Like an idiot, after doing some one per day sketches this month – and one page per week in 2019, I thought, could I do a daily comic like this?
I mean, the answer is a very clear and obvious no.
But … if I COULD do a comic like this, what form would it take.
I mean, I’ve flirted with the idea – dozens of times – of doing a digest sized commando comic (because I THINK I could draw on page per day of that quite easily – and when I say one page per day, I REALLY mean one page in an hour – a morning sketch).
In theory I *could* draw that, but reading scripts is a bit of a pain and I wouldn’t want to work with someone for fear of cocking it up or choking and picking a thing up and doing it weekly is harder than it looks, but a daily strip…? would it be easier or harder. Probably harder… but maybe easier ? I’m not sure.
Anyway. I need to write something myself, and I’d need to draw it myself. That’s a given. So it isn’t going to happen.
Even if I did accidentally come up with an idea and plot out a story. Which, you know, I could write out as a bunch of one line bullet points, which I could use as the basis for jazz drawing a comic page per day. I mean I could do that, but won’t. (I mean, I have written out the first nine bullet points, which are the first nine pages).
I’d like to have a finished book at the end of one month, but it’s more likely, if it were to happen, that it’d be a book after two months, because around 50-60 pages feels better as a read at that size.
But I’m not doing it.
No matter how tempted.
(Oh god, I might do it)
I told Thomas(13) the plot and he very succinctly put me in my place again by saying “yes, but are you going to do it?” the last time he did that to me I ended up pitching, writing and selling a story to 2000ad.
So I dunno. I think I want to do this. Taking a week holiday this week (which means I’ll be working, but in a different location) and maybe will think about it a little more.