Patch Zircher

That happens a lot. The attention comes later even if the early work is great.

Ken Adam, the unsung hero of the Bond movies.

The Desk Set.
Great pick.

I speak 'classic movie' fluently.

If I stole 220 million, I'd be going to jail.

Just sayin'.

I'll be in my office.

My keyboard looked like the crumbs at the bottom of a cereal box were dumped on it.

I eat while working way too much.

There's a whole cleaning crew in the house.
There is no where to go.

Maybe grab a flashlight and a comic and sit in the closet.

My office is getting a deep cleaning and I'm waiting to get back to drawing.
I'm rudderless when I'm not working.

Print this on a brick and then throw it at the anti-solar, anti-wind, anti-green energy people.

Greed has no boundaries. It has an endless thirst.

Corruption.
Slavery.
Usury.
Industrialization.
Invasion of privacy.
Even thought policing-- if they can get away with it.

The "this is fine" dog meme comic, but he's saying "so I have a book coming out".

*sigh*

The attraction to these issues is George Perez's art. Even early on in his career, you can see that Perez is adding panels that enhance characterization. He's TLCing his work, taking the extra steps.

Latest read Fantastic Four 164 and 165 (1975) by Roy Thomas & George Perez; Roy was one of the first writers to bring fandom to comics. Sometimes that's good, sometimes not.
Here he unearths Bob Grayson, the original Marvel Boy-- whose origin, motive, & design are so silly I have to wonder why.

A few stray Penguins still waddling about.

They're great. Endings for what ails us. Beautiful conclusions.

Middlemarch has a special place in my heart because a passage from it was read at my wedding:

"That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

-- George Eliot

Latest read, Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot; optimistic young women marry--and each face trials and tribulations in provincial Middlemarch.
A strong argument could be made that this is the greatest Victorian age novel.
#BookSky

"His native warm-heartedness took a great deal of quenching."

George Eliot had a very reserved way of describing sex and desire :)
#BookSky

Macbeth.
I can't ignore how much it overlaps with my love of fantasy and horror.

Happy birthday, Laird!

Agree.

Sounds gross but it lay perfectly flat along my skull. I didn't know it was there. A decade later I feel a bump, a few days later the tip of the thorn is sticking out.
"Wtf, am I growing a horn?"
I grabbed the tip and it slid right out.

At the county landfill, a reckless dozer operator came too close and part of a palm tree hit my head and shoulder.
Ten years later I pulled an inch and a half long thorn/sliver, from one of the palm fronds, out of my temple.

Probably. I'll watch the first one anytime. The second one, I've seen twice.

:)
Ray Ban and Meta are giving you the reasons.

What I'm saying is:
I want high industry page rates
and
I want to make anything I feel like making

--may be at odds with each other.

I know this sounds counter-intuitive to creativity-- but so is starving.
If a publisher almost becomes vanity press-- the rates are going to reflect that.

There are pros & cons to comic publishers taking chances, or letting creators do their thing. On the surface it sounds good. But often it leads to diminishing returns and lower page rates-- because the hits are few between.
A strong publisher has to say no. Know what Not to bankroll.

4 years ago an award winning novelist and I walked away from an offer that was about a 50% cut from my standard rate. And to budget even that we would have had to underpay the letterer and colorist.
Just 'no'.