What’s this I’M FAMOUS! banner about? Obviously it concerns the one and only Lone Wolf. Remember last year when I first discussed Day Camp and mentioned that we might branch off into some other strips as well? Remember when I said one might be the rebirth of the old Black Snow comic strip that I did at West Valley Community College for The Norseman? Well, I’M FAMOUS! is not quite that. It may be the closest thing you see to that return though.
I’M FAMOUS! is an all new comic strip starring my favorite Black Snow character, The Lone Wolf. I love the guy. Can’t get enough of him. Cracks me up. So there you have it. A strip about the pompous, egotistical super hero. What, you need more? Fine. This is something that has been rattling around in the back of my mind for a long time, though not specifically as this comic strip. It was just a desire to focus more on this amazing character, I didn’t know the specific project. Well, I think this strip is the perfect fit for the super ego hero.
You want more logistics? Well, it will feature characters from the comic book and brand new characters. It will expand greatly on what we’ve seen from the character in his somewhat limited appearances in the comic book so far. It will probably be full page format like Day Camp, though I can’t say for sure just yet. Will the content crossover to the comic book? Will it be part of the canon? Where does it fall in the time line? Don’t know yet, though my general feeling is that it will be somewhat distant from the comic book and more of its own entity, much like the old Black Snow strip was.
What will the story be about? Wait and see. I think you’ll love it! How will we have time to do it? Dedication and schedule management. Since dedicating myself to the one strip minimum for Day Camp this year guess what I’ve done? Met that goal and even surpassed it with 2 strips one week! Are you still holding true to your resolutions?
So get excited and ready yourselves for the awesomeness that is rapidly approaching its debut, I’M FAMOUS!
Originally I planned on writing something more timely and doing my general address of the holiday and what it means, much like I did for the previous holidays, but I didn’t really feel enough motivation. I guess that’s the general theme lately, an uncharacteristic lack of drive. Hopefully it will pass soon. I can’t really say why I’ve been feeling that way. Work’s been very busy and taken up much of my time and effort. So I suppose that’s a big factor. Since I last wrote at Christmas there hasn’t really been much comic news to report. I got us up on some more sites and did a little promotion, but not much else. My children’s book is coming along very slowly, as I struggle to write the text for each page. It’s about a quarter of the way complete.
In some more inspiring news I hatched my first lizard. For my birthday last year I got a pair of Crested Geckos, which produced eggs in October. Last week one hatched and the hatchling is doing well. The second egg has yet to hatch, though it should be any day now. I’ve kept lizards for most of my life, and attempted to breed Leopard Geckos in the past, so it is very exciting for me to finally succeed. So I’ve been spending some of my free time lately sprucing up the lizard cages and working on my aquariums. My freshwater tank is looking great, full of a bunch of cool community fish and some good looking live plants. I’ll throw up some pics when I get a chance.
So, here we are in the fantastically futuristic sounding year 2010. Hopefully we’ll achieve some semblance of the success we saw last year. What did we accomplish in 2009? Not 1 but 2 revamps of the website. The start and completion of Issue 6. Our first foray into color and gray toned art. The creation of Day Camp. A huge increase in our exposure and readership. So on and so forth. What are my goals this year? I’ve decided to commit to a schedule of sorts for drawing Day Camp. Starting this week I plan on posting a new Day Camp every Sunday. Does that mean a strict 52 Day Camp’s a year? No, that will be my minimum goal. Maybe I’ll do more than one a week, but at least one on Sundays.
What else? Black Snow Issue 0 will be completed. I need to work with Alex to get this script written, as we are only at the outline stage at the moment. In addition to Issue 0 I’d like to complete Issue 7, but if my previous track record of one a year holds true this will be a lofty goal. We’ll see. You want more? Hopefully we’ll get some T-shirts and products up on the site to start selling. Hell, maybe this will be the year we get some interest from publishers! We’ll probably have to wait another decade for that.
