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February 23rd, 2006 at 11:06 am
Great strip, I’m really intrigued by the story. 3D comics aren’t really that interesting to me, but I can relate very well to the characters…
And grad school is looming…dooom…doooom….
February 23rd, 2006 at 10:29 am
ATTA BOY!!
February 20th, 2006 at 8:35 am
Thanks for the compliments! Stay tuned for news on the second story!
February 17th, 2006 at 9:23 am
Wow… You tell and illustrate a great story. Many of the points you make about how you feel and what went through your head at various times are very familiar to me. I’ve not done the whole college degree thing, but have certainly been sold short many a time by my looks alone, for example (not to mention the isolation and bookwormishness). You manage to pull off a difficult type of storyline by managing to keep the pace of the story interesting and brisk in the right places, yet giving pause for reflection in others where the depth of how you feel is genuinely needed. In addition, there’s no false bravado or an attempt to hide your fragility either, which is refreshing in an age where many webcomic authors tend to keep their personal lives out of their productions, even their rantspaces and/or blogs. Good work!
January 16th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Hi Jerry…!
Thanks for the compliments! It’s nice to hear from you … I enjoy reconnecting with old friends over the internet.
I’m familiar with TOUCH OF SILVER, but I’ve only read bits and pieces of some of the issues. I’m probably going to be reading a lot of different autobiographical comics in the the weeks and months to come, since I’ve become more interested than ever in the different approaches creators take to them. (Pekar and Crumb are currently my two favorites in this department.)
I have read Jim’s VIGNETTES paperback and enjoyed it. I find a lot of his normalman work amusing too. I’ll have to get the TOUCH OF SILVER paperback.
It would be fun to talk to him some day because I suspect that he and I have gone through a number of the same life experiences. Back when I published PRISONOPOLIS in ’97/’98, I heard a lot of nice things about him as a person through the “small press grapevine”. (I’ve often suspected that he was the nicest guy in the Image partnership.)
I’ve long believed that autobiographical comics could do much better on the web than they do in comics stores. Part of the reason I’m doing this series is to test some of my theories.
January 16th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Congratulations!
Finding you online is a bit like time travel…like I’ve come 25 years into the future of 2006, only to find that you’ve gone back 15 to 1991 !
You definitely have skills. The 3-D stuff is used quite well.
You don’t seem to have sugar coated your life. And you are willing to share what you’ve learned.
Autobiographical studies are a niche market. Alot of readers are stuck on sex, gore or superheroes.
Have you seen Jim Valentino’s A TOUCH OF SILVER ? Five issues, one great autobiography. I’d recommend it to anyone.
I have your site under my favorites.
January 14th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Thanks for the compliments, Dan! Yes, you did write back. Actually the story took place before we did “Pseudobohemian Leather Princess” and “Doin’ Art”. I was just starting to reach out to the COMICS F/X comics community when this story took place.
I had thought about mentioning Matt Feazell in the story too, since he wrote me a couple of nice letters around this time. (I’ll have to mention him a future story.)
I want to show myself sitting around reading AMERICAN SPLENDOR in one of these at some point too.
January 12th, 2006 at 12:23 am
Ben,
I really enjoyed the first installment. It gives me an insight on what you must have been going through in those days. It seemed as though you were living several different versions of yourself, as I suppose many of us do at that time in our lives. Very well done. Nice graphics and flow. You’re sense of storytelling is easy to follow and compelling. I’m looking forward to seeing more. (I hope I got around to writing you back).