Call me a quixotic jackass, call me a doomed deluded artist, call me unapproachably handsome, but I have made a decision to recall for the first time my progress as an artist since the dream’s inception.  This may seem like too grand of an undertaking for an artist no one has ever heard of, but I’ve acquired a feeling of freedom from owning my own internet site, and my artistic history will be something nice for my grandchildren to stumble upon while they’re waiting for their future pornography to buffer.  This is, of course, a joke.  There will be no wait for buffering in the future, and day-to-day life in the future will be so hedonistic that pornography will be rendered irrelevant.

This experiment will also be a nice opportunity to display things I’ve always kept guarded in an attempt to get over my artistic shyness.  Although I may be an unknown, I have progressed much as an artist and perhaps documenting my progress and pratfalls might be of some use to up-and-coming artists who stumble upon this site.

No history will be revealed in this post, however.  I just get very carried away with introductions.

I will not be able to update the comic today on account of I haven’t colored it and want to do it right.  Time management and I have been on the outs lately, and real life has entertained me far more than it usually does.  Hey, real life, thanks.  But I’ve got a job to do.

So I wanted to compensate by posting something on the blog today.  And I’ll start with a little inside baseball into why I do my comic in the format I do:  I decided to use the standard newspaper strip format because I originally intended to submit my comic to newspaper syndicates.  I did so only once, a few months back when my act was noticeably less together, and it was rejected.  So up until I introduced the stoner character I was still operating under the assumption I’d submit again when I thought my material was good enough.  But lately I’ve been less interested in that direction and am becoming more content on doing whatever I want with my comic here, on this site.

The 3-4 panel format has always terrified me because everyone knows you have to dump a joke in the last panel, and I always feel like I’m under a lot of pressure to work in a rigid format.  So I may change the format of this comic up a bit in the coming weeks.  I noticed that when I started the graphic novel I’m working on, my brain felt so free and unencumbered by structure.  Updates to follow.

Other than that, the song remains the same.  I hope you’ll forgive me my gaffe, and maybe you and I can take solace in the fact that the next comic represents a leap in progress.  I don’t know what happened but I’m becoming better at picturing things.  Legitimacy is within reach!