Me & You, 23

Hello again. Welcome back to This. Still fighting thru my first covid encounter (getting better) and really thinking about what the hell I am doing next with my life as a cartoonist. When I was younger and starting to put my work online, it felt like I could do 1000 things and more! And I tried 1000 things, characters, stories, etc, and failed a lot. Just seeing what stuck. I was like a line on a paper going all over the place.

Gunshow, in some way, gave me more a direction to go in. A direction that COULD change, but it was more of a straight path with adjacent extra routes than a loopy line going in too many directions.

As Gunshow ended, and my other projects of the time (HiaGB, BACK, Pinocchio) came to a close, I lost that narrowing and my path got loopier. Made me regress back to when I was that child having 1000 ideas and frustrated that I couldn't do all of them at once! Which is creatively childish.

I think I need something like that again, what Gunshow provided for my creative brain, even if it means throwing away all those ideas I've had for some other story or that comic. All those things mean nothing if I can't settle down long enough to see ONE THING through. You've seen me go through this with Funny Online Animals, F-Off,  God's Hands, Cultists! and possibly others.

So I'm going to make it "me & you". I'm just going to make this comic and try to make it for myself. Cus I don't have to make a comic for some company or business. I don't have to pitch books and wonder if I'll be the next Daniel Clowes. That's egotistical thinking on my end. What's real is this weird thread I got going here and this story can be 1000 things as long as I take my time and keep the line straight.

I don't know how long I can keep that up but I also don't care to dwell on that. I just want to draw this comic without anyone telling me what to change or do differently.

I don't know why I wrote all this, my door dash just got here bye