Red's Entry. May he win big.

Found our very own Red Silver entry at http://musclewomania.wikia.com/wiki/Musclewomania_2009

May he win Big.

Injured Foot of Rex.

It's been over a week and this is what my injured foot looks like. I'm still limping pretty bad, but getting a little bit better. I managed to hurt it pretty bad just crossing a street. I'm almost afraid to get out bed nowadays. :D

Hoofy and Boo

A crazy bit of dark economic humor. It's pretty darned funny. :)

Rex is Mortially Wounded crossing a street. :D

Yesterday I managed to nearly cripple myself crossing a street near home on a walk I've taken thousands of times before. On crossing the somewhat busy street, I had the ultimate calf cramp, and with cars coming at me, I was forced to limp for my life. Today I'm so stiff I can barely walk. Judging by how stiff and painful I am right now, It will be days, or even weeks before I can manage a regular walk again.

This ranks up there with other seemingly improbable injuries. One of them happened to my back merely by getting up out of a chair. I almost blacked out from that one. It was over a decade ago when that happened and I'm still plagued with a gimpy back to this very day.

Man, lately it sucks to be me. :D But don't worry. I shall recover... I hope.

Worried, and Tired, and Lazy

Like most small press artists I find myself prone to bouts of laziness. I'm also prone to inhuman levels of mental exhaustion. Normally these two conditions seldom overlap, allowing me to get some work done by sheer force of will, and/or a combination of caffeine. But lately, with the economy of Rex being about 10 times worse then the market for Sub Prime Mortgages, I find worry for the future eating away at what little energy I have, and my artistic output falling to total zero. I've done nothing for the last 4 weeks. Not even simple doodles. This matches my income. Zero. Luckily I have a modest reserve so starvation isn't going to happen anytime soon, but...

... Having a deep interest in the Austrian School of economics (The one school of thought that predicted this economic melt down many years in advance) I know with near total certainty how it will play out. A potentially decade (or decades) long recession with the possibility of double digit price inflation in the next year or two. If that kind of inflation happens we can all thank out respective Central Banks for printing money like the greedy counterfeiters they are. I see economic doom in the future. (At least for a person of modest means such as myself)

... So as you all can guess, I've been plagued with worry for the long term survival of Rex.

... Funny thing about stress is that it makes me even more tired then normal. I feel exhausted 99% of the time.

... And today and for the last few weeks I've been experiencing an insidious bout of laziness. Usually manifested by me watching youtube videos all day long. It's gotten so bad that I have to leave the computer off just to get any work at all done.

In other news I have a wacom tablet that I got well over a month ago and haven't had the energy or will to do anything with except to see if it works. So far it's proven to be a magnificent paper weight and fairly good improvised backscratcher holder.

Such a waste of money... It sits there staring up at me trying to scream out "Rexxxxxx! Use me damn it! I'm expensive! You spent days researching me and now that I'm here I sit and rot on your table top!" :D

... Sigh. So that's what Rex has been up to for the last month.

Late bloomer or dud?

Late bloomer or dud, many things I ask myself, because I can't seem to stick to a story, like I should, if I should publish something.

It's not because I want to rant more then I should, it's one of journal posts you shouldn't make, while your tired(Writing this at 3 in the morning and jacked on 2 liters of cola, so I'm a little loopy).

I collect How To Draw, to see if I can try to understand doing comics better and do some that are good, but that isn't the correct way to do it. Why not?
Because the only way to make good comics, is first to make any comic and second, good or bad, you have done something that shows your able to, even if it's not worth a dime.
Some are good at it, right of the bat and I can't help being envious, it's not a bad thing, I acknowledge their talents and hard work, just seems to uses them as blocks then saying "I should try it that way" or "Hell, that's a funny idea, I should do that".

We have an artist, called Peter Snejbjerg, some might know him as the artist on Light Brigade or Detective 27 and I've trying to read his series Hypernauten. Kind of betting it's not in English, so no one outside Denmark(can't speak of other countries like Germany, just don't expect to been big outside of Denmark) have read it.
It's gotten high praises and should perhaps have it in my collection, but looking in it, I feel a little lost, not because of the story, but because I wanted to do something like a graphic novel, and don't know if I have it in me to do one.
Wouldn't be bad to have something that could make people proud of having or even like to have in their collection, but I'm not good at having such high expectations.

Other then the high and lows of being a doubting and when tired, depressed artist, can't say I should complain really. My personal life sucks many times, but at least I know my family will be there if something really bad happens, or so I hope and people on the net are very supporting, which surprises me many times and makes me happy. At times I feel like I owe them something, because without them, I don't know what I would have become.

Hope this moaning doesn't fill too much of peoples time, just wanted to vent a little, while I can't sleep. Don't have facebook and to be honest, I won't. I guessing there are some good things at using it, but seen how it can easily be abused, so it didn't have any selling points with me.