Due to extenuating circumstances I won’t be able to update this blog for 2 or 3 weeks.  Please check back the end of this month or early February

Image from Tonoharu: Part One

At the end of 2006, I returned from Japan exhausted, unemployed & heartbroken. It wasn’t a very auspicious start to 2007, but I decided to make the best of my total lack of attachments with an experiment.

For the whole of 2007, I would remain willfully unemployed. I wouldn’t devote the slighted effort to a job hunt, or an apartment search, or anything else that a responsible twenty-nine year old in my situation would do. Instead, I would swallow my pride and hole up in my parents’ basement, and devote myself completely to my calling of drawing comics.

My hope was to somehow turn full-time cartooning a financially self-sustaining endeavor. I wasn’t sure if that was possible, but thought a year would be enough time to at least give me some idea. If things seemed to be going well at the end of 2007, I’d continue pursuing comics. If things looked less promising, I’d consider a different path.

So as 2007 came to a close this week, I took stock of where my little experiment has left me.

Continue reading Taking Stock of 2007→

The reason I decided to update this blog on a strictly weekly basis is that I figured it would be often enough so that people might visit regularly, but infrequently enough so I could write (somewhat) interesting entries without having the blog take over my life. For the most part I think it’s worked out pretty good so far.

This week, however, I’ve been really busy preparing the files for my forthcoming graphic novel Tonoharu: Part One to send to my printer. I’m anxious to get the files off to the printer because there’s an eight-week turnaround time from when they get the files to when I get the books back from them, and I want to start that process as soon as possible. So getting those files in order has been my number one priority.

Because of that, the old blog took a backseat this week. So with these few measly lines, I bring this phoned-in entry to a close. By early next week I should have the files delivered to the printer, and will resume writing the interesting entries you’ve come to expect (*cough, cough*), starting with the forth part of my Creating Tonoharu series. So check back for that.

In the meantime, check out a couple press releases I took a stab at writing here. If anyone who actually knows how to write a press release has any suggestions for edits, please let me know.

If you’re reading this on or around the date that it was put up, then I probably know you personally and you’re probably among the dozen or so people who I mentioned this blog to. Of those twelve or so people, about half probably already have a pretty good idea about what I’m up to, so I guess I’m writing these words for the benefit of about six people (who are presumably barely interested in the first place). But I suppose it’s good practice for my newfound intention to blog regularly, so here we go.

So here’s what’s going on in my life recently. For about a year now I’ve been unemployed and have been living off my savings. This state of unemployment has been willful, and is part of a greater plan to determine the economic and logistic feasibly of a career as a cartoonist. For the past twelve months I’ve devoted myself to the production of a lengthy, (yet unfinished) graphic novel, as well as applying for various scholarships and grants to help me in the pursuit of a comics career (more about all this nonsense in blog entries to come). It is my intention to continue this irresponsible lifestyle at least until the end of this year, and possibly longer depending on how things go.
Continue reading First Entry: What I’m up to these days→