Hi guys! I’ll have that promised blog up later today. (It is also about the passage of time!) In the meantime, I’ll share a lil’ story with you about my younger self:
Did you know when I was little, I had an office in my closet? I used an overturned bucket as a desk, and had stationary and office supplies for all the important things my eight-year-old self had to keep track of. Almost everything I drew was on yellow legal pads.
I was chatting with Ryan Hudson of ChannelATE about this, and he said he had a childhood office, too! We agreed it was because we knew we wanted to be self-employed when we grew up, so we were getting down the basics early on. That little closet was one of my favorite places to hang out!
Did you have a place like that when you were younger?
I did not have a place like that. throughout my life, most of my free-time spent drawing was during school. School's boring obviously, so I just drew through my classes.
Where will you draw now that you've graduated?
I recommend college. Most of the Robbie and Bobby comics drawn during 2003-2006 were drawn during class. (Don't tell them–they might take my diploma away!)
I had a bunch of those places. I built a fort behind the couch, had a playhouse the size of a shed in the backyard and eventually built a two floor treehouse with a pulley system attaching it to the deck atop the playhouse. I never drew in any of those places though. I was strictly a kitchen table artist.
Boy, I wish you had lived in my neighborhood. All I had was a sandbox that neighborhood cats would hold poop parties in!
Don't you draw now at the kitchen table? I think it's ideal for surface area and height!
Awesome
Thanks Mark!
Really appreciate you sharing this on twitter as a time experimental comic
Time for some *serious criticism*. Monkey bars have a several bars missing from the two vertical segments so that kids can climb up and through.
How could I have made such a rookie mistake? This monstrosity is nothing more than a bendy-wendy ladder.
You are the sheriff of Comics Town, Chris. And I am the town drunk. *hic* I just got no regard for common decency!
In panel number one, we almost, almost had a "Bobby Mobius Strip"!
Ha! "Moebius Comic Strip" by Jim Woodring
http://boingboing.net/2010/09/21/moebius-comic-st…
I held a talk show on my toilet. It was called "The Talk About Show" and it was mostly about going to the bathroom.
And you're really getting on a "Kill Bobby" streak now, huh?
Haha! I purposely steered away from any death symbols here (skeleton, tombstone) but it still comes of as melancholy! "Melancholy with butt scratching," as Julai put it. "Perfect metaphor for life." Well there you have it.
DEATH BECOMES US after much butt scratching.
Do you have any of this bathroom Talk About Show on tape recording? Ever consider reviving it as a pottycast?