archiearcane

Walkin' In A Winter Wonderland~

2009-12-21T15:01:13Z

No Place Like Home For The Holidaze

2009-12-21T01:56:54Z

Hoping your Christmas and other holiday endeavors are fulfilled and that you have peace and prosperity!!!

Dirtmann Promo

2009-12-16T15:05:15Z

There's Still Time To Turn This Ship Around-- While You're Headed Down The River of Injustice

2009-12-14T16:31:17Z

"I wanna win, I wanna go out on a limb and win, y'know... And sometimes that takes you past the stage that you, y'know, you should probably take a step back from. And sometimes I don't look at that line, I just step over that line"

Whether that quote represents me completely or not, I think it's a wonderfully awesome quote. It goes along with some of my thinking. Good, bad, who's to say? There's a part of me where my eyes are too big for my stomach. Especially in high school. I wanted everything. Who didn't want to be popular? Or have the best grades? I secretly wanted to conquer the entire spectrum. I wasn't successful at any of it, aside from the respect I got in art. I can't figure out if it was that I didn't try hard enough, was depressed, or plain unlucky even though there's no point in going over it now. But that hunger was there, gnawing at me all those four years. It's almost as if that was the most important thing. To have that ambition. To dream. Just how powerful it was, welling up in my mind the whole time. The turmoil. Both dangerous and amazing. It's what makes men leaders though, and do terrible things. Then they get remembered in history.

Drunken Tiger's Rapist Claw

2009-12-13T02:23:18Z

Burnin' In The Third Degree

2009-12-10T03:06:15Z

It's sounding like the Jon Blaze Kidd printing is gonna go through. This thing should rock when it's finished! Still not sure how many copies will be made... It'll be monumental.

!

2009-12-09T09:53:30Z

Feeling insanely lonely, but- ha ha! No bother. Things shall get better! 2009 was a grand year and 2010 is seemingly full of wondrous potential. I don't think I burned too many bridges. I've probably gotten myself in a bit of trouble, but with some luck I can scrape by. I don't exactly have any direction in life at the present time. That only means anything could happen!

I'm thinking about revamping the look of HoboMon and making it look a little slicker and more hip. Dunno yet. I'm really wondering how Hiro Mashima gets down some of the line work that he does in Fairy Tail. It has a weird quality.

WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scorpion Solitude

2009-12-02T23:08:38Z

Just stumbled over this. This is the first cartoon I got published! There's not much of a punchline but I still think it's funny with the alliteration and the grouchy looking little scorpion. I penciled it and inked it with a Sanford Uni-ball on computer paper, since I wasn't using bristol at the time and wasn't all that good (but not terrible) at using a nib or fountain pen.

Finding this has given me a much needed boost of drive. We all have to start somewhere, with whatever it is we are pursuing. If it's not great, we can work towards making it so!

Three Hobos & A Ham-Sandwich: The Hobos Beach Excursion

2009-12-02T18:35:55Z

The Obsession

2009-12-01T15:51:11Z

I wake up thinking about this stuff. Comics, manga, cartoons, etc. Part of me wants to give it up, but it's like a drill boring into my very essence. I don't think I'm very good at cartooning. I have the passion or a frenzy for it so that's important. Basically it runs me, I don't run it.

And daaamn, the public is picky as @#$% nowadays. I keep feeling like everything I make has to be glossed over and picture perfect. If it doesn't look like something a dapper individual sitting in a coffee shop would read, it's not happenin'.

www.capsulecomics.com

archiearcane @ 2009-11-30T19:50:00

2009-12-01T00:50:57Z

So hopefully JonBlaze Kidd is going to get printed up. Finally. I'm not really letting it set in my head until I see that actual thing in my hands... I was going to get the wrap around (perfect binding) with the spine but I guess the coil binding will do for now.. I gueeess(I mean damn, it's gonna be on some 70's old school children's book tip). From what the printer people said, if it was perfect bound, the spine would be small even though it's a decent number of pages. One day... One day JonBlaze will be hard cover, leather bound, ha ha ha. I guess since that's going down, things are good ha-ha. :D Yup...............................................................................................

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! I'm lyin'! I need a woman in my life!! I'm sick of being a loser in my parents basement! Someone put me out of my misery, please! Kill me, whether it's a long drawn-out or a quick click off, lights out deal, I don't care! I deserve it! And I suck at life! Why? :O Whyyyyyyyyyy?!?

What does this all mean? Do I even have a purpose? I wanna laugh because it's all such a joke. Well, I hope everyone else out there is having a good time during these holidays. I'm the perfect example of what not to be. Be merry, have fun, go out and do stuff and be with friends and family. Also I've gotta get it crackin' on HoboMon. For some reason, I'm stuck on stupid and making new pages is a bit difficult.

I may be be off drugs, but it's made me off track

MEGA (mini) The Break-dancing Peanut

2009-11-29T20:53:32Z

Whoo Ah You?/The Wave

2009-11-29T18:53:49Z

I had a very vivid and disturbing dream after coming home from work in the morning.

I dreamt I was at some unknown college campus wandering through the old dorms/mansions there. There was some revitalizing going on in the place but not very thorough. Everything looked like it was falling apart. I was trying to find the bathrooms. There was sawdust and mortar everywhere and it was very dingy. It all looked like it might have been nice at one time. The other students appeared to be partying and hanging out or going around looking for each other. It was all like a huge maze inside the buildings and there were multiple entrances and exits so I'm not sure where I was leaving one building and enter another. After I found the bathrooms, I think I was trying to find where everyone else was going, but just to check it out. I'm not a huge partier. I think I saw some people I knew from high school.

At some point or another I picked up a newspaper that had a picture of an american soldier in the middle east being executed. There were a bunch of soldiers/maybe-civilians propped up against the side of a bridge facing a wall. They had that not-freaked-out-but-giving-up-to-doom look on all their faces. One of them and I couldn't tell who was being shot in the back of the head and the photographer did a nice job of snapping the photo right when the brains were flying out. It was one of those moments when you want to look away from something but you can't and of course it's worse in a dream. Then I felt like I was being pulled into the picture and everything in the pic. was becoming real time, as if I was transporting into the war-zone. That's when my brain was starting mull over it all as a dream and that I should certainly wake up before things got worse. Like I'd been going along with it all being so crazy up until the point where it seemed threatening and then I thought "fuck, how do I get out of here!?", waking up shortly afterwards.

Ridin' & Holiday Sidin'

2009-11-29T01:52:00Z

extra Hansta-Kun pic

Dreams, Hopes, Growing, Failure, Ambition, and The Road

2009-11-28T00:15:27Z

HoboMon is my official online comic now. My hope is, similar to a lot of the kung-fu films I like, that even if no one is reading this comic or likes it now, at some point in the future it will be a rare gem of comics that people out there will enjoy... Well, even more than that, if I can keep at it, I'll gradually get a following of fanatics and/or eager readers, which is better to want. The online comic thing is simply until I get a book format rolling. As for the format of the release of HoboMon, I'm still working that out.

So Last night I drove into the first neighborhood I grew up in, Hunter Mill, to see the old house I lived in while I was in the preschool era. I felt like a huge, snobby bastard because the townhouses seemed so crammed and I never realized how tucked away my house was. It must have been a major pain for my parents to drive through there everyday. When I rode past my old house it was around five in the morning and quiet as all hell. The whole area looked creepy and intense because of the wind blowing and the leaves falling all around with it rainy. There's a little bit of woods among all the townhouses so it felt like I was in a Friday The 13th movie (mostly the first one) or near the beginning of Halloween (when the inspector is going to the mad house). I didn't live there very many years, but if it had any effect on me, from what I could see last night, it couldn't have been good. There weren't any terrible memories from there nor were there any really good ones. Still, the neighborhood we moved to after, had far less kids my age, which I know for sure was really bad because when I couldn't hang out with the few friends that lived there, I would spend time by myself. I think it gradually got worse. This is pretty obvious but isolation for a kid never has good results.

Driving to Hunter Mill pretty much killed any sort of nostalgia for me, which I think is helpful. All I can think now is that I'm so glad I don't live there anymore and that I'm old enough and have more freedom. There was a time in High School were I couldn't help but look back at all the good times I had before and how much things had changed. I still enjoy a lot of the cartoons that I did as a youngster, which have inspired me so much. That having been said; I've never really wanted to go back. I don't think I've ever been stuck in the past. What I miss is being happy-go-lucky. I think while I was having so much fun it made some people jealous and that after having been knocked off my high horse I think it doesn't really matter. It's not worth to have to get back on for everybody else as well as deal with individuals that can't stand it and want to ruin my good humor. They weren't super important privileges to me, since I enjoyed being a kid so much, but being able to stay up late, watch whatever movie I want, not have to be dragged along to everything, etc. where all things I thirsted for as a child. Now I get to do all those things and even if they aren't as great as I imagined, it's still better to be able to do what I want. Freedom is such a simple ability that's so enjoyable to have, but hard to appreciate because it feels so natural. It's not gradual at all... The more I get out into the world, the lonelier it feels as a cost. There's a price; it's hard to avoid paying.

Well, I'm saying things that are obvious. I don't really have a point either. It's simply better to be happy-go-lucky and do what you want, ha ha.

Happy Thanksgiving, Everybody!!! :D

2009-11-27T00:03:20Z

I've been buying and watching a lot of the Rankin/Bass animagic and animated movies as of late. They rock! So far my fav. is "The Little Drummer Boy". It seems shorter than the others and grainier for some reason on the camera, which makes it cool for me. I still have to get "Mad Monster Party?"(no, not the awesome NES game). Ha ha, Harvey Kurtzman did the script for it. And Paul Coker Jr. did the designs for a lot of the characters in those animagic TV movies. I wanna do character designs for a stop-motion/claymation feature!!

DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE TURKEEEY

HoboMon Sample

2009-11-24T10:57:37Z

Life Is Full With Fighting And Massive Struggle

2009-11-24T04:51:39Z

How can I get paid enough money to make a living from drawing comics? That's probably the ultimate question in my life right now. But what's actually more important than that is, how do I make any money at all from drawing comics? Or maybe that's the first step. If that's the case than if I can just make that first step... Since I honestly have made no money whatsoever from any comics I've drawn. I've made money from drawing caricatures, illustrations, and selling sketchbooks,but not a dollar from drawing a comic. At least not that comes to mind, I could be wrong though. I did get paid while I was drawing comics at a job where I was supposed to be faxing and filing so in a way I technically have. I simply haven't had the satisfaction of handing a comic that I've made to someone in exchange for money- as of yet. That first step.

Then my parents. They keep bugging out. I honestly have no real problem with them. They on the other hand have a problem with whatever I do if it isn't exactly what they want. Then they make certain that their problem becomes mine. Moving back home wasn't a great idea. Now I feel exactly like I felt before I graduated from high school.

As far as getting published, even in a small zine, that isn't really going on. I can't complain over all. I don't know why since a few things that I WANT but don't NEED aren't happening that I make myself feel so crummy. It's that hunger. And drama.

I could be at that point where everything is "wonderful" and look back at all of this and laugh. I know I could be laughing with some bloke(s) about it and it'll be great with them since they're pleased with where I am and I don't want to get to that point.

Robo Ninja God TT: Tunnel Terrain

2009-11-20T18:11:16Z

Skitzin'

2009-11-20T16:42:32Z

M.P.E.

2009-11-19T22:05:08Z

Haha, I put this on my website but it didn't seem to work too well!

Don't come around, I'mma clown

Everybody wanna come to me, like it was some disease

Revenge of Psykizzo Ham-Ham [one-shot]

2009-11-18T19:56:19Z

I Understand, I'm Back By Popular Demand
www.youtube.com/watch

Seeing Frederik L. Schodt

2009-11-16T11:47:58Z

Last Friday I went to this retrospective at the Freer and Sackler Gallery for Osamu Tezuka that is being held in D.C. and it was awesome! Frederik Schodt was there and gave a talk. My dad went with me(I think he was honestly curious, now that what I had been blabbing about for quite some time was an actual big deal) and bought me a signed copy of Mr. Schodt's Dreamland Japan Writings on Modern Manga. Some years earlier I flipped through that book at some point or another at the SVA library but found it not as easy to read as Manga Manga because of the lack of pictures(yep, that's how I am).

I was crazy nervous for some reason before Frederik Schodt came out to talk. As soon as he was even in the room I started to relax and by the time he got to the podium I was completely calm. This guy was as about as chill as one person could get. On top of that very intelligent and obviously his vast knowledge of manga is on point. After he gave an introduction, we watched four episodes of Astroboy in English. It was exactly like Keith Mayerson's anime class. It was a flashback and a flash-forward at the same time! Everybody in the theater was laughing, even Frederik Schodt, at the funny scenes in Astroboy. There was not a huge amount of people there because it had been rainy and cold all day. I had to leave early to go to work, but it was unreal. There's a whole week of events going on for Osamu Tezuka in D.C. for anyone who's interested. I missed some of the other events, but I plan on going to the showing of Prime Rose and the short films.

Here's the info: http://www.asia.si.edu/film/tezuka/

B-Fly Guy!!! [one-shot]

2009-11-10T07:25:14Z

TO BE CONTINUED?.... PROBABLY NOT!

from 2007. I had the first couple pages up on my old myspace site in 2007, but not the whole thing online.

I'll Eat-- But I Ain't Gon' Be Happy

2009-11-04T22:38:48Z

Did anyone see this before?

http://www.mangasama.com/manga/cashman/cashman-1-1495/002/