Where has all the time gone?

I have my first book out for sale on Lulu.com.

'nuff said.

Life is sweet...

New Blog for Comic and Graphic Novels Line

The next step towards publishing my own books and comics has been made.

Be Ones Elf Comics has been born and has the beginning of its own blog at:

beoneselfcomics.blogspot.com

Cool....I'm happy with it.  And I'm ready to work a bit harder to get things out this fall.  I also hope to be taking a blog class with Andy Fish to create links and a paypal account for setting up buying and selling there too.

Maybe Whirlygig will be my processing blog where I can spill out all those half baked or mostly RAW thoughts and comics in the ROUGH (Radical Outrageous Utterly God-like and Heaven-here-on-earth stuff)

RAW thoughts for catching the vibe.  Real, Awakened, and Weirdly Cool!   

About My Last Blog Entry...

O.K., I got SO FRUSTRATED with my last blog entry that I have waited until NOW to continue blogging. I sent small images of the second comic about my Sabatour which can not be read unless your vision is incredible. So, rather than systematically resizing each image, I put all blogging on the back burner.

I am working on a book of my own comics, which will be hopefully finished by the fall. Down loading over 120 images, sizing and properly saving them has been my focus when I spend time on the computer. And, even these endevors, are behind by approximately 75 pages. It's something a few days of clear repetitive actions in the computer can remedy. But it has not been scheduled in my calendar, as I spend most of my work days these days pencilling, inking, and playing with washes - my true love!

Please be patient with me. I may add some comics which were computer filed for the Undercover Fish Anthology of which I am a regular contributor. But regular entries may take a while to happen in THIS medium.

Another bit of comicing which has caught my fancy, is the daily 4 panel journalling comic. Maybe that work will make it onto the computer daily in the future when speed at entering it here is not sapping too much of my creative brain power.

Thank you for taking this time to read and look at my blog. Blogging is an amazing medium which I intend to make better use of in near-ish future!

Another Look at the Grand Sabatour

I followed up on "my girls" adventures to Sabatouria Terra.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 There were some unexpected twists to this new adventure.                                                                                                                 I learn, as my characters learn.                                                                                                                                                                                                                This creates a joy, deep in my heart, where stories speak louder than my heads' thoughts.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                All that stressful Sabatourian logic in my head gets transformed with a new wash of gentler ideas.  

The New Year - Starting Over Again

We get to start over again; every year, every month, every day, every hour, or every minute.

We get to SET THE STAGE anew.

Get our image closer to our soul's image of who we already are on the inside.

Here I am as an ELF.  And here is what I have to say about it:

    

  

I'm obsessed with my life.

I think I like being obsessed with my life...

Although I worry it may annoy others who want me to think about their needs more.

It's very important for me to care about others.

But that's hard to do when I'm trying to center within myself.

Here's the program: I think too much, and worry too much and feel guilty about that too much.

I need to slow down.

Yet, I love chemicals that speed me up.

Is there an internal saboteur trying to control my brain speed here, when I may just need to be concentrating better? .... Anyway, that's an ongoing internal dialog with me and myself when I'm getting tired.

I love mornings; I'm more optimistic before I realize all these little things are still there that were making me feel overwhelmed the night before.

I try to fool myself into forgetting last night’s stuff for as much of the day as I can.

Sometimes I can make it until bedtime. Those are the best days ever!

Today is still an incredibly great day!

I feel thoughtful about myself and helpful at the same time.

And I would love to secretly be an elf...

...Because elves get to make things in a cool workshop...

...And elves get to listen to someone who is jolly and fair and wise. (I believe Santa would never keep gifts from the "bad" children. That list making is way too Puritanical.)

...And elves focus on little things to help make others happy - It's a win/win situation.

In my real life in Maynard, I try to emulate the North Pole.

And in my artist lifestyle, I want to cartoon such a place among friends - animals and people and other living things.

If I succeed in allowing myself a simple lifestyle to accomplish this, I would be as happy as an Elf.

...Or possible happier because I knew how awful it could be if I wasn't living that way.

...In order for me to know this, I must have already lived this way at times.

What are these times? When I am doing something creatively.

Like now…

Bliss...and it feels like the North Pole out there today, too!

The Great Sabateur

Asked to name the oppressive character who rules my mind a greater part of the time than I'd like, I drew this 4 page comic.  With Elf, Yeara, and Sophia's help, they made it easy!  I am thankful for their warm fuzzy company daily.  The switch of human and dog heads has been occurring lately.  I am letting it come and go in my work, hoping it will make its meaning clear in hindsight.

Falling From The Sky...

My merry dogs are at it again.  

Simple pleasures are the norm, generally.

Here is a step into the world of Elfie and Yeara, which I translated as best as I could with their encouragement.