Category: Meanwhile..

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…

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…

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…

Did I say two weeks?  Erm… here!  Look at some process art! Please understand that at present my priories are necessarily:  1. Job 2. Pub 3. Comic 4. Food, laundry, etc. I tend to do roughs while waiting for renders (that invaluable source of idleness in the visual effects industry).  Something else I do is…

Posting something, so that it is understood that this has not been the haughty silence of one who is Too Famous to Respond to Comments, but rather the awkward, paralyzed muteness of one opening a door to a broom closet and finding a large expectant audience in there waiting for her to say something funny.…

OH FAME THOU GAUDY BAUBLE! Charles Babbage Foresees the Future on BBC’s Techlab! When they asked me to do this I read their little intro where it says it’s a forum for “The World’s Leading Thinkers” to speculate about the future, and I thought, if that’s me, boy are we in trouble. There’s footnotes (of…

I’m currently holed up in my hidden mountain base in the wilds of Canada, where I’m enjoying being chased into lakes by enraged elk. In my devotion to this proto-comic, I am nobly forgoing 20-mile hikes through bear- and elk-infested trackless wastes to dedicate myself to curling up on the couch and drawing. The temporal…

Babbage has his Harmonic-Disruptor-Ray; but how exactly does one go about destroying poetry? Okay, salamander-people are within the realm of possibility but this episode is merely fanciful, as Kubla Kahn’s interrupted composition happened in 1797, over a decade before Lovelace was even born. Crazily enough though Lovelace’s husband had an estate near Porlock, which I…

In case any neurologists out there are studying the creative process, I thought it might be interesting to post the following enlightening non-episode. As I mentioned earlier my Accomplice and I went to this steampunk shindig the other day. The theme for this shindig was “Journey To the Center of the Earth”, so of course…

There is now a ‘Shop’ in the sidebar.  This will take you to zazzle.com, where you can have a gander at some Lovelace and Babbage base mercantilism.  The prototype I ordered came back looking surprisingly good (click for bigger), that’s some impressive printing tech they have: Closeup: I made the image a bit bigger on…