Author: sydney

  • Goodies! Giant Monsters!

    I know, I KNOW! This site is like half excuses, half actual content. If anyone is wondering what my lazy ass is doing instead of drawing comics.. I’m wrestling Giant Monsters all the live-long day– teaser trailer is out! In grovelling recompense, I give you: Wallpapers! Click on any of those to pick them up…

  • Happy 20th Birthday Wallace and Gromit!

    Cracking cheese, Gromit! Hi-rez by request! 200dpi, should print at 5x5inches-ish.

  • The Style Edition

    Man, you know everyone on earth gets their fifteen minutes of fame when even lowly cartoonists get interviews.  My Deep Thoughts on steampunk and the universe, over at Tor.com! I make one extremely contraversial statement in that interview that is bound to set off a firestorm.  That is:  the fashion of the 1830s is hideous.…

  • Ada Film Needs Your Support!

    Here’s something I’m sure we’d all like to see– an Ada Lovelace documentary! In order to afford the visual effects necessary for the action-packed Salamander People sequence (addendum: JOKE), the filmmakers are undertaking a spot of the old fund-raising, for which your help is needed– no, they don’t need you to throw cash at them,…

  • Steampunk in Oxford!

    Whooo! The Amaaaaazing Steampunk Exhibit at the Museum of the History of Science is now open! Behold (good thing I went for the 600dpi..): There’s 3, count ’em, 3! ways to see the comic. 1.The best way to see the comic online is at Tor.com, the Sci Fi Supersite!  which has kindly up it up…

  • Updatey Update

    Despite the blog silence I have been drawing comics!!   The Museum of the History of Science Steampunk Exhibit opens on the 13th of October– the comic is  a 2-page insert for the Broadsheet . Thoroughly intimidated by the epic lineup of actual artists… Giant monster conditions:  severe.  Comic output will continue sporadic. Waiting-for-renders activity:  cataloging…

  • Thrilling Adventure! Treasure Discovered!

    So here’s a little tale for you.  As it features ME, it is of course a gripping, hair-raising story of FUN and COOL and… okay, it’s a tale of.. LIBRARIES. So I’ve been tromping all over London in search of a few bits and bobs of books on Babbage, and a public library catalogue search…

  • Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Client Pt 3

    My purpose in this episode is get all the computer gags out of the way. This episode is dedicated to my husband, who keeps asking, “When are they going to FIGHT CRIME?” Notes Bonanza!! -Queen Victoria: totally took over the world! -Charles Babbage: totally fought crime! -Ada Lovelace: totally swore while debugging: “.. for it…

  • Miscellany

    Long renders and an itchy Google finger turn up a strange, sudden little window into the past: So, what DID Babbage talk about when he talked about Ada? WHOA. I found that little story amazing for a few reasons- -I’m kind of staggered by the fact that Babbage is telling this stuff to a complete…

  • Lovelace and Babbage Vs. The Client Pt 2

    It’s actually taken this long for Minion to get through all of Queen Victoria’s titles.. On to The Client Part 3! So historically accurate IT’S PRACTICALLY A DOCUMENTARY! -Babbage lists some of the annoying questions he got asked about his engines here.  He ascribes the question about the wrong numbers sometimes to ‘ladies’ and sometimes…