[ Posted by richalcott to Brandt on Jan 14th, 2007 10:01 AM ]...

Hey Brandt,
Thanks for the add and the comment. Good luck with your comics and keep on keeping on. It's snowing out here again this morning, a nice crisp 27 degrees Fahrenheit outside. You've got that killer winter ground fog out there on the highway. I think I drove through Redding once on the way from nowhere to nowhere. Good times. Well, have a nice Sunday.

[ Posted by richalcott to spoonbard on Jan 2nd, 2007 1:40 PM ]...

Thanks for adding me to your group of friends. I hope it's not too late to wish you a happy, prosperous and creative new year 2007!

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[ Posted by spoonbard on Jan 2nd, 2007 1:42 PM ]... ^_^ Not at all! I hope your new year is fantastic too!

[ Posted by richalcott to panel88 on Jan 1st, 2007 3:15 PM ]...

Happy New Year 2007 and thanks for adding me to your growing city of friends! All the best in the weeks and months to come.

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[ Posted by panel88 on Jan 1st, 2007 10:06 PM ]... Same to you. Thanks for adding us, and all the best for the New Year. - panel88

[ Posted by richalcott to AlternaComics on Jan 1st, 2007 11:35 AM ]...

Happy New Year 2007 from Talking Pictures!

[ Posted by richalcott to khwan on Dec 30th, 2006 3:43 PM ]...

Thanks for adding me to your mountain of friends. I love your work and your spirit. I used to live in L.A., went to high school and college there, but since have been many other places in California and abroad and now I reside in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where we've just had a very welcome and invigorating snowfall, thanks very much. Anyway, you are a lovely and talented girl, I'd have to be blind not to notice. Perhaps we can do some work together some day.

Cheers, and happy new year to you.

[ Posted by richalcott to illustrators_lounge on Dec 26th, 2006 9:27 AM ]...

Thanks, dudes, for the comment. As for the question, except for the old Hollywood glamour pix, all the photography in Talking Pix is mine, either with my old Nikon FM and 24mm lens on film or with a Canon Powershot expedient digital camera. Your stuff is remarkable, brilliant I might say. I'm guessing you start on paper, then scan in and fine tune on the computer. Do you feel like talking just a bit about your technique?

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[ Posted by illustrators_lounge on Dec 26th, 2006 2:42 PM ]... Yeah, sure. As you've probably seen already, there's four of us, so we all have our own way of doing things. We do start on paper 90% of the time, it's just easier to get an idea down. I myself transfer the drawings to Photoshop, or when I'm animating, Flash. Flash has a great tool (Trace bitmap) which vectors everything for you. Then you just plop in the colour! Not as easy as it sounds usually, unfortunately... We also do a lot of stencils which should be up on the site soon. Have you ever done any? I really enjoy that side of things, it's a bit messy, but that's the fun part! Kyri

[ Posted by richalcott to treesandhills on Dec 15th, 2006 10:17 PM ]...

Yes, the radioactive bartenders can be a thing of beauty, but they freak me out. Then again, down in Guilford, folks know a thing or two about isotope migration. I'm doing what I can to avoid the fenceline, thanks very much.

[ Posted by richalcott to danielbarlow on Dec 12th, 2006 12:38 AM ]...

All right, Barlow, who knew you were into comics. Tell me more about this "Flowers and Trees" business. Just what does a comics collective do? Sounds subversive. Am I going to get called up in front of a committee and have to name names?

[ Posted by richalcott to Emmavieceli on Dec 10th, 2006 3:10 PM ]...

As the late, great Alfonso Bedoya so memorably said in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (Warner Bros., 1948), "We don't got to show you no steenkin' badgers!"

[ Posted by richalcott to Emmavieceli on Dec 10th, 2006 7:41 AM ]...

Thank you, Emma. But tell me: How did an English girl with an Italian sounding name get into Japanese manga? Shakespeare in comics is very ambitious. The old Classics Illustrated version was my introduction back in the day.

[ Posted by richalcott to MissLaskoGross on Dec 9th, 2006 10:17 PM ]...

OK, I found it. Gosh, you're good. I love the quality of your lines and there's a Frida Kahlo-ish sadness shot through your attitude. Nice, nice work, Miss Lasko-Gross.