To Start Off With

So, I live this crazy life where I do so many random things that I am starting to have a hard time keeping up with it all. I try to create different people to the outside world to keep simpleton minds from exploding and creating a mess I would probably have to clean up. It's driving me crazy and this is my solution. Here will it all be and if you choose to be brave enough to read along I'm sure that it will be entertaining if not dangerous. You can tell me so when we meet, because, as your about to find out, I'm sure we have something in common and we're bound to cross paths. I refuse to introduce myself in this; I do way to much of that everyday and it would take WAY to long, so you'll just have to jump in and take it like one of those SAT paragraphs where you can assume any start of end you want.

I'm a comic book author and I've been working on a comic book, actually two, for a year or more now and I've finally got CJ (the artist of both) motivated enough that he says he's going to them. I'm really going to stay on-top of him (don't be dirty) this time because we have a local store that wants to carry The Price of Tea, aka TPOT, and I've always said if it every got in stores (we publish it ourselves) that we would keep up with it. I can't stand when an issue isn't out when it should be and I wasn't going to do that to our readers. We have two issues in print and then had a years pause while we worked on more profitable ventures, but now I'm ready to get started again. TPOT is a labor of love that I would like to leave in our hands. I want to keep it safe, it was my first comic baby after all.

Comic number two is my outlet for the 14yo steam punk, goth kid that is inside me. I call it Arnessa. I really want to get the synopsis and script out at the first of the year to some of the bigger places (Dark Horse, Oni Press, ext) and see if I get a bite. I have great hope for this one; the story is a good one,complete with a "deeper meaning," alternative realities, and a hint of lesbianism. We worked on the sketches and more of the story this week and it is shaping out nicely. I will work on my end tomorrow.

On the weaving front (I'm a professional weaver), we are gearing up to try for the Kentucky Arts and Crafts Guild in January. The thing about all this crappy economy is that nothing is selling. Usually this would be a bad thing, because money is good, but right now we are in more of a need for laziness and nothing selling means we don't have to make new stuff like mad. We need this guild so we can move on to bigger things and get to the point where I can do everything I want to do instead of everything I have to. We are hoping for a residence somewhere, but that cannot happen without "proof" that we are active in the weaving community. It does have some other benefits, namely help in the one area I suck at, marketing. I don't know how much help, but any would be better than none. I'm a good weaver, but I have a hard time getting people to sell me stuff, let alone selling others my goods.