This doesn’t happen too often but there are days. I run a pretty tight schedule. This is mostly from working so much but I have to parcel my time out carefully if I want to get two comics out a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Different mediums call for different storytelling strategies. Novels can go into deep detail about a person’s thoughts. Graphic novels can have slow pacing and meaningful pauses. Comic strips (particularly of the 3-4 panel variety) tend to need a really specific[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They say the unemployed have no vacations. Conversely, there’s no summer break for graduates. More than money or property, I find that I value time as a commodity over all else. I think that’s the case with most creative types. I’m ok[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ok, so I think everyone goes through this every once in a while. Sometimes a baker looks at his bread and says to himself, “What am I doing here? Why have my life experiences culminated in me standing over a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We the people of the United Sean, in Order to form a more perfect body, establish eternal slurpees, insure restroom Tranquility, provide for the personal free time, promote the general Welfare, and demand Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I still work with pen and pencil when drawing and writing ideas and when working on life studies but I’ve been meaning to get back into watercolors, acrylics, and particularly Inking and Oil painting since the last blackout happened. I don’t want to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the child of a retired therapist I can only imagine what experiments were conducted on me that formed who I am today. Of course, all these things would be buried in my subconscious but I know they occurred because, hell, I’m gonna do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words so…’nuff said. Actually, no. I think I’m gonna have PTSD from this thing. Unclogging, removing and changing this pipe was like landing on Omaha beach in Normandy, except in place[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe I should just stick to books. I’ve been listening to Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities at work recently and it’s been surprisingly good. It’s nothing like I expected, though my only previous experiences that I could base[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve always been a pretty frugal guy. As a kid my parents never spanked me or anything like that for punishment, I had monetary penalties for bad behavior. Getting fined a quarter was a pretty big deal for a kid[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…