Astray and Under the Weather

I won't be online much today. The jury's out on the rest of the week. I'm not feeling good. I spent the day in bed yesterday save the few minutes I popped online to check my email and post very briefly on a forum or two.

If I'm on the computer at all today it will be to letter as I miscalculated and actually currently have 45 pages to letter, 6 pages to correct, and more lettering coming in! Not to mention I've got some writing I need to do as well. Monday night I laid out a schedule and set deadlines for myself for each project and I hope to meet those.

As for what's wrong with me, I'm not sure. It's mainly a deep fatigue kind of thing. My stomach and throat have bothered me ever so slightly, but it's more the fatigue. And yesterday afternoon around 4 or 5 pm I was trying to go to sleep and I kept shaking uncontrollably. Not seizure like, but like you do when you're really cold, only I wasn't cold or hot, but comfortable. Sigh.

Anyway, that's what's going on with me if you don't hear from me. Any of you that are waiting on lettering from me, if I said you'd see some this week you will. I am working on it. If I get any worse of course I will email you, but I fully intend to get done what needs to get done.

Quick Notes

A friend provided a link to Frank Miller's Harvey Awards speech from 2001 where he ripped up a Wizard Magazine. I had never heard or heard of the speech before, and my first reaction when hearing about it was that I enjoy Wizard.

However, after reading the end of Miller's speech I have changed my mind to a degree. I completely agree that the magazine, as Miller said, "reinforces all the prejudice people hold about comics". I had never really looked at it that way. I do still enjoy the magazine for the features and previews it has, but I totally see Miller's point, and it makes me really wonder if we are actually doing the industry harm by supporting this magazine. Can one newstand rag really have that much impact on the perception of the comic industry and those within it?

Well, yes. Where I live Wizard is available pretty much everywhere with all the other magazines, usually with the gaming ones, even if there aren't comics present. I wonder how many non-comic fans pick one up on occasion, take a look inside, and then throw it out as they are proven right?

This is a loaded topic and one I don't feel up to continuing at this time. Still, it's something to think about.

Here's the link: http://www.groundzerocomics.com/HarveyAwards2001.htm


I'm so sick of Digital Webbing lately. Posting while I feel bad probably wasn't the best way to address the problem either. But every thread I read on there goes into some kind of negative rant about this or that, usually with people cutting other people down for no reason at all except they like to see their witty, sarcastic comments on the screen so they can sit back and be proud of a stupid messageboard post. It sickens me.

And speaking of sick, I am, so...

B-Out