I have been doing things…

Some of the things I’ve been doing and not mentioning here are Dicebox updates. Though I’ve actually had help in that department: here is Billy Mudron’s The Illustrated Dicebox. And my updates, including today’s, can be found here. (Note: all of the above is NSFW)

But what’s been keeping me really busy these past few weeks (besides the day job) is my work as part of the Stumptown Comics Fest organizing committee.

As you all probably know, Stumptown was this past weekend and it went really swell. I’ve added my photos to the Stumptown Comics Festival 2008 Pool but have no real report to make. Instead, I direct you to the observations of others: Dylan’s, Ivy’s, Bill’s, Sara’s, Barry’s and Brenna’s - part 1, part 2 and part 3. More reports are appearing about the web, you can find some press reviews right here.

I was actually out of it most of the weekend and missed a lot of great things, including most of what was offer in the exhibit hall. One of the events I deeply regret having missed was the Comics Art Battle at Cosmic Monkey Comics Saturday night.

Photo by stutefish

Above is a great picture of Team Web: Christopher Baldwin, Dylan Meconis, Barry Deutsch and Bill Mudron. Or, as I like to call them, my people. Actually these folks really are my people, I have shared residence (and a bathroom) with all of them at one point or another. Nevermind than Dylan, Barry and I all updates our comics on Wednesday and take part in the same “collective storytelling experience” (aka, a role playing game) Oh, hey, and all four have done Dicebox fill-ins for me. Crazy.

Kris explains it all

There isn’t a new page of Dicebox this week; Kris Dresen explains at least partly why.

Really, her part in “preventing” me from completing a page was the nicest part and, hell, it’s not like the day job made me an amusing cartoon in recompense for its part.

But new page next week! And as an added bonus it’ll be NSFW!

It might be later than you think!

Or, why I hate Daylight Savings Time.

Okay, in other news, I finally got my Dicebox update done for this week, being a revamp of Part 7: Chapter 3. And there are notes. And, cause I promised, the old pages.

As you might notice,Scenes are Chapters now, and what were Chapters are now Parts (I’ll rename the archive pages appropriately as I revamp). And these pages are far from being from the beginning, as they are pages 192-195.

This was so I could include them in the current show at the PCPA Art Bar curated by Kaebel Hashitani:

MEANWHILE…: An Exhibition of Comic Book Art, featuring artists from the Stumptown Comics Fest, a collection of comic book pages, covers and crossover art. Featuring artwork by Ryan Alexander-Tanner, Jon Ascher, Matthew Clark, Paul Guinan, Seamus Heffernan, Garret Izumi, Indigo Kelleigh, Carolyn Main, Kip Manley, Jenn Manley Lee, Larry Marder, Dylan Meconis, Erika Moen, Bill Mudron, Sarah Oleksyk, Jesse Reklaw, Craig Thompson, Jim Valentino and John C. Worsley.

The ArtBar and Bistro inside the Antoinette Hatfield Hall. 1111 SW Broadway at Main St. Portland, OR.

The art will be up for the next couple of months. The opening reception was this past Thursday–which I had to miss myself due to a fever. I hear it was swank.

And, if you’re reading this in LiveJournal, you’ll notice a cross-post footer at the end of this post. That’s because I have a brand new website, JennManleyLee.com. This will be replacing the ol’ Jennworks site–I’ll be implementing the redirect code and everything later today. It’s a brand new design with a much more satisfactory art gallery.

This only took me, oh, four months to do and it’s still not 100%–some wonky formatting and broken links in the early journal entries from my old Moveable Type blog among other things. But I’ve figured out most of the bugs and believe I’m done breaking the code. So.

Scott was right, I was surprised

Dicebox won the The 2005 Web Cartoonists Choice Award 2005 for Outstanding Science Fiction!

Here’s the neat little graphic from the WCCA commemorating that event:

I’m very flattered and rather surprised. And I found the comic presentation for Outstanding Science Fiction by Shaun Henderson oddly appropriate.

Here are all the results of the WCCA 2005.
And this is the complete online ceremony in comic form.

Not woman enough for you, ’ey?

Not too long ago I received an email from someone complaining that
Griffen “looks like a man.” Like so:

The author went on to express their aggravation with this state of
affairs: clearly I was capable of rendering the expected womanly
form. They suggested I seriously revise Griffen’s look.

Well, I was a bit flummoxed, so I sent out an email to some cohorts,
including my esteemed editor, outlining the dilemma and some possible
responses on my part. Much to my delight, Erika Moen leapt into
action and sent me this possible redesign for Ms. Stoyka:

Perhaps a name change is also in order: Chiffon, maybe?

Cross posted at the Dicebox Forum.

ADDITIONAL

Bill Mudron has offered up his own interpretation of Griffen Medea.