Capes-n-Babes

First, before my blog post, I have a couple of cool things to announce…

ITEM NUMBER ONE:
Nick Winstead just posted the interview he did with me while I was at Heroes Con. It’s currently being posted at Comicbook.com (a direct link is below). Here’s a small sample of the interview:

Flick’s will and determination has helped to spread word of his website. He’s done several comic book conventions by this point, most recently Charlotte, North Carolina’s Heroes Con. ”Every con I’ve gone to has resulted in a spike in activity for the website, which is what any web creator wants,” he said. The future is bright for Flick and his cast of characters as he continues to build an audience and to expand his network of readers.

The rest of the article can be read by clicking here.

ITEM NUMBER TWO:
When I told my new good friends at www.comicrelated.com that in as appreciation for searching me out and requesting an interview with me at Heroes Con, I put John Wilson in a cameo in one of my Capes & Babes strips. They got a big kick out of that and decided to put a blurb about the cameo on their home page. You can check it out by going here: http://www.comicrelated.com/

NOW, ON TO THE BLOG POST:
Sometimes, I can be so cruel to Roy, can’t I? But in a way, he sort of represents the frustrated part of me that I consider to be my “artist personality”. As artists, I’m sure we’ve all been there… where even though we are self-critical of our own work, we really don’t appreciate it when OTHER people are equally or, in some cases, MORE critical of our own work than ourselves.

Or, we simply have no idea what people are looking for from an artistic standpoint. Case in point? A few weeks ago, I Twittered that I applied to ThinkGeek but was ultimately rejected from an ad they first posted in early June. As I continue to go through the process of trying to find a new job, I continually come across ads from ThinkGeek as they continue to search for the absolute perfect candidate for a graphic designer who can illustrate. This can be mind-boggling frustrating because, even in rejection, I STILL feel I could be a huge asset to them and (in MY mind anyway), I am absolutely PERFECT for them. But, for whatever reason, they simply don’t feel MY art is a match for THEM.

I guess, in some ways, it’s a little like dating. You get to know someone that seems to be a perfect match for you but for whatever reason, they just aren’t as attracted to you as you are to them. So, you either have to accept that fact and move on or go crazy. It’s just hard when that “person” keeps popping up and complaining they haven’t found their perfect match yet while inside your head, you’re screaming “THAT’S BECAUSE I’M RIGHT HERE!!!”.

Sigh… I’m sure we’ve all been there at least once, right?

🙂

-Chris