Added 5 new A* comics:So that thing that looks like some kind of cosmic dentist's torture device in #18 there is a space station, and for the animated version I wanted to make it so that you can see the big tubular part is rotating (at just under 2 rotations per minute, in fact), while the branchy part with all the ships docked isn't, so I came up with this wacky way of simulating rotation involving hundreds of layers and uhh... Well anyway those three bright dashes on it will sort of rotate in a cylindrical pseudo-3D fashion, we'll hafta see how convincing that is.
I sold my first print! Yay! Each comic and art gallery piece has a "buy signed print" link next to it, so if you want me to take it to the printers, have them print it nice and glossy at 8.5x11 on nice heavy paper, sign it and ship it off to you (I do that part, not the printers), that's what you do. Anyway the print happens to be of the latest Princess and the Giant comic that I did over the weekend, which you can get to by clicking this bookmark-sized thing I made out of it for advertising purposes:
So that was exciting! Well, I'm going to go scribble off a Sketchy comic, then we'll be back with more A* tomorrow.
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Ooh I forgot, I was going to talk about what a wacky place the post office is. It's a wacky place! I got my Priority Mail envelope all addressed and stuff, then used this newfangled automated postage station they have to get the postage and Delivery Confirmation for it, rather than waiting in the long slow line for a clerk. That would have been great, except that it gave me a postage + label thing that didn't fit in the postage spot marked on the envelope, and, if stuck over the address part, would have left the envelope without a return address, because the printed label had only a "TO:" and no "FROM:" address part. Huh!
So being a newb at this I had to wait in line to ask a clerk. He slaps the label over my FROM:/TO: label, and I ask him if it doesn't need a return address by some magic, like maybe they read my mailing address off my credit card when I paid for the postage at the machine, or maybe I answered the questions wrong and it would have given me a label with a "FROM:" field if I'd answered them differently. He said no those labels just don't have a "FROM:" field and yes you should have one, so he fished out this special little roll of small blank labels--not available to customers in the self-help areas!--and had me fill it out, then he pasted it up I think where the postage spot was marked. So... Yeah. You'd think they'd have this "FROM:" deal down a little better. But now I've got the system and its quirks down!
The other funny thing was that while waiting in line, I noticed (you can't avoid it, they're clever that way) a hand-written sign saying that if you're a small business and want to get free delivery confirmation, shipping pick-ups from home/office and other things, then put your contact info in this little box they'd put next to the note, and a "manager" would call you and give you the inside info. Um... Well free delivery confirmation would be super, but I didn't want the post office calling me (scary!), and I figured if this was legit, it'd just be on their web site somewhere, right?
Nope! Not on the web site. There are programs and things you can download to print your own stamps and labels and save 14% on shipping and stuff, but nothing about free delivery confirmation. So it seems my local PO managers are running their own little side deals! Huh!
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