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FRI, JULY 8, 2005
Hopefully there's a few new visitors who have arrived over the weekend via some ads I've taken out on other websites. (Thank God for credit cards - and ramen noodles, and everything else that keeps me going...if not exactly financially solvent or healthy...)
If you've been seduced by a banner ad, glad to have you! Look around, especially at the first page of the prologue. The art you see above is kind of crappy at the moment, but the Prologue is much better drawn. (The FAQ explains why. It's going to all get better - trust me!)
FAQ ATTAQ
Wherein we answer those pressing questions (and many more LESS-than-pressing ones) that you, the reader, put forth.
Also the ones that my sarcastic, unpaid, editorial assistant Usuk came up with.
Hey - the artwork was bad enough. Why did it suddenly get crappy after the prologue?
I actually started drawing IMAGINARY FRIENDS with the very first page of the story, and added the prologue months afterward. I was trying to set up the plot in a more 'reader-friendly' way. However, I had progressed (somewhat) in the art department by then, so the first ten or so pages of the actual 'story' will be...eh...not so great.
But rather than waste time redrawing them, I decided to keep the old pages. They're a visual record of where I've been (and how bad). Embarassing, but endearing.
Not my exactly my choice of words - as I said before, 'crappy' comes to mind - but whatever.
Plus, I didn't want to pull a George Lucas Special Edition even before I'd started.
Maybe you should have.
Maybe.
Where are all the Imaginary Friends? That IS the name of the comic. What gives?
They're coming. Patience, grasshopper. Enjoy the antics of Davey and Jeff for right now, cause when the weirdo's show up...they ain't leavin'.
I saw this sign, "Want to know more about IMAGINARY FRIENDS? Ask me!" So...God help me...I'm askin'.
Well, it all started out in about 1997 as a script. I wanted to be a screenwriter. After a good half dozen screenplays, I wrote IMAGINARY FRIENDS. Convinced it was the best thing I had ever done, I set out in search of an agent. By an incredible stroke of luck, I located a guy at a mid-size agency who was willing to take the screenplay out to the studios.
Didn't sell.
About that time, I became really discouraged and quit screenwriting.
Ya big wimp.
Shut up.
Anyway, a couple of years later - about 2001, actually - I decided that I liked the story so much, I wasn't going to let it die. So I rewrote it as a novel. That took a while, and then it took even longer to get up the courage to send it out, but I did, throughout 2003.
Didn't sell.
Actually, THIS time it didn't even get an agent.
Maybe you should have taken the hint.
Maybe.
I may not be fearless...and I may not be talented...but by God, I'm relentless.
Not in the way high-powered attorneys are relentless. More like glaciers. Certainly as slow.
But that implies I'm like a force of nature. I'm more like a chihuahua with lockjaw. I may not be able to snatch victory from the hand of Fate, but I don't let go, and I'll keep tuggin', by God.
...yawn...
ANYWAY, I had been interested in doing a web comic for years. In fact, I completed the first pages of artwork for TWO other series, but never got around to posting them.
Even before that , I grew up wanting to be a comic book writer/artist before well-meaning adults beat the desire out of me. (Metaphorically, I mean. No little kids were harmed in the making of this life story.)
So, here was my chance...a project I really loved, that had failed in all other arenas, and which would keep me motivated til the very end.
Wow. Sounds promising.
You and me, Mr. Snide. Outside. Now.
I'll take a rain check. So there WILL be an end?
Of this tale, yes. IMAGINARY FRIENDS follows the story as laid out by the screenplay and the book. But, if enough people are interested, life goes on...and so could the tale.
Soooo...when, exactly, will this end come? (Please say soon, please say soon...)
At 3 pages a week...it'll go on for a LOOOOOONG while. Years, maybe. I hope to step up to 5 pages a week within 12 months from now, but even then, it'll take a while.
Will we ever see a movie?
My guess is no. But stranger things have happened. (Not to me, but I have it on good authority that they do. Old wives told me so.)
Will we ever see a novel?
You can buy it at Amazon.com - here!
