PRE-2022: Getting ready!

Wednesday, December 29, 10:52 am

I've been thinking about this comic I want to write, draw, assemble and publish in 2022. 

It's called A FISTFUL OF THIS #1, An Impulsive Anthology: "Now What??" 

So, in a world where I never, EVER finish anything, if I (hypothetically) somehow created and published only ONE comic this year and THIS comic was it, that would be a HUMONGOUS accomplishment. A GINORMOUS achievement. Seriously, it would be a big-ass deal.

But, I want to accomplish MORE.

My ambitions are to publish TWO comics and ONE art book. The art book would be the first of at least five to be published in the next 5-10 years. 

Part of my theoretical urgency is economic: I would like to have some kind of products to sell. But, primarily, the real urgency is the reality of my own mortality, and being only 3 or so years away from (possible) retirement, I'd like to be able to say I actually produced some things in keeping with what creative talents I was blessed with, whatever that actually means. I don't want it to be said when I'm dead that I was simply a lot of potential that had all gone to waste.

Thursday, December 30, 10:35 am

Woke up around 9:20? As has been my recent habit, I woke up in the middle of the night - last night around 4:20? - after falling sleep on the couch, the TV still on. I went to the bathroom, made my bed and then wrote some notes for my latest comic idea. Then I went sleep.

When I woke up, it was from a dream that I couldn't remember, but I was in the middle of it, so waking up was a bit of a struggle. I may have heard my wife making coffee upstairs. Anyway, attempting to regain conscious straight out of a dream, waking up was hard work, but I saw how late it was and I don't really like sleeping past 9:00 if possible, so I got myself up. But I had a clearer plot line about the Starla Novakini opening of my comic book, so I spent about 5-10 minutes writing it down. So, that's positive. Right now, based on my notes and how I think it'll take up some pages, it looks like this story/comic is going to run long, but maybe not. Granted, I've never figured out a real 24-page story before, so maybe the next section will be tougher to come up with, but this 'prologue"/Starla dream section seems long now (and possibly indulgent) after writing it out. 

But, right now,  my plan is to just write it all out and if I like the story, whether it goes beyond 24 pages (or not), fine. Whatever the length: JUST FINISH THE FUCKING THING.

Meanwhile, less than 2 days before 2022!

I have to address my blogging junk!

But first, feed the birds, take a shower!

ANIME I'VE SEEN IN 2018

Thursday, November 19, 8:42 pm

3. ONE PUNCH MAN (2015, Season 1 (12 Eps), Netflix)

2. SPACE PATROL LULUCO (2016, Seasons 1-3 (13 eps), Crunchyroll)

1. KILL LA KILL (2013, Season 1 (24 Eps), Netflix

2020 ART GOAL #1: Overhauling my Portfolio

Friday, January 17, 2020 

ALL I NEED IS 8 PAGES! Part 3

ALL I NEED IS 8 PAGES! Part 2

Thursday, April 22, 11:07 am

So, I finally posted Part 1 of this series re: my efforts to do an 8-page comic story which started way back in 2020, and I'm STILL struggling to accomplish. It seems that just as difficult as it is for me to actually produce this comic story goal, it's also been an effort documenting my efforts to do so and especially, coherently.

Case in point: My first post on this blog regarding this subject was Part FOUR back in December 2020.

Whatever.

I'm still trying to do this 8-page comic story and I'm still trying to use my blog as a way to document my efforts in creating art, so, I'll keep (fitfully) trucking.

Part of my struggles is my impulsive nature and how almost recklessly or haphazardly I approach trying to do something. If instead I could finish something immediately after I start it, an impulsive approach wouldn't really matter. However, my efforts to follow through on a project or idea really SUCK.

Which is why I'm really trying to jot down my working attempts as well. Sometimes I have so many ideas, big and small, worthwhile and not so worthwhile, I forget a bunch, and sometimes completely forget because the ideas are so impulsive and of the moment.

So, writing this stuff down is actually a constructive and useful exercise for me, not really a time-wasting activity.

How that translates to being readable, entertaining content for YOU, dear reader, well, uh... I'm afraid you're on your own there...

But, more later.

I'm actually going to help on a film today. I have to drive down to Corfu, NY and I'll be a cameraman for my friend, writer/producer/director Donnamarie Vaughan's latest feature film, THE LAST DANCE. It's like a 45-minute drive and I still have a couple errands to run here before I leave.

So... more later.

Sunday, May 2, 11:56 am

Yo.

So, I'm still trying to sort shit out here re: my posts on ALL I NEED IS 8 PAGES. Due to the way I've been "organizing" and labeling my posts, but also my constantly changing ideas, I think I started a number of posts but never published them, or published them out of order..? Like, I published what I thought was Part 4 first, as I mentioned above. Now, I think I finally published the FIRST post, but I'm still editing and sorting through what I've written so far in draft form. So, I'm still a little confused and if I'M confused, then YOU, dear reader (hello, again!), are probably... well, gone elsewhere, ANYWHERE ELSE but the incoherent HERE, if you're smart.