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Please standby…

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I know I’ve been promising updates that have failed to materialize.  Because of this and an effort to get a little more design business, I’m changing things a bit.  Comics will soon be moved to a new subdomain while the main chromedomestudios site will be a portfolio of my illustration and design work.  Once that gets settled, I’m going to try to get back at the comics (sounds familiar, I know), but no deadlines at this point.  Please just try to be patient and as soon as the opportunity arises, stuff will start to happen.

VOTE!

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Yeah, I know, no updates for FAR TOO LONG, and now it’s just a half-assed digital sketch, but bitch at me later, ok? Right now you need to go vote. Polls are still open, go vote now.

Lotsa crap to fill you in on, but it’ll have to wait for a more thorough update–sorry, but my priorities lie elsewhere at the moment. In the meantime, GO VOTE NOW!

Adendum…

Well, it’s Wednesday morning and I’m pleased w/ the results. When I went to bed last night, it looked like the stem cell issue in Missouri was going to get defeated–one of the anti-research groups had already cut their victory cake–but this morning I see that it passed. While I live next-door to MO instead of in it and am not actually affected by whether it passed or not, it still makes me happy to see it go through.

This plus the big Democrat turnovers around the country give me a bit of hope for the future.

That’s my take on it, anyway. Your experience may vary.

SP 01.31 Eddie plays the card

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At the risk of losing the last couple of readers that have put up w/ my sporadic updates, let me fill you in on the current plan. I’m cutting back to a once a week schedule, the plan being to alternate between the Sin Police one week and Grandpa Sex Machine the next. But, no promises that I’ll even hit that. This is intended to just get me through the summer, and hopefully I’ll also be able to get a few extras done at the same time to hold me through the busier times at school. So, once a week (or less) for now, and then back to the regular schedule in September.

Once again, if you do want to know when an update happens without checking back here repeatedly, just subscribe to the RSS feed. That way you’ll know when it’s new. Cool?

GSM 01.14 Choking Hazard; Travel

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Unfinished, but here it is. The crumby part? I had it this far last week and figured I’d have time to get it finished and cleaned up in a week. Hah.

Goin’ places

The class I’m taking finishes up today, so managing antisocial behavior should be no problem for me come 3:30 this afternoon. After that, we’re headed to Indianapolis to assist in another cross-stitch market. Four hours in a car with young children is awesome.

Edit 6/15

Well, another week packed w/ more stuff than I have to do while employed has passed. My kids had fun at the pool, though, so it all works out. Trying to figure out what I want for Father’s Day, and all I can think of right now is new bearings for my son’s skateboard.

I did manage to put the finishing touches on Grandpa up there, so I guess I was somewhat productive. Only took me 3 weeks to finish this one comic. Pretty poor, huh?

Anyhow, be nice to your dad this weekend.

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SP 01.30 The argument continues; I’ve been brutalized

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More squabbling between the brothers today.

Excuses

Sorry I missed Grandpa on Friday. Seems like I had more time to draw when I had to go to work every day. The first week of Summer vacation has been brutal. Saturday I spent about 9 hours digging trenches in the sun. You know, just for grins. Actually, I was helping install a lawn sprinkler system to try to raise a bit of money to get to ComiCon this summer. I think I might have worked this hard before, but not for like, 10-12 years. My body is rebelling to the unfamiliar activity. You know when your platoon holds you down and takes turns beating you savagely with an orange or bar of soap in a sock? Yeah, me either, but I imagine it would feel a bit like this afterwards. I ache.

Anyhow, starting up a summer class this week, but if Grandpa Sex Machine doesn’t update this Friday, I will give you your money back. Guaranteed.

SP 01.29 Buckle Up for Safety; It’s soooo slooooowww…

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Monday was late, but this one should post on time. And, for the record, I friggin’ hate my dial-up connection. I mentioned Monday how unreliable it is. On the rare occassion that it actually does connect, it is painfully slow. I’m sitting here at 2AM Tuesday morning typing this because when I finally connected, I figured I should get the latest virus definitions and whatnot. That crap’s been downloading for an hour and a half and I’m only halfway there. When I win the lottery, getting a broadband connection is in the top 3 things I’m going to do first, along with rolling around in a big pile of cash and bribing a politician.

BTW, anybody catch the Beatles reference in Monday’s strip?

Last SantaLand Sketches

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I’ve got more, but this has drug on long enough. Shooting for a Sin Police update on Monday.

In the SantaLand Diaries, David Sedaris mentions the parents that insist on their children seeing a Santa of some specific ethnicity. Thus, we have Klanta Klaus, making sure your holidays are merry and bright white.

He also describes one particular Santa who takes his job way too seriously, staying in character even when nobody else is around. Code-named “Santa Santa,” this man has an established routine with his visitors. At one point in the act, he asks them to tell him what they plan to leave for him. One little girl was unfamiliar with the practice of leaving cookies and milk for Santa, and gave him a confused look.

“He said, ‘Something round? To eat?’ and she said, ‘A potato?'”

Something about a big fat Idaho spud with a glass of milk sitting on the hearth is really funny.

Hope you liked the sketches. If you get a chance to see The SantaLand Diaries performed, or you get a chance to read the story, available in Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, you really ought to check it out. Very funny stuff.

Applying for a job at SantaLand

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More SantaLand Diaries sketches today and Friday, then hopefully back to the real stuff next week.

Before Crumpet got his elf job, he pitied the poor souls forced to walk the streets in costume, handing out pamphlets. During the interview process, when asked about his hobbies, he expressed an interest in whittling, in spite of the fact that the only thing he ever whittled was a bong. After the interviews, he was sent to a room with other waiting candidates, where he took a seat beside a female dwarf. “This, I thought, was a good sign.”

SantaLand Employees

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Last week of school, so that means a few more days of sketches before the Sin Police and Grandpa Sex Machine start up again.

Crumpet, the reluctant Christmas Elf from David Sedaris’s The SantaLand Diaries, had a lot to say about his fellow employees, including the Walrus (the self-proclaimed stud), Flakey (the “artist” that covered clocks and telephone recievers with human hair), Snowball (the tease who leads elves and Santas on), and the woman with the swarm of plastic barrettes who, during training, asked if she could work as a Christmas elf year-round.

More sketches Wednesday.