Legally Blind Observations

Can you feel the safety?

GPOYW — It’s clear that I shan’t get any work done tonight, so I’m going to bed edition

I feel like my life is always perilously close to an episode of “When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong”

Studybeard game fierce, ya dig?

As promised, my (current) body of work, in chronological order. Ten pages in the first, four in the second, eleven in the third, and eleven in the fourth.

The first one got published when I was 17 and I was ecstatic. I had been having bad luck with collaborators and it was looking like it wouldn’t come to fruition: the first artist I approached bailed after sending me some pretty cool layouts, and then the first inker had to bow out for health reasons and I had to scramble to find another one. In an interesting sidebar (at least I think it’s interesting), we ended up dedicating the story to that first inker, Joe Pruitt. Years later, he would meet up with one of the publisher’s friends and just happen upon this issue, and see that we dedicated it to him, and then emailed me about doing comics and it was pretty cool. The second story was my first (and only) foray into lettering. I did an awful job but I learned a lot. 

The third and fourth ones sorta came about the same way. Before class or in between classes I saw that there was an anthology open and I just sorta threw a pitch together and sent it in, and everything snowballed from there. I had pitched the third one in 2011, and the fourth one (which was published by Dark Horse and is my proudest comics achievement to date), in 2009, right before leaving for class. That one got me to New York Comic Con for the first time, as a professional, promoting the book with the other creators, which was great. 

Not pictured, a webcomic short that’s based in Skipper Martin’s Bizarre New World universe, from APE Entertainment, which you can see a snippet of/read some stuff of Skip’s main storyline here.

And if you’re interested in buying any of these anthologies, while I THINK the first two may be out of print, Ignition Vol. 1 is available from publisher 215Ink here, and Once Upon a Time Machine is available from publisher Dark Horse here (and from Amazon here). Both are incredible collections of great stories from ridiculously talented people (and me haha), and I’d highly recommend both to anybody interested in bitchin’ stories and awesome art.

And now that this bit of comic-related nostalgic pretentiousness is out of the way, I have to go take a final haha

“In the Right Place With a Lot of Booze” — an autobiography

GPOYW — LET’S DO THIS ESSAY FUCK YEAH edition

fuckyeahdementia:

meh…

(Source: humortrain)

Fred works a double part four begins meow

Also chips and guac mmmmm

Why must we play god

Things I text people at 11:30 on a Saturday night

I’m a mostly autonomous grown-ass man and I still go through everyday checklists on my way to work or school, like did I brush my teeth, did I eat breakfast, did I lock my door, etc. Shit is sad

GPOYW — you know you’re not surprised edition

Cross that off the list

Fuck wit me