The heart throws your dicebox not prudent parents. Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869 I shuddered as in a pleasant, quiet voice the correct Miss Mannersley warbled in musical praise of the PELLEJO, or wineskin, and a eulogy of the dicebox came caressingly from her thin red lips. Then he rattled two dice in a dicebox and said to him: "Early showers!" and there was a note in our voices brought there by the thought of that gaunt figure at the well - rattling its dicebox as it waited for one more round with our 'Stay!' exclaimed the proconsul Sardesus, who, of all the party had not as yet touched the dicebox. It needed but gentle violence to push him back again upon his seat, and to replace the dicebox in his hand. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Variousįor any other I would not care to shake the dicebox three times, though I might feel sure to win. What regrets I have mostly involve not being able to draw fast enough, not doing enough yoga, not having enough time to whittle away at the twenty-odd books in my to-read stack, and only having visited Europe once.This seemed now the general purpose for, leaving each other in comparative freedom from attack, they came forward one by one and pitted their purses, great and small, against Sergius, who sat pouring down wine and shaking the dicebox, while he called each by name, and contended against him. I appreciate good coffee, good wine, good food, good stories and good company, none of which seems in short supply, thankfully. The home I share with my spouse Kip Manley and daughter Taran is full of books, geeks, art, cats and music, all of which I manage to trip over now and again. I'm also fascinated with symbology that comes in sets of four, yet I can never seem to remember where I fall on the Myers-Briggs scale. Unsurprisingly, I adore icons, symbols and alphabets, and textile patterns of all sorts and provenances. I passed through Anderson, Indiana, then cut my teeth in Long Branch, New Jersey, matriculated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, gave Amherst, Massachusetts a whirl, and finally landed in Portland, Oregon. I started out in Clovis, New Mexico on June 14th, as a Gemini with Libra Rising, a Fire Horse, and the first daughter of a first daughter of a first daughter. My skills in making art include pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Briggs, and the artisans of the Edwardian era. In both my writing and art the influences and inspirations are varied and changable, but some reliable landmarks are Trina Schart Hyman, Tom Waits, Ivan Bilibin, Marina Warner, Pamela Coleman Smith, Fritz Eichenberg, Octavia Butler, Boris Artzybasheff, K.M. I've created a print collection of the first book and have it for sale in my store. I'm also the writer and artist of Dicebox, a long-form comic that I've been posting online for about a decade. I've also served as art director for an arts magazine, and was a founding member of the Stumptown Comics Foundation. I have created, prepared, assisted and overseen projects from educational comics to an arts magazine to production specification guidelines.Ĭurrently I work for Ziba Design as a Senior Production Designer, and have spent a good 15+ years in the graphics and design field. I have many years experience in not only drawing and cartooning but graphic design and producing both 2D and 3D projects.
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