Trudging Towards Valhalla: Comic News Updates
Hello, internet site! Please forgive my relative absence over the last week or so. Believe it or not, the real life of a cartoonist occasionally becomes interesting, and things have been resembling the life of a real person lately!
I will start at the relative beginning. I have always been drowning in my thoughts, but it had been worse for the last few weeks. I decided to be alone with my thoughts on Memorial Day and went on a casino junket on a bus full of senior citizens. I figured flashing lights and ringing bells would be a nice place for my thoughts to die. And it worked, to a degree. I emerged with slightly more wherewithall, a nebulous substance. So I’ve got a little more motivation now, and here are some of the things I’ve accomplished recently.
1. I have decided to get a booth at the upcoming Alternative Press Expo that will be in San Francisco on November 1st and 2nd in San Francisco. I will provide more updates on this as it develops. But I figure I’m going to have to up comic and merchandise production in the next few months so I don’t make a total buffoon of myself.
2. I went down to the California Board of Equalization and got the necessary permits to sell stuff in California, so now I effectively have my own business. It may not be badass, but it feels badass.
3. I bought a Wacom Tablet and am learning how to use it. Currently I’ve used it only for touching things up in the comics I draw by hand and then scan into the computer, but the next comic I post will have been done entirely on the tablet. Review of the tablet so far: a slight learning curve, but thoroughly essential for comic artists who use the computer as an integral component of their comic.
I think that’s it. It feels like I’ve done more, but I guess I was just fooling myself. But, having dealt exclusively in small potatoes in the past, I can tell that what I am immersing myself in now has nothing to do with small potatoes. These potatoes are fucking huge.
Love,
Eric
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