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  <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:21:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>A deadly game of cat and also-cat</title>
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  <description>Happy new year everybody!&amp;nbsp; Argh, I just realized I forgot to scan in some stuff from the time capsule I opened the other day, and I don&apos;t want to go through all that scanner sturm and drang again tonight.&amp;nbsp; Next time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&apos;d think with all the shortened work hours I&apos;ve had lately I&apos;d be done inking the big thing from last entry by now, but no.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s become kind of a quagmire, and even though I know if I can just get through this first story and get it up online I can make this project happen, I am TEARING&amp;nbsp;MY&amp;nbsp;FUCKING&amp;nbsp;HAIR&amp;nbsp;OUT HERE.&amp;nbsp; After wrestling with my pages for a few hours this morning I had a little pen-throwing freakout, and then took a long look at what I&apos;ve got so far and thought: maybe I am trying too hard.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s like I&apos;m forcing my art to look like something it&apos;s not, and am being too much of a perfectionist, and the results are just awkward-looking.&amp;nbsp; So I decided to take a step back and just do a few random panels from throughout the first half of the thing, just to get back to drawing naturally.&amp;nbsp; Friends, THESE&amp;nbsp;ARE&amp;nbsp;THOSE&amp;nbsp;PANELS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/pseep2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Too much is going on with her hair but I liked the little shading thing in the corner so much I used it in everything else I drew for the rest of the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/pseep3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/pseep4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&apos;t worry, it&apos;s not much of a spoiler.&amp;nbsp; And holy smokes is that kid hydrocephalic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/pseep5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there you have it, a preview so tiny you learn practically nothing about the story and don&apos;t even get to see any final art.&amp;nbsp; Don&apos;t say I never did anything for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have so much else to show- links! more original drawings! the aforementioned time capsule! - but I need to go rest up for another long day of working on comics tomorrow.&amp;nbsp; Wish me luck and have yourselves a good night.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:32:43 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Got no one to name us</title>
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  <description>Here&apos;s an update on that big project I&apos;m working on:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs169.snc3/19655_557472868001_26001074_33099282_4689996_n.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the first part of what I&apos;m hoping will become a good-sized graphic novel, and at 18 pages it&apos;s definitely one of the longest things I&apos;ve ever drawn.&amp;nbsp; As you can see, it&apos;s all penciled but only partially inked; I&apos;m still very much developing my skills with pen and brush, and am even more concerned about the lettering situation.&amp;nbsp; I like the hand-lettered look in comics but I don&apos;t know if I&apos;ve got the handwriting for it, let alone the sense of space to keep my speech balloons from looking awkward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs169.snc3/19655_557472872991_26001074_33099283_5386319_n.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&apos;s a closeup of page 6.&amp;nbsp; Like I said, I&apos;ve been just about angsting myself into a coma over this thing- it&apos;s really important to me that I stop fucking around and really start working hard on comics, and I want to produce the very best art and writing I can, because I&apos;d like to be published someday and also because I want to be able to take pride in my work.&amp;nbsp; After lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth, though, I finally came to the conclusion that at this point the best thing to do is just build up a decent momentum and go from there.&amp;nbsp; In a lot of my favorite comics you can see some progression in the strength of the art from beginning to end, as the creators found their footing; I really need to stop worrying about whether I&apos;m good enough to let other people see my stuff yet and just forge ahead.&amp;nbsp; You only get better by doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I&apos;m going to keep cranking away on this and hopefully start posting the finished pages here around the new year!&amp;nbsp; Then you can see how the story starts and let me know what you think.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m really excited about this thing and am praying for the strength to see it through, because, whew, I&apos;ve never tackled something this in-depth in all my short little life.&amp;nbsp; Wish me luck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y&apos;all have a safe and happy holiday, now, y&apos;hear?</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:36:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Jackyard Backoff</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/knarf1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SWOOP!  Here&apos;s a quick update before I head to work:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/knarf3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another jab at Larry the Cable Guy.  I&apos;m sure his feelings would be hurt if he could hear me over the huge piles of cash he&apos;s rolling in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/knarf2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m a fan of the C-word, as long as it&apos;s not used in a pejorative manner.  I&apos;ve also gotten really into drawing silly faces, as I&apos;m sure you&apos;ve noticed by now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve been sweating blood over this new project for a week so far; it&apos;s going to be a long, agonizing, second-guessed haul but I&apos;m determined to bring it to fruition.  Let&apos;s cross our fingers that I&apos;ll have the first episode ready for you soon.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:07:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Oh noes!</title>
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  <description>Hi there folks, so I don&apos;t have any drawings for you right now.  I know, I&apos;m supposed to be getting more regular with posting, but instead I&apos;ve been backsliding into that familiar realm of missing even the most perfunctory of deadlines.  Growing up to be something other than a horrible person is harder than it looks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The long and short of it is, my scanning setup sucks nuts right right now.  Here&apos;s how it works: I have to hook up my ancient scanner to my wheezing little laptop, which involves lots of prayers and the temporary use of tape, because all my USB ports are shot and making any kind of connection is dicey (and a good way to get zapped).  Next I have to scan in everything (which takes time, because my laptop is very slow), hoping all the while that the laptop doesn&apos;t bluescreen (which it often does while hooked up to the scanner, for some reason).  Oftentimes it&apos;ll cut out in the middle of a job and I&apos;ll have to scan the same picture three or four times before it saves to my hard drive without shutting the whole operation down.  THEN I have to either email the pictures to myself (which takes something like 20 minutes per image) or perform more Scotch tape hoodoo with a flash drive, so I can transfer the image files to JOHN&apos;S laptop.  This is necessary because a) he has Photoshop (through work) and I don&apos;t, and b) my scanner cannot be used with his computer.  Finally I edit the images, dump them into Photobucket, and paste them up here for you to look at.  It&apos;s a long, shitty process that often lasts late into the night, and I am not so good at keeping up with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we&apos;re looking at our options as far as new setups go; possibly a desktop computer with Photoshop, one that&apos;s either compatible with my old scanner or that leaves enough money left over for a new one.  Or maybe no scanner at all, because HERE IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m starting a new project.  Yes, same old song we&apos;ve heard from me before, but I&apos;m older/ more mentally stable now, and I&apos;ve got something I&apos;m ready to commit to.  It&apos;s a series of episodes that I&apos;ll be posting here on Livejournal (and maybe eventually on their own site) that I hope to collect and publish as a graphic novel eventually. I&apos;m already halfway done with the first (18-page!!!) episode! At first I had plans to self-publish the old-fashioned way- hauling my pages to Office Depot every week, distributing handmade issues to whoever would take them- but this way makes a lot more sense, money-wise and exposure-wise.  The internet is free, save a tree.  And I&apos;ll be (hopefully) using the industrial scanner at John&apos;s work, so I can start drawing bigger and maybe better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, real sorry to be kind of a letdown, but WATCH THIS SPACE, sportsfans!  Things are going to start happening!  At the very least come by around New Year&apos;s, when I finally open the time capsule I made ten years ago.  It&apos;s in a Millennios box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs060.snc3/14741_554216688411_26001074_32981852_262271_n.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN OTHER NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People have been making noises at me about this Tumblr business.  I&apos;m looking into it!  Your voices do not go unheard!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LIZ OUT</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:17:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Just to knocka knocka knocka me down</title>
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  <description>MY GOD I&apos;M A GENIUS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/blurp1.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I get all indignant that my work is not universally adored and that I&apos;m not all super-famous.  And then I remember that I have produced absolutely nothing of substance in my entire artistic career, and I calm down and make myself a snack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/blurp2.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That face in the last panel there is probably my most accurate self-portrait ever, next to the one I drew of me drinking Worcestershire sauce out of the bottle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/blurp3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry if this one offends anyone&apos;s delicate sensibilities.  I&apos;m an admitted crotch-watcher, but seriously, white underwear freaks my shit out.  Eughck.  CRITIQUE CORNER: the art could&apos;ve been way better on this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you&apos;d think after taking a week off I&apos;d have more to show you.  THINK AGAIN!  It was my birthday and I went down to my sister&apos;s college town to get roaring drunk and laugh my ass off for eight hours.  It&apos;s the end, the end of the (quarter) century.  You know, I used to get all upset about getting closer to thirty, but at this point I&apos;ve finally made my peace and am looking forward to the rumored Puberty 2.0 coming down the pike.  Hello bigger butt and increased sex drive!  Yeeha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YOU HAVE A SON, AND IT&apos;S ME&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We&apos;ve gotten REALLY into the Office around here (I know, always late to the party).  I drew this as a tribute to my love for a certain mustard-shirted beet farmer.  Jim Halpert may very well hold my depraved imagination in thrall, but it&apos;s Dwight Schrute who rules o&apos;er my heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/blurp4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you next week!</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:08:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I&apos;m not your twin, I&apos;m just the amputee</title>
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  <description>HI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, it&apos;s past my bedtime, So I&apos;m going to try and minimize the chatter here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/bleep4.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/bleep1.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Argh, using a marker in this one was such a bad decision.&amp;nbsp; I felt like I needed a middle value and got about halfway through the first panel before I realized I&apos;d made a huge mistake.&amp;nbsp; Oh well.&amp;nbsp; If I look a little like a wreck up top there, it&apos;s because I was- I mean I wasn&apos;t nervous about marrying John, but it was weird being the center of so much attention, and it was a really emotional day all around (even my BFF Robot Ahmed got choked up), plus my nose started running at the altar for some reason.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s hard to wipe your nose discretely in front of a crowd of family and friends all staring DIRECTLY AT YOU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/bleep2.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mom is an elementary school librarian.&amp;nbsp; Like half her students called out with the Big Flu, but not before trying to share it with her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/bleep6.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A young lady who seems to have misplaced her brawr.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ve been really trying to improve my inking lately, and was semi-happy with the job I did on this little throwaway sketch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN OTHER NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&apos;s all for tonight, I&apos;ll try to be back around this time next week with more!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/bleep3.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really, who isn&apos;t these days.  Wrap it up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:23:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Fatso Goes Nutzoid</title>
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  <description>What?!&amp;nbsp; Yes!&amp;nbsp; I finally pulled my head out of my ass long enough to start updating again.&amp;nbsp; Pretty much everything I&apos;ve drawn between now and my last entry looks like shit to me, though, so I whipped up a bunch of comics just for my comeback (they look like shit too, but guess what: my blog = I make the rules).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HERE&amp;nbsp;YA&amp;nbsp;GO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/elk5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m sure there&apos;s plenty of Archie/Jughead slash out there but I&apos;m definitely not going looking for it.&amp;nbsp; This is the only gag comic in this post, the rest are all boring bits about my life.&amp;nbsp; Just giving you fair warning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/elk1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Absolutely true.&amp;nbsp; She recently dyed her eyebrows blonde, though, and it looks super weird, so I think we&apos;re even.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/elk4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than you ever wanted to know about what I look like naked!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/elk2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also 100% true.&amp;nbsp; Well, more like 95%, because I only start work at 10 like three days a week.&amp;nbsp; Have I mentioned my fantastic new job at the local comics shop?&amp;nbsp; Remind me to brag about how much it&apos;s improved my quality of life sometime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/elk3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one is super-embarrassing to admit, but I swore on Captain Lou Albano&apos;s grave to keep it real for y&apos;all and the last thing I need is that guy haunting the shit out of me.&amp;nbsp; Last one!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/elk6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mmmm, space pants.&amp;nbsp; Episode V still gets me all tingly.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, now that I&apos;ve thoroughly jacked up your friends pages, I&apos;m off!&amp;nbsp; See you again soon, I think, and with better things to show you!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:55:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Not dead</title>
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  <description>Ohhhh dear.&amp;nbsp; I haven&apos;t posted in awhile, I know; I still don&apos;t have scanning abilities, and have been very busy trying to pull my life together.&amp;nbsp; Don&apos;t worry, I haven&apos;t quit drawing entirely: I still try to sketch a little everyday, and am working (verrrrry slowwwwwlyyyy) on commissions that I&apos;ve owed some very patient people for about a million years, and am trying very hard to get off my ass and keep pecking away at my bigger projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So while I don&apos;t have any drawings for you today, I do have some news- the latest issue of Always Comix is coming out next month, and I have a piece in it!&amp;nbsp; The very nice people of Always Comix independently publish their own work as well as an anthology twice a year.&amp;nbsp; Check them out at &lt;a href=&quot;http://alwayscomix.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://alwayscomix.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; .&amp;nbsp; You may notice they&apos;ve linked me on the sidebar, which was the impetus for this entry (gotta look busy for company!)&amp;nbsp; I&apos;d better get on this scanner problem and start posting art in here again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(too early in the morning for even the simplest html, sorry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are reading this, I love you, thank you for sticking around.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ll get better at this, I promise.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:10:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Update Shmupdate</title>
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  <description>No art today.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ve been pretty much completely absent from the internet lately because my laptop shit the bed (should&apos;ve seen THAT coming- it was a three-year-old Dell).&amp;nbsp; Honestly, the detox has probably been good for me, and I don&apos;t know when I&apos;m getting a new computer, so things are going to be pretty quiet on my end for the time being even though I have access to John&apos;s laptop in the evenings.&amp;nbsp; Anyone with the right to contact me should know how already.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how have youuuuu been?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;LL&amp;nbsp;GO&amp;nbsp;FIRST&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My car is awesome- it&apos;s a 1991 Toyota Corolla station wagon that my friends&apos; dad sold to me for $100- but lately it&apos;s been making noises like a cat being fucked and I&apos;m a little worried about it.&amp;nbsp; John developed an ulcer but he&apos;s on the road to recovery; work sucks but I&apos;m grateful to have a job at all in this economy.&amp;nbsp; Have been slowly working on comics and commissions.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently reading &lt;em&gt;Wetlands&lt;/em&gt; by Charlotte Roche (it&apos;s over the top but I kind of love it; will address the notion of &amp;quot;gross-out feminism&amp;quot; at a later date).&amp;nbsp; Currently listening to Spinnerette (not quite my thing but I want to see them when they come through, probably because I am a big lesbian for Brody Dalle).&amp;nbsp; Re-read &lt;em&gt;Y: The Last Man&lt;/em&gt; all the way through and cried like a BITCH even though I knew how it was going to end because I got really attached to the characters this time around.&amp;nbsp; Also got all weepy reading through my journals from a few years ago because I was such a basket case and can barely remember what it was like to be that person.&amp;nbsp; And then cried some MORE watching &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt; with John over dinner tonight!&amp;nbsp; What&apos;s wrong with me?!&amp;nbsp; There was a holdup with my insurance when my crazy-pills ran out last week, and I thought I wasn&apos;t experiencing any withdrawal symptoms, but all this quivering-baby-bunny bullshit is definitely not normal for me.&amp;nbsp; Have been having extra-weird dreams lately.&amp;nbsp; Blah blah dear diary blah blah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tune in next time sportsfans- maybe there&apos;ll actually be some art or comics, oooo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:37:24 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Come on, SUMMER</title>
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  <description>Still here, still trying to produce something halfway decent.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ll let you know how it goes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/sketch6a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out my dog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/commish2001.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He&apos;s an awesome guy.&amp;nbsp; Right now he&apos;s sleeping with his chin on my foot and I don&apos;t want to move and wake him up.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:41:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Way way back in the 1980s</title>
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  <description>FAILSTORM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi.&amp;nbsp; I haven&apos;t posted much lately (for me, anyway) because my USB ports are all on the fritz, which means my laptop isn&apos;t recognizing my scanner.&amp;nbsp; Also I&apos;ve been really discouraged about making art and comics (among other things); I feel like I&apos;ll never be as good as I want to be, which leads to avoiding drawing, which leads to inertia, which only makes my work shittier because I get out of practice.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s the magic of depression, kids.&amp;nbsp; I am trying really hard to pull myself together and commit to both Emissary and my own graphic novel right now, though.&amp;nbsp; No giving up yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Too many of those sentences start with &amp;quot;I&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; I hate that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I actually did manage to make a poster for the upcoming Propagandhi/ Paint It Black show, though.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s really big and detailed and I was really happy with how it turned out... until someone pointed out that I spelled Propagandhi wrong.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In Sharpie.&amp;nbsp; Once I get it fixed and taken to Kinko&apos;s I&apos;ll post it here; for now feel free to have a laugh about it.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Propaghandi&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN&amp;nbsp;OTHER&amp;nbsp;NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/sketch5a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oop, there&apos;s still some of these backlogged.&amp;nbsp; Yay, this entry wasn&apos;t a total loss!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:21:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Bomp bomp bada bomp</title>
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  <description>QUICK QUESTION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can anyone tell me how Twitter works?&amp;nbsp; Is it all done by phone- like, if your friend twits, does your phone ring?&amp;nbsp; Or is it just internet-based?&amp;nbsp; I need a new drug but am not entirely certain that adding another arm to the octopus of my online presence won&apos;t make me a (more) horrible person.&amp;nbsp; Maybe I&apos;ll delete my facebook, as it&apos;s pretty much just become a tool I use to embarrass myself in front of people I used to know.&amp;nbsp; Input appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN&amp;nbsp;OTHER&amp;nbsp;NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/sketch8a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trying to draw every day, but it seems like I&apos;m always struggling with inertia.&amp;nbsp; Game-changing developments may be on the horizon for me, though- let&apos;s keep those fingers crossed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:16:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>UNF</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/vda1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All spry on the Grolsch over here.&amp;nbsp; Happy VD you motherfuckers!&amp;nbsp; MWAH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:03:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Great Scott!</title>
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  <description>DREW ANOTHER NIPPLE -SHOULDA BEEN DRAWING COMICS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/forest.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&apos;s a lot of things I like about markers but a lot of things about them that suck.&amp;nbsp; And I looooove drawing with Sharpies, but I can&apos;t shake the notion that a serious artist ought to use better materials.&amp;nbsp; This might be a good time for something I&apos;ve been meaning to bring up: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CRITIQUES&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;You guys, I am way flattered and grateful to you for reading this, and I want you to know that I really welcome any technical or conceptual advice on what I post here.&amp;nbsp; What works?&amp;nbsp; What doesn&apos;t?&amp;nbsp; What could I do better?&amp;nbsp; In the past I&apos;ve been kind of defensive about internet criticism, but from here on out I promise to be an adult and not get all butthurt at people who are kind enough to take a minute and help me improve my artwork.&amp;nbsp; Go ahead, tear this shit apart- friends don&apos;t let friends draw ugly pictures.&amp;nbsp; Be brutal.&amp;nbsp; I can take it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*caveat: I reserve the right to silently disregard your comment if it&apos;s obvious you&apos;re just trolling and don&apos;t know what you&apos;re talking about.&amp;nbsp; Doi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN&amp;nbsp;OTHER&amp;nbsp;NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/sketch2.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m worried about the color of my toenails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:29:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The American in me</title>
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  <description>IT&apos;S BUSINESS TIME&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really need to stop watching so much Flight of the Conchords, because the more I do the more I want to sex them up, and I don&apos;t have the energy to add a couple of Kiwi hipsters to my list of sweaty fantasies.&amp;nbsp; At the moment I need that energy to devote to finding a better job, and to drawing comics that are not total crap.&amp;nbsp; Attempted 24 Hour Comic Day and gave up after three hours; the graphic novel I&apos;ve been working on is really strong storywise, I think, but the art looks SO&amp;nbsp;BAD&amp;nbsp;TO&amp;nbsp;ME.&amp;nbsp; Some days I don&apos;t know why I bother, when I&apos;m barely keeping up with my adult responsibilities.&amp;nbsp; I don&apos;t know what I&apos;m doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COMPLAIN COMPLAIN COMPLAIN OKAY HERE&apos;S SOMETHING I DREW&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/mucomic.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&apos;t think I articulated my point very well, but the art came out okay.&amp;nbsp; Make-up is fun for me, but damned if I&apos;m going to pay money for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN&amp;nbsp;OTHER&amp;nbsp;NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/sketch1.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John &lt;em&gt;is &lt;/em&gt;a little walleyed, but only when he&apos;s not focused on anything in particular.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s cute.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ve drawn an assload of these, and have been having a lot of fun loosening up a little; I think my &amp;quot;In Other News&amp;quot; section is going to be showcasing these until I run out of ideas or get bored with it, whichever comes first.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:59:09 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Party &apos;til you puke</title>
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  <description>THIS IS JUST WHO I AM OKAY GUYS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS IS JUST ME ALL RIGHT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/sketch3.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN&amp;nbsp;OTHER&amp;nbsp;NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fucked Up and Deep Sleep were great- that show was the most fun I&apos;ve had in awhile.&amp;nbsp; Looking forward to Propaghandi/Paint It Black in a month here; I think I am going to do a flier for it.&amp;nbsp; Yes.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:46:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>And I&apos;ll lose my heart on the burning sands</title>
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  <description>ACK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/commish1-001.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gawd, I suck so bad.  You guys have no idea.  I&apos;m never gonna make it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AT LEAST I&apos;M GOOD AT DRAWING NIPPLES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/kees2.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A good companion song to this image is &quot;Lesbian Action&quot; by Die Cheerleader Die, in case you wanted the multimedia experience. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN OTHER NEWS &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s colder than a witch&apos;s tit out, and pretty much every major and sub-major thoroughfare in the area is going to be shut down for the big bash on Tuesday, which I do not have off.  Maybe it&apos;s time to quit door-to-door dogwalking and just become independently wealthy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or I guess I could sell out and get an adult job for once.  SHYEAH, roight.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:29:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The bastard, the bastard of the ice!</title>
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  <description>HOLIDAY, SUN, ETC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On cold, cold nights like this one, all a person can do is dream about warm afternoons, pickup baseball, and boys in their summer clothes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/summer.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sheesh, is it obvious enough that I&apos;m really into guys with mohawks?&amp;nbsp; Unf.&amp;nbsp; John won&apos;t shave his sides down in winter though (and who could blame him), so I&apos;ll just have to find something else to fetishize for the time being.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m open to suggestions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN&amp;nbsp;OTHER&amp;nbsp;NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have been working on something I actually failed to mention in my big laundry list of projects a few entries back (a graphic novel about a girl gang); I&apos;ve finished several pages and will probably post a few here for critique in the future, if I ever get over the notion that they look fucking horrible and should never see the light of day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:03:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Golden love, is holding on</title>
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  <description>NEVER PROMISE CRAZY A BABY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2008 was a year of major downs, some pretty great ups, a few milestones, general cussedness, and a number of ill-advised emails.&amp;nbsp; I feel like my art came a long way, and at 24 I am still keeping it real, so I&apos;ll count it as a success on a personal level.&amp;nbsp; Here is a picture of my new haircut, to kick things off.&amp;nbsp; This year I am gonna make shit happen you guys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1959/111/76/26001074/n26001074_32166530_4866.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is my first drawing of 2009.&amp;nbsp; If you recognize her, I&apos;ll draw you a cookie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/lammy.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN OTHER NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joey is taaaaanked and rolling around my apartment like Baby Huey.&amp;nbsp; He is singing what sounds like A Global Threat but the words are &amp;quot;Don&apos;t let fat leaders go on Adkins to lead a fat nation/ Jesus was down with the F-A-T.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, now he is holding Ulster by the face and yelling &amp;quot;YOU&apos;RE A POMERANIAN, YOU HAVE FUCKING PAPERS&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;d better lock the balcony door before he whizzes on the downstairs neighbors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:33:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>My first Christmas as a woman</title>
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  <description>CHUGGING RIGHT ALONG&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/beep3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This did not actually happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/beep2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was inevitable- I drew a Tank Girl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/beep1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Emissary-related drawing.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s not a love story by any stretch of the imagination, but I still like to draw the two protagonists like this, because I&apos;m a romantic sap sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN OTHER NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can&apos;t talk, too busy watching one of my favorite movies (see icon).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:44:21 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled</title>
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  <description>YOU BASTARDS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hngh, have been having a rough time lately.&amp;nbsp; Anxious and paranoid and in kind of a fog since finals week.&amp;nbsp; It occurred to me today that my college experience has run parallel to the Bush administration: begun under disingenuous circumstances, marked by stupidity and poor decision-making, influenced by unsavory outside powers, culminating in a miserable quagmire and general fucking embarrassment all around.&amp;nbsp; And it&apos;s gone on way more years than it should&apos;ve.&amp;nbsp; Heyo, look at me being all topical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now that I&apos;ve got some time off, I&apos;m going to take a moment to regroup, and then I am going to set about the task of eating, sleeping, and breathing comics.&amp;nbsp; Here&apos;s a non-exhaustive list of my current projects, highest priority first:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EMISSARY(working title)- my goal is to get the first issue published within the year.&amp;nbsp; This is the big project I&apos;ve been working on with John, the full-length series about a post-plague America.&amp;nbsp; I have high hopes for it (and hope my baby skills are up to the challenge).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LONG&amp;nbsp;NIGHT- a one-shot comic I&apos;m hoping to publish via lulu.com.&amp;nbsp; A little more on the artsy side.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m hoping to do it in color, but I&apos;m going to have to figure out how to color comics in CS3 first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CYANIDE&amp;nbsp;MILKSHAKE #2- I guess none of you would know about Cyanide Milkshake #1, which I drew up and printed out at Office Depot last year.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s just a crass little comics zine full of masturbation jokes.&amp;nbsp; If I&apos;m happy with how #2 comes out I might reprint #1 (I only made 15 copies last time) and sell them through Paypal for like a buck, if anyone&apos;s interested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&apos;s also BLEEDER, A YEAR ON THE GALLOWS, that porno series, and DEAD CITY LOVE, but those are all older ideas that need some tweaking and are on the back burner for now.&amp;nbsp; This is going to take some discipline, eek.&amp;nbsp; Wish me luck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MUST&amp;nbsp;BE&amp;nbsp;FUNNIER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/eljay1.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A comic.&amp;nbsp; They&apos;re not all gems, guys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/sarah.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make a long story short, a few years ago I told&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_esyla&apos; lj:user=&apos;esyla&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://esyla.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://esyla.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;esyla&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; I would draw her some pictures and mail them her way.&amp;nbsp; They never reached her- partly my fault, partly my crappy campus mailroom&apos;s- and I have been feeling like a jerk about it ever since.&amp;nbsp; I drew this as a small gesture of apology.&amp;nbsp; Hey Sarah, one of these days I&apos;ll make it up to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN&amp;nbsp;OTHER&amp;nbsp;NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamburglar = &amp;quot;Beef Thief&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; This has been cracking me up most of the afternoon.&amp;nbsp; Happy Obligatory Family Season, kiddos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:26:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Bloodstache</title>
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  <description>DISJOINTED&amp;nbsp;MUCH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have never been to any comic con.&amp;nbsp; What if I don&apos;t have what it takes to make it as a cartoonist?&amp;nbsp; Art is all I know how to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feeling very quiet tonight, as if we&apos;re waiting for snow, or for the bathtub to fill up. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you drink a lot of Midori (plus vodka), your burps will taste like cantaloupe.&amp;nbsp; Ffffffuck, I hate cantaloupe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/school3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portrait of a marriage.&amp;nbsp; For those of you keeping track at home, John lost a rib by falling out of a second-story window in high school (where we met).&amp;nbsp; When I showed this piece in class as part of a presentation of my work, I talked about the Adam and Eve story, and the rib as phallic symbol/ wound as yonic symbol.&amp;nbsp; Also: religious iconography, subcultural trappings, themes of repression and addiction.&amp;nbsp; The background is Coney Island, which is kind of a special place for us.&amp;nbsp; Incidentally, tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the day we went to the zoo, snuck upstairs under the pretense of Scrabble and ended up sucking face for four hours.&amp;nbsp; And walking to the 7-11 afterwards, to share a Baby Ruth bar.&amp;nbsp; The more things change(haircuts, tax status) the more they stay the same (candy, makeouts).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spellcheck doesn&apos;t recognize &amp;quot;yonic&amp;quot;?&amp;nbsp; What the fuck, Livejournal.&amp;nbsp; Sheesh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN&amp;nbsp;OTHER&amp;nbsp;NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m a little drunk.&amp;nbsp; Tommorrow I get to see my brother and sister, and get paid double for half as many dogwalks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you not know that I&apos;m a dogwalker?&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m a dogwalker.&amp;nbsp; By day.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHY IS DOGWALKER A WORD BUT YONIC IS NOT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GAWD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:57:27 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Maybe this is just a lull, but I can never let go</title>
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  <description>I&apos;M NOT COMPATIBLE, I&apos;M NOT COMPATIBLE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something about this time of year always makes me very nostalgic, and it&apos;s come on especially strong this time around.&amp;nbsp; Maybe it&apos;s that I just turned 24 and am not dealing so well with the fact that I&apos;m getting older; maybe it&apos;s because lately I&apos;ve been fixated on the notion that if only I could do the last seven years over again everything would be okay now; or maybe it&apos;s just because &amp;quot;Home for the Holidays&amp;quot; by Lemuria has been stuck in my head for like a week.&amp;nbsp; Whatever the case, life&apos;s been a pill and I let drawing fall by the wayside for awhile there, so here are some not-funny comics I just whipped up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/lizxa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A day in the life, more than ten years ago.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s weird how much you can remember, when you try.&amp;nbsp; I was SUCH a wolfshirt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/lizxb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patterns of behavior.&amp;nbsp; Thank goodness I broke out of this one; I may have a lot of bad habits, but gutlessness in the realm of sexy things is no longer one of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN&amp;nbsp;OTHER&amp;nbsp;NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This weekend I am going to see Cornell West lecture, going out for breakfast with my rad mother-in-law, and catching Common fucking Enemy for the first time in way too long at the Sidebar, in reverse order.&amp;nbsp; Sweet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:15:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Come on baby, and eat the rich</title>
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  <description>PUT THE BITE ON THE SON OF A BITCH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/ack2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More soft-core second base* foolin&apos;-around.&amp;nbsp; Ho hum.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m thinking about finding a host who will let me put up more explicit stuff; would you guys be into it if I did?&amp;nbsp; I mean, do you mind a bunch of nipples and boners making your friends page smell all sweaty?&amp;nbsp; Because, contrary to appearances, I&apos;m a little shy about the whole porno thing and probably won&apos;t commit to it if there&apos;s no interest.&amp;nbsp; Lemme know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That guy&apos;s hand on the table is kind of bugging me.&amp;nbsp; I redrew it like eight times and I still don&apos;t think I got it right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Groping and dry-humping are second base, right?&amp;nbsp; Or first?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN&amp;nbsp;OTHER&amp;nbsp;NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is what happens when you go to the DMV after hours of working and running errands and not sleeping the night before and wearing a hat and the picture lady tells you to get the hair out of your eyes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/ack1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:52:53 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ethyl my la la la la la la la la looove</title>
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  <description>Here is my very first commission!&amp;nbsp; I will be figuring out how to send it to the buyer presently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/corkyberlin/comish1a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, GREAT&amp;nbsp;NEWS: John&apos;s work gave him a laptop to use at home and it has Photoshop CS3 on it, which means the squiggly little drawings I post here will be that much easier to look at.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m psyched.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, goodnight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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