Rest In Peace Steve Jobs, Apple Computers, 1955-2011

Steve Jobs was a truly great man on many levels. Great Man. Great Celebrity. Great Inventor. Great Promoter and Businessman. Great Entreprenuer. And of course one of the main minds that gave birth to Pixar. He was one of my heroes growing up, right next to Bill Gates and all the rest. Jobs was not only a Business Titan, but a Science and Technology Titan. He set a great example to all others till the very last moments of his life when he lost his tragic battle with Cancer he had been dealing with primarily in private.

He will be missed by many

True Genius

Steve Jobs

Rest in Peace

You've Earned It

1955-2011

Gotta Admit...

In terms of UGC (User Generated Content), the absolute worst, whether it's DeviantART or YouTube is the corporate stuff being whored about in the most amateurish manner possible by some 6-12 year old who shouldn't even be allowed on a computer, let alone the internet. Just a big embarrassment for everyone, when you see some corporate based figure like Naruto or Sasuke being traced, photoshopped up, or AMVed up in a vain attempt to get "famous online". Just some of the most pathetic shit I've ever seen, EVER. You're not expressing yourself girlie. You're whoring a corporate image on an independently funded website, or any user-generated content website for that matter, in what is just the worst, most unnappealing, untalented, and hideous looking aborted fetus of freedom of speech ever. Making this abortion of creativity and "fanart" or "fan content" even worse is  the fact that these little girls don't even know this is what they're actually doing. They're not even aware of their crimes against the humanities. In what little exists of their sanity and trend-following minds, in their minds they're just doing "What's cool". i.e. conforming to digital peer pressure, which is most certainly a pathetic form of peer pressure no one should ever listen to. Musashi Kishimoto wouldn't pay you in a million year to ever produce something that debauched and horrible. It's like paying for your own shit, literally.

Do I hate this shit? You be the judge.

Hey Jealousy

Yay. For the first time since childhood, no one’s jealous of me. I love having a nice, freedom-centric jealousy-free life. I’ve been so used to people being jealous of my success and early achievements, and I was getting so used to people saying all this nasty crap about me because they were jealous of me. Now I’m free and pretty much a regular person. Feels great.

Unrealistic Sales Figures

The truth about most indie comics is that indie comics sales figures aren't real sales figures at all. In truth, most black-and-white indie comics in the 90s, if they were lesser known, sold, on a good sales run, 2,000 to 4,000 copies in comics shops. And that was when indie comics were most popular, the 90s. The only comic book series that sold more than that low market figure were the ones everyone's heard of.

So in indie comics it's not really about getting rich. Sales are pretty much irrelevent. No one's getting rich off of sales figures that low, and yet it's still considered the norm to publishers of black and white indie comics.

When the Felonies Became “Funny”. Modern TV Comedy and Why it is Morally WRONG.

Why is every comedic animation protagonist on late night animated sitcoms a first degree criminal or offending felon at some point? When did it become okay to normalize first degree offenses, felonies, and crimes by making light of it by making all of your show’s so-called “heroes” criminals? Therefore comedy protagonists are not heroes anymore. They’re felons. Family Guy, American Dad, Squidbillies, King of the Hill. South Park. Superjail. You name it. If it’s on the early hours of the evening, and on cable, it has a part time felon as a protagonist. This desensitization to moral evil and crime in generally has me more than a little worried. When did America’s rap albums become its animated sitcoms? On a moral level, I find this kind of lazy and hypocritical writing deplorable, and hope this trend doesn’t continue indefinitely.

Sincerely,

Some guy who hates watching comedy shows written about nothing but felony-commiting losers. It's not that I'm oblivious to crime and justice. Far from it. I watch CNN like everybody else. But when you make light of the act of commiting a felony on a nightly basis, in so much of your programming, it becomes like rap music was in the 90s where it can attract a crowd that deep down you know you don't want to attract, and it blurs the line between realism of criminal behavoir and what is essentially promoting such nefarious conduct. I guess I'm just trying to make TV producers and writers, etc., more aware of just how much TV still influences the public to this day. Crime is not okay. I myself have never been to jail or commited a crime, and I can't say I feel like I can relate to TV characters and shows that show people who do. I can't relate to that. If anything, I find it more disturbing than entertaining.

"Current" American Comics

Comics in America ain't what they used to be. Honestly, I draw comics, but I haven't found a current comic book on the mainstream American scene, that I actually like, since at least a decade ago. Honestly, the ony contemporary comics I actually like are French Tomes.. Hardly anyone in America seems to read french Tomes like those of Blacksad and Orbital, but their artwork is more anime-like than pretty much anything being produced in the United States today. I stopped going to comic book shops in my hometown years ago, after I stopped finding anything I liked as much as the early 2000s stuff. Much as I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, I don't know why so much of the current American published comics industry is getting so much mainstream media coverage. It's almost all horrible, if not all of it. What gets featured in the mainstream from current American comics is just so shitty. At least the French can still draw.

The French and their silly old "Perspective-based" comic books. How silly. Everyone knows comics never use perspective!

The French definitely like their share of dark romanticism and science fiction fantasy based comic books that look kind of like manga in certain ways. Very much in tune with my own style of narrative sequential art.