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Getting into the spirit of self-portraiture, I wound up drawing the eye-witness composite on my Have-You-Seen-This-Man mailer-insert ad.

Getting into the spirit of self-portraiture, I wound up drawing the eye-witness composite on my Have-You-Seen-This-Man mailer-insert ad.

Self-portrait, in that I pocket-tumbl’d.

Self-portrait, in that I pocket-tumbl’d.

TITLE: Cogito Ego Sum 
16 3.5x5 photos taken with my Droid, printed on 6-cent Wednesday at Wolf Camera and laid out on the floor of my apartment.  —Kit

TITLE: Cogito Ego Sum

16 3.5x5 photos taken with my Droid, printed on 6-cent Wednesday at Wolf Camera and laid out on the floor of my apartment. —Kit

TITLE: Mind

AKA continuing the ego from last week.

At the grocery store this week, I saw a magazine called Science Illustrated. The word was too actu-present to ignore. And then, upon flipping through, I found so many phrases I wanted to illustrate, I knew it was meant to be.

These two pages make me nostalgic for MR CIM (my old web comic). I still can’t do much more than doodle.

And a bonus: there are several unlabeled puns on the first page. Of course.

—Kit

TITLE: OPEN HOUSE

My favorite board game in the entire world is Betrayal At House On The Hill, but it is out-of-print. Recently one of my friends from college bought it for me for CMas. The game is played by exploring a creepy mansion and finding one room at a time, complete with Omens, Events and Items, waiting for someone to set off the Haunt and cause the Traitor to reveal his/herself, at which point you find out what the second half of the game is by consulting the book of scenarios and using the Omen/Room chart. Will zombies come after your brains? Will a madman shrink you to Barbie size? Will the music of the night lull you into becoming a Cthulhoid nightmare? I. Love. This. Game.

I built out the entire house —staying true to a game being played to this point— and took pictures from behind each of the characters. I’ll post an overhead shot of the entire building.

—Kit

Overhead shot of the full layout of the House on the Hill.
—Kit

Overhead shot of the full layout of the House on the Hill.

—Kit

TITLE: Snow Place Like Home
—Kit

TITLE: Snow Place Like Home

—Kit

First of two attempts for this week. I wish I had managed to switch the colors (black and white), but this’ll do, pig. This’ll do.  Black cotton tee with iron-on letters.  It’s  lopsided, but I’ll pretend that was on purpose…  That was on purpose.

First of two attempts for this week. I wish I had managed to switch the colors (black and white), but this’ll do, pig. This’ll do. Black cotton tee with iron-on letters. It’s lopsided, but I’ll pretend that was on purpose… That was on purpose.

TITLE: Sometimes Food 
I made a t-shirt. Like, MADE it. Hand-sewn and everything.  Also, I made it out of a Supreme Plush throw, so it’s ten kinds of comfortable. It looks, in person, like a hair shirt. I can live with that; it’s more comfortable than anything else in the world.

TITLE: Sometimes Food

I made a t-shirt. Like, MADE it. Hand-sewn and everything. Also, I made it out of a Supreme Plush throw, so it’s ten kinds of comfortable. It looks, in person, like a hair shirt. I can live with that; it’s more comfortable than anything else in the world.

Another view of my blue-blanket creation.  It’s so static-y.

Another view of my blue-blanket creation. It’s so static-y.