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My wife and I have made the move to Toluca Lake, California - back in my old haunts in Los Angeles. We've been blessed with a very nice apartment, the internet and cable are finally hooked up, and we're looking forward to an end of living out of boxes.
I've just started my final class at MCAD, an Independent Study course that I'll be completing through e-mail. Then, in June, I'll fly back out to Minneapolis to hang my senior show on campus and collect my Bachelor's Degree in Comic Art.
In the meantime, I'm available for employment. I'm really hoping to find something in professional comics, but I'm also investigating the possibilities of storyboarding. I don't know what's available given that the Writer's Strike is still going on, but we'll see...
I've just started my final class at MCAD, an Independent Study course that I'll be completing through e-mail. Then, in June, I'll fly back out to Minneapolis to hang my senior show on campus and collect my Bachelor's Degree in Comic Art.
In the meantime, I'm available for employment. I'm really hoping to find something in professional comics, but I'm also investigating the possibilities of storyboarding. I don't know what's available given that the Writer's Strike is still going on, but we'll see...
Well, I'm Certainly Entertained
It's...been a while. To be honest, part of the reason I never posted any new blog entries here was because I was still trying to bask in the happy afterglow of that last entry. It's a bit silly, of course; it was almost a year ago, but my feelings are still similar.
Since becoming a Katawa Shoujo fanboy last year, I've rediscovered my love of anime and manga.
I've been reading Bakuman (currently in Vol. 11), which I really, really enjoy. It's a good book in that it inspires me to try harder with my artwork, and reminds me of how great it was to be around other artists when I was in art school, feeding on each others' creative energy and enc
Anime Expo
I went to Anime Expo for the first time. Some of the folks from Four Leaf Studios had tables there, and so I decided that was sufficient reason to attend. I got to meet ~raemz-desu (https://www.deviantart.com/raemz-desu), which was great, and she made me a beautiful commissioned drawing of Emi and Hanako. Unfortunately, Suriko wasn't feeling well on Saturday, so I didn't get to meet him. Still, I had great fun and spent way too much money on an import photo-pose book of martial artists fighting. In order to get my money's worth out of it, I suggested to my wife that I would start making all of the characters in my drawings fighting, no matter what the context or theme.
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Arrested Development
I feel like I've spent the last few years kind of stuck in place. Right now my wife is attending university, hammering her way through a physics major, which is good. The down-side has been that we're living with my parents because we can't afford to rent a place of our own just now, and while I appreciate them letting us stay in the suite they built for my grandmother when she was alive, it's impossible not to feel the loss of independence. Between bills (including, most notably, my school loan payments) and the difficulty in finding work in California, there's just no way we can afford an apartment. I've got a part-time job at a major books
In Obscurity
Nothing much to report, except that I'm fitfully working on a comics project of my own. Whether it becomes a webcomic or a graphic novel - or both - I haven't yet decided. But I decided that the important thing is that I'm working on something, and that I'm working toward something.
I'm leaning toward trying to create it as a webcomic, because I've been reading the excellent book "How To Make Webcomics" and listening to the podcast "Webcomics Weekly", and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the future of comics - both as a medium that reaches people and as one that stands a chance of generating any income for their creators - is digit
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