I’m in the process of getting everything ready for NYCC. I’ve got my business cards, I love the quality but there’s an issue with the design. It should match my banner up at the top of the blog but the ‘Wallace’ is moved slightly down and it throws everything off. The ‘b’ looks like it’s just floating there. Hopefully I can get that fixed, it’s not a huge deal, but it bugs the shit out of me.

Putting together my ashcan tomorrow and then getting that printed up at kinkos or upsstore. The ashcan this year will contain ‘Death Rattle’ and ‘Komori’ two shorts that will be published this year. Both are by really great artists that I’m happy to have worked with, and who I intend to work with again very shortly! If you want one for some reason, drop me a line.

On the writing front I finished my OGN UNCLE CHARLIE, it’s 68 pages and I think it turned out really well. I’m in the middle of two other projects, NANOMANCER and THE KIDNAPPED LIGHT. Nano is a 4 issue series of high fantasy cyberpunk and Kidnapped is the reboot of the Japanese fairytale OGN I had mentioned earlier. I’m really happy with both of them so far. More news to follow on both of those projects.

What else… Oh if you want to meet up at NYCC just drop me a line here or twitter or somewhere. I’ve got a fairly active weekend with lots of people that I’m supposed to meet up with so far, the more the merrier though! Alright, that’s it.

New Years resolutions, I don’t usually make them. You know, I think that sentence starts every blog post having to do with New Years resolutions. Most anyway. Seriously though, I usually don’t. I tend to toss the practice aside as a useless gesture that people rarely take seriously.

After reading a lot of fellow comic book creators resolution posts, however, I started to realize that I did, in fact, make some resolutions. I just don’t call them resolutions. I don’t know why, maybe because I’m too cool (I’m not) or to jaded (I probably am). Either way, I realized I have some resolutions and I might as well air them for the public, well what little public actually reads this beleaguered little blog.

So here we go:

1) I’m going to write at least 5 nights a week for at least 2 hours a night. If I can push to 6 or 7 nights a week, I’m going too. So far this is working out. I usually write for more than 2 hours but I’ll set that as goal.

I’m doing alright on this. I think this year I’ve only not written maybe 2 days total. Most of December I wrote every night. I’ve outputted around 60 total pages plus lettering a few in the past 4 weeks. That’s an average of about 2 pages per night. I’m pretty good with that.

2) I’m not going to let my social anxiety screw up my comics career.

Last year I really let this get in the way of how I approached people at New York CC and WW Chicago. I could have networked a lot better if I hadn’t been so damn scared. That’s what it is too, I get deathly afraid of talking to new people. It’s crippling, but I won’t let it screw with me this year. I need to talk to editors, I need to introduce myself and I need to network. This is my biggest one I think. No matter how much I do the work if I can’t get myself in front of people to pitch concepts, I’m getting nowhere. It’s hand in hand and I have to make this happen.

3) Get more work published.

That goes without saying I think, but I’m still saying it. I have two short stories that are going out for publication this year. I want to have a couple of OGN projects green lit and maybe a miniseries. If I can get in front of the right people and start pitching concepts, I think I can make this happen. It all becomes very dependent on #2. Either way, I’m making this happen.

OK, that’s all. Those are my resolutions. That’s what I’m working on. 2009 is shaping up to be a great year and I hope to make it an outstanding and life changing one.

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve updated and I hate to see such a stale blog.

So, what am I doing now? Well I’m right in the middle of scripting an OGN called UNCLE CHARLIE. It’s a sort of true story about mistaken identity, dealing with death, and the impact one person can have on another. It’s coming along really well, should hopefully be done with it in the next week or so.

After that I’m going to work on another story I’ve been throwing around. A real cyberpunk, shadowrun esque update of a classic fairytale. Really looking forward to digging my teeth into that one!

As to mini-a-month. I want to apologize about that but I just can’t see focusing time on that when I have gigs that are getting published. As excited as I was about that project at first, it’s just not feasible. Something I really should have investigated initially. I do still plan on a couple of other minicomics but just not anything on that grand a scale.

Speaking of published. Just a couple of days ago I saw the final pages for KOMORI, the short that will be included in the WORK! anthology. It looks stellar and you should defiantly check out it’s artist A.D. Puchalski! I hope to work with her on a future project as well.

I’ve also been getting pages in on another submission for 803Studios Sequential Suicide. It looks stellar and the artist, Joe Nosochu, is really something else. I think he’ll definitely have a future in the industry.

Alright, that’s enough for now I think. I’ll see you later!

Oh! I’ll be in NY for Comic Con in February. Hit me up for a drink or a chat!