Finishing Last: March 2010

Monday, March 22, 2010

Finishing Last Daily Comic Strip 3/22/10

Creating a Comic has taught me to tell time.

It's been interesting working on Finishing Last. As a freelancer I was never acutely aware of what day of the week it was. Either I was working or I wasn't. Since jobs had little regard for the conventional structure of week days and even less for holidays, I never really put much thought into what was coming up in two weeks.

Working on the comic though has made it neccesary to start looking down the road. I now know a full month in advance which day Easter falls on. Look at me, a brand new man. And it's all thanks to the comic strip.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Finishing Last Daily Comic Strip 3/19/10

I was just reading the Blog of Michael Fry, who along with T. Lewis creates the comic strip Over the Hedge. He was talking about how the newspaper comic page was dying a slow death along with newspapers themselves.

I should have done all the current professional comic artists the favor of warning them that I was looking to start working within their field. Why should I have warned them, you might ask. The answer is simple. I am the fat lady who sings. Once I decide to turn my attention to something it invariably becomes out of fashion or unprofitable or in poor taste or downright illegal, sometimes all of the above.

There are others out there like me, who have the inate ability to turn to brass whatever they touch. The reverse Midas Effect. How do I know there are others? Because I take no responsibility for the death of Betamax, the Tech Bubble, or Capri Pants. I never participated in those and can't be blamed for their sudden crash and burn.

The only brightside for Mr. Fry and the rest of the professional comic creators in the world is that once I have turned my attentions to a new endeavor, my powers wear off and most of the time the interest sees a resurgence. See the 1998-to present Los Angeles Lakers.