Wow! After missing for like, like, half a year, one of my CD booklets turned up. It had some my best House mix discs, courtesy of my good friend, D.J. Lonewolf (Check out his site,
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Not to mention it had my copies of both of Jil Scott's albums! (That woman has an angel's pipes!) What can I say? The 5th track on "Beautifully Human" brought me to tears the first time I heard it. ( Yeah, Okay, so I'm a big sentimental sap. Sue me!)

During a better part of the 90's, I was a member of 'Shock Studio' a Toronto-based independant comic studio (Anyone out there remember 'Culture Comics'?). It was doing, well, okay and I was learning the industry first-hand, till the studio went to the four winds in '97 (Barely months before I found I was going to be a father! See "Malaika")
Now, whenever I do get the chance to visit a comicon, I tend to beeline straight to the Indy comics section, cause I want 2 C what's going on.
Now, here's my beef. There R too many indys who just aren't serious enough, that just do it 'For fun' and have no intention of ever going pro. Now, I know first hand how hard it is to make it into the field, but, it doesn't help if you go in with the attitude of "Well, I'll never be as good as (Insert Flavor-of-the-month here), so why even try?"
Heck, I'll tell you why; simple love of the art form! Besides most of those great-and-powerful artists over at Marvel & D.C started out exactly where you & I are now!
Well, to wrap it up, it easier to say, "Anything worth doing, is worth doing AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT!"
BTW, check out "Ant" by Mario Gully. It started out under an indy label, but is with Image, now. Great damn story, great character!

It seems to me these days that kids that can draw, cartoons in particular, develop an in-school fan base, even in high school. This I think is due to the long-overdue popularity of anime and manga.
While I had gained a version of this kind of fame back in grades 3 & 4 (this is way back in 1979 &'80), I found that in high school I was mostly misunderstood and even ridiculed.
I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.
Is my perception off on this, or are high school fanboys/girls the new 'in-crowd'? Or are sci-fi 'nerds' still the target of trekkie-styled ridicule?