C&H..Pogo...AND Bloom County?

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C&H had a huge effect on me, of course, but I've always had a soft spot for Opus. I'm a lot like him, in many ways. Always wishing for wings that don't quite work. I kinda wish I'd grown up when comics took up a full page, but I have tons of net comics to read, some of them are quite good.

Actually, I have to recommend a few:
http://filteredfuzz.com/ this is by  Meggyc

http://drawingforward.com/comic/ is by  Hare

Is by my friend Travis http://flapcomic.com/?p=115

I'll probably have one up, eventually, once I feel like I have an idea where to go with it.

I wish I could fave responses!

I'm gonna be oot and aboot starting tomorrow, then it's the beginning of the school sneason, but I want to talk to you--we sound like we have too many things in common to ignore!!

I will check these comics out, my good sir, and any others you might recommend.

Sure! I've got skype and I -think- you're on it? Just lemme know.

As far as comics..if you don't have anything against explicit bawdiness with your humor, Oglaf is great.
http://oglaf.com/

Order of the stick is great, if you're into the D&D thing
http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html


There are a LOT out there http://www.buzzfeed.com/kevintang/4.....u-need-to-read
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Oglaf is a RIOT. I love his stuff. So's Order o the Stick. His Kickstarter event was an incredible and well-deserved success.

Now to go and check out all your links!

Here's the complete address. http://www.ankitsrivastava.net/tcho.....kenyon-speech/

I really enjoyed it. It's pretty much the opposite of telling people to follow their bliss because it'll pay off -- I think there's usually that assumption in most "follow your bliss" pep talks, that passion will lead to profit, or at the very least being able to be something other than dirt poor. Instead I felt like he was saying more, look, follow your bliss, because you never know what's going to pan out, and if you make something you like, at least you get to have that in your life.

Oh but checkitout, what I found while looking for the commencement speech! http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cbillart.html has a batch of the political cartoons from when he was going for that first job out of college which he mentions.

Very, very true.

Following your bliss ain't about getting the gold ring. It's never meant that, but it's an easy misinterpretation to glean when you live in a society that measures success, and self-worth, in economic and material terms. It's what we want to hear. I know it's what *I* want to be true as I follow my own bliss. I think a necessary part of striving is an intentional pig ignorance of all the factors against you, otherwise you'd never dare to take on any big challenge. Whether or not I'll be financially successful is still up in the air.

The one thing I know for certain is that I'm happy. That's enough for me.

Thank you for all the additional links and the research that birthed 'em, sir. Good stuff.

Yeah. I think it must be very human to want to chase your dreams and want to be comfortable, but you know what, if I knew I'd have housing, food, clothing and health insurance, I'd drop all pretense of day job stuff to chase art for bucks. And the weird thing is I think if life actually were that way I'd make an adequate income from art.

Still... it's really hard for me to know where I'm being pretty rational about what art can do for me, and being irrationally scared of selling myself. If that makes sense.

Happiness, man, happiness: it's so damn important.

Hopefully one of these days we'll be able to sit down together and I'll get to hear more about your dreams, and talk a little about my own.

Who doesn't want to err on the side of safety, when it comes to the unknown? Our country has a strange relationship with art. We love art but don't think artists are important. It still boggles me. As a career, art has only gotten harder since I started, way back in the early 90s. Wages have stagnated 'cept in the video-game industry, where the work load is already inhuman and growing worse by the year. The competition is ferocious. And yet, and yet, I can't imagine doing anything else but what I do. HOW I survive has changed with the years but not the essential what.

Am I wealthy? Not on your life, most certainly not after the redirection I've undertaken in recent years, but I'm happy, I'm creating, and I've got a roof over my head. It's enough.

This is not out of your reach. Not at all.