Job huntings and musings of storytellings

Hey here's a fun fact!

Job market is absolutely poopy in 'o8.

But the good news is that I may may MAY actually have a break. Web job(s) looking hopeful. And I applied for K-Mart(when in doubt get hired by a business that was close to going bankrupt?). And Borders. And UPS. And AT&T. And I put in a call with a Navy recruiter that I'm fancying a job with the Navy.

I figure one way or another, something will move when I shove. I just have to find the right brick.

BUT! Like I said, real life stuff =! not what this little paggie is about. If anything, that was just an apology for the lack of arts. I'm still working, just a lil' more slowly than I have been. So.....

BEHOLD:

Look familiar? It should! Its the first page of WTEPBK. My pet comic who I have sworn up and down not to abandon this time. I decided that, as much as I've been loving my Flash style, its not a style that suites this particular endevor. Allow me to wax philosophical and explain:

WTEPBK is a tale that has its roots deep seated in something I hold dear: traditional oral story telling. Its an art that I believe is being lost, and, along with it, the tales of heroism that were recounted through its uses.

I grew up with something I hold dear to my heart to this day: every night as I child, those precious minutes before bedtime, I would gleefully grab a book procured from the library and wait, bouncing and expectant for my Mother to read to me. The books ran the gammut from fiction to non-fiction, but my favorites were folk tales, fables and fairy tales. I still remember my most favorite story ever: The Miller's Daughters. Simple story, beautiful pictures, chock full of morals and lessons.

Seasons passed. My voracious appetite for stories and fables outgrew my patience, and I began simply checking out mountains of books and reading them on my own, too impatient to wait for my Mom to read. I kind of regret that actually; because of my own wanton fervor, I effectively halted a tradition that I enjoyed thoroughly. There's a moral for you! Be mindful of your actions. But I digress.

The point is WTEPBK has many archetypes that I've gleaned from the countless fables and folklore I've accrued in my twenty-four years, and, in light of the subject matter at hand, something so sleek and new looking as the post-modern style my Flash work has been developing just does not fit. Here to fore, WTEPBK shall be penciled with all the love and care those stories were related to me by word of mouth so many years ago.

Stay tuned, my friends, stay tuned. I hope you'll enjoy this as much as I've been enjoying writing it.

....Now I just need to decide on color scheme.