An ongoing account of making my comic, and what I have learned from previous projects
Monday, February 7, 2011
One more reasessment,
Like my comic book, I need to step into my shoes, and get going some place. One point is thinking and planning my blogs out, but then once I sit down I have over thought them, and am swamped with ideas. There is so much to tell, and if I don't make a point to do it why would I think that any of the people who don't follow my blog should start following it. I have always maintained that you have to first produce something that excites you, and then maybe other people will check it out. It is exciting. I have so many decisions to make almost every day. I am working solely on comic books. attempting to get three done this month! I cannot decide weather I should look for work here, consider working a few days in Eugene a week, just live comics, go to school, or move to the huge island of trash in the pacific and start colonizing. SO MANY POSSIBILITIES. I don't know any one in this town. Even though I lived here ten years ago. Or more accurately every one I used to know seems to have moved, and the few people I do know are from Eugene. So I feel like I am building from the foundation as an comic artist. I wanted to write articles for the Eugene papers about comics and just mentioning it here makes me want to do it again, but I am also now designing a comic strip. It's fun, and sorta easy compared to comics. Though it does posses it's own challenges. It has to be SO brief. I think I might do a comic strip and an adventure strip, give one to my budy Elliot in Eugene for his publication and solicit the other around town. My comic is not going to get sold until I get my name out there. And I see no better way then a weekly strip. So here I come Portland. I am not sure of the title yet, but I think it is pretty funny. I don't think strips are that good. I would always read Calvin and Hobbs as a kid, that was great, sometimes magnificent. I have developed a deep appreciation of peanuts, but other then that, OK you can't be funny all the time, but these people make a living at consistently SUCKING. I repeat SUCKING. OK I'm better now. So I just started my strip last week, but I think it is pretty good. It makes me chuckle. It is about a superhero lady, well not actually a superhero, I haven't figured out what her power is yet, something awesome, like an ability to sow a costume in a matter of minutes, or moon walk on uneven surfaces, yeah something awesome. And I haven't figured out her name yet either, it will be awesome too. So she is kinda like Charles Xavier, she runs a school for gifted people, but it is more like a closed donut shop where people who want to dress up in costumes take classes from her on Sunday nights. She also does private lessons, deals with "superheros" who are out of control, and hangs out with her superhero friend who has the power convince women to do what he tells them, except his powers don't work on her, it is unclear weather his powers work on anyone. She actually thinks he's a douchbag, but since he's a superhero, they're tight. Well I have to ink in the first three strips. See I knew I had but loads of stuff to write about
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