phoenix post
This is my first LJ post in two and a half years. I'm not dead, nor have I given up drawing comics, I just stopped putting them online, or anywhere, for a while, for reasons.
Mostly I was just sick of making work I wasn't proud of, thrown together at the last minute (or not at all). The only time I was able to focus in the past few years was with small press shows, which I kept signing up for in the hope that a firm deadline would help me find discipline.
Instead I found mediocre to bad comics, or I ended up flaking, because I knew I couldn't finish anything in time to make something I wouldn't hate. That's a lot of n't. Anyway, this was a dumb move.
Also during this span, I stopped actively participating in the comics community, because not sharing comics made me feel like I had nothing to contribute or say of value to people that kept making comics and showing them to the world. At first it wasn't deliberate, then I thought maybe I should just stay away til I had comics to share, and here we are, 18 years later. This was also a dumb move.
But ultimately however misguided in my approach, I wanted to quietly get better at making comics, because that is what makes me happy. Also, kangaroos.
Or at least not making comics makes me really unhappy. Other things that make me unhappy include getting rashes and Pizza Hut.
Anyway, one benefit of the dumb is now I have big shoebox of about 100+ pages that very few people have really even seen...until last weekend at SPX 2012, when I passed out my first mini-comic in waaaay too long.
It made me feel like a person again. AND a werewolf. At the same time.
It took me a while to figure it out, but I'm moving this little fiesta over with the rest of the party on tumblr at http://wykery.tumblr.com
Plz to join. Almost have my own .com site working soon, too. Or I won't, I'm kind of the worst at simple internet stuff.
I may still use the LJ from time to time. If nothing else it is an archive of 6 years of my precious little life.