Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Comic Strip.

I've recently found a renewed sense of urgency in regards to getting my comic strip done and sent off to the syndicates. Recently, as I've sat on the train my mind has wandered, and I've thought quite a bit about my life and how it affects my children. Regardless of whether it leads to any financial or critical success, I feel I may owe it to my children to get off my arse and make a real attempt at achieving a dream. How will I tell my kids to make the most of life when I myself haven't done the same? Sure, I love animation and drawing cartoons for a living is hard to complain about, but my lifelong ambition has been to publish a newspaper comic strip. Outdated dream, yeah. Newspapers seem to be in a pretty steady and rapid decline with the online availability of news. I've had the intent to submit stuff for years, but I've always found an excuse to put it off. I drew a comic panel, "bughouse," for my college newspaper years ago and loved it. The creative freedom combined with the challenge of not only being vaguely smile-inducing (cough, cough, Family Circus, cough) but funny is exciting to me. So now the task is to focus on the work that needs to be done and create the time to do it. Perhaps, if nothing else, typing this in a public forum for all to read will shame me into doing it...

4 comments:

Ada said...

I'm excited ... you are among the top two funniest people I know, so if nothing else your family and friends will get to wallow in how good the strip is.

Ada said...

p.s. I feel the need to mention that I didn't say you were the second funniest - just among the top two - you're tied... it would be disloyal to suggest you were funnier than Steve. So this way you share th number one spot where you can crack each other up with inappropriate jokes and snuggle all the day long.

Dave said...

Thanks for the encouragement, Fred - your commitment to your own projects away from work has definitely been an eye-opening inspiration for me.

Ada said...

I've decided I don't mind that you haven't posted in FOREVER... everytime I look at your blog the motivation is still there to get going on the dream. I think it might be sad as you post for this to start moving down the page...