ok,
so night before last, after work, i went down to lil' ol' Heroes in the villiage for a drink (and made sure not to order any of their damn expensive food
)
anyway, by strange circumstance i happened to sit right next to a professional career councellor (no joke!) and we started talking about how i graduated like 18 days ago and am in-between stages of my life etc.. i also told her i'm thinking of entering a graphic novel contest "no! you ARE going to enter a graphic novel contest!" she replied.. but then i explained to her my problem (see previous journal entry for my difficulty with this contest) and i told her that there's ALREADY "violent gore" in the first 10 pages which i've drawn already... she asked if the fact that the novel has gory content is more important to me than entering the contest; and i told her that this is an idea i've had basically since i was 17 and i KNOW the whole story almost by heart now, and that it just DOES involve violence and the violence is a vital part of the story and the characters-- she started nodding and said that in that case i'd better finish the novel the way i want to do it-- and that i COULD enter it in the contest, but it's probably not going to win. She also said that this contest might be an opportunity to get me working on its ccompletion, but this particular contest needs "something else, this time"...
so that was cool--- at first, though, i thought "i don't HAVE any other ideas! that was the prime one--'' but then i remembered: "uh oh-- there's THAT one too--" an idea for a comic that i had just about forgotten, of which i've drawn the first page: not a very old idea, i think it struck me while i was sitting in a starbucks last X-mas and saw their little twisted-mermaid-like character adorning one of their brochures-- it's a comic about mermaids, basically... and as i was sitting in another, *cheaper* bar later that evening ( ) i went over it in my mind and thought well, maybe i will use that one instead...
so, while it may seem subtle, it's kindof a 180 for me...
so night before last, after work, i went down to lil' ol' Heroes in the villiage for a drink (and made sure not to order any of their damn expensive food
)
anyway, by strange circumstance i happened to sit right next to a professional career councellor (no joke!) and we started talking about how i graduated like 18 days ago and am in-between stages of my life etc.. i also told her i'm thinking of entering a graphic novel contest "no! you ARE going to enter a graphic novel contest!" she replied.. but then i explained to her my problem (see previous journal entry for my difficulty with this contest) and i told her that there's ALREADY "violent gore" in the first 10 pages which i've drawn already... she asked if the fact that the novel has gory content is more important to me than entering the contest; and i told her that this is an idea i've had basically since i was 17 and i KNOW the whole story almost by heart now, and that it just DOES involve violence and the violence is a vital part of the story and the characters-- she started nodding and said that in that case i'd better finish the novel the way i want to do it-- and that i COULD enter it in the contest, but it's probably not going to win. She also said that this contest might be an opportunity to get me working on its ccompletion, but this particular contest needs "something else, this time"...
so that was cool--- at first, though, i thought "i don't HAVE any other ideas! that was the prime one--'' but then i remembered: "uh oh-- there's THAT one too--" an idea for a comic that i had just about forgotten, of which i've drawn the first page: not a very old idea, i think it struck me while i was sitting in a starbucks last X-mas and saw their little twisted-mermaid-like character adorning one of their brochures-- it's a comic about mermaids, basically... and as i was sitting in another, *cheaper* bar later that evening (
) i went over it in my mind and thought well, maybe i will use that one instead...
so, while it may seem subtle, it's kindof a 180 for me...
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Yep, The Cure put out a DVD of a recent concert. They performed the dark trilogy, the entire pornography album, then all of disintegration, then all of bloodflowers. Yuppers, gotta love that.
It was awesome hanging with you! See ya at DETAH LABORATORY 69!!!! Mwahaahaha!
(btw...do you still want me to ask if Barely Legal needs illustrators? Your art is much better than the crap they print, and I bet it pays a bunch if you don't mind drawing people fucking....)