tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:51:28 +0000http://www.spookoo.com/noreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)Blogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-3495153642747719231Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:06:00 +00002008-08-27T11:30:14.129-04:00sketchbook Jamie Rich has just revealed on his blog a kind of time capsule of some old things we'd sketched together, my drawings, his words... way back from 2001: While digging through an old back-up disc today, I found a long-forgotten project that never quite happened. The basic gist of it is, back in 2001, Christine Norrie was posting sketches to her website. If I recall, it was on a daily basis. http://www.spookoo.com/2008/08/certain-romance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-31575709926665203Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:58:00 +00002008-08-26T11:16:33.960-04:00PRESSRemember way back in April when I was one of five speakers on the panel discussion Publishing Graphic Narratives for The Women’s National Book Association and Friends of Lulu? And, you totally went to it and was in awe of Jessica Abel, Judy Hansen, Charlie Kochman, and Dan Nadel... but, somewhat confused by my own silly antics? Well, the amazing T. Motley not only was there, but he did some http://www.spookoo.com/2008/08/comicky-portraits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-2760988976291891202Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:54:00 +00002008-08-22T11:00:10.127-04:00dance-party-friday Dance is part of rehabilitation at Philippine prison --International Herald Tribune In 2004, as a security consultant to the provincial government (his older sister, Gwendolyn Garcia, is governor), he was brought in to address problems at the prison after a series of riots. He recommended that the almost 2,000 prisoners be moved from an ancient stockade, which had been built with a 200-prisonerhttp://www.spookoo.com/2008/08/do-hustle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-4803088137406388029Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:00 +00002008-08-19T11:07:57.508-04:00I-LOVE-NYWhat is divine intervention? What is coincidence and what is karma? What is it when you are confronted with what seems remarkably more than just a random occurrence in your life? I'm not religious and do not enjoy speculating over matters beyond my control, so I don't know the answers to this. But, what I do know is that when strange things happen, I embrace them to the fullest degree! Over http://www.spookoo.com/2008/08/send-in-clowns.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-6815307063971317168Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:06:00 +00002008-08-15T12:04:52.247-04:00dance-party-fridayYou guys know SuperForest, right? Well, it's only about my favorite blog! The members, based all over the world, post daily items as a catalogue of sustainable achievements, not just in the jaw-dropping arena of science and forward-thinking philosophies, but in the everyday human feats of goofiness and joy. A couple weeks ago, founding SuperForester Jackson had posted a bunch of youtube http://www.spookoo.com/2008/08/young-folks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-5431940367252420784Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:36:00 +00002008-08-12T12:01:55.052-04:00matinee Norma Jeane, 9x12 grey marker and sumi brushpen sketch Here's a warm-up sketch I did last night before settling into a few hours of work. I think I'd mentioned before that Marilyn Monroe is very difficult for me to draw, so I like to take up the task as a challenge every now and again. Perhaps I've also had this type of bombshell visual on my mind because I just spent the last two weeks http://www.spookoo.com/2008/08/some-kind-of-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-3558042609182729971Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:04:00 +00002008-08-01T10:04:07.844-04:00dance-party-friday We're trippin' on the 90s here at Casa Spookoo... could be my cold/flu in the summertime or the fact that Cat and I went to the Angelika last week and caught The Wackness. A coming-of-age film set against the backdrop of 1994 New York (though the film-makers really only make that awkwardly apparent in the first thirty minutes) about a boy, the hot girl he digs, the hot girl's stepfather who http://www.spookoo.com/2008/08/picnic-in-summertime.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-3723026331622710460Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:55:00 +00002008-07-29T20:56:32.219-04:00I-LOVE-NY girl reading, sketched 6/24/08 Bryant Park contains six flower beds planted seasonally with 100 species of woody shrubs and herbaceous perennials and 20,000 bulbs and twin promenades bordered by London plane trees (Platanus acerifolia) which can grow up to 120 feet in height. The Lawn is planted with a rye/fescue/bluegrass and is as long as a football field (300 feet) and 215 feet wide. This http://www.spookoo.com/2008/07/bryant-park.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-7074950291016175574Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:26:00 +00002008-07-25T12:47:39.299-04:00photos "After reading Christine's books Cheat and Breaking Up, it occurred to me that she's doing a modern-day take on romance comics. Inspired by her work, and by classic romance comic imagery, I set-up the photo..." -- From Seth Kushner's New York Graphic Novelists project. Oh, I am back in town and am entrenched in the camp that is not-attending-San Diego-Comic Con. Since my return home from http://www.spookoo.com/2008/07/graphic-novelist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-5580082687419289885Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:15:00 +00002008-06-13T12:27:48.705-04:00 Despite many obstacles, our office has officially moved into it's new space. It only took me hollering at smartass people and my mighty muscles of steel, but we did it! Also, I had an excellent MoCCA last weekend and a surreal time at the WFMU Seven Second Delay Party. I'll catch up with photos, links, and whatnot on that soon. Until then, I'm leaving all stress and laptop at home and am http://www.spookoo.com/2008/06/bon-voyageee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-5888064556857342914Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:53:00 +00002008-06-05T13:33:18.048-04:00I-LOVE-NY I'll be at the MoCCA Art Festival this weekend! Sitting at my normal tables in the large back-room, against the windows, on the ground floor. I don't have anything really new, possibly something in the works, who knows? If I have time to price and sort, my very fashionable Breaking Up original art pages will be available for purchase. But you can stop by and say hello and see my usual slew http://www.spookoo.com/2008/06/bringing-sexy-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-1368807466529791533Fri, 30 May 2008 12:46:00 +00002008-05-30T12:40:23.767-04:00dance-party-fridaysketchbook Brilliant video, brilliant week here in New York City! The sun has been out in full force and I've got tan lines all ready to show for it. I'd spent a sunny Sunday in Staten Island's Snug Harbor gardens, a Monday sidewalk cafe lunch on Houston Street with my sister, then the rest of the week is a bit of a blur, I'm sure due to being drunk on sunshine. I'd started my comic pencils, I think http://www.spookoo.com/2008/05/dance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-8582912246454214572Fri, 23 May 2008 12:59:00 +00002008-05-23T09:51:39.469-04:00dance-party-friday Mimi is a must in my mix. I think a thousand horrified comic fans are surely going to speed by this post, but hold up! It's an amazing dance track to get your Friday going and surely you can't say no to concession staff doing flips, an animated Mariah, catfight in the ladies' room, and dudes getting their comeuppance? If only I could get the Office 54 gents to back me in the video's http://www.spookoo.com/2008/05/heartbreaker.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-8068055982450969564Fri, 16 May 2008 11:43:00 +00002008-05-16T11:06:04.419-04:00dance-party-friday What it is, what it is! Wish that video were full-sized, but you get the idea. It's Friday! Yet, I feel the week is somehow beginning instead of coming to a close. Maybe it's because I've finished up twenty-two pages of thumbnails for a crazy fun story I'm working on and am terribly excited to get to next phase, had lovely meals with long-time friends... or, it could be I'm still pretty http://www.spookoo.com/2008/05/rock-steady-baby.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-5438092771648815686Fri, 09 May 2008 15:33:00 +00002008-05-09T11:44:27.634-04:00dance-party-friday Even though I work most everyday, weekends too, the end of the week still feels so good. And it's been a long one with organizing and retrenching the ol' website, planning out summer to winter schedule, and mucho sketchin' and illustratin' goin' on. Not to mention it was my little bee's birthday and we seriously got our party on downtown and in Brooklyn. I was sore the next day! Anyway, it's http://www.spookoo.com/2008/05/lets-dance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-5255579211515187613Tue, 06 May 2008 03:14:00 +00002008-05-06T07:57:20.102-04:00comicsnews My little graphic novel Cheat, published in 2003 by Oni Press and edited by Jamie S. Rich, has been translated to Italian. This is the first and only book which I'd written and illustrated myself... and after five years on the shelf, it really shows. Which isn't to say that I'm not proud of it, I really am. Even though the art is crude and the dialogue stilted, I think it bears a mark for thehttp://www.spookoo.com/2008/05/viva-cheat-italia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-7450859948027800343Mon, 05 May 2008 16:44:00 +00002008-05-05T12:50:29.680-04:00news Two of the commercial shorts I storyboard'd, Handsolo and Usan/PUMA, have just shown... This has prompted me to put together a page of some of the things I'd worked on to my website--> http://www.christinenorrie.com/concepts.html More art to come as I try to find what hasn't been wiped from The Great HD Crash of '08.http://www.spookoo.com/2008/05/concepts-film.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-1731951345065628583Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:10:00 +00002008-04-25T11:18:13.506-04:00 My awesome sister, LIL' C, sent me this insanely great clip. I hope it makes you as happy as it's made me! We've had an exhausting week here at Office 54 with Comic Con, Comic Con friends, and Comic Con parties. Not to mention our regular adventures -- we had lunch at the incredible Hearst Building yesterday and toured the Cosmopolitan Magazine office! I'll have a full report of our http://www.spookoo.com/2008/04/jump-on-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-8120354241338607134Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:56:00 +00002008-04-25T11:05:06.168-04:00From Maiabee to Baz Luhrmann, there's never been an Australian that I haven't met and adored... Most NBA players complain when their teammates ignore them, Andrew Bogut just creates new teammates.http://www.spookoo.com/2008/04/i-love-you-australia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-2642582461624387026Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:17:00 +00002008-04-22T09:20:58.852-04:00EARTH CELEBRATIONS FOR EARTH DAY Interactive Environmental Art Project at the NYU EARTH DAY STREET FAIR Earth Celebrations: Reduce your Carbon Footprint Parade Scroll Participants invited to make paint from fruits and vegetables & add their footprint to 100 foot-long Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Parade Scroll Earth Celebrations: Reduce your Carbon Footprint Parade Scroll will be created as http://www.spookoo.com/2008/04/event-earth-fair.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-5144330120113470800Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:17:00 +00002008-04-19T10:32:23.534-04:00eventsFor the few of you actually on the internet today, who are attending NYCC tomorrow, I've two panels for KIDS DAY on Sunday: A Parents' Guide to Buying Comics for Kids 12 - 1 pm --- Room 2D06-07 This panel will explain to parents how to select and support their children in their hobby of comics reading. Join Chris Duffy (Nickelodeon Magazine), Michele Gorman (Getting Graphic! Comics for Kids, http://www.spookoo.com/2008/04/event-new-york-comic-con.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-9041824946269056787Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:04:00 +00002008-04-15T11:40:28.562-04:00WNBA Joins Friends of Lulu for Panel on Publishing Graphic Narratives: As graphic novels continue to increase the comics industry’s success, the New York chapters of both the Women’s National Book Association and Friends of Lulu present a multifaceted panel called Speaking Graphically: Graphic Narratives in the Publishing Marketplace. This event, taking place on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 from 6http://www.spookoo.com/2008/04/event-publishing-graphic-narratives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-9097447164207815711Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:29:00 +00002008-07-29T11:22:15.135-04:00dance-party-friday Saw this little clip via SWISSMISS and it made me happy. I hope it makes you happy too! I think everywhere across the world, everyone should regard Friday as Dance Party Friday. Even if, like me, you are a lump of exhaustion lazily posted at the coffeemaker watching the brew drip ever so slowly into the pot. And, you're thinking about your crazy deadlines, and still need to prepare for http://www.spookoo.com/2008/04/bodega-boogie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-8674658682751465490Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:36:00 +00002008-04-07T16:55:13.171-04:00I-LOVE-NY Ten years ago, in a semi-basement loft in Williamsburg, my roommate Jonathan and I listened to nearly twenty-four hours of Billie Holiday on KCRW. Many years later, and sometimes worlds apart, he still emails to let me know that it's Billie Holiday's birthday and we listen together to the Columbia University broadcast of her songs no matter where we are. http://www.spookoo.com/2008/04/billie-holiday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871019000630135153.post-8945658254913541483Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:59:00 +00002008-04-04T15:01:27.815-04:00sketchbookhttp://www.spookoo.com/2008/04/courvoisier-sketch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christine Norrie)