{"id":1069,"date":"2010-10-26T22:28:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T22:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kommiekomiks.com\/driftwood\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2023-02-04T21:13:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:13:57","slug":"driftwood-8-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood 8 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raah, I can&#8217;t believe it took me all day to ink this page.* Also, I&#8217;m ashamed to admit I inked the first panel. (;_;) The perspective in the second panel is from hell, too. I should just stick to comics with talking heads in sand dunes. (-_-);<br \/>\n<em>*Recalls an old review of my comics that went something like this: &#8220;It&#8217;s really in the complicated drawings that Tinet excells &#8230;&#8221;*<\/em><br \/>\nOkay, now I feel even more like a failure. (;_____;)<\/p>\n<p>It helped me feel a bit better that I found a Russian LibriVox volunteer with a really cute voice. \u2665 <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/newcatalog\/people_public.php?peopleid=2826\">Here are his audio files<\/a>, in Russian and Belarussian. Unfortunately all of them are rather short &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I may have identified the childhood experience that traumatized me into being obsessed with Russians. I don&#8217;t remember exactly how old I was, but I was in pre-school or 1st grade. My mum took me to see a concert with Russian folk music at our local small town theatre\/cinema. For some reason it was only me and mum. There was just a handful of other people at the concert and we were sitting in one of the front rows. One of the singers was a young dark-haired man who I thought was quite handsome. During one of his solo songs he looked at me, and I started to try to imagine what it might be like to be older and have him as my husband or boyfriend &#8230; :3<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>* Admittedly I did interrupt my work for a couple hours\u00a0because some guy sent me a fascinating email about a foundation that will work to preserve the old Mongolian livestock guard dogs and promote the use of these dogs to cope with wolves and other predators. He asked me where I had photographed some of the dogs in my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kommiekomiks.com\/Bankhar\/index.html\">Mongolian doggie collection<\/a>, and it was such an interesting request that I spent quite some time retracing my travel route on Google Maps &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raah, I can&#8217;t believe it took me all day to ink this page.* Also, I&#8217;m ashamed to admit I inked the first panel. (;_;) The perspective in the second panel is from hell, too. I should just stick to comics with talking heads in sand dunes. (-_-); *Recalls an old review of my comics that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-8","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}