I Speak in Zen Riddles

I'm no longer concerned with animation and my involvement in it currently. For the moment, it could be the Future, but as far as I know it also might not be.

Animation is the Potential of Tomorrow

COMICS is NOW. NOW I'm drawing comics, NOT animation. The only way to truly embrace tomorrow is not by concerning yourself with it. All you can really do is focus on what you're doing TODAY, in the Now. And for me, comics are now, so that is what I'll focus on now. I'll burn that animation bridge if and when I actually come to it.

Comics takes a lot of focus. It's a Primary Focus. Focusing on the potentials of a Secondary Focus (animation, anime) really only detracts from the Primary Focus, which is comics. The more distracted you are from your job drawing comics now, the worse of a job you'll do, primarily because you're distracted by What Ifs that don't apply to the task at hand. That would be Comics.

Here's how our industry works: Los Angeles was built on pre-existing connections. People who sell movies and TV ideas generally already have industry connections. You know, people who work at studios who buy and sell ideas.

You don't already have connections, it's generally a hazardous thing if you move to Los Angeles hoping to selling something without already having connections and having done the networking beforehand.

So where does that leave you if you're creative, want to do creative work, but have no connections? Simple. That's essentially what the comics and literary industry is for: Books and comics are a perfect fit for creative people without connections (who go through agencies and publishers' submissions process. That's pretty much how it works.

A) Finish a first or final draft of a project in book or comics form.
B) Get representation and publish and distribute
C) If producers in Los Angeles are interested, they buy the adaptation rights to your property from you.