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Grant Thomas Gives Away Free Music

Grant Thomas, of My Life in Records and Graphic Poems is giving away 39 minutes of original music.

Red Eyed Johnny Helps Rehabilitate Burnt-Out Webcomics Artists

Red Eyed JohnnyRed Eyed Johnny is America's first nationwide webcomic rehab program, working on building a musical skillset as a means to curb the depressing future of constant feelings of inadequacy for not updating enough or writing witty blog posts to keep readers interested.

Sketchdump- Misunderstood Monsters and My Life in Records Cover Designs

I haven't posted a sketch in while, so I'm dumping out my sketchbook on you all.

This is a little sketch I did a few moths ago as I was developing ideas for a "Misunderstood Monsters" comic.

My Life in Records Chapter 2 Contines Today

Here is this month's installment of My Life in Records. You can read the current chapter from the beginning starting here, or you can start at the beginning of the series here.

Click the images to enlarge.

Scaling Back a Bit

All right- with work as crazy as it always is this time of year, I put up a pretty small update for this month and I'm planning on putting up a four page update next week instead of my usual six page update. I'll probably keep updates at four pages for a while until I get my buffer back up.

Now that the comic is back up and running for a few months, my question is, do you like the monthly updates in one chunk, or would you rather I just post one a week?

Introducing the My Life in Records Mixtape

Fabricari saw my last post about the music that inspired the first chapter of My Life in Records and suggested I try out this little mixtape widget.  So here's a mix with all the music alluded to in the Prologue.

Making Art in a Cave or on a Webcam

I've been thinking a lot about a panel discussion between Douglas Rushkoff and Scott McCloud at NY Comic Con I heard via the Daily Crosshatch blog. (You can download the whole audio file from their site or watch highlights on the YouTube videos embedded into the post.)

Oh the irony. . .

My Life in Records Starts Chapter 2 Today

After relaunching in December, My Life in Records has been updating the first Sunday of each month with six new pages.

Chapter 2 starts today and tells the story about the boy's obsession with a Christmas record- so obsessed that they listen to it in the middle of July!  You'll also find out in this installment, just how the nativity set was broken.

New My Life in Records Comic Now Available

My Life in Records is back and the second installment is now available for you to read here. (If you missed last month's re-launch it can be found here.) Seven brand new full color pages introduce three brothers and their love for a Fisher Price record player.