Aram Squalls

My new webcomic in the Vilage Voice: Liberty

Those of you who know me (and a very few others) know I've been drawing comix on and off since the puberty years. I just started a new strip, called "Liberty," on the Village Voice website. It'll be a weekly (we're not sure what day yet, so stay tuned).

Below is the first panel of the first strip:

(thanks for the hook-up, Mike!)

UPDATE: There's a bit of a political struggle at the Voice site over whether this strip will continue to run. How very exciting. Either way, I'll let you know.

jpg-to-ascii

In this age of configurability, I'm always amazed when I can't instantly locate what I'm looking for online. Today, it's a freeware JPG-ASCII converter, so I can make a cool graphic to replace the scary banner on top of my blog. Any suggestions? Remember, I'm running Mac OS X now...

UPDATE: found one! it's called JavE, and it works great.

New Contributor: Steve Rafferty

I'd like to announce something exciting -- a new contributor will be joining Aram Squalls. His name is Steve Rafferty, and he's also working on a doctorate at USC Annenberg. He shares my academic and personal interest in music, and has even sat in as a de facto (meaning unpaid, unfortunately...) TA in the class I teach, Music as Communication.

Steve will be posting his own brilliant notes, quotes and anecdotes to these pages in the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled...