There's a place on Jones and Sutter called Cafe Bean that has become my morning haunt. Writing in coffee shops is much less anathema when you're not in L.A. surrounded by a dozen other screenwriters. The coffee shop owner, Chester, actually asked me if I was writing a thesis. Does anyone in L.A. write theses that aren't in script format? Not that I'm trying to hate on my people.
Though film is less of a pervasive part of life here, good coffee and pinball seem to be in higher demand. As for transportation, I've only driven a car once since I got here. I didn't miss it.
Two notable excursions--there is a Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit that is undoubtedly the best museum exhibition I've ever seen. And I went to a drag show at a bar called Aunt Charlie's in the Tenderloin.
High art and low art.
In any case, here is the cover of a 10-page short comic I wrote for an upcoming Graveslinger anthology that my old Ides of Blood editor, Shannon Eric Denton is putting together. I don't know when it's coming out, but sometime in the future.
And while we're talking about things with no projected release date, here is a colored page sample from the Bushido .44 one-shot, which I assure you, continues to forge ahead, despite the ghost of Tokugawa Ieyasu's fiendish attempts to undermine its publication.
