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Yay for May!Lovely jubbly!

Many many things to do by the end of this month!
As usual - some of it you'll see, some of it not.
(Like anyone gives a shit...)

Anyways, I must:
- pencil and ink remaining 4 black&white comic pages (of 6), plus do a b&w part of the cover (due on 20th)
-  write, pencil, ink, hand-letter and do full watercolours on 4 more pages (due on 21st)
-  pencil, hand-letter and ink-wash 5 more pages, plus do a cover somehow (due on 30th)

...oh, and  go to work every day.
So.....does anyone have a cloning chamber to spare? I sure could use one.......

Well, as for work, some of you may remember this:
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Today I wa

Well, entry #1 is done and already published ('Get a Life' episode 5, inks can be seen in my gallery), as well as entry #2, which was material for the music festival I talked about here.

The press conference took place yesterday (I couldn't attend, sadly, since it was in another city....blast this day job), and the campaign was officially launched - first chapter of the comic and character cards are now live, as well as the ingenious little mobile app which is the centre of it all, and will allow its users access to all the festival related material (and the content listed above, unlocked via QR codes which are being posted in the street campaigns in all major cities here), regularly notify of updates as everything develops, plus enable many interactive games and augmented reality experiences within festival grounds.

There will be a new chapter of the comic every week, all the way to the festival itself, taking place on July19 - 21 this year, and we have set off to give the festival its fictional background and history, tell stories of the characters living on the old factory grounds and the battles in another dimension taking place there, on which the fate of the world is depending,  and give the whole thing a new dimension the likes of which has never been seen before

...but I'll hold on to the links to sites, apps, facebooks, twitters and so on for another day or two, until I get a 'go' from the guv'nors to post the material here.

Entry #3 is in progress with completed roughs, and I'm quite eager to work on it since I'll be doing it in a technique I've never used before.....that's the way I *see* it, and everything else would be settling for less


Boy.....when I think how I was barely drawing anything  from last June to December (a bad period in life and very bad state of mind), and now I'm constantly in motion and all over the place, and even marginally famous after this press conference yesterday (there I am, on web portals and in newspapers ), it's so hard to believe.....and what's funniest, I'm eager for more!

There are few people to whom I owe the drastic change in my mental landscape, that made all of this production on my part possible:

First one's Michelle (aka *SheepSlave), who hired me to do an INSANELY complex task for her (a Christmas present for her husband), and the result of which was

something that made me realize I *can* tackle the impossible with great resourcefulness and come out as a winner (yes, I ain't being modest about this baby!)
Successful completion of this piece gave a gigantic boost to my fallen self-confidence.

...and the second one's Franco (aka ~M3Gr1ml0ck), who chose me as the artist for

or 'Get a Life' , (then) newly-launched monthly club comic for 'A.Mys', the official fan club of Bonelli's Martin Mystère. Starting since January, his fantastic scripts have been truly inspiring, and working on the series totally breathed in new life to my stale comic work, and showed me how I *can* think outside the methods I had deeply encrusted myself in, how I *am* able to experiment with styles and different approaches, and how I *still* can pick up truly  insane speed when deadlines press!

All in all, how there still *is* something left of that guy who I used to be, before this accursed years-long economic crisis and fucking  infinite stagnation and utter lack of perspective in his *actual* line of work turned him into a disgusting and bitter bastard you all know.

That's because I'm marginally famous for my comic work now (as said, the thing has just begun).
If I happen to go up the ladder there, *then* I'll also thank folks who made me stop seeing this lifelong  messin'-with-comics of mine as such a lonely game:
~JediFlaherty and =J-Z-Belexes as first people other than myself according to whose scripts I ever drew a comic, *hde2009 as the first-ever person who inked my pencils (who's not me), and *royalentertainment as the first (and so far the only) guy who drew a comic according to my script (TF:M followers may recall the infamous 'Lament' )

..but that will be then.

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Both a great and a sad thing, really.....a highly educated and trained professional gets stuck in a time-loop of stagnation due to utterly shitty circumstances in his chosen field of work, and gets his biggest exposure so far through a silly spare-time hobby of his, which just refused to die all these years....

Certainly not something that I had in mind for the course of my life/career/shit, but given the circumstances, I honestly can't say I'm complaining.

Who knows, perhaps this is a start of something entirely different...

Stay well!