Oh, but what a beautiful day it is outside! Yours truly has just about cleaned his disastor of a studio and is feeling quite good about it. I put one of my all time favorite films on the computer and just went to work. Being a paratrooper, HBO’s “Band of Brothers” holds a special place in my heart. Everything about this series (and every episode) is just fantastic. The amazing and very believable cast to the authenticity of the production to the amazing writing and acting never cease to amaze me. Several scenes are among my favorite of all time (When they first take off for Normandy, the little boy eating chocalate, Spears’ charge against the Germans) all get me choked up. But none realy compare to one scene where after the liberation of Holland, Easy company passes a lone Dutch woman walking towards Germany, She’s shoeless, in rags, head shaved and carrying her infant (obviously a German soldiers). Because she covorted with the Germans, the Dutch, after five years of brutal occupation had banished her. But what moved me so was the site of a young paratrooper handing her a chocalate bar. The Americans had lost so many liberating a foriegn country and the compassion of that young man, totally sums up my feelings about Americans and America in general.

Anyway, I’ve been writing a lot as well and have been doing commissions. My new project is a reference nigthmare and since it is based on actual events, I must be careful not to bastardize the truth, yet make it fit in a comic story starring ficitonal people. But I love it so much. I’ve broken down the six issues, and have wrote two very detailed page by page synopsis’ for the first two.

I also want to draw and have Sparky paint at least one new Shi image for Comic Con (Ring of Fire) for lithos and to present to Mike Richardson. I think I’ll hold off on my remaining commissions to work on those images.

I’ll also be doing the cover for an issue of “Return to Neverland” and got approval for the rough. I’ll post that on the recent art thread.

Okay, now I’m waiting for Matthew to finish his breakfast so we can go running (he sits in the jogging stroller). I saw pictures of myself at Philly and must get back into shape! I think he’s done so I’ll run then post up the roughs and Mark McKenna’s inks for the CBG cover.

Cheers!

Oh I’ve also got to call my mother — it’s he birthday!