The Literary "Calendar Chronicle" Creating a Narrative Through Long Spans of Time

I wouldn’t be drawing as much and as frequently and consistently as I do if I didn’t see a correlation between images and literature. If I’m going to be an actual artist, which I sort of am, there must be some redeeming value that I’m able to see in visual concepts, be it props or anatomy and costume design: a.k.a. Literary Graphics—Graphic Literature. I am an author of not only words and story structure, but also of images and graphics as a literary device used to further a narrative-based, literary agenda. I have to stay with what I’m comfortable with: And that is literature and a daily literary graphic record and daily documentation, for both my career and personal, private life (a sketchbook and journal); documentation of daily pencil and ink mileage throughout the passage and unfolding of time, in sequence in the form of a growing, increasing, and ever expanding literary-graphic mosaic chronicle. In this case, it’s the life story of  Mono Jubei of New-Earth, the world I designed

I call the sketchbook morning pages a “Calendar Chronicle” Narrative. As in you’re counting the days as they go by while building a narrative with each passing day I mark off the calendar. I’m chronicling each day of work as it goes by, and watching the vast volume of pages of art and literature stack up and collect in a stack of papers, and eventually a bound, printed book collection over time. It’s a day-by-day Literary Chronicle and Collection of image and words. By this logic, the narrative can’t help but be epic and long, with a fat manuscript every time. It’s daily work and raw fortitude or perseverance over many years.

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