I was sorting through stuff in the garage wishing that I was a hoarder so I could be on the the TV show when I cam across an old sketchbook full of embarrassing drawings that make me cringe when I look at them. As far as I can tell I think all of these drawings are from 2001-2002, or they could just as easily be something I drew yesterday.

I have no idea why I’m posting these, I’m gonna regret this instantly I can tell.

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So like I said earlier in the week I’ve been going through some old stuff and found some things that I kinda liked and decided to share em. This first picture was done in 2005 and I quite like the coloring, but more importantly I think this was about the point where I kind of started figuring out what my artistic voice was going to be. Before that I just copied people like Jim Mahfood, Shannon Wheeler & Rob Schrab. I still hadn’t figured out who I was and the type of things I wanted to do, but I was furiously drawing everyday trying to throw shit against the wall to see what stuck. It’s still a work in progress but I feel that’s there’s been a separation between my past influences and my own personal style. Or at least I hope.

Drama Queens. Click it.

Here’s another strip I draw for a book that I was putting together with the homie Mai and her Short Hate List. Unfortunately I lost the list of things she had wrote and it kind of stalled since there. Maybe I’ll get an updated one from her and I can draw a newer version for one of the 10 Books project. I decided to throw some color on it just for practice and to try and help myself become not only better at coloring, but faster and more efficient at it.

Click Fer PG 01

So I’ve started going through all of my old comics, comic ideas and random drawings I have laying around to toss shit out and organize  it into a non-hoarder way. Wait, maybe I should start this over so it’ll make more sense…

Now that I’ve almost finished my goal for 2011 of doing 200 blog posts in one year ( 7 posts away fuckers!)  it’s sort of created this strange vacuum in my life of “what’s next?” Which I suppose is a question a lot people ask themselves when they finally finish renovating their house, finally get retire from jobs they’ve had for half a decade or are even thinking about how to get the random skank they’ve picked up at the bar out of their house after you’ve cum all over her hair instead of her face. So I’ve been sitting around trying to figure what my artistic goal would be for 2012. I had to think of something that would be difficult for me personally and yet plausibly attainable. I’ve had to readjust my life goals since I’ve realized that raw dogging Anne Hathaway in a gas station bath room was both logistically complex and realistically not going to come to fruition.

So I’ve come up with idea of making 10 books this year. I’m not sure what these book will be, whether it’ll be zine inspired books, prose, poorly written poetry, pictures of my flaccid penis or at worst more of my comics. I’m sure it’ll be a combination of sorts because I’m only focusing on making things that interest me or would be things I would enjoy.

Cut back to the beginning of this post to how I was going through my giant mess of forgotten ideas and abandoned comics. I was appalled, entertained and a little sad at some of the stuff I’d found (an example of which is below this paragraph.) Some of the shit was just awful looking and some of it was only half finished and abandoned. There were also some things I looked over and thought “I’m pretty sure I can re-work this into something that’s not as shitty as the original thing.” 

So with this first book I’m gonna go ahead and re-draw (and in some aspect re-write) to make this work for me now. I’m gonna color the whole thing and actually print a limited number of them in color as well. I’m guess-timating that the colored versions would only run around 50 copies, but whatever is sold of them will go to print 200 black & white versions of that same book that’ll be at random places for free. But enough thinking out loud about logistics of my next project, lets just jump into this crap cock first and hopefully hope it works.