i’m weary and my pen nib is scared<\/p>\n
and that’s odd because nibs shouldn’t have emotions<\/p>\n
i’m scrubbing it with an old toothbrush — one my uncle used when he came to canada on a trip<\/p>\n
i just finished redrawing the first panel of my diana comic and i like the new rendition, and the new background effect, much better; and so i photoshopped it in<\/p>\n
i want to sleep — i usually (usually? that’s a laugh) go to bed by 6:00 a.m. and it’s now 11:00 a.m. — people keep asking me if i ever sleep<\/p>\n
i once had a dream that was a black and white comic — this is long before i even knew about sin city — it had panels, it had sound and motion effects … i don’t remember much of it<\/p>\n
comics — i could go on for a long time speaking about the various aspects of comics but most people’s eyes would glaze over<\/p>\n
sometimes you repeat a word so much that you start to doubt if it is a real word, you roll it over your tongue and try to savour its cadences but all you taste is a funny feeling; you repeat the word to yourself and it seems to be the most ludicrous thing you’ve ever heard — is it really a word? — you check the dictionary and it just blows your mind that there it is, right there, these letters arranged in this order placed in this context<\/p>\n
i want to draw more comics and i want to do unexpected things with them<\/p>\n
after my “no man’s land” strip people were caught by surprise by the diana comic — it wasn’t expected — it wasn’t humourous and that seemed to be out of vein of my usual activities<\/p>\n
i like doing unexpected things<\/p>\n
after i’m done washing these pen nibs i’m going to sleep<\/p>\n
and then one of the nibs breaks — not the nib itself but the brass reservoir control on it breaks — and that hurts because it’s a good nib and a replacement is going to be expensive and i wonder if art stores have boxing day sales<\/p>\n
it strikes me then, that not it but the other nib was the one that was scared<\/p>\n
and that’s odd because nibs shouldn’t have emotions<\/p>\n
i certainly need some sleep<\/p>\n
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