These are my comics from Hourly Comic Day 2010. They’re a lot like last year’s, only with less excitement and adventure. You can view them at Flickr or the HCD Forums.

These comics were completed in Seattle, Washington on 2010-02-01.

Here’s a poster I did for Boom! Theater Company’s production of Boxplay.

It was completed in Seattle, Washington on 2010-01-05.

5 Jan ‘10, 6.15pm PST PST

When running Adobe After Effects under OSX, it is possible to attempt to force a crash recovery if the application become unresponsive. I’ve written a script to make the process a little more painless.

The Script


set procName to "Contents/MacOS/After Effects"
set grepCommand to "ps -ef | grep -i '" & procName & "' | grep -v grep | awk {'print $2'} | head -1"
set curPID to do shell script grepCommand
if curPID is not "" then
set killCommand to "kill -SEGV " & curPID
set result to do shell script killCommand
end if


Stand-Alone Version

You can export the above AppleScript as an application to keep in your Dock, or download a prebuilt version below:

AE Suicide 1.0

Credits

AE Suicide was written based on a technique outlined here:

Adobe After Effects CS4: Optimize the Pipeline

Thanks to Eric Bauer for first turning me on to this trick and Paulo Dias for help with testing and designing the icon.

AE Suicide was completed in Seattle, Washington on 2010-01-04.

My very first art show is now up at the Madrona Vérité Coffee/Cupcake Royale in Seattle, Washington from December 1 to December 31st. I’m planning a reception on Friday, December 11 at 6pm and will post details as they become available.

Each of the mounted, varnished pieces in the show is available for $100. I’m also selling a limited series of prints of each piece in my Etsy Store for $12 each.

There’s a little blurb about the work at Joey Veltkamp’s site Best Of, too.

Massive thanks to Maré Odomo, Leslie Kam, Jin Kong, Tony Evans and Beth Olsen for all of their help and support.