Biting Off More Than Can Be Masticated

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 . . .

Epic Poetry + Comic Strip Art = Epic Comic Strip

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?