so i’ve been working with sara on some ideas for a book collaboration, where she would write and i would illustrate.  i’ve turned to my folklore resources for inspiration on certain aspects (yes, i’m being deliberately vague about the project, as it is itself quite ephemeral), and in my research, i have come across some weird-ass folk tales.

and now i hear that 24-hour comic day approacheth.  this saturday, in fact.  on my way back to work from lunch today, it struck me that one tale in particular would make an amazing and humorous translation to comic form.  i won’t reveal much, but in one part, the Virgin Mary herself is stealing babies.  i don’t think it gets much better than that.

and this weekend, it could be translated to a comic in no less than twenty four hours.  mind you, i’m harboring no illusions about the quality of the work that would be produced in such a compressed time frame, but the idea of it is tantalizing.  almost palpable.

so.

i was going to brew a new batch of beer, but now i’m waffling — do i continue with my original plan, or do i knuckle down and draw?  i guess we’ll just have to see what happens.

well, now there’s no more lying if it was you.

(AP) Vatican City, Italy — In an announcement yesterday which some pundits are calling “really smooth”, the Etienne Bruvvas have been heralded by his majesty Pope John Paul George Ringo as “the three coolest guys i’ve never met,” and expressed his hope that their recently announced holy pilgramage to Vatican City would result in a new era, whereupon his Holiness would step down and crown the Bruvvas as the new “Pope-y Trifecta”, in charge of taking Catholicism in a new direction. “I hope these guys can fix this shit,” said His Holiness at a recent press conference. “Especially about the part where (the bible) should say ‘celebrate’ instead of ‘celibate’. And let’s get some snatch up in here, yo. I’m old, not dead.” Vatican City continues to make preparations for the arrival of the Bruvvas, who are reportedly arriving sometime “pretty soon for sure.”