Category: Artsy-Things

An Epic Comic [ Epic Poetry + Comic Strip Art ] Informed by the Equation

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Five Percent Vexation

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So, this month I finished chapters 5 and 6 (out of 120 planned) of the epic poem that has consumed my attention for a good number of years.  I may end up calling them something else as time goes on, as chapter is very prosy sounding.  Maybe I will call them fugues, who knows yet.  I will likely think it my greatest achievement when I finish, but my latest product always tends to feel like a magnum opus, so I guess I am biased.  However, I have noticed something over the years.

For better or worse, the things that irritate me the most evoke my creativity and inner muse.  I am finding it impossible to shake the notion that complacency is the sworn enemy of all artistic endeavors.  What else could drive people to go the lengths they do in order to share a sentiment, a thought, or a vision?  With six out of a hundred twenty chapters complete, that must mean I have achieved five percent vexation.

There is so much to be upset with in the world though, that the other ninety-five percent should be easy to find.

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Biting Off More Than Can Be Masticated

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I have done some careful planning on the idea of an epic comic (epic poem + comic strip) and come to the conclusion that one will have to come after the other.  A comic strip on the scale that I am looking to do (a maximum of 10,000 panels) would require somewhere between ten to twenty volumes, given the physical limitations that printed book can have.

Phase one will be to finish writing the epic poem (a maximum of 10,000 lines of verse).  My target for this is to have it complete before I turn 31 (my next prime birthday).  Certainly feasible, given that everything is set up for it, including Affect Engineering.

Phase two will be the comic strip illustration aspect that incorporates the epic poem.  Making it available as a web-comic would seem to be the logical route to go before the next prime birthday (37).

Thirty lines of verse and then five illustrated panels per day. They both seem within reach.

Famous last words . . .

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Broken Promises and Plots

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A while ago, a chapter sample was promised.  Unfortunately, that was before I came to the conclusion that obtaining electronic rights for some of my sources would be next to impossible.  So no chapter sample yet, you will just have to buy the whole book if you want to see it, though I may figure some way around this chapter sample dilemma given enough time.

In other news, I made some major headway on the epic comic (comic strip + epic poetry).  The epic poem actually has a coherent plot now.  This has done wonders for me and made it easier to write.  I do not know how anyone can write a story without a plot.  Reading someone’s stream of consciousness would probably be just as difficult if not harder.  Expect to see more epic comics integrated in the site posts.

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Things to Do While Waiting

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First panel drawn, only 9999 to go, haha! As you may have noticed, I favor pencil, charcoal and monochromatic shading, but I might throw in some color every once in a while just to mix things up, even if only to pretend its a syndicated strip in a major newspaper.  I am much further along on the poetry than the illustrating of this side project, if anyone was wondering where the squeaky wheel was.

Oscar the Bard, Necromors, Wild the Muse: Panel 00001

 

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Epic Poetry + Comic Strip Art = Epic Comic Strip

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New content is on the way!  Oscar the Bard, Necromors, and Wild the Muse is a side project I fiddle with from time to time, like when I should be editing my manuscript (i.e. flogging my book) or enticing literary agents into representing me (i.e. flogging my book). Ok, that’s a bit of a stretch… it’s actually informed by Affect Engineering, and it helps sate my witty side when I’m editing.  It’s not always easy to wax poetic when one is also explaining cosine functions and exponential decay. A more in depth description of my dabbles in comic strip land is also in the menu under the new Just for Fun menu bar.  I make no claim to be the fastest or best illustrator out there, so the updating of it may be sporadic, depending on my time to draw and revise or write poetry, you know, when I should be doing other stuff.

Oscar the Bard, Necromors, and Wild the Muse

Oscar Necromors Wild edited Names jpeg

Accordingly, this post is under the new Artsy-Things category.  I’m looking to add a Deconstruction category and/or Hypotheticals category to keep the content mix lively in the near future.  They’ll likely be posts where I show how Affect Engineering would deconstruct a real life and plausible situation. Real life and plausible… did somebody say tabloids?