2008 was quite a year for me. Fulfilling in spots and crushing in others.
Personally my toughest year, physically, mentally, emotionally.
Professionally, I've taken on more responsibilities and made friends and connections in the comics field which will lead to hopefully better things. Teaching still pays the bills but is becoming less and less how I want to spend my life.
2009?
Time will tell.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Check this out from Mid Ohio Con
http://www.youtube.com/maknbacon
Check me out ( in all my fatness) talking up Comic Related in an interview by Fanatic Press' Allen Freeman
Check me out ( in all my fatness) talking up Comic Related in an interview by Fanatic Press' Allen Freeman
Friday, October 24, 2008
Iron Man
Finally bought the DVD and it was every bit as good as seeing it in the theater. In fact, I got so caught up watching the extras, I almost missed getting my daily post in on http://www.sketchmagazine.net.
And I am also behind on my coloring for Unleashed Press and still need to get content in to http://www.comicrelated.com.
I need more hours in the day...or at least to be better able to prioritize my time.
And I am also behind on my coloring for Unleashed Press and still need to get content in to http://www.comicrelated.com.
I need more hours in the day...or at least to be better able to prioritize my time.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Inspiration
Inspiration is a funny old thing. Sometimes you have tons and no energy to pursue it. Sometimes you have the energy but not enough inspiration.
Right now I don't have enough of either.
And need some.
Badly.
Right now I don't have enough of either.
And need some.
Badly.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
They got me workin' workin' day and night
I'm taking a lot more onto my plate to help out a friend and I want to do it all well. I just hope I can keep it all up in the air and to a quality it deserves.
Time will tell.
Time will tell.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
A Victim of My own Success
I'm trying to become a ghost.
After a year where I was doing too much, this school year, I am trying to pull back, do less, disappear. When I suggested giving up a leadership position earlier today, my colleagues wouldn't have it. They were upset that I was even considering leaving and were vehement about me staying. When I went to try to give up another position after that, the organizer looked so sad about it that i almost said I was just kidding right there.
I don't think I am doing very well at any of them. But apparently, I am too good at these jobs somehow to be allowed to give them up.
How do I get myself into these things?
After a year where I was doing too much, this school year, I am trying to pull back, do less, disappear. When I suggested giving up a leadership position earlier today, my colleagues wouldn't have it. They were upset that I was even considering leaving and were vehement about me staying. When I went to try to give up another position after that, the organizer looked so sad about it that i almost said I was just kidding right there.
I don't think I am doing very well at any of them. But apparently, I am too good at these jobs somehow to be allowed to give them up.
How do I get myself into these things?
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Professionalism
We all have stuff. Life intrudes, things happen, etc. etc. ad infinidum. I am the master at being life's punching bag. It's a wonder I'm sane at all (thank you , Sheriff of Nottingham).
But the thing that makes us professionals is that we rise above all that, when we are given a task, when the boss (or art director, publisher and so on) gives us a job, we get to work, we push all that stuff away and we get it done. It's not easy. It's never easy, but we get it done. You can't control having to wait on other people but you can always control your end of it. Be the one who can always be counted on, be the one who they know can save the day and be the one gives answers where everyone else gives excuses. You will be the one that gets the call when everyone else is getting their next excuse prepared. Publishers don't respond to excuses, they respond to met deadlines.
Be THAT Guy! You have the talent and the drive, you know you do or you wouldn't be still pursuing this after all these years. You just need direction. Well here it is...go do it already!
But the thing that makes us professionals is that we rise above all that, when we are given a task, when the boss (or art director, publisher and so on) gives us a job, we get to work, we push all that stuff away and we get it done. It's not easy. It's never easy, but we get it done. You can't control having to wait on other people but you can always control your end of it. Be the one who can always be counted on, be the one who they know can save the day and be the one gives answers where everyone else gives excuses. You will be the one that gets the call when everyone else is getting their next excuse prepared. Publishers don't respond to excuses, they respond to met deadlines.
Be THAT Guy! You have the talent and the drive, you know you do or you wouldn't be still pursuing this after all these years. You just need direction. Well here it is...go do it already!
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