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!