Nick Bate -- Ugh. Headache. -- Melbourne *FINISHED*

[nickb]

Ugh. Headache indeed (Tonia, I feel your pain!). Still, go hard or go home, and all that. 'Sides, I'm only aiming for a wimpy 8 pages.

My words are POLICE, SKIN and QUIETER. I started scribbling notes at about 11:10am, and took my first pain medication at 10:00am. Woo!

[nickb]

Righteo, got some pages! Here's the first one:

How about those stick figures, eh?

[nickb]

Hmmm. The images are coming out all small-like. Can everyone see/read that? If not, I guess I'll have to work out what's going on. Not one of my talents, really!

Also, I have now drawn a brain-in-a-jar with pincer claws. I can die happy.

[nickb]

Aaaaand page 3. I'm surrounded by people who can draw real good, and I'm finding it terribly intimidating. They're intimidating me. Or something.

Now: the big question. Dinner, or more comicking? And, in other news, it's almost time for more panadol!

[nickb]

Aaaand here's page 4.

You know, it's funny. The more panadols you take, the less effective they seem to become...

Not that I'm whinging or anything. Oh no!

[nickb]

And here's the fifth one.

Man, I wish Indiana Jones 4 hadn't sucked.

[nickb]

Page six! I'm totally heading down the home straight now. And this one has colour. Yes, colour!

Oh, and for the record: Caanan has pretty excellent taste in music.

[nickb]

Page 7. I have nothing else to say.

[nickb]

Page 8...

And I'm done! One of these years, I really must try for something larger than 8 pages. For now, though, I'm having a celebratory starburst lolly. And there's nothing you can do to stop me!

[mr 100%]

NB - you're an absolute genius as far as I'm concerned (apart from Dr Disagreeable having a pop-corn maker for a head....). VERY funny. But it is late. And I'm drunk (well .056). So maybe I'm not the best judge... But bloody great work as far as I'm concerned.

[breachy]

Nikolai, you take that Starburst lolly and you eat it. Because you deserve it. As always, top knotch story telling. And I wish I had've written the brain in a jar...

[rumpusroomie]

I laughed loud. that woke Caanan.

Then i looked at Breachy, "Nick's funny" i said. She looked at me oddly. It was the look of someone examining a simpleton. I felt her answer though it did not come from her lips. "of coourse he's funny!" she's right. i did know that... but it's 6am. i've now been up 22 hours. i drew for 18 of those. I drew women's pleasure devices i'm told.

I'm allowed to be empty headed.

[jacen_c]

Good stuff Nick- excellent banter, very funny...I think I'm starting to get a headache from reading all these entries.

[nickb]

Sleep = good!

Thanks, guys, for saying nice things. That's really cool. Jake, I'm inclined to agree with you on the popcorn-maker-head front, but I'm sure Dr. Disagreeable wouldn't! He is, you know, a bit disagreeable... (boom-tish!)

It was certainly an experience drawing stick-figures in the same room as scary-good artists like Trev and Dave and Caanan. I think I'd like to do it again. And Ant with his big news, and Jen with her ears -- it was all pretty exciting!

Now, I gots me some comics to read!

[Owen Heitmann]

Ha, funny stuff! And proof that a good story can help you forget the fact that it's acted out by stick figures.

Actually, I think the simple art is really nice. They may be stick figures, but they're elegant stick figures. And they have really interesting day jobs.