Hi, I'm
going to apologize if this post is a little more incoherent than normal, I have
been waking up in the middle of the night and have not been able to go back to
sleep for the last three night straight.
More on that later, now for the first order of business, my current
comic book project has moved on the next stage. All of the writing has been completed and editor approved. Let the artist search begin! Actually it started Monday when I posted the
following ad around the Internet neighborhoods where the artsy kids hang out:
Ad Title: Looking for someone to illustrate and color
5 pages plus cover (paid)
I have written a five page comic book script and I now
need someone to draw and color the cover and interior pages. The story is in
the fantasy genre and called "I Hate When They Run." It's the follow
up to an 8 page story I wrote called "Dangers of the Road," which can
be found here: http://oldmanmitchell.blogspot.com/p/dangers-of-road.html
I'll be taking care of the lettering for this book.
The budget for art is $150 plus 25 copies of the printed
comic. Once this book is finished I'm planning on creating an ongoing series
based in this world. If things go well, I would like to use the same artist on
the full book as this 5 page project. The first issue will be funded via
Kickstarter and the pay will be more in line with industry standards. Before
any of that can happen "I Hate When They Run" will need to see print.
Please send links to samples of your sequential work to yommer16@gmail.com
Regards,
T. Perran Mitchell
So far we have some really good candidates and some not as
polished candidates. Frankly, I was
hoping for more responses, but maybe posting it up the week of New York Comic
Con wasn't the smartest of moves. I
hope that things will pick up over the next week or so. If you know anyone who might be interested
and willing to work for my limited budget, shoot them my way.
Speaking of things happening over the next week or so, I
started taking Zoloft on Sunday and boy are they not kidding about the side
effects. As I said in the opening, I
have had a lot of trouble sleeping since I started taking it. Sleep and I have never been easy allies, but
this waking up in the middle of the night is no go. Not only am I a zombie all day, but it make it really hard to
tell what other side effects are from the meds and what is just lack of sleep.
UPDATE: This is
where I left off writing this blog post yesterday. I had to go get my allergy shot and had all intention of writing
more. However the effects of the Zoloft
and lack of sleep sent me into such a funk I ended up just watching some TV and
talking to my girlfriend on the phone for a long while. Or I should say being
talked down from felling disconnected, like the whole world hated me and
everything was going fall apart. Know
that it was just chemicals in my brain creating an artificial feeling only
helped so much. Talking it out with her
and hearing it from someone else made all the difference in the world. But I still woke up at 3am this morning.
As soon as I got into the office this morning I called my
doctor. We agreed that the Zoloft
experiment was a failure. He told me to
give it a few weeks then give him a call if I wanted to try a different
anti-depressant. I have a feeling that
after this issue I have had with Zoloft and Adderall, plus all of the trails and
errors with ADD drugs as a kid, I'm not going to be rushing out to take any
more brain meds.
On to something a little more fun, Sunday night I saw TheDoubleclicks play at Melodies Cafe in Ardmore.
What an awesome show. I had
never been there and was (surprise, surprise) feeling a little down, so it took
forever to get myself out the door. I
ended up arriving just a little bit before the show started. Luckily I was able to get a seat right on
the end of the second row, maybe 10 -15 feet from the stage. I ordered some sweet potato fries and the
guy next to me was nice enough to offer to switch seats so I would have a table
for my food.
Before my food even got there The Doubleclicks came on
stage. You could tell right away how
happy they were to be at Melodies and how much fun they were having
playing. I always have a found the more
fun a band is having on stage the more I enjoy the show. I was really cool to hear the songs live and
to get to hear their banter between songs.
I also enjoyed that the lead singer, Angela Weber, made sure to ask
everyone to sing along for nearly every chorus. After their set, I was able to chat with Angela for a bit and get
some pictures with the other member of the band, her sister Aubrey.
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| Me and The Doubleclicks |
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| Goofy face for the guy not knowing how to work my camera phone |
It was a great time and I highly recommend going to see them
live if your get the chance. Here is a
song they didn't play that night but is one of my favorites.
And just for good measure here is a song they did play and
that I just so happened to also feature on my 2014 Summer Mix. I'll be posting a track list of it and my
other seasonal mixes soon. (I know I'm super behind on that)
One more thing before I go, I will be participating in the
Extra Life 24 hour gaming charity event again this year to benefit Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia. Last year I was able
to help raised over $1000 to help offset the cost of sick children whose
families have trouble affording their treatment. The event takes place Oct. 25th in to the 26th. I'll
blog more about it when it gets closer.
For more information and to donate, click the link below
Until next time, keep making things
T.
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