About me and this comic
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I've been a huge fan of Lifehouse since August 2007, and I've seen them perform 20 times. I started drawing this comic strip in May 2008, right after Jason spotted me as the artist of the Simpsons picture. I started the comic strip for various reasons; as an outlet for my creativity-inspiring Lifehouse obsession, to entertain my fellow Lifehouse fans, to help fill a lack of Lifehouse-inspired literature on the internet, and because I became addicted (from one instance) to cartoon-prompted band recognition.
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Goal
Despite the various reasons for starting this comic strip, I do have a concrete goal for it, which will most likely never be fulfilled: that Lifehouse posts a video of completely random events, and they state that the purpose is just to see what I'll make of it with my comic strip. I should add that I'm not allowed to ask them to do it.
Progress
Although the goal has not been attained thus far, there have been a few steps of recognition: Bryce asked me about the comics at a concert in October 2008, saying that he wanted to link to them on the official site. Almost a year later, I found the URL listed on their links page (not linked). In October 2009, I found that they had banner-linked this site from their official MySpace page with my special Halloween banner. And in June 2010, I gave the band a book of all the comics up to March 2010, which they say they loved. These are all forward steps toward the goal, however Lifehouse is digressing in that they have stopped posting video blogs on YouTube altogether. In October 2010, I happened to mention the lack of video blogs to Bryce, and he said he'd make more if they'd let him, whatever that means. Lifehouse went through a phase of posting videos on Kyte, but now they have moved their activity to Twitter, and only occasionally post their video blogs as short TwitVids. I doubt the TwitVids have much goal-fulfilling potential.
Media & Resources
I draw most of the comics with pen. A few of the comics and all of the website illustrations are pen and watercolor. Most of the website illustrations are based on real photos from the LifehouseMusic photo gallery and Lifehouse's MySpace photo albums. To make the comics themselves, I usually spend a long time looking through Becky's huge Lifehouse photo gallery at everythinglifehouse.com (or I did, back when that website still existed) to get the right facial expressions and positions. And of course, Lifehouse's YouTube videos are the main source of inspiration for these comics.
Send Your Ideas
If you have an idea for a Lifehouse comic script, please send it in to sylvia.lh.bvb@gmail.com, and I might use it. If I do, I'll give you script credit. Or you can draw your own guest comic.
My Story
I'm compiling a sort of memoir about my experiences with Lifehouse, but it's a work in progress. In the mean time, here are my original blog posts that sum up the best parts of my story:
York College
Kean University
The MySpace Banner
The Smoke & Mirrors Release
The Live Lounge
WSTW Event
Frostburg University
Philadelphia
Other Lifehouse BVB Stuff:
Promotional Banners
RSS Feed
Lifehouse BVB on Facebook
Personal Links:
My Twitter
Think Before You Think
LiveJournal
DeviantArt
Contact me:
sylvia.lh.bvb@gmail.com
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