Pop!!

There goes my blog cherry. Should I expect some mild bleeding? Anyway, I intended to start writing in this thing like six months ago. Not sure what exactly. Figured I'd just use it as a place to post some artwork or something, maybe bitch about stuff (as I'm known to do). But I reckon I'll open with a little bit about the biggest change in my life: becoming a father. Almost two months now. S'crazy. Hard to describe the feelings I have for my little Morgan. One minute I'm happy as hell 'cause she cut loose a fart that could easily have been mistaken for one of mine to being scared to death the next minute because I know sometime in the future something bad might happen to her and I might not be there to prevent it.

Changes yer priorities quite a bit. I barely game at all anymore, and I really don't miss it. Shit like having high Arena ratings in WoW (god, I fucking hate myself for playing that shit game for so long) really become instantly silly. Though I appreciate and actually occasionally power on my 360 these days. That thing's been collectiong dust for a very long time. But when yer daughter refuses to sleep anywhere but in yer arms it's possible to fire it up and play something for maybe an hour. Not so easy to do that with a PC.

So yeah, gaming has definitely taken a backseat. No more bug up my ass to go out and buy every cool new game that comes out. The insect that now takes up residence in my colon is one that nags me to finally accomplish shit I shoulda accomplished years ago. For far too long I've been working shit jobs, whatever I can do to make money and get by. The cost of that was that I let my goals get farther and farther away. Hadf you asked me ten years ago what I'd be doing when I was thirty I'da said that I'd be working in the comic book industry for one of the big companies and I'd have a screenplay or two in production somewhere. And I woulda been damn sure of it. Here I am today and I've barely drawn in the last five years. To the point where I'm having to re-teach myself the basics. The good news is I am back into it. I draw everyday and try to write a little every night. Progress is being made. I'm setting goals for myself. I intend to be able to tell my daughter what I do for a living and be proud of it.

I live in Sacramento and while it's a tiny, shitty little city, it has one cool feature in that it has a local comic convention every three months. The next one is this Sunday, and while I have nothing prepared for this one other than to continues talks with some small local presses, I fully intend to have a table at the next one where I'm pimping my own work. Hopefully the first issue of my own self-published title.

Ok, I think I'm about blogged out for the moment. I'll leave you with some pics of my baby girl and the most recent drawing I've done.

Morgan Kaleigh Roberts:

Later,

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