-- 01 Sept '10
So here we are my dears - the new, streamlined and comic filled Fallen
Angel.
With the last site getting far too cluttered we're going back to
basics and concentrating on the joy of comicing for the sake of
comicing. I've stripped out all the cms and other dead scripts and
aside from the rather sexy drop-downs, i'm living the love of html
once again. All the old content is still here but compact and out the
way and all news, updates etc. will be posted here from now on.
There are some graphics left to do and a few broken pages (store
mostly) but i'll get to them next week, i just really wanted to get
the site back up. On that point, no Fallen this week as i'm away on a
training course until Tuesday now so as always, i'll leave you with a
'mostly' complete FAM ^_^
Thank f#*k that's all over with!
AV_K
 giving in..... --
26 Aug '10
Stress... seriously.. i know i'm a self destructive creature at the
best of times but what the hell is wrong with me?
Anyway, important things:
Uncharacteristically, i'm giving in to public pressure because i can't
stand being fucking badgered all the time and i'm putting all the
comics back online. This also includes all the Left of Centre strips
which most of you won't have seen before - there! aren't i a nice
girl!! now shut up you bastards! seriously, i've got enough on my
plate!!
now go and enjoy our lovely comics..
Don't know where they are - hah! that's 'cause i haven't done it yet
as i'm rather fed up with the site cms i'm using so it's all getting
simplified and they will go up then..
expect change...
oh, and there's more show news coming up but i'll post that once i've
finished stripping the site down..
it's all go at FAM i can tell you!! all i need now is a few weeks
holiday in, say, columbia and i'll be right as rain ^_^
laters
AV_K
London con & Thieving bastards --
1 Jul '10
So the weekend saw us heading off to the London film and comic con at
Earls court and after enjoying it muchly last year i was really
looking forward to this one #_#
A big part of this was due to the fact that we were imposing on the
charity of the very lovely and very Irish Cliodhna from Ztoical (we
love you!!) as well as hooking up with fysh, geof, mavis, alex and
others and just basically getting to spend time with me mates! In the
end though it all turned into a bit of mission....
After a pretty smooth run to the smoke we were set up and ready to go
in the hall by early Friday afternoon - score!! The fist event though
happened when we couldn't get a hold of our Irish connection and so
decided to head to a nearby pub to hang around and decide on the next
course of action. As it happened the poor dear had gotten locked out
and had to wait for the neighbours to come from work so she could
a-team over the backyards and get in. Nightmare! She did acquire a
kitten and get to watch another neighbour be carted off by the local
constabulary mind so at least she wasn't board ^_^
Fun was had Friday night despite the damn curry house we headed off to
keeping us waiting for nearly an hour for food by which time we were
dying!! Seriously, what is it with London Indian restaurants and
us!!?? Every fuckin' time we go to one they keep us waiting an age or
even on one occasion forgetting us altogether!! The general consensus
is that we're cursed :(
Following that the acquired kitten decided to spend the whole night
fighting foxes in the back yard so not much sleep was had and we were
pretty grumpy until lunchtime where we were revived by the powers of
bacon (seriously, i don't know if you've ever heard the sound a pissed
off fox makes - it's really loud and very freaky!)
Anyway, the show itself went pretty well. Sale we're good and it was
great to see a lot of the same folks as last year coming back to the
table for a chat. Oddly, i don't think i did one sketch for anyone
this year? Last year i must have done over 20 sketches a day! odd.
Still, i did get a load of drawing work done and arranged some other
business as well so in that respect is was a pretty good show for us
(the only downside was the really irritating chick on the table next
to us of whom opinion in the pub on Sunday was if her head was any
further up her own ass she'd need gps to find the way out - i know
it's bad form to slag off other artists on the web but seriously, she
really was such a fucking naive idiot!).
After the first day was done we headed off to the pub for libations,
catching up and fun banter where some absolute bastard (and my then
rot in intense pain in a hell of their own making until the end of days the
mother fuckers!!!!!!) swiped my bag from under my chair despite 6
onlookers and my foot being on it most of the time...
This marked the end of the fun the evening.
Not only was it the ultimate buzz-kill but we then had to prevail on
the kindness of our friends and contact the banks, police, phone and
bus co. etc. and get everything cancelled before the fuckers could use
anything. It wasn't until after several hours on the phone and all
this was sorted that i realised that my wedding rings were in there as
well since i had taken them off when lugging all the kit to the venue
and a didn't want to (ha!) loose them... at this point i had a little
breakdown much to, i'm sure, the embarrassment of all those present
(and i am so deeply sorry!!).
After a decent nights sleep (thank fuck!) and much tea we made it
through the second day of the show where we met some really lovely
folks and cheered up by this headed back to the pub (i won't be scared
away!!) and spent the afternoon having fun with our mate (highlight of
the weekend by far!).
In the final straw, on the way back to the coach the damn sack truck
we lug the kit on threw a wheel so i had to drag the whole lot unaided
across London and spent the next two days with evil pains in my
trapezius. Got home - relief was found.
So all in all, a real up and down sort of a trip... loads going on for
FAM to tell of but i'll save that until next week when i'm a bit more
with it so i'll finish with:
to the rancid little bastard that stole my stuff - you will get what
you deserve, of that i am sure.
AV_K |
