Speak of the devil Donna Barr... I'm kind of scared to ask how you happened upon my entry! ;-)
I've actually plugged your comics here before (http://hmpf.livejournal.com/182130.html) (thought I'd done more than one post, but apparently not... it's been a crazy year and a half since I discovered your works), but yeah, you're always welcome to leave another link. I should have put one into the original post, really, but I was in a hurry. Will remedy that immediately.
Oh, and I hope you realise that I meant 'disturbing' in the best possible sense!
I've read David Copperfield (ages ago), but I don't remember that bit. Have to admit my mindficcing was always more about people who were already fictional; somehow I've never been as tempted to invent stories for real people... possibly this has to do with my love of fantastic scenarios/worlds: much more fun to play with the stories of people who live in a fantastic world! The 'what if?' options were so much more interesting there. (Unsurprisingly, I eventually started writing fanfic. Though actually fanfic is a bit of a weird choice for me, considering I was always more interested in worlds than in people, and fanfic is nearly all about people. Hmm. Then again, I'm possibly better at writing people than at creating worlds... my teenage attempts at worldbuilding were hopelessly pedestrian. Oh, hell, I'll figure out what I want to (and can) write *some* day... *g*)
Since I conveniently have you here, I may as well ask: I'm currently considering doing my M.A. thesis about a comics-related topic, possibly about some aspects of American independent comics with a fantastic theme. Now, my knowledge of your works so far only encompasses the Desert Peach, which isn't exactly fantasy and/or sf (well, it's a bit of a borderline case, really. Afterdead certainly fits the bill). Stinz, I imagine, would fit the description better, being more clearly set in a somewhat fantastical world, but I'm not entirely sure if the issues that are still available from your website would be a good entry point for a novice. (Addendum: Oh damn, I see they're no longer available. Should have ordered sooner. Double damn.) Do you plan to make Stinz available in some form online, be it as paid download via Lulu or free download on WOWIO? Stinz is one of the major gaps in my little library so far, and also, leaving aside the issue of the, ahem, advancement of science ;-), I'm just personally curious about the series! Libraries here in Germany are unlikely to have Stinz, so it seems as if some form of online access would be the only chance for me to actually get to read it in time to be of use for my thesis.
Oh, and lastly: back in early 2007, when I completed my Desert Peach collection with issues bought from your web store, we had a short e-mail exchange that was broken, on my side, by Real Life intervening forcefully in some manner or another (I don't remember the details, but 2007 was a very real-lifey year.) I'd like to apologise for that.
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Date: 2008-04-17 08:47 pm (UTC)the devilDonna Barr... I'm kind of scared to ask how you happened upon my entry! ;-)I've actually plugged your comics here before (http://hmpf.livejournal.com/182130.html) (thought I'd done more than one post, but apparently not... it's been a crazy year and a half since I discovered your works), but yeah, you're always welcome to leave another link. I should have put one into the original post, really, but I was in a hurry. Will remedy that immediately.
Oh, and I hope you realise that I meant 'disturbing' in the best possible sense!
I've read David Copperfield (ages ago), but I don't remember that bit. Have to admit my mindficcing was always more about people who were already fictional; somehow I've never been as tempted to invent stories for real people... possibly this has to do with my love of fantastic scenarios/worlds: much more fun to play with the stories of people who live in a fantastic world! The 'what if?' options were so much more interesting there. (Unsurprisingly, I eventually started writing fanfic. Though actually fanfic is a bit of a weird choice for me, considering I was always more interested in worlds than in people, and fanfic is nearly all about people. Hmm. Then again, I'm possibly better at writing people than at creating worlds... my teenage attempts at worldbuilding were hopelessly pedestrian. Oh, hell, I'll figure out what I want to (and can) write *some* day... *g*)
Since I conveniently have you here, I may as well ask: I'm currently considering doing my M.A. thesis about a comics-related topic, possibly about some aspects of American independent comics with a fantastic theme. Now, my knowledge of your works so far only encompasses the Desert Peach, which isn't exactly fantasy and/or sf (well, it's a bit of a borderline case, really. Afterdead certainly fits the bill). Stinz, I imagine, would fit the description better, being more clearly set in a somewhat fantastical world, but I'm not entirely sure if the issues that are still available from your website would be a good entry point for a novice. (Addendum: Oh damn, I see they're no longer available. Should have ordered sooner. Double damn.) Do you plan to make Stinz available in some form online, be it as paid download via Lulu or free download on WOWIO? Stinz is one of the major gaps in my little library so far, and also, leaving aside the issue of the, ahem, advancement of science ;-), I'm just personally curious about the series! Libraries here in Germany are unlikely to have Stinz, so it seems as if some form of online access would be the only chance for me to actually get to read it in time to be of use for my thesis.
Oh, and lastly: back in early 2007, when I completed my Desert Peach collection with issues bought from your web store, we had a short e-mail exchange that was broken, on my side, by Real Life intervening forcefully in some manner or another (I don't remember the details, but 2007 was a very real-lifey year.) I'd like to apologise for that.