That's where all the cool kids are hanging out these days, right? It's not a Cass Cain Tumblr. It's for my art. Which means there will be a lot of Cass Cain drawings on it, but I'll be posting those here as well.
One thing I've learned about Tumblr this week is there are many, many Cass fans there. Searches for "cassandra cain" and "cass cain" bring up a huge wall of Cass and Cass-relate imagery. It ranges from fairly crude fan art to pages from actual comics. If you're a Cass Cain fan, it's a visual feast.
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Sunday, November 10, 2013
The future of this blog...
Approximately six people a year read this blog. I don't think the problem is lack of interest in Cassandra Cain. It's been a while since she appeared in a comic but you can still find people talking about here online here and there and most of the time their comments are positive. And with Stephanie Brown coming back to comics, it's only a matter of time before Cass does as well. That will generate an upswelling in Cass conversation.
No, the problem is this blog is pretty boring and I don't update it regularly enough. I could add interest by generating controversy (easiest way) or by writing better posts (most difficult way), or I could just quit altogether (I doubt anyone would care).
The problem with generating controversy is it cheapens the dialogue. We comic book fans are already touchy enough without someone deliberately trying to irritate everyone just to get some blog traffic. Occasionally we will accidentally do this, but that's okay. That's bound to happen if you have an opinion on anything. I'm just not the kind of person who particularly enjoys making people angry, especially not on purpose.
And while I'm very lax in updating here (and in generating detailed, interesting posts), I'm not really much for simply quitting. Plus, I'm too much of a Cass fan simply to take off the Bat-suit, hand it to my friend and then slink away in the rain wearing only my underwear.
Anyway, the point is, I've been writing these crazy Cass match-ups, which I get a big kick out of doing (even if no one particularly enjoys reading them). I think adding some original artwork would improve them. Or, almost as fun, make them even stupider. I don't have much time for drawing these days (I work 12 hours a day, six days a week and there's this whole being married thing that also takes up a lot of time I used to spend reading, thinking and writing about Cass) so I don't know how often I'll be able to produce posts with original illustrations.
I don't seem to have the ability to knock out "cartoony" stuff that looks anything other than rushed or slapdash. That's fine occasionally, but when I see some of those people who can produce art that looks deceptively simple posting away on semi-regular schedules, it makes me feel artistically inadequate! So that's largely out unless I'm just in a mood. And drawing something more detailed, which I am actually fairly competent at doing, takes a massive investment of time. Which I have little of (see above).
There may be some reviews of things I think appropriate, too, but if I'm not reading a whole lot, I'm not going to be reviewing that much, either.
Anyway, that's the scoop. If there's a big Cass announcement, though, all bets are off!
No, the problem is this blog is pretty boring and I don't update it regularly enough. I could add interest by generating controversy (easiest way) or by writing better posts (most difficult way), or I could just quit altogether (I doubt anyone would care).
The problem with generating controversy is it cheapens the dialogue. We comic book fans are already touchy enough without someone deliberately trying to irritate everyone just to get some blog traffic. Occasionally we will accidentally do this, but that's okay. That's bound to happen if you have an opinion on anything. I'm just not the kind of person who particularly enjoys making people angry, especially not on purpose.
And while I'm very lax in updating here (and in generating detailed, interesting posts), I'm not really much for simply quitting. Plus, I'm too much of a Cass fan simply to take off the Bat-suit, hand it to my friend and then slink away in the rain wearing only my underwear.
Anyway, the point is, I've been writing these crazy Cass match-ups, which I get a big kick out of doing (even if no one particularly enjoys reading them). I think adding some original artwork would improve them. Or, almost as fun, make them even stupider. I don't have much time for drawing these days (I work 12 hours a day, six days a week and there's this whole being married thing that also takes up a lot of time I used to spend reading, thinking and writing about Cass) so I don't know how often I'll be able to produce posts with original illustrations.
I don't seem to have the ability to knock out "cartoony" stuff that looks anything other than rushed or slapdash. That's fine occasionally, but when I see some of those people who can produce art that looks deceptively simple posting away on semi-regular schedules, it makes me feel artistically inadequate! So that's largely out unless I'm just in a mood. And drawing something more detailed, which I am actually fairly competent at doing, takes a massive investment of time. Which I have little of (see above).
There may be some reviews of things I think appropriate, too, but if I'm not reading a whole lot, I'm not going to be reviewing that much, either.
Anyway, that's the scoop. If there's a big Cass announcement, though, all bets are off!
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
A slow Cass news day...
One of my favorite things to do as a blogger is check my "search keyword" traffic sources. How do people find this blog? Sometimes the results are amusing. Sometimes they're saddening. Today they're neither, but in the absence of any real Cass news here we are. Let's check 'em and see.
1) ann nocenti kurosawa
2) cassandra cain deadly viper assassination squad
3) cassandra cain escher girl
4) cassandra cain, 2013
The rest are just searches of my blog on my blog, which I don't understand and shall ignore.
Ann Nocenti has name-checked Akira Kurosawa in interviews leading up to the debut of her new Katana ongoing. And I've reported on it. Unless I've dreamed the whole thing, which is a possibility. So the first one isn't a surprise. One person did this search today. That person is cool. Unless that person was Akira Kurosawa himself, in which case he's a miracle because the master director passed away in 1998 and I still haven't fully recovered from the loss.
The second one is a surprise. I thought I was the only person to link these two concepts, Cassandra Cain and Quentin Tarantino. Obviously someone has either heard rumor of my silly blog post or else we've both tapped into the collective unconscious. If there is such a thing, which I doubt. This one is probaby just a nice coincidence.
Cassandra Cain as an Escher Girl. Escher Girl is a concept created by a very smart blogger and turned into a very smart Tumblr. Being that Cass is an acrobatic female superhero of the modern era it's more than likely she's been escherized a few times. Shoot, she wouldn't even have to be acrobatic for that to happen. All it would take is for some hack artist to draw her in the now-classic two-thirds standing figure pose showing both her butt and her boobs at the same time. No feet. Possibly no hands. But butt and boobs, with a waist as thin as Batman's wrist and as twistable as a bath towel. I've never posted an Escher Girl Cass, but I might do so sometime in the future. In the meantime, Escher Girls is approximately more useful, popular and fun than this blog as the sun is more massive than the earth, so if you want to see Cass twisted and mal-proportioned by some highly-paid ass trying to draw "sexy," then I suggest you go there and have a blast. I certainly do!
Cassandra Cain, 2013, huh? That one was probably me!
Anyway, there's no way of knowing if any of these people actually navigated to my blog and read it, but if anyone recognizes his or her search term here and did take the time to read this crap, I thank you! Keep Cass alive in... well, unfortunately it doesn't rhyme... 2013!
1) ann nocenti kurosawa
2) cassandra cain deadly viper assassination squad
3) cassandra cain escher girl
4) cassandra cain, 2013
The rest are just searches of my blog on my blog, which I don't understand and shall ignore.
Ann Nocenti has name-checked Akira Kurosawa in interviews leading up to the debut of her new Katana ongoing. And I've reported on it. Unless I've dreamed the whole thing, which is a possibility. So the first one isn't a surprise. One person did this search today. That person is cool. Unless that person was Akira Kurosawa himself, in which case he's a miracle because the master director passed away in 1998 and I still haven't fully recovered from the loss.
The second one is a surprise. I thought I was the only person to link these two concepts, Cassandra Cain and Quentin Tarantino. Obviously someone has either heard rumor of my silly blog post or else we've both tapped into the collective unconscious. If there is such a thing, which I doubt. This one is probaby just a nice coincidence.
Cassandra Cain as an Escher Girl. Escher Girl is a concept created by a very smart blogger and turned into a very smart Tumblr. Being that Cass is an acrobatic female superhero of the modern era it's more than likely she's been escherized a few times. Shoot, she wouldn't even have to be acrobatic for that to happen. All it would take is for some hack artist to draw her in the now-classic two-thirds standing figure pose showing both her butt and her boobs at the same time. No feet. Possibly no hands. But butt and boobs, with a waist as thin as Batman's wrist and as twistable as a bath towel. I've never posted an Escher Girl Cass, but I might do so sometime in the future. In the meantime, Escher Girls is approximately more useful, popular and fun than this blog as the sun is more massive than the earth, so if you want to see Cass twisted and mal-proportioned by some highly-paid ass trying to draw "sexy," then I suggest you go there and have a blast. I certainly do!
Cassandra Cain, 2013, huh? That one was probably me!
Anyway, there's no way of knowing if any of these people actually navigated to my blog and read it, but if anyone recognizes his or her search term here and did take the time to read this crap, I thank you! Keep Cass alive in... well, unfortunately it doesn't rhyme... 2013!
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