Life sucked this week, and I don’t want to draw about it. Doing a daily journal comic is hard when life is sucking because you don’t want to re-live bad things when you draw them. And lately, it seems like the only comics I’ve been doing have been this journal comic. My goal was never to make inkdick the only thing I do, but it has been for the past month and a half.

Instead of drawing inkdick today, I finally started working on a project I was so excited to do back during the summer. It’s a mini-comic project that right now I’m calling Monster Mash. I penciled over ten pages today (this wasn’t too hard since each page is only one panel). It was good and refreshing to draw something other than myself for once. It reminded me of why I got into comics in the first place, it was an escape from reality. Escape from the sometimes-shitty experience called life.

I’m not slamming inkdick or other journal comics. Comics don’t ALWAYS have to be an escape from reality and actually some of the best comics in my opinion are autobiographical comics or comics based in reality. I mean, fuck, Maus is one of the greatest comics ever made. But as a journal comic creator I desperately need to find the balance between drawing the reality and still being able to find the escape in other non-journal comic projects, like this Monster Mash project. Yeah, drawing a journal comic is just peaches when life is going great, but when life takes a downturn doing a journal comic can just be draining and put you in a deep depression.

So here’s to finding the balance.

And if you want more info on this Monster Mash project, you’ll hear news about it soon enough when I get closer to getting it done in a few months or so.

Tags: drawing, inkdick, monster mash, pranas

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