Friday, January 13, 2006

Your Brother The Outcast


Dear Mainstream American Citizens,

I did it.

I’m the one.

I’m the guy putting stickers all over your expensive property. I’m the guy smelling of cigarettes and cheap liquor. I’m the dude dropping off all those free comics at your local bar or café despite reactions. I’m the guy staring into your girls eyes then her ass as she walks by. I’m the pusher, the doper, the hipster, the low-life, the hooligan, the drunk, the self loather, the self abuser, the nigga, and to some the nigger that slips into your consciousness through the element of artistic anarchy. I rebuke all governmental ideologies due to your failure to be fair to your fellow women and men. Your comfortable reality has been replaced. I will devote my time to artistically twisting your social well being. I have spent 18 years meditating, 3 years perfecting, 3years understanding, and 1 year planning. I don’t fit in nor belong in your society. I continue to be shunned but still driven. One day you will wake up and I will be on your television. I will be live and streaming on your browser. My works will be placed in all areas of your local shops, clubs, and bars. I will speak the truth and draw through imagination. One day I will get to travel and manipulate other realities but for now, I’m needed here. The underground is my home, society is my inspiration, and vices are my fuel.

I’m the one.


Signed,

Your Brother, The Outcast

Monday, January 09, 2006

Distractions.

Ok so i've inked Blackdayz #1 and its in the process of being lettered and cleaned up. The problem I have with inking is not the preciseness of it, but the paying attention to your work while trying to ignore outside distractions. I'm easily distracted.In a world like ours, anyone can easily be distracted from doing something that they enjoy doing, to doing something else that may or may not benefit them. Within the past year I have tried to take less time from comics, to doing more design work, maybe even get a freelance gig. I was trying to get out of a go nowhere job situation, and an even more go nowhere family situation. Sleeping on a couch in a 1 bedroom apartment with my moms isn’t exactly how I pictured my life at 24 better yet 25! None the less it could be worse, hell of a lot worse. I guess building a graphic design portfolio isn’t as much as a negative distraction as it is a necessary one. On the other side I’m finishing inking “Midnight Oil” , its something yall will enjoy, alot of political realism in that one. And its gonna be free!! no doubt! a a post christmas present from JTW fo’ real. But imma try to get some design jobs, finish these books for the spring, and hitting these conventions when I can, now those are positive distractions. I have some music distractions that I’ve been
breakin’ down to! Check them out:


MF Doom & Dangermouse: Dangerdoom
RJD2: Dead Ringer
Aesop Rock: Labor Days
Album Leaf: In A Safe Place
Daedalus: Exquisite Corpse

Example