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25.2.06 Blues in the night

Seven AM on a Saturday morning and I am flying down Pentonville Hill on wings of aluminium. Night shift is over; my day is done. The bicycle wheels go zu zu zu as they spin down asphalt: the sky is unfinished white, artist has stepped out, back soon, please wait. Dirty plastic bags, delicate aquamarine hue, skitter and tumble alongside me; clubbers like mangy birds of paradise blink in piss-stained doorways; and King's Cross sits in state below, crowned by cranes and embraced by the industrial, the desolate, the abandoned, the strange and complex beauty of the city. Zu zu zu.

Friend and co-conspirator Igor Kordey has been nominated for a Shuster (Canada's most prestigious comics award) for his work on our book Smoke. Below, some of Igor's new work, from Coeur de Batailles (written by Morvan, author of the bestselling series Sillage) and the steampunk colonial epic Empire.

Other friend and co-conspirator David Marquez has just put up a new website, clicky on his name and go see. David, like many of my Austin illustrator friends, has just been unchained from working on A Scanner Darkly and emerged, squinting and rubbing Wacom-damaged wrists, back into the sunlight of general society. (You can see the new Scanner trailer here. Hmm.) He has a new comic coming out soon and once he sends me pages I will post some. I adore David's art and think he has a great talent; we've been talking about collaborating for a long time (on a more serious project than our 8-page, drawn-in-a-weekend parody "Necrocomicon" in Commercial Suicide 3) and as soon as I can find a publisher who can pay him a living page rate, he's getting a graphic novel script from me.

A little over 48 hours remain until my film shoot. Heading out to walk the location with the gaffer. I'm holding up well, all things considering: I can still form coherent sentences. (Did I mention I was directing a short film? Well, I am. Sometimes, gentle stranger, I forget what I have told you.)

( 3:51 PM )

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