter.

COMIC BOOKS

Speaking of Superheroes, I was thinking of maybe buying Munchkin some Superhero comics because she likes the cartoons so much. Lucky for me, both DC and Marvel have started coming out with kids comics.

Now you maybe saying to yourself, “Hey Luis, aren’t ALL comic books for kids? DC and Marvel ONLY do kids comics”. To which I would reply, “You haven’t read any modern comic, have you?” By no means are modern comic for kids. In fact, if most comic would be given a movie rating, they would mostly be PG13 and up. Comics are full of sex and violence, and in many of them, the superheroes are about as immoral as the villains they fight. There are very few comics that I would say are “kid appropriate” and even those would be dealing with themes that would go over a little kid’s head.

DC and Marvel have come to realize that they no longer have comics that would appeal to young readers (and therefore are not getting new readers), which is the reason why they have developed a line of comics especially for them. This is great news for me, since now I have some comics I could get my kids. So I was thinking maybe I’d get her a Superfriends comic and see how it goes. Maybe I’ll take her to the comic shop next week and pick one up.

Guess I’m raising a geek.

MOVIES

(The following, is a spoiler free review of the Watchmen movie)

Alesha really wanted to go watch Watchmen last weekend, so we did. I didn’t own the Watchmen comic until a few weeks ago. I had read Watchmen in high school when a friend of mine had lent me his copy. I remembered the book, so I knew what it was all about. At the time I read it though, I didn’t really truly “get it”. The book is very deep and brings up a lot of philosophical questions about human nature and the problem of evil. It’s also one of those comics I was talking about above that are in no way meant to be read by kids. It’s a very “Adult” book.

Alesha wanted to see it because she had heard so much about the comic. Which in turn, made her bug me to go buy the comic so she could read it, which she did, after I bought it. She enjoyed the book and then got even more excited about going to see the movie. I began re-reading the comic myself but only got half way through the 200 or so pages before we went to see the movie. As of the time of this writing, I’m still making my way through the rest of it. Taking my time, in order to “soak it in”.

So what do I think about the movie? Well, I thought it was an incredibly faithful rendition of this epic comic book. I’ve read many reviews of the movie that say, they didn’t like the protagonists. They where all unlikeable. Well, that’s because the protagonist in the book where not very likable either. In fact, the protagonist in the movie where far more likable than their book counterparts. Watchmen is not a movie about good, superheroes. It’s a movie about messed up superheroes that are really screwed up in the head. Many people hate what they call the “juvenile view on humanity” the movie has. I saw one person say it was a “hippie movie”. I think it’s great that it pushes people’s buttons. That’s why the book is so interesting to begin with. I also read a review of a guy who took his son to go see it. He left the theater very upset and even told the theater owner that he should be ashamed at playing the movie. Which I think is ridiculous. The movie is rated R for a reason. Why blame the theater owner? It was the father’s responsibility to find out what the movie was about before taking his son to go see it. Especially if it’s rated R. He shouldn’t blame anyone else. I think he thought it would be okay to watch because it was a “superhero movie”. Well, wake up. Comics aren’t for kids anymore dude. Watchmen (which was written in 1985) was one of the comics that where responsible for making the comic medium grow up.

Do I agree with the world view the book and movie puts forth? Not completely, but I will say that part of the view point put forth, is no different than what Blaise Pascal puts forth in his book Pensées. Of course, Pascal‘s solution to the problems is much different and much wiser than it is in Watchmen. The solution to the problem put forth in the movie is quite evil and would be, at best, temporary. I think that perhaps most people just don’t want to be told that there is a problem at all, or at least, be reminded there is.

So what’s the movie about? It’s a murder mystery. In an alternate 1985, where Nixon is president and America won the Vietnam war (thanks to one of the superheroes in the movie), someone has killed a superhero (the Comedian) and another hero (named Rorschach) is trying to figure out why.

There is a lot to this movie and I recommend it. BUT it’s by no means perfect. If I have one real complaint about the movie it’s that the violence and sex in the movie is gratuitous. The comic was pretty violent, so I expected to see the atrocities in the book, but I didn’t expect them to be enhanced. Nor did I expect them to add more violence when there was no need to. The stuff in the book was bad enough without adding more. Also, the book had sex in it but the movie seemed to relish in making the sex scenes go on forever. Both these things where unnecessary and just plain took you out of the movie.

Oh, and one more thing…having read the book, I expected this, but if you haven’t, this might take you aback. There is a character in the book named Dr. Manhattan, who is a super being. He stopped being human a long time ago and therefore no longer feels shame, or embarrassment, nor does he feel heat or cold. This means that, whenever he’s not out in public, he’s naked and, just like in the comic, he is shown in “all his glory”. Most people I talked to at work said that the audience they saw the movie with, didn’t react at all to this, but the audience I saw the movie with, had some giggling girls/women in it and I heard a friend of mine say he heard some guys giggle in his theater.

You’ve been warned. Remember, this movie is rated R. You want to know what you’re getting into before watch the movie? Read the comic.

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