THESIS STATEMENTS
A year will not pass without us being interviewed by a student for his report of thesis. It started early this year as I was interviewed by a student from AIM who was making a business case about local comic book publishing. More specifically, his thesis was about studying the current comic book market and determine what kind of comic book is the market looking for and to create a comic book to cater to that market.
To which I asked, “Isn’t that called, SELLING OUT?”
He smiled and said, “Well, I hope to be able to synthesize everything I find out and still come up something that doesn’t look like a sell out comic book.”
Like with every interview for a report or thesis, they would usually ask, How’d you start? What are you influences? What were the problems you encountered when you started your business?
And so it becomes another episode of THIS IS YOUR LIFE and you are forced to remember the mistakes of the past, while trying to force yourself to smile and joke about the flops and failures of trying to set-up a comic book business.
There was an episode of TWLIGHT ZONE where a stand-up comedian ends up in his own version of hell: to do stand-up in a lounge in hell, but instead of telling jokes, he has to tell everyone all the sins he ever did because that’s what they find funny.
As to why I just remembered that I just don’t know.
Is there a similarity between that and these interviews that I do?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Sorry that I’m in this mood.
16 days into the New Year and it feels like we’ve already 16 weeks worth of work.
At least I got to finish a comic book script.
The trick is to get it published.
The past year was definitely one of the most active years of the comic book scene. Things are building up… to something. Something great, I hope. Something that will be sustained. That the scene just keep on growing `til people can’t help but notice all the great works being made my Filipino comic book writers and artists.
I really need to get out the gutters.
I’m stuck in between panels.
I really need to loose weight.
A year will not pass without us being interviewed by a student for his report of thesis. It started early this year as I was interviewed by a student from AIM who was making a business case about local comic book publishing. More specifically, his thesis was about studying the current comic book market and determine what kind of comic book is the market looking for and to create a comic book to cater to that market.
To which I asked, “Isn’t that called, SELLING OUT?”
He smiled and said, “Well, I hope to be able to synthesize everything I find out and still come up something that doesn’t look like a sell out comic book.”
Like with every interview for a report or thesis, they would usually ask, How’d you start? What are you influences? What were the problems you encountered when you started your business?
And so it becomes another episode of THIS IS YOUR LIFE and you are forced to remember the mistakes of the past, while trying to force yourself to smile and joke about the flops and failures of trying to set-up a comic book business.
There was an episode of TWLIGHT ZONE where a stand-up comedian ends up in his own version of hell: to do stand-up in a lounge in hell, but instead of telling jokes, he has to tell everyone all the sins he ever did because that’s what they find funny.
As to why I just remembered that I just don’t know.
Is there a similarity between that and these interviews that I do?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Sorry that I’m in this mood.
16 days into the New Year and it feels like we’ve already 16 weeks worth of work.
At least I got to finish a comic book script.
The trick is to get it published.
The past year was definitely one of the most active years of the comic book scene. Things are building up… to something. Something great, I hope. Something that will be sustained. That the scene just keep on growing `til people can’t help but notice all the great works being made my Filipino comic book writers and artists.
I really need to get out the gutters.
I’m stuck in between panels.
I really need to loose weight.