Comic Launch

Its my birthday. And there is a lunar eclipse happening. A blood moon. Funny thing is, this isn't the first celestial event that is happening on my birthday. I was born during a solar flare that, according to the article, brought such force that the northern lights were reported across the United States, as far south as Florida and parts of Cuba, creating a magnetic disturbance that electrified currents underground most of North America and knocked out power to parts of Canada.

So what does this have to do with a comic launch? Well, I've been working on a personal processing comic for a long time, taking inspiration from those silly, random, probably nothing occurrences that happen around me. I've made a comic based on my dreams. I made a comic using my solar flare birthday as inspiration. I tried to publish it online years ago, but realized I wasn't ready.

It was supposed to be a silly comic, an inside joke. When I realized it was way more personal (obviously, it was about my dreams!) I stopped. I doubted my storytelling ability to do justice to what was coming up as I wrote. I didn't want to be judged. So I stopped posting. But I kept working. And kept things silly, and let arcs get personal, and let my dreams and my nightmares and my random chance things, probably not significant to anyone but myself things, let them be significant in this comic.

And then I had a really rough couple of years. A time that impacted my art, my style, my view of myself. And weirdly enough, coming back to this comic after that event, and letting things like celestial birth events matter, if to no one else, then at least to me inside a story, really helped me come back to myself. I restarted the comic to try and practice consistency, to regain my art style, but I actually found a lot of personal insight in letting the story be what it is.

So today, on my birthday, I feel ready to take it full circle. To publish my silly little comic that I've been working on off and on for the better part of a decade. Its still probably pretty silly. Its still probably pretty amateur. It still might not live up to the hopes I have for telling my story. But its here. And if you have discovered it, and have read it, I hope you can also laugh along with my serious take on the insignificant things that still matter to me. To the significant things that I hope matter to a lot of us. I hope you enjoy the story, and enjoy your own story. I hope that in reading my work you find your own blood moon on a birthday moment. Peace in the paradox.