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March 16, 2006
What I Did On My Non-Vacation
I can't draw comix worth a damn.
That's what's been on my mind of late. Yeah, I know it's not entirely true, but I feel I'm on the cusp of getting to where I think I may be good, so my body of work up to this point really just aggravates me.
Like, I totally hate Black Chamber at this point. It just looks like garbage to me. It doesn't look like something a publisher would want. But, I might also be going slowly insane. I'm about one productive weekend away from having it ready to be submitted, and I think I just need to do that, get it all done, and then either finish the book if it gets picked up, or just move on to my next OGN.
Comix have been depressing me lately. I think it all started with that big hub bub over the demise of the CCN (yeah, there, I said it again. The group's done, y'all, time to move on to the next iteration, a'ight?). So much negativity came out of that, man. It just...I don't know. I haven't felt right since.
Oh, and public scrutiny time: Both of my anthologies are officially shelved now. I just don't have the time, resources, or motivation to do them right now. Sorry to everyone who this affects. I suck.
This is feeling cathartic already.
I'm going to start doing sketchbook stuff again. A daily self-portrait, maybe, or just going to the park at lunch-time and sketching with ink. That sounds fun. I haven't drawn for fun in a month or two. I'll do my best to post the worthwhile stuff here.
I have a deep, inner passion to express myself through comix. I have things that I need to say to my society, and I plan to do it through this medium. Time to refocus my energies and get back to work on that.
Oh, speaking of, be sure to check out the Previews comix page starting next month, for Scotty Skyrocket. I'm writing, and the incomparable Mike Sullivan is illustrating, doing the best work, I feel, of his life. It's just straight-up all-cap's FUN. Explosions, damsels in distress, see-through spaceships, wacky aliens, bizzarre worlds, hoLosexuality, and a few punches to the face. I think y'all are going to have as much fun reading it as Mike and I did making it.
Posted by Schamberger at March 16, 2006 07:44 PM