Attending San Diego Comic-Con as a member of the press Senior Reporter for KungFuMagazine.com – it’s a Level-Up for me. A welcome indicator of my trajectory with-in the Comics Industry.
While federal statistics have produced reliable counts of artists in the U.S. over the years, there is a commonly held belief that their categories are inadequate in capturing the nature of art’s place in society; it’s costs and value. In this Deep-Dive I’ll be looking shifts in our population and the ways artists’ work has changed over the past decade or so.
My recent time on the path of full-time-art has been one of great change; not just in terms of personal career, but perhaps the nature of art’s place in society; it’s costs and value.
I live in the lap of chaos. Yet I’ve been able to achieve certain things based on intuitive methods of haphazardly planning months or weeks ahead -in the vaguest of ways. But maybe there’s a method that relies less heavily on luck.
I ordered extra copies of Speculative Fiction for Dreamers expecting them to arrive next year; you know, for shows in 2022. But they are here now, so here’s my offer: I’ll sign it, draw a little something in it and send it to you or whomever you want to give it too as a holiday gift – with extra SWAG of course.