5/7/2020 I must say, after a somewhat hectic and discouraging week last week, I think I’m getting to a better place. I am almost done with the pen section of[…]

5/4/2020 It has been hell rewriting those pages. I have in fact ultimately redone them six times over, and now they are finally, miraculously, in a place where they hit[…]

One of my favorite things about this project is the opportunity it provides for growth in both artistic and writing directions. For writing, I have chosen Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, while[…]

4/30/2020 We are steadily approaching the endgame, and I just mass sent two final emails to my interviewees – artists Eric Gapstur and Emily Pearson. These two are actually interesting[…]

4/27/2020 Cry havoc, and let loose the mass emails of war. Well not really, I’m only interviewing like two more people. Regardless, while my first contact Jed McPherson was a[…]

With my interviews going reasonably well, and the art of my comic being reasonably satisfactory in its current form, the next problem to tackle was time. Time management is an[…]

4/24/2020 I got ink! Well, India ink to be exact, which I will use for backgrounds. While it is a material that I have experimented with in the past, it[…]

4/20/2020 There is a new threat on the horizon, and that threat is an unfinalized draft. In my time writing I have realized the way that works best for me[…]

Though I have been placed in an art-related cohort, writing still remains a large part of my project. In fact, I would argue that the visuals, while certainly important, are[…]

4/16/2020 Well, good news today – I finally got a response from Jed McPherson, the independent comic writer. I’m yet to read through his entire response but his replies to[…]

I have loved comics since I was a kid. Growing up in a fairly religious environment, western comics always represented not only a wonderful escapist opportunity, but a bout of[…]

4/13/2020 Beyond continuing work on the project itself, I have additionally reached out to my first contact, indie writer Jed McPherson, but have so far received crickets in return. I[…]

4/9/2020 In my gradual descent into madness, I am beginning to once more appreciate the necessity of weekends. Or, at least, momentous breaks. While I would most certainly call the[…]

4/6/2020 I am currently grinding away at what may be the most artistically complex page so far. It has in the coming days become reasonably apparent that my initial 44-page[…]

4/2/2020 This is the first blog documenting my artistic exploits, as well as my potential gradual descent into cabin fever-induced madness. The most apparent takeaway from me beginning my project[…]