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I really enjoy doing my Toys in the Bookstacks, and I must admit that I loved finding the books for this one. I don’t know as though I’ve ever done one that wasn’t intended to just be funny before.
The moral is simply that I made you something.
Love,
benjamin
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“Interesting” fact: unless I’m working on a piece that’s 100% planned-out and ready, I don’t keep track of which color I use on various parts of drawings.
As such, when I have something like The Wizard’s Lesson, colors on everything change unless I can remember from the last time I drew.
For example, I know that King Yama, Lord of the Underworld, should have a face red with righteous fury, so I draw it like that…then forgot which pencil I used. Glad I don’t have to draw him again. 
I think that the color of Tzu Ch’un’s astral self is “green bice,” but don’t quote me on that, because that would be a stupid thing to quote me about.
Why would you even do that? Quote me on a color?
I thought I knew you.
Oh, by the way, our “Fuck Civility” buttons are now up on our Etsy shop. Support Steven Salaita, kids, by expressing your own first-amendment rights:
In any event, please have some looks back and today’s art:
The Wizard’s Lesson First Part
The Wizard’s Lesson Gore Begins
The Wizard’s Lesson Gore Continues
Love,
benjamin
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If last week’s part of The Wizard’s Lesson by P’u Sung Ling didn’t have enough violence or blood for you, then please accept this next helping:
Next week we begin our visit of hell, kids!
I like drawing.
Love,
benjamin
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We’re mad crazy busy at Stone Robot Enterprises with Halloween costuming and various other things–you should look at our lastest SRE post, involving our response to the Steven Salaita issue–but I’m going to keep these pages coming, possibly at a slightly faster rate.
I’m really enjoying doing these, and I think I might…well, I might be improving. But don’t count on it yet. Wait until I start my project of doing every single card in a Tar–oh, details about that can come later.
After you’ve caught up with The Wizard’s Lesson so far, please to enjoy the latest page.
It’s gonna get a bit gruesome soon, kids.
I can’t wait.
Love,
benjamin
PS – This comic leaves copyright October 16th, 2024.
PPS – 
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Are you wondering what all of this ‘benjamin being attacked by letters’ was all about?
I doubt it, but if you look below you’ll find that the last page pulls a Clarissa and explains it all:
On January 30, 2005, I first used the term “Things I Can’t Draw” on LiveJournal, regarding The Day I Saw An Unidenfitied Flying Object, a story for some class that I drew when I was in about 2nd or 3rd grade.
On January 2, 2006, I did my first entire page of TICD, because I was bored near a pen and a sheet of printer paper. I had so much fun, and that coffee-maker still looks good…but wtf laptop?
Now, in October 2014, it’s time to retire the title.
Thing I Can’t Draw belong to the ages.
Sure, it’s taken eight years for me to accept it completely, but I can draw; I simply have a very unique style. It takes me far longer than you would think—I can draw, but it’s difficult—and that’s totally fine, because I love the fuck out of doing it. I’ve been getting better as time goes on, and can easily finish things in one night that used to take me two or three.
The Wizard’s Lesson is a great example of this, and I have a page already uploaded and ready to post on Thursday. I start another tonight and may even have it ready for the same post.
The moral of the story is that you can all stop telling me that I really can draw, because I’ve finally acknowledged it. The next person who derides my derision can go screw. 
Now, if you’ll excuse me, these bastards aren’t going to fold themselves:
Love,
benjamin sTone
REMINDER: The works pictured above leave copyright on October 14, 2024.
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Hey kids!
As some of you may know, my brain doesn’t always get words right. It’s always been a problem with my gray matter, but the older I get, the more my brain misfires and makes me sound like I’m having a stroke.
I don’t always keep track of them, but I’m starting to, and I’m going to start drawing as many of them as I can. The first one was a misfire while talking to Nadja about a recipe I was going to make with a number of onions, which aren’t Nadja’s stomach’s favorite if they’re not very cooked. I was asking about a change I could make.
Please enjoy my first I Don’t Words Talk Right:
Doing a completed drawing every few days isn’t exactly #Inktober, but #Drawtober works just fine with me.
Tomorrow you might have the horrifyingly blood-soaked very strange next bit of The Wizard’s Lesson as well as a bit about the best new horror movie I’ve seen in ages.
Love,
benjamin
Who’d crystallize YOUR onions any day….
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Hey kids!
As some of you may know, my brain doesn’t always get words right. It’s always been a problem with my gray matter, but the older I get, the more my brain misfires and makes me sound like I’m having a stroke.
I don’t always keep track of them, but I’m starting to, and I’m going to start drawing as many of them as I can. The first one was a misfire while talking to Nadja about a recipe I was going to make with a number of onions, which aren’t Nadja’s stomach’s favorite if they’re not very cooked. I was asking about a change I could make.
Please enjoy my first I Don’t Words Talk Right:
Doing a completed drawing every few days isn’t exactly #Inktober, but #Drawtober works just fine with me.
Tomorrow you might have the next chapter of The Wizard’s Lesson, as well as a bit about the best new horror movie I’ve seen in ages.
Love,
benjamin
Who’d crystallize your onions ANY day….
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Nadja and I were going to participate in #Inktober, but since so much of my art is based on the structure and not the inking itself, we’re just sorta doing #Drawtober.
I did two last night to catchup. The first one is a throwaway that was inspired by Nadja telling me to draw “a guy smashing a city.”
The second is the penultimate one in my recent and confusing series of me being abused by gravity and my own letters.
I’ve got very little else, because I had an entry planned for writing and then a filling tore out of the middle of a tooth, so now I’m hurty and about to go to the dentist.
Anyroad, here you go. The Wizard’s Lesson resumes next week, and the daily draws will continue.
Love,
benjamin
…and then he next-to-last-page of…
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We will be at Made-Fest both tomorrow and Sunday the 28th.
There’s a FB page here.
We’ll be on the east side of the vendor area, up against the wall of the Highdive. sharing our booth with artist Sophie McMahon, who is awesome.
Here are two glasses that we’ve made. The bottom of the pint glass may be familiar to die-hard Prisoner fans. 
Oh, and by the way:
Look, I know about as much as you do.
Love,
benjamin
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I don’t even understand.
I mean, attacking me with one letter wasn’t enough, I had to have another chucked at me? I was even told to stand under the G because it’s not as sharp!
Hrm.
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What the hell just happened?
benjamin
Searching for meaning
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FACTS:
We will be at Made-Fest next weekend, both Saturday the 27th and Sunday the 28th. There’s a FB page here.
We’ll be on the east side of the vendor area, up against the wall of the Highdive.
We’ll be sharing our booth with artist Sophie McMahon, who is awesome.
You will come buy our things.
There will be a mini-comic with this as its cover:
For more awesome things to do in Champaign-Urbana all the time, visit my Ladybee von Robot‘s AWESOME local events webpage, Nothing to Do in C-U. If you know of a local event that’s coming up, let us know!
Love,
benjamin
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FACTS:
We will be at Made-Fest next weekend, both Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st. There’s a FB page here.
We’ll be on the east side of the vendor area, up against the wall of the Highdive.
We’ll be sharing our booth with artist Sophie McMahon, who is awesome.
You will come buy our things.
There will be a mini-comic with this as its cover:
For more awesome things to do in Champaign-Urbana all the time, visit my Ladybee von Robot‘s AWESOME local events webpage, Nothing to Do in C-U, with a frontpage update tomorrow.
Love,
benjamin
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FACTS:
We will be at Made-Fest next weekend, both Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st. There’s a FB page here.
We’ll be on the east side of the vendor area, up against the wall of the Highdive.
We’ll be sharing our booth with artist Sophie McMahon, who is awesome.
You will come buy our things.
There will be a mini-comic with this as its cover:
For more awesome things to do in Champaign-Urbana all the time, visit my Ladybee von Robot‘s AWESOME local events webpage, Nothing to Do in C-U, with a frontpage update tomorrow.
Love,
benjamin
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I really love The Wizard’s Lesson, and we’re really getting into the truly insane bits. Today is a full recap of everything so far. It will give people who read this only in bits to go through the whole thing up until now, as well as refresh the memories of others.
I think I’m getting even better with my stick figures, particularly when scaling them against actual objects. There are still a few things I have to learn, of course. For example, drawing clothing on a stick figure without it looking completely ridiculous is still hard. Also, drawing a tiger skin over and over with my skill level is fucking ridiculous and I can’t believe I kept that detail.
The clothing in this story is, for the most part, accurate to the Sui Dynasty, and the same with the furnace. I get a nerd boner when I’m researching things, so of course I did it for this piece.
For reference purposes, The Wizard’s Lesson was written–or written down–by Li Fu-yen, aka P’u Sung Ling. The translations that I am using as inspiration for my own version are from Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies by Moss Roberts—a book which I recommend in its entirety—and Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations by James Hightower, from which I only read “The Wizard’s Lesson.”
Incidentally, this is my first attempt at a long-form art project. I did fine on my five page Every Time You Flush The Toilet You Dance With Death piece, so I figured I go for something lengthier.
Related: A few pages of The Wizard’s Lesson may be appearing in an upcoming low-edition print thing for sale at Made Fest 2014.
As always, click the pics to enbiggen them, and hit the jump for everything after the first page.
Here, in it’s So-Far-Entirety, is The Wizard’s Lesson: Book One.
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This is seriously one of my favorite Toys in the Bookstacks in ages.
As always, click the pic to make it bigger. Now please release your geek–this one can level you up–and enjoy:
“Uh, Ted? Did you see the last name of the guy who wrote this book?”
“Uh, Michael? Did you see the name of the guy who wrote THIS book?”
…
“I need beer, Ted.”
“Me too, Michael.”
<3
love,
benjamin
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NEXT TIME, shit gets even more realer. Seriously, it’s where The Wizard’s Lesson takes a hard right into WTF.
<3,
benjamin
PS – I promises a Toy in the Bookstacks this week
PPS: This comic leaves copyright on August 25th, 2024.
The post is over. Get back to work.
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Sometimes insomnia is a total bastard, refusing to let you focus long enough to do anything other than watch bad infomercials and half-assedly flip through comic books.
Last night I drew the entire next page of The Wizard’s Lesson for you. That makes two art posts in two days. I’m getting marginally better at this.
As always, click the pic to make it bigger. I think.
THE WIZARD’S LESSON, previous chapters
Part One
Parts Two and Three
Parts Four and Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Part Ten
Ta ra,
benjamin
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Sometimes insomnia is a total bastard, refusing to let you focus long enough to do anything other than watch bad infomercials and half-assedly flip through comic books.
Last night I drew the entire next page of The Wizard’s Lesson for you. That makes two art posts in two days. I’m getting marginally better at this.
As always, click the pic to make it bigger. I think.
THE WIZARD’S LESSON, previous chapters
Part One
Parts Two and Three
Parts Four and Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Part Ten
Ta ra,
benjamin
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