I'm gonna get you AsiaPop

One way or another...

 So there's this thing called the AsiaPop Comicon every year in the Philippines. It happened last weekend and I wasn't able to go due to a number of reasons (money, job, time). 

 I really wanted to join that event and sell some of my stuff and be actually prepared for it. I always have this problem that I'm rushing to get my prints and stuff out by the time of a conventions. It is a nightmare.

 It would have been awesome to meet the actors from my favorite superhero movies and all the talented artists that I've been admiring for all this time. But alas, it was nigh impossible. SIGH!

 So perhaps this was not my time yet to join the AsiaPop Comicon. But I will get there, and I'm gonna hit it hard. So watch out APCC, Eventual Empire's Joker Inc. is on his way!... Maybe next year :))

 Will get my crew together for some ideas... Anyway til next time. Enjoy your comics :D

Hang the draftsmanship

You drew your comic the way it was meant to be drawn...

I know of a bunch of artists that never got into comic books out of the fear that they're drawing skills aren't up to par as those who have already made comics. I can most certainly understand. I went through it too. I would look at comic books made with the art of Jim Lee, Micheal Bendis, Greg Capullo and just weep at the thought that it would take me eons to match that kind of quality. Even with the cartoon styles that I admired so much especially from Chuck Jones, Sergio Aragones, Bill Waterson and Ozamu Tezuka, I would still curse my hands for not knowing any better.

But then I heard some great advice from Jack Kirby himself:

"It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it."

To put it simply, don't get hung up on how well you drew you comic. Just do it. If people can understand what your drawing was supposed to be then you've done the job. 

I loved this cuz it lifted a weight off me like you couldn't believe. I could just make stuff and then BOOM! In a span of one year, I've made 8 comic books which I've sold at conventions. Granted some were shorter than others but to look upon your time and know that you've actually created something is just priceless. 

I'm pretty thankful for the elation I get when I know somewhere out there someone was interacting with something I made. So I share this to my fellow artists so they can create! Go forth and Make Comics!!! I want to read them. :D Til Next Time Enjoy your comics...