 Jack the Wizard |
 A bit skinny for an English Guard |
This experience is something I want to write about, that is, when I get writing again. It's been scary, being a writer who doesn't write much. But as Anne Diamond suggested, it's not to worry about. It will come when it wants to. Most of the time I've spent drawing cartoons, and filling up sketchbooks. Now that I've got more space for the website you'll be seeing more of these.
Really, I feel much healthier than I have been, and cosy with myself. It's not a matter of change, but rather of growth, I think. I passed the terrible year of forty, when I thought all good things were behind me, I missed my chance, and all there was to look forward to was decline. Still a lot of cool things left to do, and my powers are increasing, rather than the other way around. Drawings are getting more baroque, dense and detailed. Unfortunately, one thing I've lost getting so immersed in them is the knack of storytelling. I'll work on that, I promise. It used to be so interesting to start something and not know where it was going to end up. So many possibilities. That still happens, but because the drawings are drawn for myself, expressing my private reactions, they don't always explain themselves for other people.
The "Skinny Nameless Punk" strips do, but maybe that's because I do them with the collaboration of another, Richard Gagnon, who has so generously donated the web space that allows me to maunder on like this, graphically, and in print. I'm going to try to set up a whole lot of other web gimmicks to make the site more fresh.
So, that's all for this go around. It's hard to write these, because they attempt to cover spans of time, and I don't like doing that very often. I mean, what is there to happen between this and the next time I write? (nothing too dire, I hope) I'll probably want to patch this up, and remove the more awkward aspects, but another part of me wants to send it, let whatever happen. I don't think I could manage a blog. There isn't that much I want to tell a lot of people. Here, I don't know. It's for those who click that link, and then read down to here. Well, I think the pictures are interesting.
