I'm a twit 
…continue to look Whacked in Firefox, but line up beautifully in Safari, in a most logical and comprehensible manner. I’m disappointed that I have no idea how to fix this right now, so I’ve added some Turtles via Google Apps to console myself. 
Please Feed them while I’m not here. Thx. BRB
(now in the A-Girl World room, with a perplexed expression and a hammer in the hand)
~~~eee!
(ps: Yes, I know that the longer I keep the Charm School room empty, ghosts or raccoons will move in. And the raccoons like to turn on the gas fireplace all day and run up the bill so I will do something about that, promise!)
* * NEWSFLASH: A-GIRLSTUDIO (that’s me) DONATES ZINE COLLECTION* *
(beep a deep a beep a deep)
After being a decade behind more savvy zinesters, I’ve finally donated my zine collection to an archival, special collections Library. 5 storage boxes of zines dating from 1990 to 2000 are on their way to:
Minneapolis Community & Technical College
Library Zine Collection
These same good folks house the zine collections of other fine creators and collectors like Chris Dodge, librarian at the Utne Reader, who donated 1000 zines.
Now I couldn’t be like Sarah Dyer (whose collection is named after her, namely, the Sarah Dyer Collection at Duke University’s Bingham Center,), and donate certain kinds of zines of a certain genre because my piles (and piles, and piles) were made up of Every kind of small press publication you could think of.
I didn’t want to go through and divide it all up into comics, rant, grrrl, poetry, artsy fartsy, UK, Queer, etc, you get the idea. Some libraries wouldn’t accept such a collection en masse–the more naive and ‘amateur’ works of expression, unfortunately, would probably have been weeded out.
And some libraries did not want ‘rant’ zines, and some were only regional (and I was not going to go through and try to figure out what was exclusively West Coast–obviously, there goes the Yugoslavian stuff!), and so forth.
So thank you MC&TC! 
I just want to mention that the dependable and venerable Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections would have been the go to place for such a donation, but I figured that quite a few of my fellow creators had already placed their collections with MSU and I didn’t want to burden their archiving system with more duplicates.
Why did I pick an Archival Library rather than support a Zine Loaning Library?:
Um, Zines dating back to 1990. From the U.K. We are talking one of a kinds that I carried on me back from the old country into this new world (I kid you not; the year was 1991 and my backpack weighed about 60 lbs from all the zines, magazines, and books I had bought in London). I would like them to have a nice, air conditioned, possibly stored in archival plastic home, if you know what I mean.
(as Jennifer Paterson would say:) Dear little things!!
And as you can tell, when Sarah was urging me way back when to do the donation thing, I was super reluctant to give up all the little handmade booklets at that time. NOW is that time (before the Southern California heat kills them more.)
I did separate out the clearly Queer, Lesbian, etc zines, magazines, and comics. I felt it would be a good opportunity to support an LBGT library. So 2 boxes of Queer zines, magazines, and comics are going to:
The Stonewall Library & Archives in Florida.
Why oh why did I pick a library the length of a continent away when I live in California, of all places? Well kids, again because the collection is eclectic and inclusive. And the Stonewall Library, newly formed, Rocks and ought to have Cool Stuff.
So things like Larry-Bob’s Holy Titclamps, Oh…Magazine, CIAO!, Lesbian Contradiction, Leanne Franson’s Lilliane, Donna Barr’s Desert Peach, Fat Girl, Girl Jock, QUIM (which I carried on me back from London, etc etc), Bosum Buddies, Tales from the Closet, Deneuve, DIVA, Andy Mangels’s Gay Comics, and so forth will be at Stonewall for the local kids to enjoy. Safe for girls and boys! 
Check the Library out! Their latest exhibit is about the Harlem Renaissance. 
And lastly, I’ve made a small donation to the Denver Zine Library, on behalf of all my readers, fellow zinesters, and supporters during that decade when A-Girl was active and Out There. It’s just a symbolic gesture to say Thank You and to remember all of the kindness and appreciation that was shown to me.
Towards ‘98 things got tough; I injured both my hands and couldn’t continue A-Girl, much less answer the mail anymore. The old letters I sorted through these past weeks brought back the voices of my readers and fellow creators like as if they were Fresh and Now. It’s amazing. There were some letters I didn’t even open (the hands thing). And some people just kept giving me money, hoping for more new A-Girl.
It was also the time of the decline in small press, and strangely, the same period when many, many of the people on my mailing list had address changes. Much of my last mailing of A-Girl was returned to me. My long standing 120 San Fernando mailing address also had to end due to the good owner of that box service retiring. The person I ended up signing up with for a new addy was not such a nice person. There just came a time when my involvement in small press had to stop.
And when my hands got better, Charm School was waiting.
And is still waiting.
Thanks for listening. Of the zines I kept (terrible me, I just couldn’t let go of them all), I may photograph and put up in a gallery at A-Girl World. (Okay, yes, I kept most of Jaina Davis’s Flatter!!).
YAY HANDMADE BOOKS
yours in all manners of Expression,
~~~eeee!
BRB
That didn’t take long, did it?
Only good reason to have a gorgeously huge screen, I think so. I also need a space console with blinking lights.
bleep boop beep beep
~~~Spaaaacefarer eeeee (the cosmos, so vast!!!)
…run everything backwards. 
Seriously, folks, I uploaded the latest ‘Feature’–oh, ‘feature’ furst, then Cartoons, then WhatReel, and so forth. Wow. But that’s all right, dyslexia happens.
HOORAH FARSCAPE.
The WhatReel selection is, Crazy, man. It *is* of its time, and corporate sponsored, and…I was so distracted with the theatrical sets in the beginning I can’t remember what this was supposed to be about. Oh wait, it’s about THE FUTURE. Check it out.
To be traditional I also threw in a Hero serial, because I like those things–they have a familiar, rather comforting entertainment formula in these uncertain times. Stalwart, Good Hero, woman/boy/old man sidekick-companions, Stunts, a very Clear Enemy to defeat. All that and models, ships, Weird robot/suits/monster things, and Clearly scantily clad nemeses. They’re not women in hot pants (wrong era), so you can’t have everything.
And as always, CARTOONS. Enjoy.
~~~eeeeeee (skating around like Gumby!)
By Joseph Daniels and Jedidiah Mitchell. This is just Lovely and I’m happy to share it here.
Refreshing.
Courtesy of archive.org.
It’s just under 7 minutes. ENJOY.
…Yikes, I just viewed the latest uploads of A-Girl comix and they are looking Too small. Just give me a few nights to convert the original scans and overwrite the current pages.
I have to do a few more tutorials with Webcomic (which I’m pretty happy with; a very, very good app), and then I’ll be able to upload Multiple comics, or in my case, projects. So ‘A-Girl World’ is apt; it won’t just be her stuff but whatever I can archive that isn’t deserving of its own page right now (ie: unfinished projects).
Charm School: I’ll be starting that after I’ve done a significant amount of hammering behind the scenes at A-Girl World. Mostly I stare at the Charm School page and go….ummm…..
I’ve also realized that my personal blog, ‘…Airships’ is not exactly the best ‘Welcome’ portal to the Site. So I’ve created a very simple Newsletter page (which you can see in the link bar). It just tells the Update facts or any ‘Important’ Announcements and leads people directly to the project they want to see. And people can subscribe to that newsletter, until that time I set up my own mailing list system.
So the Newsletter–all business and no blah blah hammer hammer was that a puppet and so forth.
Now the Parlor! I’m loving my Parlor (as any good woman should; and yes, you can smoke a pipe in it. Make sure it’s Really good tobaccy). William Blake I can put up over there, Tristania, Magic tricks… (well, those *might* be forthcoming. I’m a tad Bad at it so who would trust my review? ). I don’t discuss a lot over there like I do here, because I feel the topics posted are the focus. I want to encourage browsing.
That said, contents slooooowly growing, so stay tuned….
~~miss e! (sneaking off to the secret bedroom for a few ZZzz’s!)
I keep forgetting to announce that I’ve updated the Midnite Theatre (despite that once a month idea), and the Parlor of Mystery.
If you think I watch what I post at the Theatre in their entirety…actually, I don’t. I only viewed about 10 minutes of the latest selection and the opening sequence was worth that 10 minutes.
Again, I’m not going to claim to post anything of utter, High Quality in taste, workmanship, budget, or story at the Theatre. It is all in Fun, so please don’t take it seriously, folks.
The Parlor: is resembling more and more the ‘research’ supplement of my YA novel.
I should also mention that what seems to work with Firefox regarding this site does not mean the same for Safari…So if the sidebars have a strange arrangement of widgets, that’s because I decided to err on making the sidebars appear in correct order in Safari. I have no idea how this place looks in Chrome, Netscape, AOL, or MS Explorer, so I hope for the best.
NOW FOR THE FUN STUFF!!!
I finally found all the original pages for Adventures of A-Girl! #6 and 6 1/2 where I started this ’saga’ called Dynamotopia, in which you followed A-Girl for a week while she’s on production at Toooooon Factory. I think I never uploaded these issues ever online, I could never find a copy of #6 1/2.
So I will be uploading those first on the A-Girl’s World blog, giving the Webcomic plugin a test run.
I hadn’t seen #6 1/2 in years, and because of its relevance (now I know why my fellow animation artists really enjoyed that issue), it made me laugh out loud. My cartooning skills were very good in that issue too.
I also found some of my ancient notes regarding the rough plotting for that storyline…maybe I’ll wrap it up, we’ll see. It’s been over a decade since I last worked on that. :/ Yes, that’s true.
And tho’ A-Girl’s simplicity made her toons seem easy enough for a child to do…really, it took quite a bit of work and dedication on my part to the intuitive approach to drawing. Especially that last issue. Dang nice cartooning.
Can someone find the oil can? I’m rusty.
See you later in the funny papers,
~~~creeeeaky eeee!
Read this children’s book:
http://curiouspages.blogspot.com/2009/12/captain-jeff-and-squeeze-box.html
Courtesy of a blog I’m loving more and more, Curious Pages. Because you know what? The kind of work archived here says to me that I can do any kind of Story Book I want, ’safe’ standards for mass entertainment need not be entertained. I’m looking forward to it. (Yes, Story Books are part of my master plan).
Cap’n Jeff, you look smashing.
Check out one of their most recent uploads as well, of a visually…riveting retelling of the Wizard of Oz.
~~~pegleg eeee!
