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It’s hard to believe, but last week my Twitter account @gegallas reached 1,000 followers and over!
I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all my followers, both on Twitter and WordPress. I truly appreciate your support!
Also, I’d like to mention a few cool people on Twitter (some of whom are also on WordPress)…
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Professional Moron (@CreativeMoron) – professionalmoron.com
Mr. Wapojif is a special creature. His nonsensical absurdity is sure to entertain!!
Recommended Posts: Do You Have “LOL” Tourette’s Syndrome? and Would You Go On A Date With a Planet?
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Vince Dorse (@vincedorse) – vincedorse.com and Untold Tales of Bigfoot
Not only is Vince a lovely person, but his Sasquatch is a lovable beast. 
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Shannon Wheeler (@MuchCoffee) – Too Much Coffee Man Shannon Wheeler
Shannon left me this great tweet about The Poet and the Flea: “Just read it. I liked it. Blake is Dante and Ginsberg. You’re right.”
Check out his wonderful online comic strips — he’s been making ‘em since 1995!
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Levi Hastings (@leviathanleague) – leviathanleague.com
Take a look at Levi’s beautiful watercolor illustrations.
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Jessica Hayworth (@angrycomics) – angry-comics.tumblr.com/tagged/Comic
Been a huge fan of Angry Beige for a couple of years. Wonderfully surreal little comics.
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Copyright 2013 by G. E. Gallas
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Who says comics can’t be educational and hilarious?
Today, I’d like to share a very special online comic I admire very much! Please, let me introduce you to…
Raine Szramski is the awesome (and, not to mention, super nice) artist/illustrator of Pre-Raphernalia as well as another amazing series called Heaven & the Dead City, which can be either read online here or purchased here.
Pre-Raphernalia centers around the Victorian avant-garde artists known as The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including the likes of John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. These artists were quite eccentric, even by today’s standards, and lived oftentimes rowdy and scandalous lives.
What’s so wonderful about Pre-Raphernalia is that Raine takes the true historical events/relationships/facts and depicts them to the full extent of their eccentricity. When reading, I often find myself laughing out loud! Furthermore, she takes the time to write a full historically-accurate explanation of each comic, thoroughly detailing the backgrounds of each individual involved.
I highly recommend Pre-Raphernalia for anyone who wants to learn a little bit of history while having a fun time doing so.
Below are a number of my favorite images/pages from Pre-Raphernalia.
The following images belong to Raine Szramski.
For more Pre-Raphernalia and Raine Szramski, please check out the following websites…
preraphernalia.blogspot.com
thewatchertree.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/raine.szramski
rainesz.deviantart.com
www.co2comics.com/pages/co2_heaven_and_the_dead_city.html
www.lulu.com/spotlight/co2comics
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Yesterday (December 3rd), I decided to try messaging a fellow webcomic creator that I strongly admire: Shelby Lynn Criswell, writer and illustrator of Awkward Shelby.
And, boy, am I glad I did! She’s not only super talented, but also super sweet! She even checked out The Flea and is now a fan! So I wanted to do everything in my power to promote her comic and share her work with all of you. 
Awkward Shelby is a series of autobiographical strips detailing the awkward moments of Shelby’s life. Shelby is a self-procliamed “androgynous weirdo,” but I think her awkwardness is very universal (or at least I personally relate to many of her plights). Her drawing style is very whimsical and full of movement and life.
Also, she’s working on a more serious graphic novel called This is Your Life, which looks very very very promising!
Below are a number of my favorite strips from Awkward Shelby.
The following images belong to Shelby Lynn Criswell.
For more Awkward Shelby, please check out the following websites…
awkwardshelby.thecomicseries.com
awkwardshelbycomic.tumblr.com
www.facebook.com/AwkwardShelby
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Here is a brief update on my current creative projects and endeavors…!
★ “The Poet and the Flea 100 Day Countdown to the Premiere” is underway!! Join us on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook!
Thursday, November 15th
- Worked on The First Reich.
- Helped my mom, the abstract painter, set up her new WordPress blog: irenezweig.wordpress.com.
- Signed up with Scribd.com.
- Signed up with DoodlersAnonymous.com.
Friday, November 16th
- E-mails, e-mails, e-mails…!
Saturday, November 17th
- Thoroughly enjoyed Seven Psychopaths. Very clever with brilliant characters, but actually extremely heartbreaking.
- Working on The Flea script.
Sunday, November 18th
- Date night with Wes! (´ε｀ )♡
Monday, November 19th
- Applied to a few more fellowships/internships.
- Worked on color samples for Elias & The City of Cats.
- Today, was hired for a 4-day cat sitting job by our sweet neighbors Paula and Gabie. They want me to be with the cats as much as possible, so I figure I can earn a little extra cash while having a window of opportunity to do some work. I’m hoping to use the time to make some major headway on The Flea script — like a little writing marathon. Wish me luck!
Tuesday, November 20th
- Another wonderful meeting with Gabe! Showed him color samples for Elias and he seemed rather surprised at how colorful they are, but delighted! Now, I just have to finish up the second draft and then scan and send it all to Gabe so he can tinker around with the text some more.
- Worked on some upcoming blog posts.
Wednesday, November 21st
- Ran some last minute errands.
- Worked on some special illustration birthday/holiday presents with watercolor and pen!
Thursday, November 22nd
- Happy Turkey Day!!
- Worked on The First Reich.
Friday, November 23rd
- Recovering from Thanksgiving…!
Saturday, November 24th
Sunday, November 25th
- Date night with Wes! (´ε｀ )♡
- See additional post here.
Etcetera
- The Poet and the Flea: 52 pages of written script (1 page of script = 4-6 illustrated pages), and about 36 pages (1-24, 27-30 completed, and 25-26, 31-36 in progress) of illustrated work.
- The First Reich: about 1-6 pages of illustrated work in progress.
To Do:
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Copyright 2012 by G. E. Gallas
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This is an idea I had a while back for a comedic blog about my Bubbie and her antics. If you all enjoy this, perhaps I’ll write a few more, such as how Bubbie voted entirely Democratic except for Mitt Romney because she thinks he’s handsome or how Bubbie now has a crush on Jake Gyllenhaal because he’s a “nice Jewish boy.”
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Much Ado About Bubbie
Bubbie (noun): A term of endearment for a Jewish Grandmother.
Example: My Bubbie doesn’t keep kosher outside of the house.
My sister Sydney, Bubbie, and me.
Bubbie’s Mad About Hamm
My Bubbie Isabelle has a crush on Jon Hamm.
Just like the rest of the family, Bubbie tunes into Mad Men every Sunday night to watch the admen of 1960s Madison Avenue drink, smoke, whore, and gossip – not to mention dish out sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic dialogue by the second, all of which (with the exception of the anti-Semitic variety) go unprotested by my Bubbie, a true product of the time.
To me, the series is a literary masterpiece on film regardless of how small the screen. To Bubbie, it’s just another one of her “weekly stories,” on par with General Hospital and The Young and the Restless.
Jon Hamm plays the brooding protagonist slash advertising genius, Donald Draper, on the show. Ever since reading in The Kansas City Star that the handsome actor is a St. Louis native, Bubbie – who’s lived in Missouri for over seventy years – has harbored a vicarious pride for Mr. Hamm. Much to my family’s embarrassment, this is not Bubbie’s first crush on a man that is at least a decade younger than my dad.
One time on vacation, while my family was checking into the Waldorf Astoria for a night, Bubbie was mesmerized by the dazzling charm and good looks of an Israeli desk clerk.
What a five-foot tall, eighty-something-year-old – complete with her teased-and-set helmet hair, her rhinestoned schoolteacher sweaters, and her constrictive girdle that makes her waddle – would want with a thirty-something-year-old desk clerk was not exactly a welcomed thought in my thirteen-year-old brain.
…a thought that was only exacerbated by the phrase Bubbie used to convey her attraction to the young man:
“He can put his shoes under my bed any day!”
Bubbie employs the same phrase in regards to Jon Hamm.
Whenever I phone Bubbie, my curiosity always gets the better of me. I can’t help but ask her what she thought of the most recent episode of Mad Men. And just like that, she goes off on her classic rant.
Firstly, Bubbie is angry at the show for not portraying the 60s how she remembers it, what with the show’s excessive drinking, smoking, and sex in the office. “When I worked in an office, they didn’t do that kind of stuff!”
Furthermore, Bubbie not only treats Jon Hamm as if he truly exists during the 1960s, but as if Jon Hamm is accountable for his character Don Draper’s actions. Whenever Don Draper does something that Bubbie doesn’t approve of (for instance, whenever Don has sex with a woman he’s not married to – an incident that occurs almost every episode and with what seems like a different woman every time), Bubbie is not only upset with but in disbelief that Jon Hamm would do such a thing, as if she’s oblivious to the profession of acting.
That’s when Bubbie whips out yet another one of her famous phrases, this time to express her disappointment with Jon Hamm’s behavior:
“Why, it’s disgusting!”
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Copyright 2012 by G. E. Gallas
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Just wanted to compile a list of a few comics/web comics/graphic novels I admire and highly recommend!
(In no particular order!)
- Call Sign Spirit (coming soon!) by Tina Lee.
- Meristem County by Jade F. Lee.
- Fajita by Ryan Thompson.
- Luci’s Letdown (on my wish list) by Marjee Chmiel & Sandra Lanz.
- Angry Comics/Monster (on my wish list) by by Jessica Hayworth.
- Baritarian Boy by Lawrence Gullo & Fyodor Pavlov.
- Hemlock by Josceline Fenton.
- The Tragedy Series by Benjamin Dewey.
- Death Stories by Omar ZahZah and Eliza Frye.
- Comics by Emily Carroll.
- Hark, a vagrant (of course) by Kate Beaton.
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Copyright 2012 by G. E. Gallas
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