I was going to write a Top 10 Christmas Movies list today.
Those lists take a lot of time to begin with, and then I got an important email with concept-art for the comic I’m writing, so I had to take some time to review that.
This year, I’m making one Christmas-themed tweet on my Twitter each day from December 1st to December 25th.
Follow me there for seasonal joy and merriment 😀
This is the story of how the postal-service broke my stuff, and how an internet-based startup-company made my day.
The summer of last year, I started prodding my girlfriend for information.
Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1857-1914) is my all-time favorite painter.
In this article I will show you some of my favorite works by him while attempting to explain how he has influenced my creativity.
I have a little list of some cool stuff I want to share with you 🙂
First off! I upgraded my WordPress plan, so that I now have a custom URL!
I have been blogging for almost two months now, and I don’t feel any urge to quit. I still have so many ideas and plans I have not gotten to post yet.
So given that, and the fact that it only cost $4 a month, I jumped in!
Secondly! I decided on a logo for SindrElf’s monthly GEEKY RECIPE.
A few people voted on the poll, and I also asked the people on the logodesign subreddit, and some” irl-people aswell. The consensus seemed to be that my little SindrElf doodle wearing a chefs-hat was the best option.
Thirdly! I improved the header for the Fireballx3 page.
I was just not happy with the first header. I had just put three Fireball-cards in a line so they would spell Fireball-Fireball-Fireball. Did not look great.
The new header is at least a bit
funny 😉
Have you ever wondered about the Scrooge McDuck origin story?
About how he became the character we know and love today?
Let me fill you in a little!
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I’m writing this while standing in a line to meet the writer and artist of my all-time favorite comic book series “The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck“.
His name is Keno Don Hugo Rosa, but is known simply as Don Rosa. Despite sounding like a hardened mafia-boss, he is actually a very nice Kentucky gentleman.
A lot of his work featuring the Duck family bases on work done by Carl Barks, who created Scrooge to begin with in 1947. Barks and Rosa created most of the “lore” surrounding Duckburg’s characters between them.
During Don Rosa’s career he created a timeline for Scrooges life, from his birth in 1867 to his death in 1967. (Also of note; Donald Duck is 27 in the first story they share. Feeling old now, I never imagined I would ever be the same age as Donald when I was reading these stories as a kid.)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a “coming to America”-story, a “rags to riches”-story, an action/adventure comedy, a western, a period drama, and so much more! It even has a (voodoo) zombie! That the story has not yet been adapted as a feature-length animated Disney movie is beyond me.
And the art is amazing! Don Rosa has claimed that he does not think the artwork itself is good, only that
the details are entertaining.
This is one of the photos I have sent to an artist I’m working with, to give him an idea of what I’m after for the comic I mentioned in my previous blog-post about projects in development.
I have just added a new page to this site: Projects In Development!
Soon I will be adding a novel and a comic I am writing, but for now there is only one project featured; Fireball! Fireball! Fireball!
Fireball!x3 is a card game I have been working on for quite some time, and I even won an award for it!
If you are at all interested I would recommend visiting the project page to read up on it, and all the files are there for you to print and play the game.
Do you have any creative projects in the works? If not, are there any you wish you could do?