Is this it?
Are these last days?
Are they nigh?
Nay, I say.
I am staying as positive as I can that even though to most these days are looking bleak and Grey like the smoke that hangs like a sparely lit specter of doom overhead. And you have say “NOPE! That’s not gonna happen.”
With so many people complaining about this and that I have to wonder if the world and Mother Nature decided that the stupid kids in control of the world need to be spanked. With all the social issues that we have She in her infinite wisdom said “That’s it!”
Now really what does this odd amount of insight have to do with an artistic blog?
Well, I’m glad that you asked. It actually has everything to do with this blog and this artist.
Think about it. I’m an artist living in America in the State of Oregon and which also happens to be one of the centers of major civil unrest – the City of Portland.
Before St. Patrick’s Day earlier this year, everything was going well art was moving forward, stories were being written down, I was living comfortably with my girlfriend. I was getting paid well, bills were under control, new licenses for advancement were being learned, and earned- overall financial plans were being planned for the future.
BUT then a dreaded Novel Virus Named COVID-19 burst out of the Middle Kingdom and decided to put the breaks on everything that made the world go round. Entertainment was the first to spiral out of control and everyone in their “so-called” right minds were canceling each other at the drop of a pin. Politics – always a dead-end when looking for an answer to anything. And the police stepped over the line and the nation exploded with more civil unrest than I think the 1960s did when I was l born.
A breakup happened, a physical moving a living situation within a pandemic and civil unrest going on at the same time. No job. And like Chicken Little is the sky falling now? I keep hearing about asteroids flying by.
“WOW!” was the only thing that I could even think of like this all happen as I slide into the second half of my life. I’m 53 now and mind, you this on the downward slope.
Well as a sole individual illustrator of the comic medium I started thinking how would one cope with all the chaotic turmoil going on around locally as well as worldly? Make a story that chronicles the dealing of a comic artist and his dealings with the antics of the world in a humorous way. It would be an over the top character.
In fact, that’s what story would be called “Over the Top”. And it’s subtitle- A comic book creators survival guide to the modern-day apocalypse.
Now does this have anything to do with Richard Parker? No, not really but that is continuing as well.
Unfortunately, depending on how the wildfires are going south of the Middle Kingdom I may not have the physical artwork but I would have scanned copies on an external hard drive that I could access. At least I would have that.
But now how I would I market that?
Anyway, you can read that my mind is in a unique place right now as I wait for the rain to fall.
This kid is out of here and having to plan the next move.