Psychotropic Medications

unfortunately, the fact that my parents are attempting to put legal pressure on me and criminalize me if I don't let them shove  psychotropic drugs into my mouth and face. It slows me down quite a bit, and they never forced my step brother to take pills. That's one thing to look forward to when I get older and have more money, is abandoning my step parents medication system.

Top Cultural, Artistic, and Technological Cities of the Cultural World to Live in

1. Ann Arbor (Comics, Computers)
2. Orlando (Art, Culture, Technology)
3. Miami/Ft. Lauderdale (Art, Culture)
4. France (Art, Animation, Culture, Comics)
5. Beijing (Technology, Culture)
6. Tokyo (Animation, Technology, Comics, Culture)
7. San Francisco (Technology, Culture)
8. Los Angeles (Art, Animation, Technology, Culture)

One of my other less well known blogs J.M.'s Art Blog was updated today...Go Check that thang out!

One of my other less well known blogs J.M.'s Art Blog was updated today...Go Check that thang out!

http://jm-matthews-art.blogspot.com/

The Disillusionment of Real Moderate Success in the Self-Publishing Industry

Probably one part that shocked me the most to learn about online self-publishing and taking that route INSTEAD OF regular publishing with a traditional publishers, is first of all just how it's a completely different Beast than Traditional corporately funded and backed publishing. It's not the same journey at all. A whole shitload of the privileges you assumed you'd get when you grew up fantasizing about having a publishing career, are actually entirely absent from the career you've chosen, not by any failing or fault of your own, but because the two industries (traditional publishing and online self-publishing, just aren't the same thing, and therefore will not yield the same results.

• Comic Book Conventions, Signings, Autographs, Book Signings, Paycheck Advances, The Guidance and Expectations of an Editor and Agent, TV Appearances, Magazine Articles, Author Interviews, Movie and TV Deals

You can pretty much hit the delete key on ALL of those things.

And the career you DO HAVE and end up having won't bear a very strong resemblance to the one career you may have once fantasized about yourself having. But that's okay. It's not better or worse of a path. Just different. And that pre-fantasized glory fest of a dominant media celebrity, like JK Rowling or Stephen King? Forget about it. That path is reserved for Beautiful people backed by Beautiful Publishers and Agents, and a path that is completely false in terms of it being You're path, which is not one of fame and glamour, but hustle, hard work, and like it or not, humility. 

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE. DO YOUR OWN FUCKING WORK, BITCH!!!!

I have been shouldering the burdens of my unappreciative Brother, Parents, and in-law family for Too Long! I should be getting paid to endure this shit, not be completely ignored and unappreciative. People taking advantage of my role as a volunteer unpaid content provider online has simple gone too far, and has gotten out of hand for a long time now. I don't know why so many people see me online and they're secretly attempting to do their job and do their work for them. That's THEIR burden. NOT MINE!!!

The Trinity of International BD, Comics, and Manga Influence

As I've read in the introduction to the Akira Fanart Tribute Book I purchased very recently. Before 2015, back in 1990, bande dessinee, comics, manga developed in isolation from each other, unaware of each other's industries, contributions, and presence. Now each of these three mediums is both influencing and reciprocating influence on each other, both as a dualism and a trinity of two-way influence. We American cartoonists are just as influential on manga artists and bande dessinee auteurs as they both are on us. Katsuhiro Otomo was the first authentic artist to realize and awaken this trinity of influence communication, which was brought to the surface by the internet and social media.

As for me, I'm a genre, industry, category, and medium intermediary. I'm the bridge builder between worlds and nations. I build the bridges between the worlds. I'm an intermediary of the following fields

• Internet
• Books
• Publishing
• Self-Publishing
• Comics
• Bande Dessinee
• Manga
• Animation
• Comics
• Anime
• Franime
• Webcomics
• eBooks
• Literature
• Filmmaking
• Broadcasting
• Editing
• Design
• Costume Design
• Production Design

Family Matters: Sometimes when the brother's kids are over at your house for days on end,and you just feel like...

Famous Comics Artist Quotes to Live By

 “The drawings should always have energy, vitality, emotion, and life, and it should always reflect that to the reader. What I don't like about some of the mainstream superhero art out there is that no matter how impressive it looks, no matter how much effort, work, labor, and time the artist put into it – It can have a ton of detail or be beautifully and skillfully rendered – it can always still be kind of dead on the page. There's no life to it. I really respond to art where you can feel the hand of the artist in the story, you can know what kind of person they are – that's what I always try to achieve.”

Jock

Let's Discuss the Martial Arts...Fighting Advice

 I'm no master of the martial arts and fighting of course, but I do know a few things. Not just when you punch someone to do any real damage to them you have to snap your arm back after you push it forward to make the punch quicker. I studied Karate for a long time when I was a kid, and I practice general martial arts and kendo fencing. I know enough about certain moves that I know if you master just one move with enough practice if you practice it enough you can get really far as a fighter on just one move. Take me for an example, I really only fully understand one fighting move other than speed punching, and that's the roundhouse kick. But what a roundhouse it is, and I'm skilled enough at it that you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of it in a fight. ESPECIALLY if I'm wearing sneakers. I've only used it in a fight with my brother once, and I won the fight against him. He never fought me again after that. He retired from fighting with me. He recognized his superior. He's the smart one.