Added 1 new A* page:Going to see if I can make the final push of getting my original-art-selling system for the web site finished this weekend. Might go up overnight Sunday/Monday, we'll see how the weekend work gods treat me!
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A while back I linked to this page of "rare Bill Watterson art"; well, I found a similar page with other unpublished artwork by Watterson, known of course for his newspaper comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. The page is Bill Watterson's Rarest, and includes a strip from a rejected pre-Calvin series he tried, Critters, as well as a Calvin strip that only ran in about half the usual newspapers, and was never republished--for reasons unknown!
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That space junk I mentioned was menacing the International Space Station a day or so back--or more specifically menacing the station's designated "safe" zone--was in fact far enough away that the station didn't have to dodge, according to this article.
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The Curiosity rover just came across what looks like an ancient streambed on Mars; the " rocky outcrops containing large and rounded stones cemented in a conglomerate matrix" suggest that water that hip-deep water may have flowed swiftly through the area billions of years ago.
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I tried something slightly different with today's A* page; earlier in this episode, for adding some noise/dust to the galactic core nebula, if you can call it that, I got an interesting effect by stroking black ink over non-waterproof white ink. For the base operator's hair in today's page I thought I'd try the same technique; it didn't come out quite the same--darned if I can remember quite what the difference in the approach was--but it still did something interesting, I think.
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