Coming Back
Originally published at Red Light Properties. Please leave any comments there.
OK so, I might’ve tweeted this a few days ago, but my break-from RLP-to-write-Mysterious-Other-Thing is over. I estimated one-to-three months and did what I needed to in two: hammered this giant mercury-blob of idea into the shape of a story. Now it’s time to let it exude its silvery radiation and bend the universe to its now-living will. And I can come back to My Mental Miami (MMM?), pop open a can of Materva, and make some comics again.
It ached in my bones to be away from Jude & Co., like being on the other side of the planet from your family; the ritual of getting up at dawn, producing a finished page and shooting it out of my brain-cannon into the gaping maw of the Google is something I’m now well-addicted to.
At least, and I hear this in my father’ voice, it’s cheaper than a coke habit.
Fathers (and fatherhood) factor pretty heavily into this next RLP yarn, “A Series of Tubes”… I’m finishing up the script now. I always work from full-script, didn’t you want to know; I always write my scripts as if they’ll be drawn by someone else… and in a way these are: I’m writing for the slower, weaker artist-brain. The part that is forever resentful of how easily my writer-brain taps into and writer-fingers tap out these stories that then make artist-brain twist itself around into solutions it’s honestly never totally happy with.
I’ve had a handful of close friends tell me lately that I should write more and draw less; I’m not sure I can see anyone else drawing RLP anytime soon, but I definitely have more stories backing up in the skull than life expectancy to get them all drawn myself. The problem is matching the right project with the right (responsible) artist; so far, my luck she not be so good with this. What say you, my fluffy little bunnies? You know a guy?
So: you’ve read down this far, and I appreciate it more than words in a blog can contain.
The new RLP stuff starts next week; be a sweetheart and tell your friends?
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And yes, the half-broken navigation at the top of the site should be fixed by then (gulp).