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I'm Making a Graphic Novel

A few months ago I posted this video:

It's true: I'M MAKING A GRAPHIC NOVEL.

On Finishing...

Have you ever started a project and wanted to get it absolutely perfect, so you spend hours and days and months of your life making it perfect, only to realize later that this thing you've been perfecting is now so big and unwieldy that you'll never get it done? (Not to mention that fact that you're sick of it now and ready to move on to other things in your life...) Well, that's been me with my comics and stories and graphic novels.

The graphic novel I'm working on isn't even close to the first I've started, but I'm declaring it right here, right now, that it's going to be the first I'll finish! And if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

It's embarrassing to think of everything I've started and haven't finished in my life---but that's part of why we wake up to a new day, right? To be refreshed? To try again? To make things better than they were before? My goal is to make stories and pictures until the day I die. That's what I have to offer and I'm re-dedicating and re-focusing my life to make it happen.

Anyway, the graphic novel I'm working on has been coming along real fast, and that's great, but it's only come after working on others (and not finishing them) for about 12 years!

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Here is page 2 of the riveting "Chain Gang." You can click on the pic to make it big enough to print and that would rock.

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Happy 2010! Last year was really great for picture-making and I learned a lot. Thank you so much to all of you that participated in the Human Drawing Dispenser, the Music Coloring Book, the Weather Outside is Frightful! coloring poster, and the Digital Portraits.

As for the year 2010? You can expect some big news in the next few months. In the meantime, check out this first page of the Chain Gang! It's meant to be printed out and read (click the image to make it grow)---it's not at all enjoyable to read on the computer screen. Trust me---I've tried.

I'll be posting a free printable page of the Chain Gang every week, so check back next Monday for page 2!