comic crew
LINDA
Crew? Oh, that'll be just me. You might ask why I refer to myself as "we" when I'm only one person. Well, it's a wild attempt to make myself sound big, powerful, and all mighty (which I am) and to give the impression that I have minions working for me (which I can). It's like my safety clause, I'll blame my minions when my page doesn't get updated daily. This is my non-paying summer comic endeavor after leaving my good paying real-life job before going to a (cross-my-fingers) higher-paying or quite possibly (just my luck) lower-paying job. I am excited to finally start this comic and can't wait to see how far I can go with it! If you're bored, here's some more boring facts:
After I graduated with a Bachelors in Industrial Arts (non-fancy name for graphic design) and when I was way under a quarter of a century years old (and I mean "way"), I wanted to become a comic strip creator. I got some books and started hashing out ideas for a comic strip. My first and only idea was a story about a little girl who was poor. I doodled some and thought some. Then I got scared, stopped, and went to look for a "real" job because I didn't want me to be the poor little girl. It's hard to earn a living doing comic strips unless you start doing it at the ripe age of 2 and even then, it wasn't guaranteed. Now it's four years later and I am finally doing a comic about the little girl who was poor.
About Comics
The perks of my pseudo-career in comics:
- Living life dangerously (No steady income)
- Being independent (You work alone, eat alone, talk alone)
- Waking up late (Is 2pm really that late though?)
- Loving what you do (Imagine that)
- Wow you are going to be rich (No and I'm proving it)
- So how many newspapers are you in? (ummm...)
- How many books have you sold so far? (ummm...)
- Are you crazy? (Why yes, in fact I am)
- Mentor - Teach me everything you know about comics for free
- Sponsor - Pay me outrageous amounts of money just because
- Marketing Assistant - Advertise my comic on tv commercials, radio stations, and blimps without my consent and without pay
Not About Comics
Other titles I have held in the past (some titles exaggerated, but only a little). These are the jobs you must endure before becoming a successful (not in the money way) comic strip creator like myself. And they must be suffered in the exact same order:
- Babysitter ($1.50 per hour, yay me!)
- Department Store Sales Associate (Got to wear my first on-the-job dymo name tag, that's when you know you've made it!)
- Head Academic Coach (Tutored kids K-12 in all subjects, but my math IQ equaled -11 as one little boy nicely pointed out to me)
- Fashion Retail Store Sales & Support (Upgraded retail experience from merchandising the sock wall to selling delicates!)
- Publishing Assistant (Small stint into the secret world of publishing!)
- Graphic Designer (Logo designs, business cards, letterheads, postcards, and fliers, oh my!)
- Website Designer (Mostly my own because I am selfish that way)
- Orthodontics Office Manager (Multi-line phones are scary when you are not multi-lingual)
- Web Applications Intern (Laid off and rehired 8 days later! Yes, I am that good!)
- Performance Marketing Implementation Manager (Great power comes with great responsibilities, take that Spiderman! Don't worry, I don't get it either.)
- Starving Artist (Previously, but I did have an apple today.)
- QA (I have been reduced to a two letter abbreviation.)
- Starving Artist (yet again)
I can't believe I wrote all that and I can't believe you read all that. Hope you learned your lesson. We're even. Thanks for dropping by!