12 Days of Classic Comics Christmas Day 5
Dec. 17th, 2014 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jkcarrierThe countdown continues at http://classiccomics.boards.net/thread/987/fifth-classic-comics-christmas-2014
Here's my pick for Day 5:
5) Nuance #3 (1990)
This one's a personal milestone: This anthology comic represents my first published work, and it came about through sheer dumb luck. I'm a life-long comics fan, and I'd often drawn little strips and things for my own amusement, but never gave any serious thought to trying to get published. In 1990, I was working at a screenprinting company. I often brought in comics to read during my lunch hour, and one particular day I had a copy of Cerebus: High Society on my desk. A new hire, a guy named Tyim Courts, was being shown around the office, and he spotted the book. He was a big Cerebus fan too, and we started chatting. It turned out he was putting together an anthology comic with a bunch of local cartoonists, and invited me to submit something. I wrote and pencilled a short story called "You Can't Teach Karma to a Caveman" (with inking by Tomm Gabbard), and Tyim printed it in Nuance #3. It's not very good (the real star of the book was Tyim's own brilliant strip "Experiencing Technical Difficulties"), but it got me to approach cartooning more seriously, and from there I started publishing my own mini-comics, and later webcomics. Making comics is such a big part of my identity now, it's hard to imagine what my life would be like if Tyim and Nuance hadn't given me that initial push.
Here's my pick for Day 5:
5) Nuance #3 (1990)
This one's a personal milestone: This anthology comic represents my first published work, and it came about through sheer dumb luck. I'm a life-long comics fan, and I'd often drawn little strips and things for my own amusement, but never gave any serious thought to trying to get published. In 1990, I was working at a screenprinting company. I often brought in comics to read during my lunch hour, and one particular day I had a copy of Cerebus: High Society on my desk. A new hire, a guy named Tyim Courts, was being shown around the office, and he spotted the book. He was a big Cerebus fan too, and we started chatting. It turned out he was putting together an anthology comic with a bunch of local cartoonists, and invited me to submit something. I wrote and pencilled a short story called "You Can't Teach Karma to a Caveman" (with inking by Tomm Gabbard), and Tyim printed it in Nuance #3. It's not very good (the real star of the book was Tyim's own brilliant strip "Experiencing Technical Difficulties"), but it got me to approach cartooning more seriously, and from there I started publishing my own mini-comics, and later webcomics. Making comics is such a big part of my identity now, it's hard to imagine what my life would be like if Tyim and Nuance hadn't given me that initial push.
