74 - I need your help!
Nominate me for a Ringo Award today
I’ve been working on this for a long time.
I built a Soda Tab mail shirt for my son. We went to the Atlanta Renaissance Fair last month, and I had to deck my boy out. He felt like a million bucks. A few tabs were falling off by the end of the day but all in all it was a great success.
NAUTS
I finished Nauts #2 I am hoping to have copies back from the printer in time for MomoCon at the end of this month.
CYBER LEAGUE BASEBALL
I finished uploading through inning 2 of the story to webtoons. You can still read it for free here. I have to catch up on some other work, but I will publish more later this year.
RINGO AWARDS
It’s Campaigning Time! The Ringo Awards are an annual comic award that celebrate excellence in the craft, and I need your help to get a nomination.
The Ringo Awards have made it a little involved to nominate; you have to submit your email and receive a verification email to start, but I hope you will take 5 minutes and do this for me.
Here’s the Link
And here are the categories and work to nominate.
Best Original Graphic Novel: Hope Never to See It - Andrew Fialka (w) Anderson Carman(a)
Best Webcomic: Cyber League Baseball: The Naturals - Anderson Carman
Best Non-Fiction Comic Work: Hope Never to See It - Andrew Fialka (w) Anderson Carman(a)
Favorite New Talent (Format: Name - Work(s) for which they are nominated): Anderson Carman - Hope Never to See It, Cyber League Baseball: The Naturals
Best Anthology: Stardust the Super Wizard - Van Jensen (editor)
The goal with this award is to get Hope Never to See It to a bigger audience. There are only a few true non-fiction comics, and I hope this book can help grow that genre.
You can leave the rest of the ballot blank, but please do nominate any other cool comics you read this year!
PROJECT: Revolution!
My wife is currently out of town with the kids to give me a work retreat at home alone. I have a deadline fast approaching to complete the pencils before MomoCon. I also have an art show, whew, my time is scant right now.
Anywho… I have to do at least 2 pages a day to meet my deadline, and that is with zero margin. Yesterday I did 5.5 pages. Today I have a similar goal.
Another cool thing! This project is based on a memoir, and we have some handwritten letters from the historical figure. So, I built a typeface based on his handwriting! I’d love to make a video about how I made this after I reach my deadlines.
GALLERY SHOW
Next Friday, May 15th, from 7-9pm is the opening reception of my gallery show here in Atlanta, GA. I would love to see you and share my work with you. See you there!
BRANCHING PERSPECTIVES
Gallery 1740
1740 Peachtree St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30309
CONS
My first Con of the year is at the end of this month, MOMOcon!
I have comics for kids like Nauts, MechWest, and Stan
Comics for Adults: Operative Auger, Old Man Windu, and Hope Never to See It
Commissions, Prints, and some new merch (if it arrives in time…)
I also have a busy panel schedule.
Future shows:
HeroesCON - Charlotte, NC - June 12-14 - Details Here
SDCC - San Deigo, CA - July 23-26 - Details Here
DragonCON - Atlanta, GA - September 3-7 - Details Here
WATCH: Steve McQueen 1999 Spring Collection
Not sutible for all ages. I have taken a keen interest in fashion recently. I have been watching old fashion runways for character design inspiration as well as the general value of exposing myself to varrious art forms.
LISTEN: The Struts
This band is the core of my newest “Get After It” playlist that I am building. They have that classic Rock and Roll sound and I get so amped listening to them, I could accomplish anything!
READ: Analog: April 1984
I was really looking forward to reviewing this anthology as my April selection because I was being cheeky with the selection. But, look. I don’t have time to read. I want to make time, but I haven’t yet. My problem lies in the fact that I most often read at the end of the day to go to bed. But I have been working such long hours that the end of the day is reserved for family and spouse time. As a result, I have read a paltry 30 pages over the last month from this objectively cool anthology. I haven’t even finished the first novella. I hope to reconfigure my life so that next month I have a solid book review for you.
PLAY: Flags
I want to improve my knowledge of world flags. Mostly as a memory/recall exercise, so I downloaded a flag quiz app (It’s literally called, Flags quiz) I have become familiar with Oceania and most of the Americas. Next is either Asia or Europe. My favorite flag so far is Kiribati
Yesterday was a big workday.
I started with a few hours finishing up pieces for my gallery show. Then I finished up the half page of penciling I hadn’t completed the day before. I reached my minimum goal of two pages before noon. But it is a work weekend, so I knew I would blaze past my minimum, so I went for double. I got to four pages by 3:00 pm. “There are still two hours in the work day…” I thought, let’s see what is possible. By 6:30 pm (an hour and a half past quitting time), I had made it to five and a half pages for the day. I ate my dinner, Had a video call with some writing friends to critique each other’s work and then a little gallery work before slinking off to bed by 10:00 pm
No lesiure.
But I really loved it. Maybe I am a glutton for punishment, but truly, I loved working all day and I created some truly fun pieces that I can’t wait to share with the world.
I look at how productive I was yesterday without my family here, and I see the allure of a life without “distractions.” I penciled almost triple my goals as well as some ancillary work. I feel rested this morning and ready to do it again! Why did I pin myself down and make life harder by having a wife and four kids on a comic artist's wage?
St. Valentine has many accounts of his life that are unconfirmed, but one that I have heard was that he was imprisoned for marrying Christians under Roman Emperor Claudius.
The Emperor didn’t like this because he thought that the husbands would not want to go to war for him as soldiers now that they were married. Valentine gave his retort, “But now they have something to fight for.”
I have a reason to get out of bed. In fact, I have five.
My family depends on me. Yes, it means long hours. Yes, it means intense deadlines and project timelines. Yes, it means delicately balancing the budget month to month. (Future Rant on this…)
But at the end of the day, I love the scamper of tiny feet coming to call me to dinner. My eldest telling me about the new book he just learned to read. A twirl from my youngest in her tutu, princess crown, and arm full of bracelets. The desperate, squeezing hug from my youngest. And the adoring smile from my wife.
That’s all I need. I hope you find that. I hope that when you wake up in the morning and stare at the back of your eyelids, groaning at the grind, that you have someone, something, that makes you smile and leap out of bed to go to war for.
Cheers,
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Project Revolution is wayyy up my alley. Excited to see how you made the type set!