can be seen at my website:
www.joshshalek.com
Head on over! A great time is guaranteed for all!
Friday, May 27, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
happy birthday bob dylan
Read my new post right here!
And if you haven't already, be sure to change your links, redirect your feedreeders, change yer bookmarks, and generally pretend this site never existed.
www.joshshalek.com !!!
And if you haven't already, be sure to change your links, redirect your feedreeders, change yer bookmarks, and generally pretend this site never existed.
www.joshshalek.com !!!
Friday, May 20, 2011
from now on friday robots
will be posted on my website only:
www.joshshalek.com
Go there now and enjoy some Friday Robot goodness.
www.joshshalek.com
Go there now and enjoy some Friday Robot goodness.
Monday, May 16, 2011
change yer links, this blog is moving
www.joshshalek.com
For some time I've been importing the posts from this blog to my main website, where they live beside my comics in peace and harmony. Now I feel it is time to make that an exclusive relationship.
I'm going to phase out this site in favor of my Wordpress blog at www.joshshalek.com. Over the next week or two, I'll try to keep updating this blog, but soon all new posts will be at www.joshshalek.com. Please change your links and feedreaders accordingly.
If you subscribe to my website, you will receive my blog posts as well as all new episodes of the cult phenomenon Welcome to Falling Rock National Park.
www.joshshalek.com
For some time I've been importing the posts from this blog to my main website, where they live beside my comics in peace and harmony. Now I feel it is time to make that an exclusive relationship.
I'm going to phase out this site in favor of my Wordpress blog at www.joshshalek.com. Over the next week or two, I'll try to keep updating this blog, but soon all new posts will be at www.joshshalek.com. Please change your links and feedreaders accordingly.
If you subscribe to my website, you will receive my blog posts as well as all new episodes of the cult phenomenon Welcome to Falling Rock National Park.
www.joshshalek.com
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
five years burning down the road
Although it feels just like yesterday, I've been drawing Welcome to Falling Rock National Park for five years now. Today is the last episode of the fifth season.
I took this week to explore the edges of Falling Rock National Park and beyond. Faithful readers will remember another trip outside the confines of the park, when Pam, Ernesto and Carver drove a truck to California's beaches. This time Ernesto and Carver are on foot and so only get to the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, before they're chased away by Animal Control.
Due to gainful employment, this was a busy year for me. I'm happy with what I achieved; I think I drew some funny drawings and wrote some funny words. Scenic Byways continues to climb the charts on its way to publishing history.
The main difference this year, at least for me, was in the way I drew the strips. I drew each panel in pencil on plain paper, then traced it in blue pencil onto Bristol board, then inked. This improved the compositions and made the characters more consistent from panel to panel. Next year I may even switch over to inking with a brush. If a brush was good enough for Bill Watterson, I figure, what the heck.
Thanks for reading, everybody. You, dear readers, make this whole slog worth it. I may not be a rich man, monetarily speaking, but with readers like you I know I've got something special.
This summer will certainly bring more blog posts, so keep checking back in on me. I also hope to finish my zombie book. If you are a publisher, let me say how much I've always loved you.
A few stats:
August 16, 2010 was the first episode of season five.
May 13, 2011 was the last episode of season five.
921: Falling Rock strips I've drawn. When I hit 1,000 I'm going to throw myself a huge party or something.
42: number on Ernesto's baseball jersey. Although Jackie Robinson's number was retired from all of professional baseball, Ernesto is allowed to continue wearing that number under a grandfather clause.
29: number of rejection letters I've received from comic syndicates regarding Falling Rock. This number will not grow as quickly in the future, since many of the syndicates have either merged or disappeared into the folds of the newspaper.
88 miles per hour: speed it takes to travel to either 1855, 1955, 1985 or 2015.
4.5 billion: age of our sun. It is the sun that gives life to this planet, allowing me to draw Welcome to Falling Rock National Park. I draw the sun as a spiral, in homage to the Native Americans who called the Southwest their home.
I took this week to explore the edges of Falling Rock National Park and beyond. Faithful readers will remember another trip outside the confines of the park, when Pam, Ernesto and Carver drove a truck to California's beaches. This time Ernesto and Carver are on foot and so only get to the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, before they're chased away by Animal Control.
Due to gainful employment, this was a busy year for me. I'm happy with what I achieved; I think I drew some funny drawings and wrote some funny words. Scenic Byways continues to climb the charts on its way to publishing history.
The main difference this year, at least for me, was in the way I drew the strips. I drew each panel in pencil on plain paper, then traced it in blue pencil onto Bristol board, then inked. This improved the compositions and made the characters more consistent from panel to panel. Next year I may even switch over to inking with a brush. If a brush was good enough for Bill Watterson, I figure, what the heck.
Thanks for reading, everybody. You, dear readers, make this whole slog worth it. I may not be a rich man, monetarily speaking, but with readers like you I know I've got something special.
This summer will certainly bring more blog posts, so keep checking back in on me. I also hope to finish my zombie book. If you are a publisher, let me say how much I've always loved you.
A few stats:
August 16, 2010 was the first episode of season five.
May 13, 2011 was the last episode of season five.
921: Falling Rock strips I've drawn. When I hit 1,000 I'm going to throw myself a huge party or something.
42: number on Ernesto's baseball jersey. Although Jackie Robinson's number was retired from all of professional baseball, Ernesto is allowed to continue wearing that number under a grandfather clause.
29: number of rejection letters I've received from comic syndicates regarding Falling Rock. This number will not grow as quickly in the future, since many of the syndicates have either merged or disappeared into the folds of the newspaper.
88 miles per hour: speed it takes to travel to either 1855, 1955, 1985 or 2015.
4.5 billion: age of our sun. It is the sun that gives life to this planet, allowing me to draw Welcome to Falling Rock National Park. I draw the sun as a spiral, in homage to the Native Americans who called the Southwest their home.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
hat trick
They say good things come in threes. This has certainly proved true for me this past month.
First, Isis and I moved into our new house:
The view is particularly inspiring:
Then, my mom brought me this piece of amber with bugs trapped in it:
From this humble piece of fossilized amber, I will one day run a park chock full of dinosaurs.
You'd think these two events would put me "over the top," as they say. Well, in one final, extraordinary twist of fate, I received a signed CD by Falling Rock's musical muse Esperanza Spalding:
There is a story behind this. I sent Ms. Spalding my latest book, Scenic Byways, and included a comic strip in which she pays a visit to Falling Rock National Park (this would hypothetically occur when she wasn't busy accepting a Grammy or opening for Prince). My comic appeared on her Facebook page and very soon after I got a mysterious envelope from a record company in Spain. The signed CD was inside.
I'm not sure if these things are connected, but I do know that, for the rest of my life, I will look back on this short time period with awe and gratitude.
APOLOGY CORNER: Sorry, SKS. I hope this doesn't take your Year of Shaft & Son out of the well-deserved spotlight.
First, Isis and I moved into our new house:
The view is particularly inspiring:
Then, my mom brought me this piece of amber with bugs trapped in it:
From this humble piece of fossilized amber, I will one day run a park chock full of dinosaurs.
You'd think these two events would put me "over the top," as they say. Well, in one final, extraordinary twist of fate, I received a signed CD by Falling Rock's musical muse Esperanza Spalding:
There is a story behind this. I sent Ms. Spalding my latest book, Scenic Byways, and included a comic strip in which she pays a visit to Falling Rock National Park (this would hypothetically occur when she wasn't busy accepting a Grammy or opening for Prince). My comic appeared on her Facebook page and very soon after I got a mysterious envelope from a record company in Spain. The signed CD was inside.
I'm not sure if these things are connected, but I do know that, for the rest of my life, I will look back on this short time period with awe and gratitude.
APOLOGY CORNER: Sorry, SKS. I hope this doesn't take your Year of Shaft & Son out of the well-deserved spotlight.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
free comic book day
Today is Free Comic Book Day! Rush out to your local comic store and demand free stuff!
Friday, May 6, 2011
friday robots
Happy Friday Robots Day! Though these robots are enclosed in boxes, rest assured they can still cause untold destruction at a moment's notice.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
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