Celebrating 2,000 Followers!

Related Post: Celebrating 1,000 Followers!

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Ladies & Gentlemen:

On behalf of my humble keeper Miss G. E. Gallas — I, Mr. Edgar Lawrence Fluffernutter™, would like to graciously thank you for your generous patronage.

Miss Gallas is flabbergasted that our supporters have doubled in a matter of two or three months, and is unwavering in her determination to sustain the quality of this enterprise.

Although I have little knowledge of these newfangled contraptions, it is to my understanding that there are additional entities (thepoetandtheflea.wordpress.com) where one might extend one’s support, and I would be much obliged if you were to kindly do so.

Your modest nocturnal mammal,

E. L. Fluffernutter™

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Copyright 2013 by G. E. Gallas

The Versatile Blogger Award: 2nd Nomination!

Related Post: The Versatile Blogger Award!

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Many many many thanks to Spread Information (spreadinformation.wordpress.com) for nominating me a second time for the Versatile Blogger Award!!

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Rules

1. Display the award logo on your blog.
2. Thank and link back to the person who nominated you.
3. State 7 things about yourself.
4. Nominate 15 bloggers for this award.
5. Notify those bloggers of the nomination.

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Facts

1. I am currently working on two graphic novels, The Poet and the Flea and The First Reich.
2. I am an intern at Zest Books, a publishing company in San Francisco.
3. I met my wonderful Barcelonian friend Elena in Tokyo.
4. I have been interviewed by Hannah Meiklejohn for Lemonade Magazine.
5. I have been invited to speak to The Blake Society in London.
6. I am trying to figure out my trip to London.
7. I am holding a contest for someone to win a free copy of my upcoming first zine.

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Nominations

1. inthedarkwoods.com
2. reneblommer.wordpress.com
3. offsetoriginals.com
4. meshimages.wordpress.com
5. petitesage.wordpress.com
6. marinakanavaki.com
7. cyreeartworks.wordpress.com
8. laurawilliamsblog.com
9. jamesl182d.wordpress.com
10. pigandpaperco.wordpress.com
11. jakewhite599.wordpress.com
12. mjomja.wordpress.com
13. thememorymine.com
14. theyetiden.wordpress.com
15. marichkadrawsmonsters.wordpress.com

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Copyright 2013 by G. E. Gallas

Celebrating 1,000 Followers on Twitter!

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

Very Inspiring Blogger Award, February 2013

I’d like to thank Clare (dawndancers.com) very very very much for nominating me for The Very Inspiring Blogger Award! This is my third time being nominated for this award, and it’s wonderful to know how much others seems to appreciate my blog.

Truthfully, I continue to accept these awards because I love being able to share/promote other talented WordPress bloggers by nominating them. So please take a look at the list of nominations below!!

On that note, I would also like to ask you to please check out my review of Joshua Kemble’s extraordinary graphic novel Quarterly Stories!

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Rules

1. Display the award logo on your blog.
2. Link back to the person who nominated you.
3. State 7 things about yourself.
4. Nominate 15 other bloggers for this award and link to them.
5. Notify those bloggers of the nomination and the award’s requirements.

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Seven Things About G. E. Gallas

I think you’ll learn more than enough about me through the other award posts I’ve made!

1. Very Inspiring Blogger Award! (First & Second Nomination)
2. Reader Appreciation Award!
3. The Liebster Award!
4. The Beautiful Blogger Award (Nominated Four Times!!)
5. The One Lovely Blog Award + The Very Inspiring Blogger Award!
6. The Liebster Award: 2nd Nomination!
7. The Versatile Blogger Award!

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Nominate 15 Other Bloggers

Oodles and oodles of talent and inspiration, but in no particular order!

1. aboutafatgirl.wordpress.com
   
2. craftinlightenment.wordpress.com
3. literarybandit.wordpress.com
4. amandakatewalker.com
5. bygollydaily.wordpress.com
6. tetsukuri.wordpress.com
7. landofquo.wordpress.com
8. becreativemary.wordpress.com
9. adventureinart.wordpress.com
10. corkmagazine.wordpress.com
11. smallofferings.wordpress.com
12. selvasolimar.wordpress.com
13. samferdafolk.wordpress.com
14. dollgiftbyrheea.wordpress.com
15. brillenschnitzel.wordpress.com

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Copyright 2013 by G. E. Gallas

The Versatile Blogger Award!

What, another award!?!?!?! Many many many many many thanks to the incredibly talented Kiki Lanbac (laofli.wordpress.com)!!! She has a wonderful aesthetic and a wicked sense of humor. Check out a sample of her amazing work below.

This image belongs to Kiki Lanbac!

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Rules

1. Post the award pic on the blog.
2. Tell everyone about who gave you the award with a link to their blog.
3. Nominate 15 more of your favorite blogs.
4. Tell 7 interesting facts about you.

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Nominations

1. sarahpetersen.wordpress.com
2. pauldonnison.wordpress.com
3. witchesbrewpress.wordpress.com
4. october-moon.net
5. thehumansarah.wordpress.com
6. ateliercreatie.wordpress.com
7. mdlillustration.wordpress.com
8. paintblotch.wordpress.com
9. parisdreamtime.com
10. likeamagnet.wordpress.com
11. clareemilyobrien.wordpress.com
12. thegirlrach.wordpress.com
13. creatingmiranda.wordpress.com
14. filofaxlove.wordpress.com
15. tinawan.wordpress.com

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Facts

Check out these other posts for more than seven facts about me!

1. A Bit More About Me
2. Very Inspiring Blogger Award
3. Reader Appreciation Award
4. Liebster Award
5. Liebster Award: 2nd Nomination

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Bonus

Here, have an adorable photo of my shiba inu Nikki!

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Copyright 2013 by G. E. Gallas

The Liebster Award: 2nd Nomination!

My head is spinning from all these award nominations!

Thank you so much to Eszter (felteddreams.wordpress.com) for nominating me a second time for the Liebster Award! Don’t forget to check out Eszter’s amazing felt/embroidery/quilting creations.

To view the post from my first nomination, click here.

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Rules

1. Post eleven facts about yourself.
2. Answer the questions the tagger has set for you and create eleven questions for people you’ve nominated.
3. Choose eleven people to give this award to and link them in your post.
4. Go to their page and tell them.

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Eszter’s Quetions

1. What inspired you to start blogging?

Well, I started this particular blog to keep track of my various creative projects and to organize my thoughts a bit.

2. Is there one thing you wish you could change about yourself, what would it be?

I’m never good at answering this sort of question. Even if I could magically change something about myself, I don’t think I would.

3. If you could meet someone famous who is still living who would it be?

This is a really tough question because I don’t want to jinx my chances at Cannes.

4. What was the most interesting class you ever took in school?

Another tough question since I went to New York University: Gallatin School of Individualized Study and took a number of amazing courses including “Dante’s World,” “Virtue and Villainy: Melodrama,” and “Globalization: Promises and Discontents.” The most life-changing class I ever took was “Yellow Peril: Documenting & Understanding Xenophobia” taught by the amazing Jack Tchen. For this class, I wrote a painstakingly researched 25-page paper (plus 5 pages of works cited) about Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Girls. Jack’s new book Yellow Peril: Understanding Fears of “the East” and What We Can Do About It is coming out at the end of February, so check it out if you’re interested!

5. What did you want to be when you were little?

I think I always wanted to be a comic book artist/graphic novelist/mangaka since I was in elementary school up through high school graduation. I drifted away from comics/graphic novels/manga in college, but as you can tell from The Poet and the Flea have regained my passion.

6. If you could decorate your work-space however you wanted, what would be your feature color?

Well, when I moved to San Francisco, I really got to decorate my workspace and I wouldn’t really change a thing (other than that it sometimes gets way too hot and there’s no air-conditioning). My room is mostly made of various shades of blue with splashes of yellow, tan, and salmon. It’s pretty funky!

7. If your life were a book, what would be the title?

Radiant Pessimist™ (this will also be the name of my future production company — I have Laurence Harvey to thank for that one).

8. What one happy memory do you have always coming to mind?

I don’t really have one memory that always comes to mind. But I recently thought of a childhood memory (when I was maybe six or seven years old) that I really hadn’t thought of for a long time — me and my dad bobbing in the ocean off of Kiawah Island. I remember that my nose was really runny, ha ha ha.

9. Do you prefer to read actual books or use an E-reader?

Actual books, hands down! It’s just not the same experience with an e-reader. The tactile feeling of a book, the smell of it, the typography and placement on the page, the action of turning from page to page… I really have a hard time reading on my iPad.

10. If you could keep only one item from your wardrobe, what would it be?

I’ve only worn it once, but the skirt of the prom outfit my grandmother made me. She died September 2011, so I’m extremely reluctant to let it go.

11. If you win some millions in lottery, what would be the first thing you buy?

I wouldn’t “buy” anything per se. I’d rather fund a full-length film of either my own script or that of a close friend.

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Nominations

Can’t I just nominate all my followers? You’re all so awesome and talented!

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My Questions

I liked the questions I wrote last time, so I’ll use them again…

1. What is the strangest dream you’ve ever had?
2. What is/was your favorite subject in school?
3. When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
4. Who is your role model?
5. What is your favorite holiday?
6. What is your least favorite vegetable?
7. What is your guilty pleasure?
8. Are you an optimist or pessimist?
9. What are your short-term goals/New Year’s resolutions?
10. What did you last eat?
11. Do you have any special and/or bizarre talents?

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Copyright 2013 by G. E. Gallas

First Zine and Future Shop

★Please Note: Feedback on this post would be extremely appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Only January, and I’m already beginning to tackle some of my New Year’s goals (New Year’s Resolutions, Anyone?)!!!

First and foremost, I’ve been working on goal #1, making progress on some of the finished illustrations for Elias & The City of Cats. I’m hoping to make a bit more progress in the coming days and then meet up with Gabe on Friday to show him my work.

In the meantime, I’ve been brainstorming on goals #6 and #7, my first self-printed zine and my online storefront!

Possible envelopes for first zine.

The other day, I decided that my first self-printed zine will be an illustrated poem.

I was doing some research on The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and came across the perfect poem for my first zine! I think this poem will be unexpected and exciting while still tying in with The Poet and the Flea. The poem will remain a secret for now, but I’ll give a free copy of my zine to the first person who can correctly guess which one it is. Hint: The Seven Deadly Sins. I’ll be truly impressed if anyone gets this!

As far as production goes, I’d like to keep this zine relatively simple since it’s my first: about 6 to 8 pages, black and white with simple lines, a number of special hand-watercolored copies, all packaged in a lovely envelope. I’ll probably print about 25 or 30 copies, but I’d love to know if anyone is seriously interested in purchasing a copy so that I can figure out if I need to print more or less.

I’ve been planning my online storefront for a while now, but I’m waiting for the right time to set it up and launch it.

I’ve decided to use Storenvy, because it seems user-friendly and stylish. And it helps that it’s free.

Other than my first self-printed zine, I’d like to offer a wide range of products including The Poet and the Flea merchandise (prints/posters, t-shirts, tote bags, badges/pins, etc.). For prints, I’d like to keep them high-quality but made-to-order so that one can request any page of The Flea or whatnot.

The most ambitious product I’d like to see in my store is a The Flea plush toy. I’ve been playing around with many ideas for this, but know it has to remain relatively simple. The plush toy will definitely be handmade in black fabric, possibly with buttons for eyes and silver/gold (maybe glow-in-the-dark) fabric paint to add texture/scales. It will take me a while to get to this project (and I might recruit some help for it), but I’m excited to see how everything turns out.

Also, I’d like to offer commissioned illustrations, but I have to work out the details on that!

Again, feedback is very welcome! Just leave a comment below or send me an e-mail at gegallas@hotmail.com!

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Copyright 2013 by G. E. Gallas

The One Lovely Blog Award + The Very Inspiring Blogger Award!

Another award!!! I’d like to thank T. Jay Santa Ana (artbyanto.com) very very very much for nominating me for The One Lovely Blog Award + The Very Inspiring Blogger Award! Be sure to check out T. Jay’s awesome graphic design and illustration work.

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Rules

1. Thank the person who nominated you.
2. Add The One Lovely Blog Award + The Very Inspiring Blogger Award to your post.
3. Share 7 things about yourself.
4. Pass the award on to 10 nominees.
5. Include this set of rules.
6. Inform your nominees by posting a comment on their blogs.

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Facts

Check out these other posts for more than seven facts about me!

1. A Bit More About Me
2. Very Inspiring Blogger Award
3. Reader Appreciation Award
4. Liebster Award
5. The Beautiful Blogger Award

Instead of writing another “7 things about yourself” list, I thought I’d share my 7 top favorite obscure films list (in no particular order)!

I’d be interested to know how obscure these films really are (as in if any of my followers/readers have ever seen these).

P. S. I’m afraid a number of them might possibly star Laurence Harvey, aha ha ha. Threw in a few Japanese titles as well.

1. I Am a Camera (1955)
2. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
3. The Cat’s Meow (2001)
4. Life at the Top (1965)
5. The Clone Returns Home/Kurôn wa Kokyô wo Mezasu (2008)
6. Confessions/Kokuhaku (2010)
7. The Ceremony (1963)

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Nominations

So much talent on WordPress!

1. parametricdrawing.com
2. thecumulusfactory.wordpress.com
3. illustratedmustache.wordpress.com
4. streethearts.net
5. gehennagate.wordpress.com
6. caseprint.co.uk
7. magneticcrow.com
8. blakebradyartwork.com
9. desultorydigest.wordpress.com
10. greenhornphotos.com

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Copyright 2013 by G. E. Gallas

The Beautiful Blogger Award!

Updates

January 9th:

I’d like to thank Daniel Budiarto/Sky Sairyou of Bottomless Sky (skysairyou.wordpress.com) very very very much for nominating me for The Beautiful Blogger Award for the fourth time! Don’t forget to check out his intriguing short stories.

January 4th:

I’d like to thank the amazing Gabrielle (illostrophy.com) and the wonderful Jiandra (thingiemajingie.wordpress.com) for nominating me a second and third time for The Beautiful Blogger Award! Words cannot express my appreciation!!!

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I’d like to thank Bhutan Girl (karmakrazy.wordpress.com) very very very much for nominating me for The Beautiful Blogger Award!

How is it that I keep getting all these awards? I know they’re all a little silly, but I really appreciate them because I feel that my blog is at least reaching somebody!

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Rules

1. Link back the person who nominated you.
2. Post the award on your page.
3. Tell seven facts about yourself.
4. Nominate seven bloggers and let them know they have been nominated.

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Facts

Check out these other posts for more than seven facts about me!

1. A Bit More About Me
2. Very Inspiring Blogger Award
3. Reader Appreciation Award
4. Liebster Award

Since this is a ★BEAUTIFUL★ award, I thought I share a photo instead.

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Nominations

I keep finding such talented artists on WordPress! It’s difficult to choose just seven…

1. aspaceboydreamcomic.wordpress.com
2. thethirdredapple.com
3. universalson.wordpress.com
4. crownsandpeacocks.wordpress.com
5. professionalmoron.com
6. thingiemajingie.wordpress.com
7. strangerillustrations.wordpress.com

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Copyright 2013 by G. E. Gallas

Celebrating 1,000 Followers!

Yesterday, to my utter surprise, the counter hit 1,000 followers (and a little over) here at gegallas.wordpress.com.

All I can say is: “Wow!”

Many thanks to each and every one of you who has followed this blog. Your “likes,” comments, kind words, insights, and encouragement have really helped me continue to strive towards my goals.

By the way, for those of you who are enjoying The Poet and the Flea (thepoetandtheflea.wordpress.com), don’t forget to press “follow” over there too!

Happy Holidays and sweet New Year’s wishes,

G. E.

P.S. I’m excited for my family’s typical Jewish Xmas celebration — Chinese food and a trip to the movies!

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Copyright 2012 by G. E. Gallas