good news and not so good news ~

yippee!

another fab review for Eleison at Silver Bullet Comics ~ yay!

In a Word: Boundary-breaking.

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that said, this post by seraphimsigrist has had my brain turning all morning.

i agree: lot of graphic novel work is pretentious and insipid.

part of me says: let's improve the medium!

part of me says: yeah, it's a waste of time.

i think most of what i work on is toad-bloated, pretentious and insipid. i'm not refering to Eleison because, strictly speaking, Eleison is an intentionally "commercial" venture. i write it for fun and don't take it too seriously.

and maybe that's what's wrong with everything i do. maybe i challenge myself too much to do something "different". maybe i'm not writing for fun, but to try to make a mark. maybe i'm trying too hard to break boundaries.

if there's any truth to the opinion that Eleison is "boundary-breaking", then it happened in spite of an earnest attempt to just do what everyone else is doing. that says a lot, don't it?

maybe i gotta learn to start trusting my instincts again.

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