Unmasked: Update, with a few non-updates

here, i just learned, is what the lovely Ms Lala Gallardo, who illustrated the awesomely bizarrely The Sad, Mad, Incredible but True Adventures of Hika Girl for the Neil Gaiman contesty thingie a while back:



this 'flyer/poster' can be traced back to Turn, Turn, Turn, who call Ms Gallardo their 'favorite painter'.

if yer in the area, check it out.

googling reveals she was also part of The Coaster Project some of you may remember from a while back:

As part of a public outreach program with the Fuller Museum of Art, in the spirit of artistic independence and good will, between March 9 and May 19, 2002, TransCultural Exchange has organized this current “The Coaster Project, Destination: The World” in which 99 artists, working together, have transcended geographic, political and cultural boundaries to stage 99 trans-global exhibitions, culminating in over 10,000 art works freely given away around the globe. The aim of the effort is to create an international, public forum through these exhibitions and related events where people from all parts of the world can realize that not only can positive things happen when people work together, but that art can act as a reflection of the common denominator that unites us all—the basic human desire to express ourselves through images.

see if you can pick out Ms Gallardo's coaster on this page:


http://www.transculturalexchange.org/coasterproject/artistpages/index.htm


finally, am not sure if i'd mentioned this before, but my reviews of Hika Girl and one or two other entries to the comics category (i remember Splat being such a victim) was sadly unjustly and just plain wrongly influenced by being unintentionally, mistakenly and just as wrongly abridged during the conversion to .pdf. the versions posted during the thing, Unmasking, made it all right.

except for Mike Co's story coming out in Dean Alfar's Spec Fic Anthology, i have no idea how anyone else is doing. though it would be interesting to find out, hint hint. (apparently, Google does have its limitations. particularly if yer a lazy bum.)

right. too early. said too much already. be getting back to me tabs now. and just realized i forgot to put Mr Waits on...