November 17th, 2008
When I was a kid, I wrote and drew a lot of comics. It was one of my burning passions, and I still kick myself for giving up drawing. (I gave it up because it got too hard. I didn’t want to have to practice, I just wanted to be able to draw the things in my head. Giving things up because they got too hard was pretty common for me, I’m sad to say.) Through multiple moves and the usual purging of possessions, all the comics I did as a kid are lost–except for one, which I’ve somehow managed to hold on to. It’s deteriorating, though, so I scanned it in to preserve it.
And so I present…Swamp-Man #2! It’s crude, it’s goofy, but it’s all mine, and I’m still very proud of it.
(One of the main reasons why I’m doing NaNoWriMo this month is to reconnect with that comic-making mindset I had as a kid. Hence the posting of this now.)
Josh:
I liked it, especially swamp man’s eyebrow! Do you plan on creating any more comic books? You could use books as action figures. On the last page they would be climbing back on the shelves, ready for the patrons to check them out.
Love,
Darlene (Mom)
P.S. Rat-Man climbing out of the sewer is scary.
I don’t plan on making any more comics–I have a lot less free time now than I did when I was in 3rd grade, and I’m a lot more self-conscious–but who knows what will happen in the future?