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Dear Blog,
before more words are spent on PALEO or other things, I need to confess
something that creatives seem to get infected with easily,
THE YES SICKNESS!

It’s that slippery slope between feeling happy that you are busy and the feeling that you are spreading yourself too thin OR that you are not working on the things that make you really happy/rich.

Conversations that lead to getting infected might start like:

Good day!! We are company XYZ, we L O V E your style and we would like to work with you!

We need XYZ done yesterday, there is no budget available (seeing that this is a pitch)
and we need the XYZ to be technical and 100% correct.

We basically want your style… but with someone else’s way of drawing.
It’s important for us that you have fun, but do it quickly, don’t focus on making it look good and do it just like the scribbles our CEO has drawn on a dirty napkin.

SO YOU START DIGGING:

“So I need to get that stuff ready, as well as scribble for the other pitch they had mentioned…
But I can’t forget to work out some story kinks on my own project. That needs to get
printed soon and I have no ending yet…”


“I also need to update my blog”
“Blog story X and story Y have been sketched already and just need inking…
Z still needs a better panel layout…”

And I can’t forget to go out and do some sketching… Life drawing is scheduled as well…
This friend of a friend also wanted a drawing of Superman and SuchandSuch was asking if I could make a small quirky Icon for his/her tumblr.

“?”
What’s this rusty old thing down here?
OH… my online portfolio.
I really need to spend some time on that!

And because this is not enough stuff that is going on… one more thing!

 

 

 

“XBOX DATING TIME!”

Oh the troubled life of a cartoonist.

HELLO!

I`m working on my comic, getting close to finishing issue one, but to keep this blog alive and pumping, some tidbits from the real world.

I had planed to make it only ONE comic (one update) but the topic is bigger and I wanted to take more time. So here it is, the center of nearly every conversation I had in the last 3982 hours, PALEO PART 1!

FAN EXPO 2011

SO in the middle of the crazy FAN EXPO 2011,

The Anthology Project had a small island of comics to sell.

Three things I learned there were:

1)

“Costumed people don’t buy books”

It did not hold true at the end as one girl dressed in a classic red shirt uniform from Star Trek DID buy two comics.

 

2)

“I really think we should work together, I can help you!”

Surprising, the high number of CRAZY PEOPLE!
People with plans, people with pitches, people staring.
People that say they are “social entrepreneurs” as a job title.
They also say that your comic is art, amazing and perfect.
And then walk off without buying it.

3)

“What’s an Iron Man?”

AND surprisingly a high number of girls.
And an even higher number of them dressed in more skin than fabric.

Most of them looked like they are not really interested in the current shenanigans of THE AVENGERS.

Or in any geeky stuff.
But it’s a nice excuse to wear nothing and get looks.

It was fun!
It was not really my “crowd”. But good to see how crazy those things get and how FEARLESS some people are. Totally not caring about their looks /100% invested into their fetish.
OK!
Now back to drawing monsters.

I saw a guy walking on the street this morning looking like this:

What does that mean?
TORONTO FAN EXPO IS HERE!

Costumes, Comics, Captain Kirk!

And the people of THE ANTHOLOGY PROJECT are going to be there, smiling, drawing and selling comics!
So if you want to see fun people in tight costumes OR meet celebrity’s like the guy from that show that was on 20 years ago
where he played that one robot in the back of that episode, COME ON BY!

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