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- About Me:
- "There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
— Gore Vidal
- Education:
- B.A. English
- Occupation:
- Animator, commercial artist
- About my work:
- "We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it — the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it." ~ Saul Bellow
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Have a happy 4th everyone.
The link to the witch jars that I tried to post in my previous e-mail didn't work, so I will try again:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=41275&l=da19f&id=735769306
Thanks for reading my comics and for the nice comments! I have been looking at your art, and I think it's amazing. I hope you continue to post more. (After I send this e-mail, I am going to visit your website.) Of the artists you mentioned, I am only familiar with the very talented Lynda Barry. When I lived in Atlanta in the early '90s, I used to read her "Ernie Pook's Comeek" in the free weekly. I will look up the other people you listed. I have read and enjoyed a few graphic novels: Art Spiegelman's "Maus," Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis," and most recently "Fun House" by Alison Bechdel.
I am in the process of scanning and downloading another album of comics I made back in 2000 or 2001, but I haven't done any recently. I became unable to create any more at a certain point because I became convinced that I needed to change the style in order to make the drawings look "good" and "professional" -- that was my downfall. During the period when I was just whipping them out for fun without any real concern for what other people thought, I had tons of ideas, but as soon as I became self-conscious about the quality of the drawings my creative well ran dry.
The only "art" I am doing lately is my so-called "witch jars." I don't know if anyone else would consider them art, but I do. I collect flowers, dry them, learn their names, put them in jars, paint the lids of the jars black, and then make tiny labels for the jars with either the Latin name or the common name of the flower on the label. I think they look very cool when there are hundreds of them together. Here are some examples (photos 2-6):
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=954652&l=5fdd7&id=735769306
I am now off to look at your website.
Marah