TheJollyMisanthrope

So I dreamed I was in prison, but I had a plan to get out. I had two dozen fire axes under my bed (???) and a wall in the yard had a blind spot, so I decided that me and a few fellow inmates would bum rush the wall Berlin style and make a hole before the guards got wise. Unfortunately all of my jail mates were overemotional idiots, and dangerous to boot. I almost didn't want to escape if it meant they would also be free. The one other likable and coherent prisoner (played by Samuel L. Jackson in this dream) didn't want to leave prison, and the warden (played by Morgan Freeman) was on to me, so I had to act fast before he got the obscenely obvious idea of just looking under my bed.
It was at this point that I woke up annoyed, frustrated, and pondering the deeper meaning(if any) of it all.

Tonight I've posted four crap drawings which are four more than I've ever posted.

These juvenile yet enthusiastic character sketches are a kind of artist's audition for a comic I'm currently writing. If this seems like something that would interest you, please just show me how you would draw and interperet this. If I love it enough, we'll be partners in a hopefully awesome new comic book!

I'm working on an epic "lost world" style comic, not entirely unlike Turok or Samurai Jack in scope and style but with a slightly more historic bent (Mark Twain and Caligula are recurring characters). It has two protagonists at first unaware of the other's existence. One is from Medieval France and the other from 70s New York. There are also a lot of Heinorious Bosch and David Bowie references.

For art style my two main concerns are vibrant backgrounds and emotional depth in the characters. I'm not too picky on the specifics but I give major props for originality. Just to air out my prejudices, my favorite comic book artists are roughly and in no order; James O'Barr (the Crow) David Lloyd (V for Vendetta) and Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)

As for any possible payment (sigh) I have nothing to give upfront and no guarantees of success. On the other hand, if we get published, I'll happily split any pay 50/50.

Good luck to us all.

So I just submitted four poems. By a casual look at my page one would think that's all I've done. Indeed, it is all I've done here for a couple years except fatten my fave list. It feels good. Clensing, almost.
I've been reading about Lawrence of Arabia a lot. He was amazing. By action hero standards he was probably the greatest human being of the twentieth century. Handsome, brave, cool and brillant, he also had Nazi sympathies and was into S&M torture. You never can tell about some people, huh?

I havent been on or submitted anything here for a while, but that will hopefully change as soon as I find a scanner. I have a manual camera, and I've taken some damn good black & white shots, but when I tried to put them in my CD drive, my computer got all uppity and acted like it didn't know what I was doing. So finally, after calling the computer names and then apologizing and even saying I loved it (which is just crazy), I decided I should find a scanner.