This past weekend my wife and I had a mini marathon of some of the Marvel Comics movies.
Iron Man 1 & 2, Avengers, Captain America, etc. Fun movies all. Plenty of Suspension of Disbelief is required to enjoy them, but fun none the less. I hear Iron Man 3 is doing quite well too. I must also admit that story-wise these films have not been pretty good for what they are.  
But all this got me to wondering. All these young people who are enjoying these films...have any of them ever read a Marvel Comic? Oh sure us old guys have read them. That's for sure, but I'll bet most of the under 25 crowd have seen some of the Marvel animated TV shows and probably played a Marvel video game of some kind, but I rather doubt they have read any of the comics. At least NOT with any regularity or dedication.

Now comic books are NOT great literature, with a few possible exceptions. But for the most part they are simple, fun pop-culture, and there is nothing wrong with that. But I cannot help but think that as COOL as the Marvel movies have been, in all honesty, they are but pale shadows of the original comics.  One two hour movie held up against hundreds of issues of  The Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, etc. makes the films look rather shallow and fleeting. Not great literature but I have to say the comics have a lot more story, character development and continuity than the films ever will.
It then begs the question, after seeing the films is anyone, NOT already a regular comic book buyer, dashing out to find out all about the original comics? Perhaps a few people...but I can't imagine many will do this. I fear that we already have a generation of 'fans' who think of the Marvel heros as movie and video game characters only.

Marvel was known for it's character and story continuity, not just within individual titles, but across all their titles. If the Hulk made an appearance in Spiderman, well that event was reflected in the Hulk's title as well as the Avengers as the Hulk was a member of that team too. Marvel was also known for tackling tough subjects like drug abuse, alcoholism, racism etc. that DC would not touch, not until later anyway.  My point is, that Marvel made a name for itself because they were different. They had better writing, pushed the limits of what was acceptable in comics, tried to make comics as good as they could.
It's taken decades for Marvel to finally get film projects off the ground. I think that a big reason for this is that until the last 10 to 15 has the modern technology really existed to bring the Marvel vision to the screen. So good for them, and I'm glad they are being so successful. But all your NEW YOUNG fans out there I do suggest that you look into what came first to make all this possible. yes comic books...you do actually have to make the effort to read them. They don't read themselves to you like a movie or TV show. But give them a try sometime.
Yes, another grumpy old man rant....

Mr. Ray Harryhausen, master stop motion animator has bid us adieu.
Of course, today, digital animation effects are KING, but back in the dark ages of the 20th Century, if you wanted to create a really great monster, alien or dinosaur for a movie, stop motion was the Cadillac of creature effects. And Mr. Ray Harryhausen was the KING of stop motion. There were other great practitioners of  the craft, Jim Danforth, David Allen, Randy Cook, and others. But as a rule Ray was at the top of the heap. Ray did it all. He designed his creatures, illustrated and designed all his animation sequences, did the sculpture, made the mold, was involved with the armatures, ran the foam, detailed the finished puppet, painted the puppet, built the miniatures sets for the puppet, and finally did the animation.  I like to sum up Ray's career like this:
"It's nice to know that 30 or 40 years ago it took Ray Harryhausen a painstaking year or more to create his stop motion creations. But today it can be done with only a couple hundred people at computers in only 3 or 4 years." Now that is progress.
I was very fortunate to briefly meet Mr. Harryhausen in 1993 at a talk he gave about his work at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. I have a photo of me shaking hands with Mr. Harryhausen. I also swiped the orange plastic cup from which he sipped water during his autograph session. I still have it. Now if THAT is not majorly creepy, I don't know what is.
He was my real-life hero when I was growing up.  Other kids wanted to be sports heros or rock stars,  my hero was a man who spent much of his life moving the limbs on small models of dinosaurs a fraction of an inch at a time for hours, days, weeks on end.  I wanted to be a stop motion animator.  I think it safe to say, I was probably the only kid in my school with such aspirations. While I never had the discipline to actually pursue work in the field, I did move out to Hollywood and did work in motion picture special effects for almost 20 years. Due in great part to Ray's influence.

I have heard conflicting reports so far. Ray was either 92 or 93, but either way he is definitely gone.
Withy Ray Harryhausen gone, all I want to know is...who is going to move the the dinosaur now?

P.S.
Certain people seem to think that Ray Harryhausen was somehow involved with the film "The Black Scorpion". He was not. Willis O'Brian supervised the animation. And most of the animation was actually done by a man named Pete Peterson. Still an entertaining giant arthropod film, with some good animation, but no Harryhausen.

Okay if you have ever contacted me ay my old Earthlink e-mail address or have need to, THAT address is gone.
I THINK I saved all my old contacts, BUT if somehow I lost you in the process and I still owe you a commission or something, please let me know.
I have a NEW private e-mail which I will share with people on a NEED TO KNOW basis.
If you need to contact me, use my public e-mail:  mjbivouac1@yahoo.com
Thanks,
MJB

I sent out a group e-mail but in case anyone who is a friend or watches me here and is not in my e-mail address list I am informing everyone that my Earthlink address: allegra11@mindspring.com will soon be history.
My NEW private e-mail is:
mwalters34@roadrunner.com
My mjbivouac1@yahoo.com  address will still be good.
Please make note of it.
Thanks,
MJB

Well I went looking at scanners after work today. Not really intending to but anything until I looked around at a few places. BUT I stopped at STAPLES and they had an Epson V500 Photo Scanner that was an open-box deal for $60.00 off! Normally $199.00.  I was planning on spending MAYBE up to $200.00, but thought I could probably get away with an $80.00 to $100.00 unit.  Well the more I thought about it I figured I probably wouldn't get another deal like this so I bought it. And feeling as though I had saved some money,  I also treated myself to Photoshop Elements 11. My current PSE is #4!   I've had that one a while.  Oncve I got home, and I started to disconnect my old scanner I noticed it had an old style multipin cord! I guess I've had that scanner longer than I thought! Well I loaded the new software, hooked everything up and it all works like a charm! The Epson scans faster than my old Microtech, and has a much higher resolution. It does a very nice job.  And while it's not a full version of PS, I'm pretty happy with the more reasonably priced PSE. It'll do most of what I need.

Yeah I know...I'm OLD! I'm not sure when it happened. I must have been looking the other way, paying attention to something that anyone under 40 probably has never heard of...but it happened.
Recently I was on YOUTUBE and watched a minute or two of one of the CLASSIC(Not OLD!)Max Fleisher SUPERMAN cartoons from the 1940s.  It had been all beautifully digitally restored and I have never seen any of these great fun old cartoons ever look this good! I was impressed. For YEARS, those old Superman cartoons were only available on low quality VHS and those tapes were made from very contrasty poor quality 16mm films originally released for television use in the late 50s early 60s. By the time the tapes were created, the old 16mm TV films were so beat up and abused, as to be almost unwatchable. With the advent of DVD, some minor clean up was done on these, and they did look better on DVD, but the fact remained that the original source material was pretty bad to start with. There was only so much anyone could do, no matter how technologically talented they were.
But recently better quality 35mm source prints have been made available and with digital restoration being what it is today, these great old films have been restored back to their original release quality. They look amazing!

Now some of you have probably never heard of these cartoons because they are OLD! And when you hear the name Superman, at best you MAY think WAAAAAAY back to the Christopher Reeve Superman in the long ago late 70s and 80s, and his "classic" Superman movies...I have actually heard people refer to these films as "classics" and that just blows my mind! Those films seem like yesterday to me.   A quick run down for some of you younger folks: Superman was first brought to the screen with the aforementioned Fleisher cartoon series in the 1940s, and then later as a live action "serial" with Kirk Alyn as the Man of Steel. And then in a theatrical movie with George Reeves and then again with Reeves in the first Superman TV series. But these days it seems not many young people have ever heard of any of these.

But I digress...the point of this journal is a COMMENT I read on the YOUTUBE Superman post regarding the quality of the Fleisher animation. He said something to the effect, "that he had no idea they did such GOOD animation back in those days."  
Okay...I was dumbfounded buy that comment. I don't know how old this person is who made the comment. He may be 14 years old for all I know.  But I did not get the feeling that he was that young. I did, however, get this sneaking feeling he was an anime fan...but in all fairness, I do not know that for a fact either.  My point is that, arguably, animation is considered one of the few art forms more or less created and perfected by Americans.  Now having said THAT, someone will be quick to point out that the Japanese have embraced animation and done much with it. Yes, that is a fact, but  a lot of what they have created does not hold much interest for me personally, but I am not fool enough to deny that they, sadly,  have taken animation much further than we have in America.  And over the last 20 years their style of animation has become very popular with Western youth. And apparently, judging by the comment made on YOUTUBE, to the extreme where these American fans are not even bothering to find out where the art form originated. If is wasn't for Walt Disney, Japan might never have embraced animation the way they have, but I am not going to go into a history of Japanese animation, you can learn about that on your own.

When I was a kid we did have some Japanese animation on American TV. Not much...shows with titles such as ASTRO-BOY, GIGANTOR, MARINE BOY, SPEED RACER. The term "anime" did not even exist in the English language. These were all just cartoons made in Japan, and I would guess a lot of American kids who enjoyed these shows had no idea in what country they were made, nor would they have even cared.  And I was one of them. Only later did I discover what culture had originally spawned these syndicated shows.
Now while many of my school mates also watched these shows, as I recall we were all at least somewhat aware of the fact that they were not created in FULL ANIMATION. These shows had a stiffness or jerkiness to the animation. By the time I was in Junior High Japanese animation had a real reputation for being cheap looking and was VERY limited in it's "animation". And that LIMITED aspect was a BIG part of what we thought of and about Japanese animation. Much like the questionable English dubbing done on some Japanese movies...where the lips of the characters and what their dialogue did not always line up just right.  It was just what you came to expect from it.  Japanese animation was limited...plain and simple. Often, judging  their shows by some of their more realistic character design, suggested that the Japanese creators might have inspired to do better animation work, had the budget allowed it. But I fear that in some cases seeing more realistic character design in limited animation may have only brought more attention to the limited style, and made the show look worse for it. American animation studio Hannah-Barbera used limited animation for their TV work too. BUT with few exceptions, they stuck with much more cartoon-style character design and I do think that design concept helped the shows look, if not BETTER, at least more appropriate for the style of animation.

But now decades later Japan has done much with animation. And some Western fans feel that they actually do better quality work than ever came out of the United States. When the Japanese started out, most of what they created was for television and on very LOW TV budgets, even lower budgets than  Hannah-Barbera had to create their limited TV animation in the U.S.A.  But even Bill Hannah and Joe Barbera came out of the classic theatrical animation of the 30s and 40s. That was indeed the Golden Age of Animation. Most, if not all  animation historian would agree.  That was when and where Full Animation was invented. Disney will always be the Tiffiny's of Golden Age animation. But most all of the other Hollywood studios did great quality animation as well. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, the studio where Hannah-Barbera honed their skills years before they opened their own studio, had some of the best animators in Hollywood. Warner Brothers too...but that is a story in it's own right, and the Fleisher Studios, working for Paramount Studios. Really, it was but a handful of artists and creators in HOLLYWOOD U.S.A. who practically invented animation as we know it today. But today some people feel that American animation is just the simple stuff they see on TV now or the mediocre shows they may have watches as kids...stuff like HE-MAN, Fat Albert, and other super-limited animation shows.

Interestingly, we Americans started out doing full animation for theatrical cartoons and films, but over the years were forced because of costs and a sad lack of support and interest by the studios, to slowly step down to limited animation, most of which was done eventually for television. And today virtually NO commercial animation is done in the U.S.A. its all shipped overseas to Korea. On the other hand, the Japanese did it in reverse. They started with limited animation for television and then over the years they managed to ascend and develop their own style of Full Animation for theatrical films. However, they too now have much of their animation done in Korea as well.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

But now so many years later, there are people who have come to believe that "GOOD" animation is somehow a recent development....?  Perhaps they think it the creation of the now Hip and Cool high end Japanese studios such as Studio Ghibli, which has received so much attention in recent years.  No, I am sorry but we Americans created it...yes we did. You just have to take the time and go back and see what it was like in the "Old Days", see where it started.  So much of this classic American animation is now available on DVD, and even for free on the internet. Yeah, I know you won't find many androgynous, green-haired sword-swinging anime boys in classic American animation...but we did have a crazy red-headed woodpecker with a wild laugh, and a determined bald-headed hunter who never quite got that wabbit he was hunting...and all in full animation. Check it out people, check it out.

Damn! I fixed the washing machine!
I rock!
All it took was my bare knuckles, $50.00 in parts from an on-line distributor and a couple of Youtube video how-to's.
Am I ready for the zombie apocalypse, or what?

My wife asked me to come out to the kitchen and look for these new bottles of spice she bought at tyhe grocery store a week or so ago.  She had already looked in the kitchen cabinets where we keep that sort of thing with no luck. So I got down on the floor and went through the cabinet fairly completely. I even found some scary old items way in the back that I pulled out and quickly threw into the waste basket.  But I too had no luck finding the spices. We then looked in other cupboards where we don't usually keep such items, but we had to look somewhere. Still nothing.

Of course being ever the grouchy husband I told my wife she had simply misplaced them and they would show up sometime.  I left her to return the few remaining items to the cabinet while I went back to working(goofing off)on the computer. She recently also lost a brand new paperback book she had just purchased. And I just chalked it's disappearance too  up to her disorganization and carelessness. Someday the book and spices might show up somewhere.

No sooner do I get back into the computer room when she comes to the door again. I figure she has now misplaced  something else...perhaps the washer or dryer this time. But she tells me that the spices are now magically back in the cupboard. And when I say MAGICALLY, I mean MAGICALLY! I ask her just WHERE in the cupboard they have appeared, as I wanted to know just what part of the cupboard I had failed to examine.  She leads me to it and Holy Crap if the three spice bottles are now right in the very front and center of the cupboard like someone...or someTHING, had JUST placed them there! It was pretty bizarre as I had JUST been there and I even recognized a container of popcorn that I had moved and then placed at the front of the upper shelf and the three spice bottles are now right in front of it! They WERE NOT THERE before!
Okay so either my wife is messing with me...while not impossible, a little unlikely as that is NOT her idea of being funny.
Or we simply overlooked the three bottle that were at the front and center of the shelf and staring right at us, and somehow I managed to pass a container of popcorn through them like they were invisible phantoms.
Or, we have a ghost playing tricks on us...and they may also have the missing book. I suggested this to my wife and she said perhaps the ghost would return it after it was finished reading it.
Or we have some sort of unstable interdimensional rift that manifests itself inside that cupboard. Perhaps I was lucky I didn't fall into it and end up somewhere else with Rod Serling intoning:"Submitted for your approval... Mogodore J. Bivouac, a man lost in time and space..."

Probably the strangest thing that has ever happened in this house...well next to that one time talking the wife into sex twice in one day. But that was years ago...."Submitted for your approval... Mogodore J. Bivouac, a man who actually talked his wife into sex twice in one day..."
Happy New Year all.

I just made a deal with: [link]
He's going to color my drawing "Daphne and Velma on a Vespa": [link]
Check out Mr. Vest's digital color work, he is quite good!
As soon as I get the digital scan of the line art,  which is being handled by my photographer friend Camillo Longo and his large format scanner, Mr. Vest will get rolling on colors. I will be very interested to see what Mr. Vest comes up with for Daphne and Velma. This is the first time a pro colorist has ever worked on something drawn by myself.

I am currently finishing up a drawing with which  I am rather happy.
It is simple line art, no rendering, and I am considering hiring a professional colorist to take it to the next level. I could color this myself, but I know I'm little more than an amateur  at it. I can squeak by, but I'm no pro.
Off hand I really do not know what a pro colorist might expect to be paid for this sort of thing, so I need to get educated. And perhaps it's just too far out of my price range for me to even consider this.
As soon as the art is complete, I will post it and see if I get any nibbles. In the meantime if you are a pro colorist or know one who might be interested, please let them/me know and we can talk.
Please just let me make it clear I am looking for a PRO. Not someone who WANTS to be a pro someday. Or someone looking to improve their current meager skills. I want someone who does this at least as a paid sideline, if not as full time work, and has the software to do what I expect. Microsoft Paint ain't gonna do it.  Any interested candidates will of course be expected to show me samples of their work before I make any decisions.
I would also consider some sort of TRADE between a colorist and myself. If the colorist would be interested in some original art in exchange for their  services, I would most certainly be interested to talk about that.
Anyway, let's see what happens...

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve... and for the first time in about five years Mrs. Bivouac and myself are going to have a very nice Christmas indeed!
I celebrated my second full year at the new job. I am doing well and my Bosses like me and what I can do. After over fifteen years of freelance type work where "bonuses" are unheard of, and then two plus years of virtual unemployment,  I received a very, VERY generous bonus this year. So nice of a bonus I went so far as to by myself an IPAD! Something I have wanted since they were introduced. I do NOT regret it!
It also allowed me to buy my wife some nice gifts this year. Like that gift certificate from the plastic surgeon who did Kim Kardashian's ass.... of wait! That's a gift for ME!
But seriously, I can't and won't say more because Mrs. Bivouac does read my JOURNAL entries! But I think she will be happy.

Then my Father -in-Law sent my wife an amazingly nice Christmas check! His wife died earlier this year and I think he is feeling his mortality, and he is dealing with it by sending all his kids a really nice check for Christmas! So now my wife will finally be able to do some of the home improvement things she has desired for several years now. Thanks Dad!

Then my wife amazed me and bought me a very nice Canon digital camera at Costco the other day. She knew I had been wanting one for ages, and I was looking at the display(like I always do)and she just told me to get it! Thanks Honey, you're the best! And you'll be even BETTER, or at least one part of you will be,  after your visit with Dr. Buttz in Beverly Hills!

Besides material things to be happy about, my wife also survived her health scare from earlier this year.  That is the most important thing. She still has to have surgery, but that too will come and pass. We are both a lot more positive about the coming year.

I know a LOT of people in this country have not been so lucky as I have. Many people without jobs or income. And of course the recent terrible tragedy in Connecticut cannot help but come to mind. I know the families of the slain will not be enjoying the holidays this year and perhaps for many to come. I feel for them and hope the coming year will be better for everyone as well as myself.

So from Me and Mrs. Bivouac, a very Merry Christmas to everyone.

The commissioner of my recent "Daisy Mae and the Salesman" cartoon, has suggested that I have a Caption Challenge here on DA.
I like the sound of that!
So what I'd like to see ideally are submissions with nice, neat, professional looking word balloons and lettering added to my art...download the 'toon and get crackin'!
I might add that word balloons and lettering that makes an attempt to emulate the actual style of Al Capp's Lil Abner strip, would get higher marks than balloons that look like they were done in about 2 minutes in WORD. And of course, the captions must to be appropriate and funny!  I'm the judge and I'm going to judge harshly. i also reserve the right to proclaim "No Winner" if I only get turkeys.

So now for a PRIZE!
The best caption, in my opinion,  gets a FREE piece of ORIGINAL Bivouac art, of the winner's choice...Okay, Okay!  8.5X6 size, B&W, and NO crowd scenes, no donkey sex, and ONE character or "thing" only!
Send all attempts(Ha! Ha!)to: mjbivouac1@yahoo.com  Write Caption Contest in the SUBJECT line.

I do NOT have the newest, best, or coolest electronic equipment.
Until a few months ago I had a lowly, blister-pack, Pay As You Go Flip phone that cost $10.00 a month...it made phone calls and did little else. I did finally move up to a Pay As You Go Android, but it too is pretty lame by most people's standards. But now I can check my e-mail, as long as there is WI-FI,while I'm sitting on the toilet. Now that is technology!
My desk top computer is 7 years old and the OS I am running came with the computer... 7 years ago. Some web sites I cannot access because of this.
I finally got a laptop for travel, but it too was a real cheapie, and even touted itself on the store display card like a generic grocery item:"Suitable for everyday use".

But finally, I took the plunge and bought the best...or at least nearly the best.
Got a pretty nice Christmas Bonus this year and told myself I was getting something I had wanted from day one....
I bought an IPAD!
Now I did NOT get the latest or best model.  It is WI-FI only, an IPAD3 and it was on sale, so I saved a little money. I also only got the 32 MB model.  
But to me this is the BIG TIME!
I tell you, these APPLE products are like MAGIC!
The things it can do are amazing.
The built in camera takes amazing photos, compared to the cheesy digital cameras I am used to using.
For once I got the good one!
And now I have to get something of equal value for my wife...
Merry Christmas!

Say it isn't so! Surely a sign of the End-Times!
I hope all those now unemployed HOSTESS employees and their union are happy.  You sure showed Hostess, didn't you? Hostess won't ever mess with your union again! And that's the sad truth.
Of course some other, probably non-union company will buy up the name and brand, and start producing Twinkies again. But all those proud EX-Hostess union "unemployees" won't be able to buy any Twinkies because they don't have any jobs!
Anyway, I'm off to buy a box of Little Debbie snack cakes.

Update 11/18/12
Well after the initial reports about the union killing Hostess, many facts have come to light showing that Hostess has been running itself into the ground for over a decade now. It seems they either just didn't care, or actually wanted to go under so they would not have to pay union pensions. Workers with decades of service and, so they thought, pensions, have lost it all. Now they have to go see employment elsewhere and forget about ever retiring. I know the feeling.

Yeah, pretty mundane journal subject, but DAMN!
My wife and I have been in this house like 10 years now and today we decided to just clean out the bedroom closet. we hadn't done a good clean-out  really since we moved in, and I knew there were were a few things we could probably get rid of...Boy was I WRONG! Try twelve BIG trash bags full! Man, we had stuff that dated back to the 1980s! Unbelievable! I pulled out this grey leather jacket that was in great shape! Jeez! I bought that when I had my motorcycle! It looked like it was form an 80's music video! In great shape but just to gay-looking for a 50+ guy like me to try to wear! Hell, I'm probably too fat to get into it now anyway...into the black bag of doom it goes! A lot of this stuff came with us from our 1993 move from Ohio to California!
What we thought would take an hour or so to do, took about four hours!  I'd dig out a bunch of stuff on a shelf, only to find a bunch more stuff on that shelf! I'd dig THAT out and back in the corner is wedged even more stuff!  My closet is like that Doctor Who-guy's spaceship-thing...bigger on the inside.

You know, I wear a lot of t-shirts for work and around the house. I also ruin a lot of them when I get paint of whatever on them. So I periodically buy T-shirts when I see them on sale or see ones that I like the style, or whatever, but I had probably four dozen T-shirts, and many more long sleeve T-shirts packed in that closet!  I had no idea! And many of them I have never worn! But I had so many of them I just had to get rid of a lot of them to make room.  I was dropping like brand new shirts into the donation bags! Someone will get a bargain wherever they end up.  I also found things I had forgotten about!  "Oh Yeah! I remember that shirt with Speed Racer on it!".  It was a revelation!    

But as big  a pain as it was,  the wife is happy to have it all done even though it really shot the Hell out of the day. But a happy spouse is worth something too.  Maybe I can talk her into that thing that people like to do in the bedroom, and it's NOT sleeping!....ya know?  Right! Play video games in bed!  Time to suggest moving the old CRT TV to the dresser, hook up the old PS2, and start playing that pile of games that are still in the shrink-wrap and I have never tried since I bought the PS2!   Yes, with the flat screen we finally got last Christmas, we actually now have a spare TV that might be used just for video games!  Woo-Hoo!  Life is good!

So with the Massive Closet Clean-out of 2012 out of the way, now all I have to do is get some to come and pick-up up 12 bags of lovely and valuable clothing donations. So I call Goodwill and Salvation Army...only find out neither of them wants to pick up anything in our zip code! But I am more than welcome to drop them off myself! Well I have a small hatchback car...it will take me at least 5 trips to drop all those bags off. Shit! Life sucks! So now my hallway is full of garbage bags filled with old clothes, and no place to for them to go...easily! It will only be a matter of a day or two before the wife will be wanting to know:"When are YOU going to get rid of all those bags of clothes?" Of course all of a sudden it's MY job!
Well, I gotta go eat some dinner and talk to the wife about that old TV set...I know a good place for it Honey!

I finally got fed up with EARTHLINK's poor attention to my internet problems(a MONTH without internet!)and called the fine folks at Warner Cable. A guy came out and set me up with new internet service. It took about an hour and I now have smoking hot fast service! Woo-Hoo!
On the downside, the cable guy had to get into our spare bedroom to find a cable hook-up and in moving some innocent boxes of books, an OLD porno mag came to light. Jeez! I hadn't seen that rag in years! Something I purchased way back in the early 80s, by the title of "Hefty Ladies". The guy was a pro and said NOTHING about it, but I was so embarrassed!

Now I can call Earthlink and FIRE them! Ha ha! Sweeeeeeet!
MJB
Lovin' me some internet sweet service!

I drew this a few years ago....
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Ha ha! Big Joke! Way too sexy...Archie Comics would NEVER do this.....?

[link]
Son of a Bitch!!!!!
Look at the way her hair is blowing in the wind...look at the moon right next to her head!
I'm gonna sue!

Damn! I just posted my portrait of George Reeves YESTERDAY and I think it must be some sort of record for me, for most FAVES of a single piece in the shortest amount of time. I think so far over 100 faves on it! I was afraid most people wouldn't even know who he was, and that I would be besieged with Chris Reeve and Dean Cain fans busting my balls about how much better, and in color, their interpretations of Superman were.
Good for you George, wherever you are.

Starting last night when I tried to upload a piece of art on DA, I found that overtime I tried to upload, the upload would be interrupted and and I would get anything from 10% to 97% upload before iot would freeze on me. I tried again today. Shut off everything and started up again, but no difference. The file is not extraordinarily large or unusual compared to what I normally upkoad at DA. I also tried uploading OTHER files that I have alreday uploaded iunto my gallery, but I cannot seem to get a full and complete upload. I then tried to upload a file at my FACEBOOK account and it seemed to FREEZE after a few moments as well.
I am connected to the internet via an EARTHLINK  wi-fi router. I am starting to wonder if my router may be going bad. I have had it for several years now.
ANyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Had a terrible few days trying to draw this cut pin-up girl. But everything I did SUCKED! I tried TWICE and screwed up both of them.  I'm in a terrible slump! I know it sounds stupid, but I have this ache in the pit of my stomach I'm so stressed out over it. Now I have to try again!
So tell me YOUR terrible tale of having the muse abandon you...