MAKE COMICS: Academic AWOL and How It Relates to Making Comics

Awesome article by Mary McKinney (found at BadgerBag's TypePad blog) on going AWOL with academic work. I see many parallels between academic AWOL and artistic AWOL!
"The longer you are out of touch with someone, the more difficult it feels to resume contact. The more you worry about resuming contact, the higher your standards become for the promised project."

Go read. Enjoy. MAKE COMICS!

http://www.insidehighered.com/workplace/2006/03/01/mckinney

I am Nearly the Answer!

Because I'm 42 on March 11th, and old enough to have read the book that joke proceeds from the first time it came out.

Boy, was I paranoid about 37. Three years away from 40! OH NOES! When I finally turned 40, it was no biggie, I was all fretted out. My whole disgust with the comics business is probably partly due to what is ignorantly called a "mid-life crisis", which I like to think of as "mid-life I think it's time to tell everyone I've allowed to run my life to fuck off."
This is why you buy the red car and wear the ridiculous clothes when you're YOUNG, people.

Anyway, those are my thoughts on a Wednesday that is full of promis because I have seen yaytime's darling drawing of Agnes Quill, and been galumphing through DeviantArt.com, getting inspired and humbled and inspired and humbled.

OF COURSE I updated my Amazon Wish List.


Now, if someone out there wanted a serious amount of art, either in originals or in the form of commissioned work with or without reproduction rights, here's what you do: get me a Wacom Cintiq DTZ-2100, and I draw stuff for you.
(Doggone it, Scott Kurtz got a Treo by asking, I figured it could not hurt, right?)