Thank you for reading. Thank you for linking. Thank you for Twittering. Thank you for emailing. Thank you for quoting me on random forums. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

In these last few months-- working as an animator on The Simpsons for a few shows, people randomly posting "Presidential Trouble" when there was much Watchmen hype, an Eisner Nomination (?!!), and now pretty much, overnight I've amassed thousands of hits on my site and people asking me for more.

It wasn't so long ago that I blogged, while drunk, one late night about my frustrations with my life. I since deleted that blog entry.


I wish I turned 30 sooner!



Well. I guess the life I always wanted has just started. Make interesting comics. Have it effect people. Live in financial comfort (well, step three I'm working on). And have fun doing it.

...and as soon as I'm off this freelance gig, I can devote more time to God(tm).

Oh, by the way, you see that weird gunk of text and code at the bottom of this blog entry? Anyone have any advice on how to get rid of it? I know its probably something simple but it was such a bitch redesigning this blog from templates and having limited knowledge in code, I just left it alone knowing I'd make it worse.

I'm sure someone has advice. Leave a comment or email.

Labels: blog, Life

2008 was an interesting year, but I'm glad to see it go because most of it was spent "funemployed". Although I am thankful for several things, like people who actually read my comics and the high profile job which looks good on a resume.

But I should gear up for this year and try to create some nice goals for myself.

1) Publish A Dream of Conscious Thought on Lulu.
Some years ago I started a comic book company with some high school friends. This company failed miserably. At this company, I started a full color comic book called A Dream of Conscious Thought. It was a metaphysical sort of love story and was a way for me to deal with some love-life drama. Since that time I've gone through a relationship, gone on a few dates, and have found ways to make Ms."Love-life drama" feel very uncomfortable. So I'm not as emotionally motivated to finish the book, but its something I ought to finish. So probably after I'm done with the first part of God™ (and its only a few pages away from part one from completion, I'll prep A Dream of Conscious Thought: book one for Lulu which can be ready by spring or even earlier.

2) Finish my Tarot Card set
Maybe a year and a half ago, I started to redesign the Rider-Waite Tarot with symbols of my own (a lot of Star Wars and Kung Fu). I want to finish it and actually do readings with it (because it impresses chicks).

3) Take Yoga classes and maybe a dance class
I'm thirty and I don't exercise. Besides, I heard people who took Yoga have a better awareness of their body and doing that would probably help me with animation and some weird stage performances that I'm involved with. I wanna take a dance class because I don't want to dance sarcastically like a hipster when I'm drunk.

4) Re-design this site
I forgot what my hit average is. But it isn't bad for a horribly designed website. Sure I know Flash and I'm sure I could take a class, but I really don't have the time for that. I'd rather put my energy into making comics and art and have someone else worry about scripting. I would really like a forum for this site because I've found on reddit.com, people having interesting discussions about The Devil and The Monk and Speak No Evil that can potentially go in interesting directions. But this is something I could probably worry about when I'm on hiatus. I'm not sure when that's going to happen, and really, since my pockets were emptied out last year, the later the better.

These are the main things. I might quit smoking this year, but then again I've been saying that for the past couple of years.

Labels: comics, God(tm), holiday, Life, my work, Speak No Evil, updates, Work In Progress

So Friday night I went out and had drinks at one of my favorite bars. Now this bar is literally a hole in the wall. Sometimes its full, sometimes its chill, but it has a nice atmosphere. I'm cool with the bartenders. One of them is the sort of bartender you fawn over but you know you have nothing in common, thus nothing will ever happen.

But anyway, who do I see there? Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page.

Shit!

I like that bar. Now its going to be all trendy. Maybe they'll jack the drinks up.

Damn. I don't like going to trendy bars. I like going to cool bars where it isn't too loud and you can talk to cute girls.

...and I did, but they certainly weren't Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore. And no, I didn't get any numbers because I'm rusty at my game.

Anyway, I'm not going to tell you what bar this is for fear that its popularity might grow. I mean, its great that the place is doing well which means the bartenders are getting extra tips. But I just don't want the place to get all Hollywood. I mean, if I wanted to go to a Hollywood bar, I'd go to a bar in Hollywood.

Oh well. I fear that I'll have to find a new bar.

Labels: Life

I usually don't blog about the ins and out of my life unless I'm drunk and then I delete it. But things are gonna shake up personally for me very soon.

I got the call today. I got a really sweet day job starting next week. I'll let you know what it is at the appropriate time. Plus, I got a nice side gig which I'll also tell you about on the appropriate time.

The synchronicities are starting. I just had one tonight. Things are gonna start moving. I'll do my best to update my comics.

In fact, I just updated last night.

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Okay. It's a full moon.

No wonder.

--onward!

Labels: God(tm), Life, my work, updates

I know, I'll blog something smart. This is sort of an amendment to an old blog from my old myspace blog.

LIFE AS ART

In Buddhism and Hinduism, you are told that reality is an illusion. In Taoism, reality is like a dream. In Gnosticism, you are told that reality is a creation by a misguided deity. These are all very similar views. The basic idea is that this reality that we find ourselves in isn't all there is. And of course, all the sages of these traditions had a biased point of view. The Taoist sages were dreamers of sort. The Gnostics came from an oppressive empire. Hinduism and Buddhism were coming out of an older religious system.

I am in no way any sort of sage, by the way. I'm just someone who likes to doodle.

But my approach to viewing reality is more like that of a piece of art. It's very constructed. In some way, it's sort of predictable. It's not GREAT art, but it's art none the less. It's enjoyable.

Everything one does on the canvas is part of this cosmic play, dharma, circle of life, system, or dream.

Everyone is sort of a piece of art. They play their role. They live their life. Eatting is an art. Sleeping is an art. Making love is an art.

For example, my ego is a constant performance. The way I dress says something about my place in this world. The color of my skin says something about my heritage. The way I speak, the way I walk, what I choose to do in my spare time.

Now the thing about Art is that it is essentially a form of communication, even if what you're communicating has no words to convey. For example, when R. Mutt, aka Marcel DuChamp decided to put a urinal on a pedestal, he created art.

In my view point of life, this essay puts a frame around the world, and now it is art.

A photograph of the planet Earth is art. But not the planet Earth. Well, how about we take out the middleman? Look how beautifully constructed the world is. Either crafted by Deity or by probability.

And the thing is, if you realize that your life is Art, things don't anger you so much. It is just something that is fabricated.

Labels: Art, Lessons in Cartooning, Life, philosophy