Plans

Issue 12 progress.  I have 20 pages penciled and lettered, so the issue still has a ways to go but I am pleased with the story and how things look so far.


I am starting to plan my conventions for the year.  My first appearance will be at the VA Comicon on Feb 7th.  The weekend before that I am throwing a birthday party for Wendy (my wife).  After that I will hopefully get out to more shows.

New Year

I have been working on issue 12 as much as my pinched nerve has allowed.  I have been on the couch for about a month "taking it easy."  Which kinda sucks.  As I got closer to feeling better, but not quite enough to sit at my drawing table, I got a drawing board on my lap and penciled some pages.  I hope you won't be able to tell which ones those were.  "Hey this issue is great.  What the heck happened here?"


I haven't posted either.  Sat.  On a couch.  Watching Batman (60's one, the one good thing I can say).  But I am getting back into the swing of things.  I have gone 2 days without a cane.


So the better I feel, the more I draw.

Road trip and anniversary

I went to the Charlotte Comicon on Dec 14th, which is always a good show.  I had decent sales but left early because I pinched a nerve the night before and was in a lot of pain.  Still am.


While at the show I presented my wife Wendy with her present for our 20th anniversary.  She said we needed to skip the show because of my pain, but I kept insisting "I need to go."  That was because I commissioned a painting from the artist John Hairston Jr., and it was amazing.  She was surprised and blown away by it.  Made the pain of that day worth it.

Road trip, and comic book convention

I will be attending the Charlotte Comiccon on Dec 14th, this Sunday.  It is a chance to meet my wife Wendy as well, as we will be going together.  They always have a good show and this one is expanding to be even bigger.


Should be lots of fun, with a few surprises as well (I hope, more on that later).


To anyone who wishes me or Wendy "Happy Anniversary" you will get a free prize.

Issue 12

I have been getting quite a bit done on issue 12 the past week.  As much as I could with Thanksgiving, and relatives coming.  I am getting back into the swing, still trying to find the balance between the next issue and other prints, painting, and Christmas commissions.


But most importantly I am drawing and working.  The obsession is still at work.  The comics and the art still lighten my mind, which gets so dark these days.  Not a lot is going smoothly these days, but when I sit at my drawing table it feels like it is.


Very good news (and something else that makes me happy), my 20th anniversary is coming in the next few weeks.  My wife is always what keeps me going through everything.  Sometimes it is surprising it has been 20 years, but sometimes it is surprising that there was anything before her.

Post NCComiccon post

Overall things went ok.  It was pretty good for sales.  Some things I have been working on didn't do as well as I had hoped, but no big deal, other stuff did.  Not the best show I've done, but in the top five.


But afterwards, I am having a lot of trouble getting motivated to do anything.  And I mean anything.  I still have a long way to go on issue 12, I still have a day job that I suck at, and I still feel like a colossal failure most of the time.  I still have a scanner that is the bane of my existence, and now my computer has been "fixed" but lost photoshop.


Maybe its just a post show let down, paired with some other stuff.  I just could use something to go my way.  Take 2 steps forward, get kicked in the groin.

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Obsession vs Depression.  Guess who's winning.