We are starting the YEAR OF THE SNAKE on a CLASSY NOTE, one that also features a pretty accurate drawing of my cat’s soul
It’s now been a year and a third since I moved back to Austin, TX. Thinking today about doing the first draft stuff of Bad Mother while I was getting ready to leave NYC, putting all my stuff in boxes. At the Cafe Orwell in Bushwick I think three subway stops from my own (I don’t think in terms of how many subway stops away things are anymore!) doing early drawings of Mona and Betty, trying to determine if “Mona Spector” was actually a ridiculously self-indulgent private joke name or if that was okay, not ordering sandwiches I couldn’t afford. Talking to girl in front of the cafe about the idea for the strip and asking if she thought the title was stupid; said she hoped to hear about it later; it took until May of 2012 until I felt “back on my feet” enough to actually start putting these weird little strips I was doing online. It’s weird to think how much time I’ve spent thinking about this strip relative to the actual amount of work showing, which I can’t help but think of as KIND OF NOT ENOUGH.
So here is hoping for a better 2013 in terms of work. Here is hoping that the detailed plans I have for this strip and these characters come to some kind of useful fruition! Here is hoping that the art gets better, that I figure out how to fit more Real Life Material into three or so panels, that it all just generally works kind of better and makes it more plain that I’m not like “slumming it” with this project, a fear that we will all have until we die, I think. Here is to LESS SLUMMING IT IN 2013! Here is to REALIZED DREAMS
And here is to everyone in NYC, where I really, really wish I could be tonight. MAY LOVE SUSTAIN YOU IN THE COMING YEAR, FRIENDS IN NYC AND EVERYWHERE.