No - no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should’ve sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful… I had no idea. 

No tattoos personally. I’ve never found a strong desire to have any particular image personally emblazoned on my body. I wouldnt rule it out forever, but Ive never seen myself as the tattoo type. I know a guy with the Serenity about 6 inches wide on his back. 

Ive only seen the US version, but from the constant outpouring of love from UK fans for the original and the general level of quality of BBC supernatural shows, I have to assume the UK version is orders of magnitude better. I like the US version just fine, but I can’t see anyone going nuts over it with fanboy enthusiasm. It’s  well acted, well shot and reasonably well written, but the pacing is off, it’s fairly dull for episodes at a time and a little too emo for it’s own good. I also completely do not understand the portrayal of the “vampire elders” as blood sucking Amish. They seem in no way ruthless, ancient or feared. It’s not even clear what their organization is attempting to accomplish. One of the things I love about vampire lore is that it can be BIG and EXTREMELY OLD and GRAND and there can be factions or forbidden loves that undo it from the inside. USBH has none of that. It’s mopey at all times and hardly ever as bad ass as a show starring a ghost a werewolf and a vampire should be. I really dig the guys playing Aiden and Josh, but I cringe nearly every moment that Sally is on screen. I think it has less to do with the actress and more to do with how she’s written, but she is constantly annoying. I feel like the entire first season and the first 2 eps of the 2nd season have contained maybe 3 episodes worth of plot. 

I have started watching The Fades, though, and it’s pretty rad. Male Buffy minus the season 1 camp. 

Chase happiness, not money. Be kind to people, even when it’s hard or you don’t feel like it. Try to leave the world a somewhat better place than you found it. 

My name is Joel. I want to keep making comics for a living so that I dont have to get a real job. I also want a sandwich, but my current diet doesn’t allow bread. In about 3 weeks I’m going on a fancy geek cruise with a bunch of my friends and I’m super excited-pants about it. I have never seen a single episode of Babylon 5, so I dont have any opinions or incites about it. To do comics about something which I have no relationship to or knowledge of would be dishonest and probably not all that funny. 

I think you have the wrong Internet boner drawing guy. 

Make a plan. I remember sitting down and writing out a chart before I was doing this full time that said “if I make X selling one shirt and Y from advertising off of Z pageviews and doing a convention typically costs A but nets me B then I need to sell C t-shirts, get up to D pageviews and go to E conventions a month/year in order to do this full time.”

It really is a numbers game. If you have a 1000 readers and make $100 a month (these are imaginary numbers), then you can roughly estimate that you need 30 times the readers to make 30 times the income. About 1-2% of your total audience will spend money directly on the things you offer for sale. Just make that 1-2% as large as possible while still maintaining your creative integrity. 

I dont remember the first thing I ever drew, but I do remember realizing that it seemed to come easier to me than other kids when I was around five. I would be like, “What do you mean? Just draw a lazer gun. On the paper. Just DRAW one. Like this.” I seem to take more inspiration from stand up comics, comedy nerd types than any other medium. I appreciate it when a person has a unique way of contextualizing the average human condition. If you can make someone laugh about something ordinary in an all together new way, I think you’ve accomplished something pretty special. Louis C.K., Paul F. Tompkins and Patton Oswalt are particular favorites. 

The kiddo seems to really enjoy art. She’s been painting since she could hold a brush and manages to combine shapes into recognizable configurations a bit more easily than other kids her age so maybe the art gene has passed to her. One thing I find interesting is that she, having an artist for a parent, automatically has a bit of a leg up because I can show her little tips and tricks that took me years to figure out on my own. She also draws on a Wacom Cintiq in Photoshop which is something most kids will never get to do. 

These are the rough sketch and inks for “Occupy Cornfield.” I always think these one panel comics are going to take less time than the regular 3 panel ones, but anything that break my routine (different number of panels, characters ive never drawn before, dinosaurs, etc) always ends up taking longer.