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I haven’t posted any art over the past few weeks as I’ve dedicated all of my being to writing the outline for Sticker Quest. I have really good days and I have really depressingly awful days where I just want to give up and pretend I never tried in the first place. Luckily for all of us, I can’t give up. Quitting Sticker Quest would only cause me to hate myself and who’d want to live with that?

The nice part about this obsession is that it’s really helped me cope with my culture shock and other things that have gone off in my life. I’m learning so much about myself and my limits (which I don’t think I’ve properly challenged yet).

I’m going to share some things that I’ve learned. They could be entirely wrong but here it is:

1. I’ve spent more time rewriting than writing. The way I pictured Sticker Quest a month ago is not how Sticker Quest is now. Characters and sequences have changed completely – but that’s okay because they’re better now.
2. Write down every bad idea so then only good ones are left.
3. Tell your outline to a critical, jerk friend, he’ll find every plot hole and make you hate yourself as you try to fix them. (You’re the best, Josh!)
4. Coincidences suck.
5. If you want to be awesome, you have to make sacrifices. That sucks too, but only temporarily.
6. Surround yourself with other creative people. Get rid of anyone who makes you sad or anxious. You don’t have time to feel anything but pure burning ambition!
7. Hipsters go and work at hipster cafes for a reason – free but slow wifi crashes Tumblr, so you get a lot done. (Also, tea-based beverages make me happy)

If I fail, I will blame Tumblr. If anything brings Sticker Quest crashing down, it will be porn and cat pictures.

Other accomplishments thus far:

• One of the side characters has been designed. (Wanna peak?)
• Many articles on story-telling and character creation have been devoured and bookmarked.
• Doodles to accompany certain scenes to help me visualize them.
• A job interview and a house-viewing. #lifeaccomplishment
• Many naps taken and much chocolate consumed.

IN OTHER NEWS!

I will be partaking in 24 hr Comic Book Day at Happy Harbor Comics in Edmonton. I will post more information that about that soon.

A new comic about one of my favourite book series and TV shows. I can’t draw dire wolves… it looks more like a marshmallow with a face. A deadly marshmallow.

Click image for the full comic! 

The comic is too ginormously awesome for this for this post! So click on the first panel to see what happens!

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You know when you put your cat’s food dish on the ground and then it takes the food out of the dish and eats it off the floor anyways? Yeah, clearly they know something that I don’t.

… and then the world knows what a monster you are far those few hours before you can un-tag yourself.

My socks keep disappearing under my kotatsu.

While the lifeforce was being drained from my body, I thought up this comic.

Little known fact: I can’t handle blood. The sight of it makes me queasy and getting it taken out of my body leaves me positively useless. I have never donated blood and I’m not proud of this. The one time I tried, I turned white, fainty, and started to perspire just from looking at the rows of people generously giving their blood-stuff away for free cookies… they didn’t make follow through with it and I still got a free cookie.

It’s been a long time since I’ve actually drawn a comic strip and though I can’t promise anything regular, I promise you that it’s not dead… just dormant.

Based on a true story, in a sense. With the PSN debacle, people are getting pretty stressed out about their credit card information floating around, I can’t blame them! Not me though, I’m cool as a cucumber – or so I thought. So, I was checking through my internet banking and I noticed a $75 purchase from Amazon.com. I could not remember making a $75 purchase recently and started to panic! I’ve been robbed!

Then I remembered I had purchased a Cinco-de-Mayo-themed Amazon giftcard which just happened to be valued at $75  for my buddy Robin who shipped me a PS3 copy of Portal 2.

On that note, the most crippling part of the PSN being down is the fact that I can not play co-op mode in Portal 2. Please come back soon, PSN.

Stockholm Syndrome (per Miriam-Webster)

• the psychological tendency of a hostage to bond with, identify with, or sympathize with his or her captor.

I recently purchased Fat Princess off the PSN – giving in to the bright colours, cute character design and witty premise! Admittedly, as I was playing it, I realized that the only class I wanted to be was the only one I couldn’t be – the captive princess. This is not a failure of four years’ worth of university feminism shoved into my brain, but actually the realization that there are certainly worse fates than being fed cake to your heart’s content!

Every once in a while, I respond to the sweet siren call of the Pokemon series. I must admit, I’ve never gotten too far in any of these games. Not for lack of enjoyment, mind you, I just suffer from severe videogame ADD.  So sadly, already I have abandoned Pokemon: White Version for Okamiden (awesome!) due to the proximity of their releases! I don’t have much else to say about this game as it resembles all of its predecessors – catch ‘em all and be the best that ever was! However, I did glimpse the inkling of a plot in the making – so perhaps if I had stuck with it, I might have found a story within.

Perhaps, the next time I take a trip, I will pick Pokemon: White Version back up again. Until then, watch me lovingly caress my delicious starter pokemon.