October 2006<\/p>\n
Another thing I\u2019ve been working on that has prevented me from doing actual drawing is getting a new book ready for the printer, every month for three months in a row.\u00a0 <\/span>I had \u201cDr. DeBunko: Debunker of the Supernatural,\u201d \u201cDoris Danger Greatest All Out Army Battles,\u201d and \u201cDoris Danger in Outer Space\u201d all come out back to back, October November December.\u00a0 <\/span>And that feels like such a never-ending process.\u00a0 <\/span>I scan the first issue, size and clean it up in Photoshop, and send it to the printer.\u00a0 <\/span>And before the proof is sent back, I\u2019m scanning, sizing and cleaning up the next issue, or compiling the letters page, or trying to come up with an introduction for the title page.\u00a0 <\/span>In the past, I would deal with step one, and then progress to step two, and then worry about step three.\u00a0 <\/span>Now, I\u2019m on step three with book one, while worrying about step two with book two, and nervous to begin step one with book three.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m looking forward to being done with these three books, and not having a deadline to get an issue out, and just drawing again. \u00a0<\/span>I never expected that my love of writing and drawing would lead to months of computer-pre-production and promo work, and months of not drawing and writing as a result.<\/p>\n I understand that in this industry, visibility means a lot.\u00a0 <\/span>If an artist can put a book out every month, then they will be on the comic shops\u2019 shelves every month, and are more likely to get a readership just out of monthly bullying on the shelves, so to speak.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n But Jesus, it feels like such a full-time job just to do the post-production.\u00a0 <\/span>It seems like such a full-time job just to do the promotion.\u00a0 <\/span>Just to get the books ready for the printer.\u00a0 <\/span>Just to do the website.\u00a0 <\/span>Just to do the blog.\u00a0 <\/span>And people make full time work just out of comics writing, just out of penciling, just out of inking, just out of lettering.\u00a0 <\/span>So here I\u2019m trying to do five or six full-time jobs, as a comics creator.\u00a0 <\/span>And meanwhile, I need a job by day that will pay the bills, until I can get these other full-time jobs to start turning a profit.\u00a0 <\/span>How has anyone managed to produce a body of work, when it\u2019s six full time jobs to put out a monthly comic?<\/p>\n \u00a0 DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES<\/p>\n The last thing I\u2019ve been working on that has prevented me from doing actual drawing is actually feeling pretty great.\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s a necessary and exciting part of the creative process, and it\u2019s also probably my very favorite part of it.\u00a0 <\/span>And that is the creation of a new project.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m gearing up to begin publishing a web comic.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ve been plotting a very complicated \u201cDick Hammer: Conservative Republican\u201d story, which I am going to call, \u201cDick Hammer: The Dailies\u201d and reference Dick Tracy newspaper strips.\u00a0 <\/span>I was heavily influenced by a film noir called \u201cSomewhere in the Night.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s been invigorating devising a new script, because this is the first major script I\u2019ve written for years.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ve done a few smaller stories (five pages) here and there, primarily Doris Danger scripts, but those little five pagers just aren\u2019t the same as a major project like this, so it\u2019s been a lot of fun.\u00a0 <\/span>This is my most ambitious project I\u2019ve sat and conceived since the Lump (not including Limbo Caf\u00e9 \u2013 which I worked on earlier this year, but it had already been for the most part scripted, and that\u2019s why it doesn\u2019t count).\u00a0 <\/span>And even though it\u2019s more parody-styled in nature than the Lump, it\u2019s going to be just as confounding and full of mysteries.\u00a0 <\/span>Just less gory and creepy, and more film noir.<\/p>\n And hopefully before November, I\u2019ll be able to start actually drawing for a change, maybe another twenty pages of Doris Danger for a new tabloid-sized collection, and also beginning the art for my web comic. October 2006 Another thing I\u2019ve been working on that has prevented me from doing actual drawing is getting a new book ready for the printer, every month for three months in a row.\u00a0 I had \u201cDr. DeBunko: Debunker of the Supernatural,\u201d \u201cDoris Danger Greatest All Out Army Battles,\u201d and \u201cDoris Danger in Outer Space\u201d all 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