Well i just entered a Comic book concept in the Comic Book Challenge being produced by Platinum Studios. Now for me to enter this contest took some retooling of my internal map of reality. See if my concept would win that would mean that Platinum would own the comic book rights to this concept.
Now my map of reality when coming to comic book creations has been drawn by the influence the self-publishing success story of Dave Sim. Creating a comic book and to give it away to a company was a major hurdle I had to overcome to enter this contest. Thats why i just created a whole new concept for it, instead of retooling the several concepts laying around in the recluse of my mind.
But if somehow I win this thing, I get to produce this comic book for them and I will get my name out there in the comic book universe. The hope is it creates a space and place for me to enter in with my own self publishing projects.
Time will tell.
Oh and by the way, the title of my concept is, Sigil Stone.
Being a creative person who is constantly struggling with myself on being steadily productive, I am finding myself trying to get warmed up for producing TV God. It seems my ambitions for TV God seems a bit too heavy to jump into right now so I completed a one pager of an old comic character of mine called forkface, and I am currently working on another. Check out the new page here.
The other project I am working on is coloring my recently finished 24 page flow of things. I've even digitally painted up a color cover and I am planning on printing this with Ka-Blam and put up for sale on my web site. Hopefully having a tangible object that I created in my hands will lead to more comic books created by me. After that I plan on gathering up some forkface pages and print a collection comic book of those.
Oh yeah World of Warcraft is on hiatus as it's become time sink drawing me away from my creative pursuits among other things. Will the world of Azeroth survive without my dwarven priest? Yeah I think so.
We interrupt this creative pursuit to level my priest, Curse these addictions. I did complete my comic Flow of things at least before the new Warcrack hit the streets.
I always loved sinfest.
i always have a desire to create something. a question i seem to always ask myself is, what i want to create, is there any point to it? am i just fulfilling this creative impulse inside me, scratching an itch so to speak, or is there something meaningful and with purpose to my ideas? i never have an answer. i'm at peace with that
speaking of being at peace, drawing has always been like a drug for me. the focus on line and shape and pulling something from nothing and giving birth to an image. it gives me calm. i've always wrestled with demons of anxiety in social situations. in high school it focused me down to my desk on to any scrap paper to doodle. all my school notes were adorned with a column of words and a column of images. maybe a precursor to my affair with the field of comics.
words and pictures.
writing has always been my distant cousin. a well versed student in the gift of words an phrases i am not. but i like my ideas. if only they were more linear and defined. or maybe i dont wish that. i recall an interview i read with david lynch. if you write 300 scenes on 300 index cards, you have a movie.
i string these thoughts into a blog entry. i string my ideas into a story. scratch. scratch.
What song gives you the most holiday cheer?
Submitted by Roxy.
Little Drummer Boy, especially the Bing Crosby and David Bowie version of it. Yeah a song about the birth of Christ I think thats simplistically the true spirit of Christmas don't you think?. The odd pairing of Crosby and Bowie symbolize to me the Status Quo, Crosby, and the Novelty of the outsider, Bowie, coming together in peace to a complete a whole.
So on my home machine I used XAMPP to install a local server so I could setup a wordpress blog behind my firewall. I am going to experiment with using the blog as my writing tool for TV GOD. This is an idea that entered my mine from my friend fyshmom. Most of my ideas come in small bits and scenes so using wordpress i can just make a blog entry of these little ideas and organize it with categories. Hopefully all these little bits will form into a nice little necklace of a story. I can also use it as a way of cataloging links to websites for references. We will see how it goes.
I tend to have a habit of revisiting stories of mine and wanting to retell them. My main creative focus now is rewriting my Experiencing Technical Difficulties comic book, an unfinished tale I started way back in 1990, into a new tale that I am entitling TV GOD. This new title is partly a pun based on TV Guide, but it also is a more appropriate title thematically. Basically the theme being how does one find an authentic spiritual and emotional well being, when our American reality seems to be a fictional work written by the greed and desires of our corporate overlords.
I wasn't intending to do this story, but on my hour plus daily commute to work, while my left brain was asleep, the creative ideas started pouring in. I would arrive at work and hastily scribble notes into a yellow notepad, trying to recall the imaginings of my commute, as if i was journaling dreams from the night before. What started developing was the framework of a new approach to my basic story. One I am very happy with and one I want to drive myself into completing.
Heres a digital painting I did with the goal of trying to capture the mood of the first Book of my story.
