Where I'm At! I gots 2 turntables and a Microphone....

I've got to start taking my career and drawing time/schedule more seriously. My thoughts and words show a serious minded mentality toward drawing and producing new art that my actions and pencil marks don't reflect.

But the thing is, despite all that, somehow I seem to have developed a fan following for END TIMES, locally, nationally, internationally, and online. I have the following, but not the money, which complicates things. I've come to learn and realize the fans only want ME to draw END TIMES. The fans won't accept a single page of END TIMES being drawn by anyone other than timid, painstaking, torturously humble me. And now there is discussion, rumors  regarding my so-called "hiatus", which was me drawing behind closed doors, coming to terms with my newfound pop culture fame, resenting my financial status and plagiarism from others, and me coming to terms with this new lifestyle of mine. It ended up being nothing like I anticipated a life in pop culture would be.

I'm starting off the same way Eastman and Laird did with TMNT Ninja Turtles. Their art book that IDW recently release came in the mail yesterday, and it really inspired me. Talk about Media Master Builder 22s. They Built a Media Franchise out of nothing that's more than 25 years old! I want to do what they did, what Eastman and Laird did, except I'm keeping my vision Dark instead of lightening it up or making it humorous and innocent. TMNT started off very violent, gritty and dark. Closer to Sin City than Tiny Toons, which oddly enough eventually the public came to perceive it as the opposite being the case. Most people are unaware of how the Ninja Turtles started out.

Issue 1 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It really gives you a sense of what artists like Rob Schrab, Jim Mahfood, and Jhonen Vasquez have in mind when they sit down to draw their comicbooks. That beautifully dynamic and energetic crudeness. That courageous craziness we never used to see in comics.