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On this Valentine’s Day, I send out this simple, goofy cartoon to the Cutouts and the Cutups, the Wasted and the Unwanted, the Broken, the Beaten Down, the Losers and  the Fuck Ups at Life and Love. Leave Success and Happiness to the Privileged and the Contented, and let us Toast and Laugh to our Great Glorious Failures in this Sad, Stupid World.

On this Valentine’s Day, I send out this simple, goofy cartoon to the Cutouts and the Cutups, the Wasted and the Unwanted, the Broken, the Beaten Down, the Losers and  the Fuck Ups at Life and Love. Leave Success and Happiness to the Privileged and the Contented, and let us Toast and Laugh to our Great Glorious Failures in this Sad, Stupid World.

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A little over two years ago, I had what I can best describe as a creative breakdown. I was working on a crowd scene in a panel of a comic, and became so frustrated and overwhelmed by the process that I panicked and shelved the comic completely. To this day, I have yet to look at it again. In hindsight, my frustrations with that one panel were symptomatic of the story overall, but it was enough to make me give up the endeavor entirely. Fast forward to today, and the photo posted here. Three panels of a comic I’m currently working on. Three intricate crowd scenes in various stages of completion, with a fourth being started. Pages 23 and 24 of a comic that has already had some tough crowd scenes. Do I still approach them with trepidation? Yes. Do they still take a lot longer than other panels? Yes. But I do them anyway. Why am I telling you this? To show you that I’m working, even though my posts have been spare. Oddly enough, the workaholic in me gets a little guilty when that happens. And I guess to tell you that if you’re crafting a story, if it’s the story you really want to be telling, than you’re going to find ways to tell it and show it regardless of the difficulties you may encounter. Telling stories is hard, making comics is even harder, and the rewards from both are illusory at best. But at this point, they go hand in hand with breathing.

A little over two years ago, I had what I can best describe as a creative breakdown. I was working on a crowd scene in a panel of a comic, and became so frustrated and overwhelmed by the process that I panicked and shelved the comic completely. To this day, I have yet to look at it again. In hindsight, my frustrations with that one panel were symptomatic of the story overall, but it was enough to make me give up the endeavor entirely.

Fast forward to today, and the photo posted here. Three panels of a comic I’m currently working on. Three intricate crowd scenes in various stages of completion, with a fourth being started. Pages 23 and 24 of a comic that has already had some tough crowd scenes. Do I still approach them with trepidation? Yes. Do they still take a lot longer than other panels? Yes. But I do them anyway.

Why am I telling you this? To show you that I’m working, even though my posts have been spare. Oddly enough, the workaholic in me gets a little guilty when that happens. And I guess to tell you that if you’re crafting a story, if it’s the story you really want to be telling, than you’re going to find ways to tell it and show it regardless of the difficulties you may encounter. Telling stories is hard, making comics is even harder, and the rewards from both are illusory at best. But at this point, they go hand in hand with breathing.

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