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Weirdly’s World: Thank You & Good Night

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on April 13, 2015 Respond

Thank You & Good NightI have been blogging about Astro Monk for 8 months now and have come to a point where my other projects and work place needs are overtaking my world I just don’t have the time right now to keep a weekly blog going.

This was a new thing for me and I had a lot of fun writing WEIRDLY’s WORLD and working with Alex Paramo and Community Publishing was an honor. He really is a great promoter of the ARTS. We both work in theater thats where we met and found we had a common interest in the arts.

Next up for me I will be working on 4 graphic novels and a painting series called GUM and ROBOTS inspired by pulp magazine covers and WACKY PACKS bubble gum cards from the 70s. So as you can see I have alot on my plate.

Farewell but not Goodbye

I won’t say this is the end of my blogging days as Alex generously has given me a open invitation to come back sometime. If you have been reading ASTRO MONK you can still find him at his home weirdlycomics.com just without my commentary. Which could be good or bad depending… And with that I will say a very fond THANK YOU and GOOD NIGHT!

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Weirdly’s World: Fun Violence

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on March 17, 2015 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

An example is being made of some of the towns people by way of having their faces removed. If I was drawing something more realistic I wouldn’t go this route. The drawing would be to horrific and gory. But since I was working in a more cartoony style I thought I could get away with it . The guy in this page looks more like a mexican sugar skull so not so bad.

Violent Grades

Fun ViolenceAn example is being made of some of the towns people by way of having their faces removed.  If I was drawing something more realistic I wouldn’t go this route.  The drawing would be to horrific and gory.  But since I was working in a more cartoony style I thought I could get away with it .  The guy in this page looks more like a mexican sugar skull so not so bad.

This does bring up the issue of violence for entertainment. I have to admit I do find comic book and movie violence fun. Though movie carnage can not sit so well with me because of the level of realism they can achieve. Some movie violence I wish I could unsee. Like the ear cutting off scene in RESERVOIR DOGS. I won’t see that movie again because of that scene. I don’t have a comic book equivalent of that. An evil character made CAT WOMAN‘s sister eat her husbands eyeballs but that didn’t feel as disturbing. For some reason comic books have a softer effect on me as far as violence goes.

If violence is well placed and moves the story along I think it’s ok. And yes if it demonstrates superhuman powers it is sooooo much fun! I think there are limits to the levels of violence shown corresponding with who your audience is. As a storyteller you definitely have a responsibility there.


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Weirdly’s World: High Art vs Low Art

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on February 17, 2015 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

This and That

Dave WeirdlySome new characters are being introduced in the ASTRO MONK saga by the names of GLOP and GUN. A thought gel and a talking gun that needs to be held.

I really had fun with this page in particular the first six panels were a blast to draw!

They feel very expressive to me. I sort of thought about making them bigger for gallery exhibition { I used to show in galleries.} but I think their good as they are.

High and Low

It’s really odd but when I dropped out of the gallery scene and just did comics I would get ” Oh now your just an illustrator”. Well no… I’m still just an artist I would say. Finally things are changing comics and illustrative works are starting to be considered more on the same level as so called high art. You see shows of this work in museum’s and galleries now where as 15 years ago these same places would have turned up there nose at this art forum.

I think people’s love of this work has demanded that the art world take a more sympathetic eye. We do live in a world that anything can be art after all. I don’t make any distinction from so called low art and high art it’s all art to me.

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Weirdly’s World: the Chaos Window

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on February 9, 2015 Respond

The Chaos Window by Dave Weirdly

The Chaos WindowA new story is emerging in the ASTRO MONK saga. Involving a Thought Gel a Gun and a few A.C.K.Bots. This page is the start of that story. The AWAKENER finds a planet of abandoned buildings and inadvertently awakens a Gun and a Thought Gel which is a substance used in artificial intelligence in the ASTRO MONK universe.

This page is a favorite of mine when I look at it there is nothing I would change in it . It feels whole to me. It’s a rare thing when this happens. I remember the filmmaker Steven Spielberg once said that out of all the movies that he has made there is only one that he would not change a thing in. That movie was Raiders of the Lost Ark. The first of the Indiana Jones movies and one of my personal favorites of his. Feeling like you made a perfect thing just doesn’t happen a lot even to the most talented people.

Chaos

There is a lot of stuff that swirls around you and funnels in and out of you when you make something emotions ,influences, opinions (yourself and others) thoughts, stories how you feel that day utter chaos swirling around you till all those things converge into you and then pour out of you. It’s a birth. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. But the most important thing is that you go ahead and look into that window of chaos and open it.

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Weirdly’s World: Get On With It!

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on February 2, 2015 Respond

Get on With It by Dave Weirdly

Page 18

Originally when I came up with this ASTRO MONK story I wanted it to be a story of many stories. I wanted the stories to intertwine into one. I thought this would Illustrate my point that good and bad can be a point of view.

This page is transitional. It adds another view into the ASTRO MONK saga. The A.C.K. BOT zooms through the cosmos and some sort of GLOP starts bubbling around then the AWAKENER stumbles upon a planet of things to awaken.

I love this page but as a transition goes I think the change is a bit sudden. Particulary for the AWAKENER. I think The AWAKENER could have stood more drifting and contemplation in space.

The IMPATIENT GUY

I might have been impatient to move the story along faster. I was being the guy that twirls his fingers and says ” Come on get on with the story will Yah!” So my impatient guy won out and this is what I have . I think you still get it. I feel like it could have used another scene there. But I needed to move on and thats how these things go.


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Weirdly’s World: the Un-Relationship

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on January 26, 2015 Respond

The Un-Relationship by Dave Weirdly

wwIn this weeks ASTRO MONK page we have the AWAKENER utterly despondent over the lost friendship of the robot it has awakened.

The AWAKENER has lost possibilities. Like being saved from loneliness and the hope of a new freind. I think sometimes when we lose a new friend especially one we haven’t built much history with there is sometimes a kind of fiction that occurs around that person. Our minds build stories quickly when in need or want . The AWAKENER is very
much in this place now. Not really missing the physical friend but missing the idea of having a friend. Also creeping feelings of loneliness and eventual insanity through isolation after being exiled into deep space doesn’t help ethier.

Relationship on the Horizon

But soon very soon the next page really new possibilities will make their way to the AWAKENER.

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Weirdly’s World: Like Unlike

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on January 19, 2015 Respond

LIKE UNLIKE by Dave Weirdly

It’s funny how drawings change for you. Sometimes you just love a drawing sometimes you see that same drawing and you don’t like it. I put away stuff I don’t like. Later I come back and hope that my opinion changes.

TIME + DISTANCE = CLARITY

Astro MonkI’m not sure why this is but time and distance changes how you see things. A lot of the times I feel like I fight myself to pull out what I see in my minds eye and put it on paper. Whats in you minds eye is always better than what you can muster in reality. A little bit ago I tweeted an image were my minds eye and physical reality were on the same page. But that just doesn’t happen a lot. If I’m uncertain about a pages quality I put it away to relase the baggage of that struggle between physical Dave and mental Dave.

I’ve come back a lot of times very happy to find what I did works and I was being overly critical. When you put away your work and move on with your life it let’s you free up expectations. Other life concerns seep in and with that your perceptions shift. It’s odd but it’s like your suddenly renewed. But still there are times when you come back and what you did still STINKS! But that will lead to something better anyway. You just have more work to do.

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Weirdly’s World: Je Suis Charlie

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on January 13, 2015 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

Je Suis Charlie In my last blog I’ve talked about perceotions of villainy and here it comes screaming into our lives with last weeks Charlie Hebdo killings of cartoonist and those that help make the magazine. The killers I imagine thought that they have done nothing wrong. To them they have committed righteous GOD anointed acts. Yelling ALLAHU AKBAR {Which means GOD is great.} while they killed. I would gather from that they believed GOD was smiling
down on them as they murdered their unsuspecting victims.

The ZEALOTS

Could these ZEALOTS have changed had they not been killed? Could they somehow have been brought to a place where they could have seen what they did in another light? Did the millions of people protesting their actions have any effect on them? Could they see that thier actions did nothing to silence but only elevated those they wanted to erase?

Somewhere and to other people these men are heroes and martyrs. This is where we stand for now vastly separated by our perceptions of villainy and righteousness. Wondering what can possibly be done.
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Weirdly’s World: Follow Your Head

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on January 5, 2015 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

HeadIn my last blog article I touched on the idea of how many places your mind goes when you build a story. Last weeks page had the themes of perceptions of villiany and the transformation of those that do want to change their ways.

This weeks page deals with thoughts of loneliness and being distracted by loneliness so much so that you almost miss opportunities that arise. While your making all this stuff up your thoughts, depending on your mood, will really engage with these ideas. These ideas cause me to stop and say, “Yeah right, this is an entertaiment a funny book,” but I really do know that it/they mean more to me.

The Risk

ASTRO MONK was conceived to be more on the absurd side of things. But it is actually about more than pure entertainment or absurdity. I am speaking to the above ideas and more. Whether or not that will be felt by anybody but me will be the test of the story when it’s done. It’s the risk you take when you star something like this. So it could be something good for everyone or a learning lesson for me. Either way it’s a good thing to do if you are driven to do it.

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Weirdly’s World: Perceptions of Villainy

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on December 30, 2014 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

Perceptions of Villainy
Here we have the AWAKENER in deep thought as it drifts through space in exile. Generally no one wants to consider themselves as a villain and they will have reasons to back up their actions no matter how adversely they effect others. So what do you do with these people? I brought this idea up at a dinner I was having with some friends. They thought that people for the most part don’t really change. They are what they are. My example for this has aways been MALCOLM X, a civil rights leader in the 60’s. He was very much into crime in his younger years. While in prison he began to inwardly change and transform himself into a respected leader. But their argument was that MALCOLM X was an exception.

Perceptions of Transformation

Where is that point in an individual where their open to transformation? Is it in everybody lying dormant? Or is it a special mix of emotions and situations that swirl into a person to make change? I don’t know. This is what the ASTRO MONK has to deal with in the end. When incarceration and physical deterents are not working to resolve his conflicts. He has to find another path. He has to find the pathway to where a person wants to transform.

I know this is a only a funny book but it still takes you to these places when you try to build a story. Funny enough.

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