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Hey folks! Finally, a new page of Mei Wu – sorry about the delays! It just seems as I get older, the responsibilities pile up… And that’s just work, I can’t imagine how crowded people who actually have, y’know, a partner and family as well as a job cope with pursuing art as well. Total respect to you folks, I know you’re out there!
Speaking of pursuing art, I’m in the process of trying to secure myself a spot at a local Small Press Day event so I can sell my two latest print books – trying for the big one in Glasgow right now, but it’s fairly late on in the process. I’d kick myself if I didn’t at least try, though! Hopefully if I don’t get that, there’ll be other Small Press Day events that I can latch on to locally. Fingers crossed!
Hey folks! I’ve got a couple of things I want to have a quick natter about today!
First off: Is anyone else watching the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 revival on Netflix? It’s so very good! Unfortunately, I never got to experience MST3K the first time round, I think I was a little too young for it at the time (not to mention that I didn’t have satellite or cable TV back in the day), so this is my first exposure to it. And it’s INCREDIBLY entertaining. The movies are deliciously clichéd, but never truly painful to watch, and the banter is always well-observed and hilarious, never malicious. It really does feel like watching bad movies with your mates and riffing on all the tropes you can feast on. I’d definitely recommend watching it!
I’ve really been looking forward to drawing this page! It gives a bit of backstory into Silk Glove, and why she is the way she is. I’m quite enjoying her character, because her violence-by-default nature allows for a bit of catharsis, but it’s not simply that she’s a stereotypical ‘psycho’ – there’s vulnerability and history beneath the tough, painted-on exterior she keeps.
Right, best head off now folks. Have a great weekend, and I’ll see you on Monday for another page of Mei Wu! Ciao!
Hey everyone! Hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend and a wonderful easter, if that’s the kind of thing you celebrate! Me, I had a nice lunch with the family – which took up most of the day, so I’m literally only just finishing today’s page now, and I haven’t actually been to bed… Fortunately, I’ve adapted to sleeping in this chair, so I’ll need to go, have a shower and some breakfast, and tackle a little bit of dayjob work (important people, presentatons, not enough time) before I start doing my own stuff today!
Hey everyone, a bit of bad news – I’m being sent to Luxembourg again this week, so I’ll have no time to deliver a comic on Friday. I was hoping to be able to get it done ahead of time this weekend, but last minute family stuff coupled with the fact that I’m still kind of recovering from Toronto means that, unfortunately, Friday’s entry will most likely be another sketch of some sorts.
I do apologise for this, folks! I’m really, really hoping all this travel calms down very soon – if not, I’m going to have to do something about it, because I’m just not getting enough time to make any advancement on the stuff I want to get done in my own supposedly-free time…
Whoever it was who edited and updated the Elf Blood TV Tropes article: Thank you! Life’s been a bit hectic for me recently and I was beginning to lose a bit of faith in my ability to manage my time well enough to create meaningful stories. And then I found the updates on the Elf Blood TVTropes page – I can’t tell you how much it means to me to find out that not only are people enjoying the stories, but they’re invested enough in them to interpret and analyse little details I’ve been sowing in amongst the arcs and share them with others.
Hey everybody! Unfortunately, I’m going to have to subject you to yet another bit of dayjob disruption to the comic 🙁 I’ll be in Canada over the next week for work, so there won’t be a Mei Wu page for Monday and Friday. Instead, I thought I’d share some designs I’ve been working on for the Hot Vinyl – Ethical Cheesecake Series 1 vinyl stickers. Do please provide some feedback, as it’s more than welcome!
Anyway, hope you enjoy this page! Normal service will resume a week on Monday!
I was reflecting the other day upon the Patriarchy, the feminist concept of the inherent societal forces that work against gender equality. I’ve never really much liked the word – I suppose in my mind, it sounds rather too much like ‘paternal hierarchy’, and imparts visions of some grand and complex structure where orders are given and suppression occurs in a planned and calculated manner. It is a phrase that can smack of the conspiracy at times.
Much of the misogyny one encounters on a day-to-day basis isn’t well-ordered, or planned, or controlled. It’s simply a messy soup of blind tribe-minded bigotry and ridiculous assumptions, instances (often repeated in self-reinforcing patterns) of exchanging dignity for power and control. It’s a kind of frothing, ranting madness that infects like-minded individuals and draws them to attack anything they see as attempting to escape the clutches of their lop-sided control.
Hooray, it’s almost Halloween! I hope you’ll all be doing something fun for it – I’m planning on some Halloween-themed RPG fun this Saturday myself. My players will be treated to a classic Gothic Horror adventure – Answering a mysterious invitation from a friend near forgotten, our intrepid party approaches his imposing castle high upon the cliffsides. There is nobody present to greet them, and the coachman cannot be bribed to stay a little longer, making good his retreat back to the town nestled snugly in the valley below. The entrance hall, grandiose and finely carved from granite, echoes with their footsteps and the faint sounds of organ music from elsewhere. None of the heavy oaken doors will open – the cogs of the castle’s unique waterwheel system are not turning. Dare they venture down into the basement to set the wheel turning once more, and kick off an adventure filled with madness, obsession, and fear?
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