Oh yeah my website!

I have a new website! I almost forgot to mention it on my neglected blogger.
It's been quite a long time, but finally after several years the old website is updated!
Sorry to you folks who watch me at multiple locations because I'm cross-posting this like crazy since it was a lot of effort for seemingly not that much payoff, just a series of images.



This entry will probably languish for years but at least the site has links to more updated locations for me on the web (i.e. deviantart, twitter, myspace, Livejournal)!

Anyhow, check out my Uniform Resource Locator (URL): www.jakemyler.com
Or else hit up the embedded hyperlink above!

Twitter Account Aquired!!!!

Okay so I got on the Twitter bandwagon now! All because I'm a big fan of the 1-up show and all the various podcast things associated with it. So when Ziff Davis was sold and everyone on all those pod-casts were fired, I wanted to keep up with them and listen to any podcasts that they might migrate to. Luckily they all had those twitter things and so through that I found they were putting up another podcast: RebelFM. But keep seeing those twitter things on peoples blogs and now on Deviantart. So I guess in the end I found that it might be easier to just keep things up to date with something more manageable like 1 sentance updates. (Instead of monthly posts). Well, I'll still update LJ and Blogspot etc but this will fill the huge gaps. hahaha.

Please add me if you have a twitter account too! I have no friends on there.

December 2008 Japan

Boo!! I've been so Internet lazy this whole past year, perhaps a new year resolution to myself and the internet is in store. But yeah Kristen and I got back from japan honeymoon, and it was both very fun and a blur. In the end I think I was in relax mode and couldn't distinguish one Tokyo-day from the next. And that was the purpose of it all, to get away from the everyday life of Seattle.

Since I think pictures do the trip better justice then my rambling writing will, and who likes reading anyway?














































(this ones clickable)


When we got back, it really made me realize what a different city we had been in. Whereas we were running around in cool high 50 temperatures, walking around in huge crowds of people, in Seattle we're snowed in and probably wont be able to venture outside for days and won't see another living soul. I think already want to go back!

Legend Of Sama

I heard about this just now from Tony Salvaggio who had the same thing happen to his book Psy-Com. But it seems like perhaps all the Tokyopop OGM properties have been translated into Japanese and have been put up for sale as digital manga including my own Undertown:

http://www.ebookjapan.jp/shop/title.asp?titleid=9498

Even though it's weird that we didn't hear about this from our actual editors and stuff, this is pretty awesome just the same.



One funny thing is they retitled it "Undertown - Legend of Sama" which I have to admit makes it sound a little more epic then simply "undertown".

If any of you guys are successful in actually purchasing one of these ebooks from japan then please tell me! I got as far as downloading the software and registering an account. But I hit a roadblock when I go to purchase a book. It might be that part of their site is down at the moment though.

Starwars

After much whining I was able to get my 8 cards back from Topps this morning! I'm just glad because now I can really get started on some Indy cards I have a week or less to do.

Take a look! Some of these should be appearing on Ebay when ebay fixes itself (it's search function was broken earlier this morning)

This and that

I probably should use this journal more often because I tend to forget what I did week to week as it is.

My parents came to town, it was lots of fun although very short. I forget that I don't see them very often until suddenly they're here. I'm pretty bad about keeping connected with anyone as it is, so I can go for weeks and weeks without touching base with my family. For the future I want to be better about that.

Also while they were up they mentioned that they had ordered a hardcover of my book from Amazon. I was like "What are you talking about?" But apparently it does exist! So of course, I had to order one just out of curiosity...



What the hell Tokyopop??? Give me a heads up or something?!?! But it is super weird because on the back it's listed as being published by "Pawprints" And I can tell that it's just an old softcover that has been chopped slightly smaller and rebound. I guess the idea is that it's for use in the Library system.
It's definitely nice to have a more durable copy.

Another thing that I bought not too long ago was one of these:


It's one of the Wacom Cintiq tablets that came out recently that are a lot smaller (and thus slightly more affordable) The one I've been using forever (just a normal wacom tablet) stopped working. So I decided (after a little convincing) that I needed an upgrade since it's my most used piece of equipment right now (besides the computer).
It's pretty awesome, although not as portable as I imagined since you still need to lug around a lot of wires and a separate converter box that takes the video signal and tablet info and syncs it all together. After buying it though, I realize I need to save money now.. hahaha.

New comic endevor

Just yesterday I went over to my local comicbook shop and picked up a copy of the new compilation graphic novel called "Fat Chunk vol 1 - Robot".



I have a contribution on pages 26 and 27.
(which is also available for viewing up on my DA gallery)

Page 1

Page 2

Even though it's a pretty small amount of work, I know some of you guys were interested and wanted to know when it came out. Also, it's just a fun read and fun to look at with your eyeballs. Pick it up and look at it! It even smells nice!


To get a copy you can do what I did and go to your local comicbook store today, or if they don't have it, the diamond order code is MAR083402 (this is the code to tell your comic book store, so they can order it in).
Also Amazon has a listing but they're sold out at the moment.

In the meantime, Undertown vol 2 is still in the works. I'm going to speed up the process now. I just have to! It's been a year now with no new comic. I feel more then a little ashamed of that.
So since I feel bad all I have to give, is a picture of my desk. A little cluttered I suppose. This picture has some spoilerish things in it, for Undertown and for my life in general, but I think they're too vague for anyone at the moment to decode.