http://gingerdead.com GingerDead and Friends Web Comic Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a while since we've had a visit from Gluck. Oddly enough, I have little control over who will show up each week. Occasionally, I can focus my head on a character and try to come up with something for his or her personality but usually the ... http://gingerdead.com/2010/03/10/zombie-disappointment/ If you are guessing this is a new addition to the GingerDead Greeting Card collection, you're right. It will be added in time for Easter... So this weekend I went to a fantastic art show (Black and White) at the new studio and gallery of Blue Lucy. Blue Lucy ... http://gingerdead.com/2010/03/03/egg-hunt/ Sorry to leave you comic-less last week. I had planned on driving to Sarasota to drop off some illustrated jewelry, GingerDead cards and prints at this really cool alternative shop called Rumor Has It and at the last minute we decided to make a little mini vacation out of ... http://gingerdead.com/2010/02/24/a-suspicious-mind/ Last week was a long week. Too much graphic design work plus a bad cold that is still lingering made getting a comic done impossible. I had nothing tonight and it is nearly time to update. Flipping through a little sketchbook that I sometimes doodle in while ... http://gingerdead.com/2010/02/10/creatures-of-comfort/ This weekend Jim and I finally got to see The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. For weeks it appeared it would not be playing in St. Petersburg or even Tampa FL. As surrounding cities and small towns had it listed and we still did not, I was getting ready ... http://gingerdead.com/2010/02/03/slime-gets-him-every-time/ You might remember the saying on this illustration from a painting I did a while back (here) Now and then I've been asked if I had anything with that same saying in a print or a greeting card. This drawing was going to be a wordless comic but then ... http://gingerdead.com/2010/01/27/love-is-still-strange/ This character is something I came up with for these brooch/pendant pieces I make in my illustrated jewelry line. I named her the first time I sketched her and she has been using those eyes to sway me into allowing her to make an appearance in a haiku comic. ... http://gingerdead.com/2010/01/20/lil-miss-spooky-eyes/ This week we revisit the famous and often spoofed poem: 'This is just to say’ by William Carlos Williams. You can read the first comic spoof I did and more on the subject here. To refresh your memory, the original poem goes like this: THIS IS JUST TO SAY ... http://gingerdead.com/2010/01/13/this-is-just-to-say-spoof-2/ I found the most wonderful museum/shop of curiosities! Unfortunately, you can't shop online so for those of us not lucky enough to live near Melbourne Australia, we'll have to plan a serious field trip! Wunderkammer has a delightful collection of vintage lab and medical equipment, bones, fossils, insects, ... http://gingerdead.com/2010/01/06/driven/ I'm always curious about the origins of sayings or in this case childhood taunts. In my neighborhood it was the saying 'Liar, liar, pants on fire' that would be chanted accusingly at a child that was suspected of fibbing. The phrase was only used among children in my ... http://gingerdead.com/2009/12/30/liar-liar/