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Allrighty. It’s the end of the calendar year, 2007. We’ve made it. Pat yourselves on the back. I’m busy drawing up some free sketches for all y’all, so stay tuned, some of them may make an appearance on le blog.

It’s year end, top ten list making time. As rarely am I critical enough to exclude anything from a list of things I like, I’ll leave the list making to others. Here are a few of my fave year end lists!

1) All the game of the year lists at GAMETRAILERS.COM. I’m a huge gamer, and 2007 is definitely going to be remembered as one of the good ones. They have about 10 or so top ten lists covering every aspect of gaming, so check ‘em out!

2) NOW MAGAZINE, one of Toronto’s weekly rags has some nice top ten movie lists.

3) While on the subject of movies, IFC.com has a list of the years best directorial debuts. Definitely give all these flicks a watch. I will, eventually…

And yeah, all other lists are bull plop.

Okay, I’ll list some of my fave movies of the year. I see Children of Men appearing on many a list this winter, but that movie was released in 2k6, so I don’t count it. Same goes for Pan’s Labyrinth. I watch A LOT of movies, and seriously, for the life of me, I can’t remember everything I’ve seen. So, there very well may be some awesome movies I saw in January, that I’ll never recall. Anyway, here goes:

Zodiac

7)No Country for Old Men

6)Once

5)Inland Empire

4)SuperBad

3)Juno

2)The Darjeeling Ltd.

1)Lars and the Real Girl

There are tons more that I know will be on this list, that I haven’t seen yet, such as EASTERN PROMISES. So I may have to revise this list in a few weeks.

Hmm. I love music too much to even make a list.

Video games, umm, I can say as great as the Wii is, as a hardcore gamer, I’m disappointed in Nintendo. And I think Sony is going to destroy the 360 for the rest of this console war.
Rather than looking back at what was great in 2k7, all I can think of how awesome 2008 is going to be. CLOVERFIELD! METAL GEAR SOLID 4! A new Weezer album! More bands following Radiohead’s lead! What more can you ask for?!

Be safe this new year!!

ADC

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It’s about 4am here in Toronto, so I’m gonna close the doors on the free art giveaway. Thanks to everyone who sent me an email yesterday! Mucho thanks for supporting KC, and I’m going to endeavor to get all the sketches done in the next week. There’s a lot of drawing to do, so please bear with me!

I’ll probably be doing this free art thing, or something or other thats just as fun from time to time, so keep on checking both this site, and my comic at http://kissingchaos.transmission-x.com!

Still in the holiday spirit, if you’re a fan of Xmas carols, and guitar hero, have I the thing for you:

Hand Bell hero! It’s actually kinda cool!

ADC

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Once again I bid you happy holidays. I did a small, little, nothing update on the KISSING CHAOS ‘TIL I DIE comic this week. I’m a bit busy with the hanging with family and friends and what not that comes with the end of the year. And I figure the traffic on my websites will be super low, since everyone else is probably doing the same thing right about now.

But I do appreciate everyone who frequents my comic/blog, and in the spirit of holiday giving, I’m totally going to hook up all you hardcore KC fans. Drop me an email (my contact info should be easily found somewhere on kissingchaos.com or mydestroyer.com) some time TODAY, DECEMBER 27TH 2007. Send me your contact info, and address, and if I get your email on the 27th (give or take a few hours), I’ll send you a pen and ink sketch of the KC character, or whatever of your choosing! For reals, yo!

Hit me up with your info and you’ll get some free art from yours truly!

ADC

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For all you KISSING CHAOS hardcores out there, Angela actually speaks in this weeks KISSING CHAOS:’TIL I DIE comic. OMG! Yes, OMG indeed. If you aren’t a longtime fan, this means nothing to you. ;p

Hope all y’alls have a happy whatever you’re celebrating this December. Personally, I’m kickin’ it to some crazy mash-up of Filipino/Indian/commercial holiday goodness! So excuse the non comic (so called a dead Piro day in honor of megatokyo. what up Fred!) I posted this week. We will return to regularly scheduled programming presently!

I’ll probably try to update over the actual time off days, and of course, will have a new comic up next thursday… hit me up! What do you want santa to give you for xmas? I’ll see what I can do. heh.

ADC

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I like songs with choruses that go:

Na na naah na na na
Na na naah na na na
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

The holiday season has me feeling lethargic.

I took this photo at a venue in New York.

ADC

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We had “the worst snowstorm in 60 years” up here in the Toronto area over the weekend. I love it. Not to go all senior citizen on you, but when I was a kid, this was how winter was all the time. A foot of snow, and sub zero temperature, that’s what I’m talking about.

Also, my lady loves to decorate, and our apartment is turning into a winter wonderland. Excuse the blurry photos:

And here is another subway portrait drawing!

ADC

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LIKES:

-watching:Joe Strummer the future is Unwritten/3 10 to Yuma/Cashback

-rewatching: Superbad

-Listening to: Elastica/Tilly and the Wall/Robyn

-knowing all my pregnant friends and loved ones delivered healthy babies during the past 2 weeks.

-replaying all the Metal Gear games in chronological order, in anticipation of MGS4’s release in Q2 2008.

DISLIKES:

-weather that ruins all my plans

-watching: The Nanny Diaries

-insomnia

Another like:

Here’s another subway portrait session:

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A new KC: TIL I DIE is up! Check it! It ends the ZEROS and ONES chapter of the online comic. While some folks maybe scratching their heads, most KC verterans will know this type of storytelling is just par for the course. The various scenes that make up KISSING CHAOS don’t build so much as a linear narrative, but are pieces to a puzzle. And I’m totally serious when I say it will all make sense in the end.

Zeroes and Ones was interesting (to me!) for a number of reasons. Yes, it is a pivotal moment in the KC story, but it was also a huge experiment in terms of art/writing for myself. In an effort just to keep myself interesting in the medium, I really want to push myself, and the comics themselves into new territory. So, my plan for this online comic is to play with all the basic. formal components of a “comic”. Comics are built from a combination of panels, line art and type. I’m sure there are variations and it gets more complicated, but the very basic elements of a comic are the 3 aforementioned things. So I want to, umm, “mess” around with these components, and see what happens. Worst case scenario, I create something that’s a mess. Best case, I create a different experience, and push comics beyond what they’ve become. Who knows.

So far, with my comics on TX, I’ve reduced the line art, and have put the focus totally on type. You tell me if that did anything for you. In this week’s strip, PArt 2.6 of TIL I DIE, I blurred the line between word balloon and though caption. In the fourth panel, the character’s dialogue and thoughts were presented as equal. I was aiming to create confusion, by colouring the girl’s dialogue with her thoughts. I wanted to create confusion in the reader, so they can viscerally experience the confusion that the male character felt upon hearing the words. I could’ve just played with the font, or even the type, making it impossible to read, but I thought this would be more interesting.

Was it a success? Am I just talking out of my ass? Yes? No? I dunno. I’m just sick of comics they way they are, and want to play around… hopefully people will stick around for the ride.

I’m also thinking of taking a bit of a break during the holidays. So I probably won’t update a full fledged comic strip over the next couple of weeks. But I WILL update… what? I dunno.

Here is yet another subway sketch session:

ADC

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One of the projects I’ve been chipping away at for about half the year, which I last described as being in limbo, is no more. Literally.

I got the call that a comic for the children’s magazine OWL, that I had been developing with an editor for a number of months has been put on the chopping block. It’s a bit of a blow, since the whole process has been full of positive comments, some good work has been created and it was just fun to do. However, I definitely had the sense during the development, that my writing for tweens was not quite ready for prime time. So, my jaw isn’t on the floor with this decision. They did pay me throughout the creative process, so that was a plus, and a nice step up from developing an IP for a comics publisher.

A positive to come out of this, is that I do have a number of projects ready to pitch to other publishers! So, we’ll see how that goes!

Here is another subway/train portrait session from my PDA:

ADC

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I ride the train and subway into town all the time. ALL the time. More often than not, I find myself sketching portraits of random passengers, here are some of the results…

These are all done on my PDA. I kinda like the digitized low rez look, and have contemplated drawing a comic on there. I’ll post a page everyday this week…

ADC