So I've got alot to tell you my friends. Some very personal and some artistic so lets just jump right in.
Theres something very... (libertaing?) about bring truely honest with yourself and others.
I've been single for about 3 years, had a few sways in the heart here and there, but never was the right chord hit. Atleast never that hit more than an interest. Not to be taken lightly, I have not, in the last 3 years, used the words "I love you" and never with such gravity.
Now, I know to who isn't a suprise to most, but I don't think many knew whats been brewing in my head. To fill the rest of you in, its been heartache and pain.
To the lovely lady, I hope you take everything I said to hear with the gravity that everything I said should entail. I don't expect anything, especially after all thats been said and done, but I opened my heart to you. I hope your willing to listen to what it has to say.
Eichi has taken a HUGE step forward in progress. What once has been thoughts and ideas and sometimes words on paper is now becoming product.
When Eichi was very first concieved it was several years ago. The character was written to embody my anger, as a bit of an artistic outlet. Characters began to become added to represent different highs and lows in my life so there was quite a variety. The project itself has been up in the air between an anime or a manga. How much has actually been written?
So where is everything and what is the ultimate fate of all these options? The answer to the question of anime or manga is both. Both will also be slightly different than the other. Aside from a few details here and there the story has been written from start to finsh and while the manga will end one way, only in the anime will you see not one, not two, but all 4 alternate endings and both complete alternate beginings.
I never knew how eary it would be getting all of this down into some kind of a finished project until I actually started the work. I was always hesitant about doing it because hey, what do I know about writing and making a final product. Well, apparently more than I thought. If you haven't checked it out yet on my facebook I've dropped a few teaser images.
I will like my FB at the end.
Something else has been dropped in my lap yesterday, Comic-Con. Yes the San Diego International Comic Convention. The one bane of my existance that I love to hate, but most of all love. SDCC will be where I will drop a few coppies of the inaugeral edition of Eichi to get feedback and then, heaven permitting, will be available for the rest of you. SDCC also means another souvinier book, and most of all this year, portfolio review.
Yes, you read that right, the day that I will arrive to the Con in full shirt and tie with a portfolio, complete with hand drawn "business cards." But who is gonna get to see my portfolio? Marvel? DC? Top Cow, Image, Archie? As many as I can get to see me in that 4 day span.
Ofcourse all this will not be possible, and earning an honorable mention in my blog, if not for my dear friend Kay. In all of my feelings of despair, hopelessness, failure, and worthlessness, Kay has always been a shining beacon of light, support, and faith when I had none. (Even if she knows it not.) Also, thank you for the Civil War script book to help build that sequential art from. (Rest assred for that you just earned yourself a framed page print for your support and faith.) Thank you for this opportunity.
So thats it in a nut shell. 6 months of long hours and grueling work. Its gonna be hell. But after all, what good are the stars if they aren't there to shoot for?
EXCELSIOR!!!
-Pat!
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