(before reading, I suggest you take a look at Frank Miller's most recent blog post)
Concerning Frank Miller and the Occupy Movement
It's 10:58 am on a dreary Tuesday morning. My cereal has been eaten, my tea is being slowly drained away. I should be drawing. I should be at my table, pencil in hand, covering this still blank piece of bristol with lines. Instead, I'm typing.
And it's all Frank Miller's fault, really.
I'm going to avoid stating opinions on the Occupy Movement. I prefer to mix my politics into my fiction work, so if you want to get a sense of how I see the world, then make sure you read my upcoming webcomic "Trench Coat Samurai" when it debuts January 18, 2012. There's good and bad to be said about the movement. Like most things in life, it's a complex topic, too detailed to sum up in a short blog post, too big to have such a clear opinion on.
Unless I want to say bold statements that will hurt the feelings of devout followers and get me some attention. Maybe I need it. Maybe my most recent book, itself an exercise in oversimplification, didn't get the heaps of praise I assumed it would, and now I'm lashing out because I want to be noticed. Maybe I haven't been relevant in years, and this is the only way I can think of to return to my former pop icon glory.
Or maybe I'm just a cranky old man who's too stubborn or senile to understand the complexities of the world.
Frank Miller is entitled to his opinion. Just because I don't entirely agree with him doesn't mean I think he should've kept his mouth shut. I won't boycott his work, I won't burn his old books in effigy. I won't overreact. But I am disappointed. Not because he sees this movement differently than I do, but because he has apparently failed to see beyond a very narrow point of view. He has tunnel vision, which was obvious when I read "Holy Terror," a book so simplistic in it's writing that I was sure it was a parody of propaganda. Sure, that is, until I got to the last page and realized he was serious the whole time.
But I'm mainly disappointed that Miller has no sense of irony. That he would refer to the Occupiers as lazy, spoiled brats. But here is a man who has made an extremely good living by drawing lines on paper. He hasn't had to worry about bills or medical expenses or debt in 30 years, all because he can draw comic books. I'll be the first to say comics are hard work, and while I'm nowhere near as successful as he is (and likely never will be), I don't for one second compare what I do to someone who has a 9 to 5 working retail, construction, or anything else that's bad on the back and harsh on the ego.
It's 12:04. I've finished my tea, and will finish this blog and step over to my table and get drawing. It is in my Momma's basement, as I don't make enough money to support myself, and comics pays nothing when you're a nobody. I might even play some video games, though I won't play Lords of Warcraft, which I've actually never heard of. Maybe Arkham City. Or LA Noire. Because that's going to fight Islam about as much as writing a Mickey Mouse piece of comic book propaganda will.
Mainly, though, I'm too old to enlist.
Same as Frank.
Concerning Frank Miller and the Occupy Movement
It's 10:58 am on a dreary Tuesday morning. My cereal has been eaten, my tea is being slowly drained away. I should be drawing. I should be at my table, pencil in hand, covering this still blank piece of bristol with lines. Instead, I'm typing.
And it's all Frank Miller's fault, really.
I'm going to avoid stating opinions on the Occupy Movement. I prefer to mix my politics into my fiction work, so if you want to get a sense of how I see the world, then make sure you read my upcoming webcomic "Trench Coat Samurai" when it debuts January 18, 2012. There's good and bad to be said about the movement. Like most things in life, it's a complex topic, too detailed to sum up in a short blog post, too big to have such a clear opinion on.
Unless I want to say bold statements that will hurt the feelings of devout followers and get me some attention. Maybe I need it. Maybe my most recent book, itself an exercise in oversimplification, didn't get the heaps of praise I assumed it would, and now I'm lashing out because I want to be noticed. Maybe I haven't been relevant in years, and this is the only way I can think of to return to my former pop icon glory.
Or maybe I'm just a cranky old man who's too stubborn or senile to understand the complexities of the world.
Frank Miller is entitled to his opinion. Just because I don't entirely agree with him doesn't mean I think he should've kept his mouth shut. I won't boycott his work, I won't burn his old books in effigy. I won't overreact. But I am disappointed. Not because he sees this movement differently than I do, but because he has apparently failed to see beyond a very narrow point of view. He has tunnel vision, which was obvious when I read "Holy Terror," a book so simplistic in it's writing that I was sure it was a parody of propaganda. Sure, that is, until I got to the last page and realized he was serious the whole time.
But I'm mainly disappointed that Miller has no sense of irony. That he would refer to the Occupiers as lazy, spoiled brats. But here is a man who has made an extremely good living by drawing lines on paper. He hasn't had to worry about bills or medical expenses or debt in 30 years, all because he can draw comic books. I'll be the first to say comics are hard work, and while I'm nowhere near as successful as he is (and likely never will be), I don't for one second compare what I do to someone who has a 9 to 5 working retail, construction, or anything else that's bad on the back and harsh on the ego.
It's 12:04. I've finished my tea, and will finish this blog and step over to my table and get drawing. It is in my Momma's basement, as I don't make enough money to support myself, and comics pays nothing when you're a nobody. I might even play some video games, though I won't play Lords of Warcraft, which I've actually never heard of. Maybe Arkham City. Or LA Noire. Because that's going to fight Islam about as much as writing a Mickey Mouse piece of comic book propaganda will.
Mainly, though, I'm too old to enlist.
Same as Frank.
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selene:
lol, you're sweet, but we can't have you beating up women! 
eveski:
thank you. i feel soo much better now though