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Writer's Block: Dream Job
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted one job. One dream job.
I wanted Charles Schulz' job. Equally as important, I wanted the characters he built. Charlie Brown and Snoopy, two sides of the coin metaphor of my life when I was in school. Not to go into a lot of detail, as that metaphor fits my self-perception in those days well enough that extra detail isn't needed.
Eventually, though, I got just enough of a dose of reality - namely Mr. Schulz' plans for his own future and those of his best-known toys - that it made sense to try for something a little easier to achieve.
So I looked to Spider-Man, and his friends and foes in the Marvel pantheon...and eventually matured to where DC made at least as much sense. Sometimes more sense. DC's like CBC: it's something you grow up into appreciating, and sometimes wanting to shape.
And now, today, I'm working on pencils on an indy comic. The whole artform and industry seems to be just shaking itself down just as I'm finally making my inroads into both. And yet I don't want to be doing anything else really.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted one job. One dream job.
I wanted Charles Schulz' job. Equally as important, I wanted the characters he built. Charlie Brown and Snoopy, two sides of the coin metaphor of my life when I was in school. Not to go into a lot of detail, as that metaphor fits my self-perception in those days well enough that extra detail isn't needed.
Eventually, though, I got just enough of a dose of reality - namely Mr. Schulz' plans for his own future and those of his best-known toys - that it made sense to try for something a little easier to achieve.
So I looked to Spider-Man, and his friends and foes in the Marvel pantheon...and eventually matured to where DC made at least as much sense. Sometimes more sense. DC's like CBC: it's something you grow up into appreciating, and sometimes wanting to shape.
And now, today, I'm working on pencils on an indy comic. The whole artform and industry seems to be just shaking itself down just as I'm finally making my inroads into both. And yet I don't want to be doing anything else really.