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Swarthmore – This Saturday!

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This Friday and Saturday, September 22nd and 23rd, I will be at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore Pennsylvania. Freeculture.org is hosting a lecture series, and a few of us who make our living by “giving our stuff away” are going to be there to talk about it.

If you can’t make the Friday evening lecture (which begins at 7:00pm in “Science Center 199 Cunniff Hall”), my position on the matter can be summed up in the phrase “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.”

If you CAN make the lecture, rest assured that copies of Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management and Tagon pins will be on-hand and for sale. I’ll also be able to whip out quick sketches (On scratch and in copies of books), and I may even try to find time for a paid commission or two.

You gotta hand it to those folks at Swarthmore, they know how to cover their bases — in case I‘m not enough of a draw, or insufficiently erudite for the university environment, they’ve also invited J.D. Frazier, Eric Burns, Wednesday White, Shaenon Garrity, and Rich Burlew.

There’ll be breakout sessions on Saturday from 1:00pm through about 6:00pm. I don’t have a schedule, but all events appear to be in rooms 183, 181, and 199 in the Science Center. I’ll be presenting “Business for Artsy Types” and maybe offering a discourse on the mechanics of a good punchline.

Sadly, there’s no time for me to do a comics shop appearance while I’m in the area. You’ll just have to screw up your courage and set foot on campus…

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Taking it Easy

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With the materials now shipped off for Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between, I’ve got a little extra time on my hands. It will require discipline for me to use this time wisely.

Specifically, I need to focus my efforts so that I can get lots of work done during the day, and then NOT DO ANY WORK DURING THE EVENING.

Today went pretty well. I got a late start, but by 4:30pm I had scripted and pencilled a week. So far this evening I’ve spent time with the family, grilled a nice burger for myself, rented a couple of movies, and made plans to play video games for a couple of hours.

Tomorrow I’ll color a week of comics and ink a different week. I expect to be done by 5:00, so I can have play-time in the evening.

Wednesday and Thursday should be spent in the same way, and then Friday I can take a couple of days all the way off for the symposium at Swarthmore College.