So, Stumptown taught me two things: One, thanks to the sage words of Erika Moen (which I believe she actually told me last year as well but didn’t sink in until I heard them again this year), if I’m ever going to get anything approaching good at this whole game I need to be more serious about it and treat it more like something I do, not just something I kinda do. And two, that I want to have something that I can be proud of for one reason or another.
That’s not to say that I’m not proud of anything I’ve done. There are a few panels and even full strips in the old dailies that I like, I like the concepts behind Dr. Octopus-for-a-Hand and look forward to having more ideas for those characters, and as a whole I’m pretty proud of Bang, but having one or two things floating around, not updating, not moving, not progressing, that’s not something I can really abide. So to rectify that, I’m going to do my best to do another ongoing story. I have no idea what it will be about or where it will go, but that’s sort of the idea. Take it back to basics. Let the story tell itself. Learn as I go. And end up with something I like at the end, be it due to how the story went, how I drew it, how I grew in the process, whatever. I’m gonna fly by the seat of my pants on this one, try and use what I’ve learned so far, and try even harder to learn even more as I go.
It is raw, it is new, it is mine, and there will be No Edit.
