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Car Repairs and Comic Books
Mar. 19th, 2015 07:01 pmOur car is fixed.
It turns out to have been a very easy (and cheap!) repair. I even had my mechanic throw in an oil change, because otherwise it would have been under a hundred bucks.
That was awesome, but a tiny bit of a bummer, because I had decided that at Dunn Bros (which is kitty-corner from the shop and where I had planned to wait out any long repairs) that I would start working on a comic book script. I only got a page or so into it before I got that call that the car was done.
Thing is, I've written a comic book script before. That one is currently in the hands of comic book artist Barb Schultz. It's a 'some day' project for us. Sadly, some time in the 1990s she had asked if I had anything she could illustrate and I had no idea what to offer. Now that she's super-busy teaching at MCAD, I finally have All the Things. (And a grasp on what the hell is a comic book script thanks to my other comic book artist friend Christopher Jones. If only I'd had that then. Ah, well.)
But, after talking to Christopher at MarsCON, I decided that he was right (of course), when he asked: why not get serious about this? Why not write several scripts and see what could happen with them?
Writing comic books, if you don't know this about me, has been a dream of mine since I was twelve. Okay, probably if you had asked me at twelve I would have said either 1) I would actually like to BE a superhero, or 2) I would like do DRAW for Marvel. But, my art is... okay, but nowhere near good enough. My writing on the other hand, is provably "professional," even if not in this particular field. Other novel writers have made the cross over into comic books, so my giving it a try is not a completely unreasonable approach.
This year, by chance, I've also been invited to attend the Wizard World Comic Book Con Minneapolis. I'm going to be reprising the CONvergence Panel: "Loki Can Rule Me Any Day" at 4:30 PM, Saturday, May 2, in M100i. I apparently can have six panelist, but I may have to provide them myself? Having never done this con or a comic con before in my life, I have NO IDEA.It could be very... awkward if it turns out to be just me, but audience participation is a thing. Also, if you KNOW anything about this PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Also if you think you want to go to this and be on this panel with me PLEASE LET ME KNOW. It is possible that the wristband they are providing me can be extended to up to six people. So SERIOUSLY LET ME KNOW if you want to go to this thing and squee Loki with me.
At any rate, being a panelist provides me with a wristband so I intend to take advantage of it. Though I'm not sure what this event is even going to be like. From the looks of it, it's very commercial. But, who knows, right?
I will have to be elsewhere earlier in the day, if you remember. I double-booked this gig with a Loft First Pages in White Bear Lake. But 4:30 is plenty of time for me to dash from one gig to the other. (And the First Pages gig is a paying one, so I couldn't cancel it even if I wanted to.)
Anyway, this push to have a script written is so that if I'm asked, I can say, "Why sure, I have something I could send you."
Because nothing ventured, right?
It turns out to have been a very easy (and cheap!) repair. I even had my mechanic throw in an oil change, because otherwise it would have been under a hundred bucks.
That was awesome, but a tiny bit of a bummer, because I had decided that at Dunn Bros (which is kitty-corner from the shop and where I had planned to wait out any long repairs) that I would start working on a comic book script. I only got a page or so into it before I got that call that the car was done.
Thing is, I've written a comic book script before. That one is currently in the hands of comic book artist Barb Schultz. It's a 'some day' project for us. Sadly, some time in the 1990s she had asked if I had anything she could illustrate and I had no idea what to offer. Now that she's super-busy teaching at MCAD, I finally have All the Things. (And a grasp on what the hell is a comic book script thanks to my other comic book artist friend Christopher Jones. If only I'd had that then. Ah, well.)
But, after talking to Christopher at MarsCON, I decided that he was right (of course), when he asked: why not get serious about this? Why not write several scripts and see what could happen with them?
Writing comic books, if you don't know this about me, has been a dream of mine since I was twelve. Okay, probably if you had asked me at twelve I would have said either 1) I would actually like to BE a superhero, or 2) I would like do DRAW for Marvel. But, my art is... okay, but nowhere near good enough. My writing on the other hand, is provably "professional," even if not in this particular field. Other novel writers have made the cross over into comic books, so my giving it a try is not a completely unreasonable approach.
This year, by chance, I've also been invited to attend the Wizard World Comic Book Con Minneapolis. I'm going to be reprising the CONvergence Panel: "Loki Can Rule Me Any Day" at 4:30 PM, Saturday, May 2, in M100i. I apparently can have six panelist, but I may have to provide them myself? Having never done this con or a comic con before in my life, I have NO IDEA.It could be very... awkward if it turns out to be just me, but audience participation is a thing. Also, if you KNOW anything about this PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Also if you think you want to go to this and be on this panel with me PLEASE LET ME KNOW. It is possible that the wristband they are providing me can be extended to up to six people. So SERIOUSLY LET ME KNOW if you want to go to this thing and squee Loki with me.
At any rate, being a panelist provides me with a wristband so I intend to take advantage of it. Though I'm not sure what this event is even going to be like. From the looks of it, it's very commercial. But, who knows, right?
I will have to be elsewhere earlier in the day, if you remember. I double-booked this gig with a Loft First Pages in White Bear Lake. But 4:30 is plenty of time for me to dash from one gig to the other. (And the First Pages gig is a paying one, so I couldn't cancel it even if I wanted to.)
Anyway, this push to have a script written is so that if I'm asked, I can say, "Why sure, I have something I could send you."
Because nothing ventured, right?
