Notes from the Field: Success is in the Doing!

I finally got my comp copies of =THE OVERMAN= Book I. The anticipation was masked by a fogginess and haze of burnout. My sleeping patterns are erattic and when I can't sleep I get back to work on the Book.

It's hard looking at work that one has done over a year ago. Especially the parts where you know what the problems are but had no choice but to let them go, lest you never finish anything.

An artist is one of those few people who work with perspective but most often lack perspective .

Suffice it to say I think it's a pretty attractive book overall, can't wait to see what happens in book two. I've gotten far enough along that I've completely forgot what has come before. Like I told Scott, I think my focus has been so much on this project that I've actually lost IQ points along the way. I can't think about anything else but the task at hand.

Moving forward is momentum, and stamina keeps you going. While my endurance has been quite good I think my stamina is slowing down. Sometimes it's cyclical but in this case I don't really know. I'm jazzed about some upcoming projects and I'm also jazzed at how this last book is turning out. Every issue for whatever reason seems to top the last in content and story. And in each issue there's a nice set piece that I think really delivers. This issue has several set pieces, but certainly doesn't lack in story. Right up until the last pages the bizarre and meaningful events continue to unfold, and the ending couldn't feel more right.

Here's a couple of sketches that people won over at the Comicspace contest I was holding:

Finishing these issues one by one is in and of itself the great reward. The act of seeing our vision through to the end the way we want is what comics has become. Having as many people read the effort is icing on the cake.

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