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Being unemployed is weird.

Sun Dec 6, 2009, 11:47 PM
At first I thought I'd be permanently grafted to my office chair, writing, drawing, etc. But to be quite honest, I haven't been doing enough. I've been falling behind in my MAM duties and not satisfying my creative bug enough at all.

Being home and being able to take over just a FRACTION of what my wife always did is really helped me see how amazing she is. Holy shit fellas, these ladies are nuts. So many balls in the air that'd it make your head spin. I'm finding myself setting alarms for myself for some of the simplest tasks just to keep it all straight.

There's alot of not fun, not creatively satisfying things on deck that need to be finished before I'm gonna reward myself with starting other VERY fun stuff (like taking Scotty's layouts for the "Of Man and Monster" story and start working on finishes). So far the reward system isn't working, because the lettering that I need to get done isn't getting done.



I'm flailing a bit right now, sorry for no posts- I'll try to make up for it and get back on track.

-mattcrap






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Whelp, That was that.

Sat Nov 14, 2009, 1:54 PM
Friday the 13th marked my last day of my employment with the same place for the last 3 years and change. It was weird, sad in some ways, bad ass in others. A bunch of us went out and got hammered last night. I regurgitated a fair amount of Mexican food for my part, but all in all, a good way to cap it off.


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Priorities, schmiorities...

Wed Nov 4, 2009, 6:53 PM
So many ideas, so little time.

Some of us comic bookers are lucky enough to land day jobs that allow us to work on or at least fiddle with our comic book projects while getting paid to do something else. I have been lucky enough, for the last three years, to have one such job. There were good days and bad, but a whole helluva lot of MAM was conceived and constructed while on the clock.

Sadly I'll soon be joining the ranks of the many unemployed folks out there due to job elimination. They don't even call it "laying off" anymore....essentially it'll be cheaper for them to farm out the work we do, to states that pay less and offshore folks. My last day is Friday the 13th, go fig.


I'm not saying this to start a pity party, I just want folks to take this into consideration in terms of production on my projects and web updates, etc. If I do manage to land something else (which currently isn't looking promising) then who knows if it'll be a job that will allow the level of "free time" that I've been enjoying, that's been integral in getting my comic stuff done. I'm hoping to not end up a shiftless layabout...in which case you'd be seeing a TON of updates, I'm guessing.

Well, onward and upward.

-mattcrap



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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTTYGOD!!!

Fri Oct 30, 2009, 4:42 PM


Yepper folks, our very own Scottygod :iconscottygod: is another year older. Go give him some well wishes...and hell, some cash while you're at it. Pull a Grandma and give'im a check for 12 dollars!

Have a good one, Scotty!


-mattcrap






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Scatterbrained....no it's not a new concept

Fri Oct 16, 2009, 8:11 PM
That's actually part of the problem...well not problem, more like troublesome situation. When I realized I couldn't draw worth a lick and that I finally accepted it and turned my focus towards just writing, I think part of me thought it would be easier. Don't get me wrong- it is. In terms of comic book creating, the writing is the easiest part. Ideas formulate, concepts come together and then once the scripting is done on come the visuals. The visuals are your meat. the visuals are the reason you read a comic book instead of a novel. The visuals take the most time and the most discipline to get done and get done right.

So when I finally resigned myself to the art end of things (outside of inks or letters or colors or tones, etc) I thought it would be awesome because that meant I'd be able to work on that many more things at once beCAUSE writing takes less time. The thing that I didn't consider and the thing that I haven't heard any big time writers talk about is this: Being able to take on multiple projects means you DO take on multiple projects. You add post-production stuff and schedules and all that other jazz and the whole thing turns into a giant juggling act.

Certain projects have precedence for personal reasons, others for scheduling conflicts, others because of deadlines and others because of five hundred other reasons. It's nuts. It's really REALLY fun...but it's nuts.


I want everybody to know if my posting seems a little scatterbrained and random, don't think it's stemming from lack of focus. It's coming from multi-focusing. I also want all the fellas that I'm working with to know that everything that you work on with me means a lot to me. Even if you don't hear from me in a while or it seems like I've forgotten you, I haven't. I've rushed things before and they've come out shitty. I've been burned financially and time-wise in the past, so making sure that I get it right is a big priority for me...even if that means postponing a project for a little bit.

Rest assured, I'm working on it...and if you're worried I'm not? Shoot me an email, I'll give you an update.

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-mattcrap


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