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June 19th, 2007 8:48 PM

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Mid-June Press Release

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I’m sorry I have been invisible for the past few days. My roommate Patrick moved out at the beginning of the month to go off and get married. All well and good for him except nearly all of out bills were in his name. While everything was getting switched over the cable was out for about a week and a half. When we finally got the cable back on I couldn’t hook up my computer to the internet because we had lost the AC adaptor for our router. Even when I did get to the point where I did have my computer reconnected I was so busy with work (due to a lot of servers quitting recently) I have been too tired for any significant online activities. I wish I wasn’t so tired that I procrastinate and delay doing necessary updates and online networking; I’d give anything to be able to work on my comic full time. However, I have been making lots of progress in the meantime fine tuning the scripts for Bun Bun Café. I have to start working on the backgrounds this week if I want to start drafting pages for issue one. I am getting really happy with how the story is developing. I just need to find more time to devote to it. This is probably the hardest thing for an artist. You have so many great ideas and ambitions but actually producing the great vision can be so challenging.
Other than art I have been just hanging out, mostly with my boyfriend Drew. He visited his grandmother last week and I was so lonely without him. I have friends here but we all have such hectic schedules that I can hardly keep up with them! So I just stayed at home and sketched. Last night I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and boy, I never realized how much stuff has been inspired by this movie, it was perfection and for the time period gritty. I think this is going to replace “The Birds” as my favorite Hitchcock film.
I don’t think I’m going to go to Otakon; I missed out when tables went on sale. Tables seem to always open up right after I pay a lot of bills. I need to start having more disposable income on hand for shows. I guess I am getting a little burned out; everyone is getting burned out on conventions. The economy is lagging, gas is going up, jobs are getting scarce and it’s just becoming too risky to do a convention when it’s getting harder and harder to cover expenses. I still signed up for Anime Weekend Atlanta and after that I’m not going to any shows until 2008. I’m definitely looking to attending a more diverse tour of conventions next year to increase my exposure. I also hope to organize some friends and colleagues to travel with me. The stakes are getting too high to not to ask for help and pool resources. If anyone has some ideas that they want to throw out let me know because I want to create a new official artist resource organization, one stronger than caml-cau that will get results in furthering my career and the careers of my friends. I have some ideas, but the most important thing about making something like that work is to have strong allies, I realize this now. I feel like I have been doing a lot of work lately with my art and it hasn’t really been getting me anywhere, and I know a lot of my friends feel the same way. I’m ready to change my game entirely and I want to know if anyone out there who knows me well is ready to get down like that. Anyways let me get off my soapbox, I have to meet with someone in a few minutes. Laters.

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