Jason Marcy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY mister_f!!!!, or as I know him, JOE MEYER!!!!!!!!

Seems like yesterday afternoon I lost my fucking wallet. Probably up by my in laws place. Pretty sure it's gone, tore apart the house, searched the car...
So I canceled my VISA, got new bank cards, applied for a new driver's license and Health Card. Was happy to see I hadn't put my Social Insurance Card in there. Called some credit watchers to make sure that if anyone applies for credit in my name, I get called before it goes down. During the Health Card app I actually signed up for ORGAN DONATION if I croak unexpectedly and they can use bits of me. This is a first for me, because I've always been superstitious about signing up for one of them things. Oddly enough I almost got to donate some organs when a woman who looked like 90 tried to do an illegal left turn as I was going straight. Crazy.
So yes, today has been trying. If I find my wallet somehow in this house, it'll be a lesson learned. But I'm sure it's gone...

First, Daybreakers


Zombieland


District 9


Tonight we get to see Transformers 2 ,which I will gladly check my poorly developed brain at thew door for!

Despite the fact it was a "short" week, it was still fairly stressful, a lot of little things here and there that added up. Some con stuff needed dealing with a little too damn early (and it has been handled...), strips were being inked to get me ahead, life kept happening, and yes, work.
WEB COMICS NATION
My second week of Web Comics Nation was pretty good, with numbers up significantly, yet not where I want to see them (is anyone ever satisfied with their view numbers? Or do expectations just keep getting higher? I see this as a good thing to strive for...). Many thanks to rono64 and zinccomics for posting some pretty flattering reviews that no doubt helped bring up those numbers. Also thanks to jkcarrier for sending me links to webcomics index sites. That probably gave me a boost. Nik Dirga also wrote a nice review, though I don't know if it'll be posted because I don't think they post outside reviews? It was still pretty cool!
I have a pretty consistent hits count every day which means the same people keep coming back. Now I need to get it higher and higher...
NEW PROJECT?
Nothing done yet. I'm actually laying out qmaster_p's latest incarnation of Jagged Slice of Life in Indesign so it can be an official trade paperback. I'm considering this as payment for my part of the Hotel in August for Fan Expo in Toronto, where I'll be sharing a table with him and PEELING ONIONS creator Lezley Davidson. Anything new from me is on the backburner, though I'll likely try to squeeze some work on something in the middle of all the other stuff...
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY to all my American brothers and sisters!!
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I still wince over that night. Joe's Mom was likely sure after that I was certifiable...

Just finished listening to a bunch tunes using https://mixapp.com/g/19/967 . A lot of pals are already in on it, and though I first thought it might be a waste of time, it was actually a boon to me getting shit done,inking, listening to other folk's music selections, and adding my own to the mix. Get in there!!!
I'm off to dinner soon at my sister in law's, may be back tonight on that. Thanks to all who were present and let me "spin" some tunes: joshpm, reidsrow, demongoldfish and wormulus!!

So I put up a full profile on my Web Comics Nation Page. Nothing fancy, just a history of what I've been doing in comics the past 20 years. There are a lot of features I don't have access to because I don't have a paid account, so if anyone else can fill me in on what will work for me with a "basic" account, please let me know.
Added a few more pals on my Comicspace Page. If you haven't, please go friend me there.
Have inked a little over two weeks in webstrips ahead of what's currently posted. I'd like to be up to date on the inking in a day or so.
Family's home after their camping adventures. It was odd but nice to have a few days to myself.
Tomorrow is Canada's 142nd birthday. As usual, the Holiday is being recognized on the day so we get a midweek day off. I'd rather them move the day to Friday so we can have a long weekend, it's actually been in the news lately how we need to emulate our neighbors to the South with this, and I for one agree. A midweek "holiday" is goddamn jarring...
So Happy Birthday Canada! Thanks for regulating the banks so we didn't have as big a crash as the U.S., thanks for our Health Care System that is constantly being maligned for all the wrong reasons. Thanks for having paid for job retraining programs should one lose their job. I am very grateful to have been born and to live here.

puffchrissy has a pretty awesome book out. If you enjoy autobio comics or prose non fiction, then it's right up your alley, as Christian Dumais shares his adventures across a number of continents. From what I've read excerpt wise, I will be buying this book, but if I can win a copy, that'd be awesome too!!


CHECK IT OUT ON AMAZON!!

I swear to God this one thought was running through my head all day.Of course, a month later, I am long over it. Now I'm just gonna keep striving to be better at this game. Screw being a breakout artist. Never really part of the plan I realized on Day one of MoCCA. A huge mental barrier leaped...

Yeah, so Joe dragged me across the length of Long Island (or so it seemed...) to hang with some of his furry pals. One an amazing tattoo artist who was doing "freebie" tattoos as part of his apprenticeship. I was hoping to get one, but his girlfriend had lost her job earlier in the day, so it didn't happen...
I swear Joe was trying to kill me with all the wee hours of the morning nights we had. I'm not used to that stuff at all...

Made the mistake of watching Quarantine, and I'm like totally freaked out. I literally had to go outside and sit in the waning daylight and soak in the neighborhood, the normalcy. Of course, I had to come back in the house, and other than the damn cats, I'm all alone, dammit!!
Tried to call Kris on her cell, but I guess there's no local towers close to the campsite.
I'm such a baby...

After much kicking and screaming, I've set up a very basic (for now) profile at ComicSpace. My username is jay_marcy should you wish to add me as a pal if you're on it.
And I didn't buy any books .I went to Blockbuster though and bought Quarrantine ($9.99), Hellboy II(for $6.99!!!), and Tropic Thunder (free cause I bought the other two, plus I need something I can watch with Kris...). So for under 20 bucks, three flicks. Not bad.

...I've been fighting the urge to jump in my father in law's van (which I have cause he's off tomorrow...) and race to The Beguiling. Haven't been in the store now for almost two years (I know, that's crazy...), and only once or twice since we implemented our "Budget" lifestyle here at the Marcy homestead. I'm literally(and yes, I do mean literally...) fighting off the goddamn shakes as I resist what my mind keeps telling me to do. "Go to The Beguiling. The Seth Tobocman book you didn't pick up at MoCCA is there, that autobio book about growing up dyslexic is there...God knows how many other things you can't find in PREVIEWS you'll find there..."
But I'm sitting here. Resisting. I signed up for Comicspace. Need to design the page. I've got a bunch of dailies to ink. If it wasn't raining and I wasn't here all by myself (Kris and Xander are camping for the next couple of days, I gotta work...) I could sit outside and do the inking at least. Itss almost three though and in two hours the wonderful Beguiling will be CLOSED. I also need to remember I don't have the fuckin' MONEY to spend there.
Sooooo tempting...
I watched Repo:The Genetic Opera ,and yes piratecore and flamingwingnut, it was bad, but it was so good too cause it had Sarah Brightman and Anthony Stewart Head in it. Plus the awesome dude singing the "graverobber" tune. It ended a lot like I figured it would (how does any film featuring a tortured villain/antihero type end? You all know...), and I liked some of the tunes. I like garbage, I can't help it. Plus I paid 10 bucks for it from the closing Virgin Megastore in NYC, so fuck, it's all good.
I'm gonna get out of the house, cause it's been stifling and lonely here. No I'm not going to The Beguiling...promise...

So I've completed my first full week on the Web Comics Nation site. Numbers were pretty low, and I know a lot of folks will say, "Jesus, Jay, it's only been one week!", but it was still a pretty humbling experience to see the low number of daily views, with yesterday being the worst.
Obviously the majority of you guys are checking me out right here (and please, continue to do so! Maybe send some of your non LJ friends to the 'nation site...).
Of course, there's a lot of work to do. I remain stupefied that I never thought of doing the outside posting sites before. Next up in the world will be a Comicspace page. All of this falls under the category of "things I've been planning to do" or "I've been too damn lazy to do". I turn 39 years old on July 1th, and I'm really coming late to these parties it seems. Pretty much like how I avoided the real party scene when I was a teenager young adult, I've preferred to stay hidden away in the World Wide Web. I mean, geez, I've had a Facebook site for awhile and I could easily have posted my strips there for all the pals of mine who may have never seen my LJ page or any of my books.
I'm humbled, but not bowed by all this. I intend to hit it and hit it hard. Kris and Xander are off camping for a few days, so that leaves me plenty of time to get a lot of the things I've been "meaning to do" actually doing.
The website is still problematic, but apparently more stable than it has been. That too will be improved upon.
I need to know how Lezley Davidson manages the high number of hits she's had for Peeling Onions. It can't all be friends and acquaintances!!
EDIT: Didn't make the new Always Comix cutlist. Not too upset. My story was fairly late in the cue submission wise, and eh, you can't win em all! There's always the next one, and after seeing the cutlist for the Evil issue, I really gotta step up my game artwise. These kids are good...