I was wasting more of my valuable time surfing the internet when I came across this comic. I think it applies to pretty much every creative profession, not just cartoonists.

I do wonder though why people know more about Van Gogh and his struggles than other successful artists. It’s even weirder that with so many methods of spreading images to people and finding ways to get your name out in the world that people tend to think making a career in art is difficult. What’s difficult about it? We live in a consumerist society where people have so much disposable income that they will buy bottled water for a dollar instead of using their own tap water. There’s always someone out there willing to shell out some cash for a picture.

Did some hourlies yesterday that I’ve posted.

It’s like the hourlies I did before, except that I’m not putting them on this website. Instead, they’re posted on a forum where a whole bunch of other people are doing the same thing. You should go check some of them out.

So, like all the other comic artists out there, I too am taking up the challenge of doing a twenty-four page comic from start to finish in twenty-four hours. Everything must be completed within that period; idea, script, sketches, penciling, inking, and even putting the book together. Let’s see how this goes.

I know I haven’t updated in like a month, but things have been busy. We all know how it is – summer rolls around, and instead of being really productive, you do a whole bunch of other cool things and your new website begins to gather dust and spam comments.

In case you haven’t looked, I have been working on Fencing Club for the past week. Unfortnately, things are getting busy again so I can’t work on that either. But if you haven’t been following it lately, then you should check it out, there are a lot of new pages up.

Just because the media has focused its attention on the dead celebrities doesn’t mean that the situation in Iran has gone away.

Marjane Satrapi, author of the autobiographical comic Persepolis, is asking people to sign an open letter to Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations. Basically, the letter is asking for the United Nations to expel Iran’s government from the world community and close down its embassies in protest against the Islamic Republic’s violations of human rights. It also asks that the hundreds of pictures and videos be used as evidence in a trial against the Islamic Republic by the International Court of Law.

I have signed it myself, and I’m asking you to sign it. I don’t know if this will do any good, but it’s better than being silent.