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Hey there, internet-peoples!

Yep, I'm still alive, and still severly overburdened with schoolwork, but I somehow found the time to draw this comic (I even renewed the "blackmarkercomics.com" URL, so you know I'll always come back here, whenever I get a slight reprieve). I wish had the time to draw more comics, but it takes lot of time to do all weird assignments and art-shit for my classes, like this drawing I did in Illustrator for my 2D Computer Design course:

Alright, hopefully I'll get back to drawing strips regularly during the summer months, but who knows?

Random Sketches and whatnot

I just started the new school-semester last week, so I don't expect to be making many posts in the immediate future. However, I was trying to go through some papers that had piled up in our home office, and I found a couple of drawings in a sketchbook that I'd forgotten:

The robot one was an idea for a T-Shirt design that I abandoned, but colored in photoshop, regardless.

The sketch below it was probably drawn out of boredom, back when I had the time to be bored.

And, if you have a hankering to see more of my bad drawings, I recently contributed to the "Repaneled" blog, here, and redrew a weird panel from Jack Kirby's "Fourth World".

Fourth World

I used a brush pen in my attempt to approximate a 'Jack Kirby' drawing in this strip; It worked much better than I expected, but it's still a shoddy impersonation of the King's style.

Christmas went very well this year, and I don't know if I've ever before received as many thoughtful gifts as I did this time around. It was pretty awesome, and I can't wait for next year, but mostly because my daughter will be almost 2 years old, and able to get really excited for all things Christmas. This year, she enjoyed the boxes and wrapping paper just as much as the toys (I would've posted some pics chewing on ribbons and bows, but my computer tower is screwed up, and can't read my camera's SD card).

All that being said, I did miss spending time with my Mom, stepdad, and siblings, but at least we were able to visit them at Thanksgiving this year. Still, it wasn't hard to enjoy myself with the In-laws, being as they're all kind, generous people, with good senses of humor.

Anyways, Merry Christmas, or whatever, and Happy New Years, peeps!