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Crap

Oh, crap, I still have a column to write for next week's issue of the Comics Waiting Room. That has to be the next thing I change. Back to the drawing board.

Five By Five

Today is exactly two months before my 40 th birthday. Now, I'm not all that big on milestones and the like but I did have to think about this some. Especially after talking with my mother recently who will celebrate her 80 th birthday in December. I have to start thinking that I could live that long or longer. Or only live as long as my father did, dying at 58 from lung cancer. That and I'm just not where I wanted to be in my life. I'm still very much on the periphery of the comics industry despite the professional credits I've accumulated. I don't live in a very nice place. I don't have the car I always wanted. Okay, I just don't have a car but that's besides the point. All in all, I'm not where I always dreamed of being at this point in my life. In most of the books on aging, this is the age where I should be going through a mid-life crisis of some kind. Where I look at my goals and where I actually am and either adjust my goals accordin

Now I Know How Many Friends I Have

At least according to My Space. I have a grand total of five friends. Although I suspect that Tom guy is just a plant by My Space. I just haven't figured it out yet. And I'm waiting for my studio partners to add me to "our" My Space page. Oh, well, it's not like anything happens instantaneously in the Internet Age.

And Why Should Anyone Care?

The real answer to that question is there is no reason for anybody to care about who I am. Other than myself, naturally. But I am moving ever forward towards my goal of a comics writing and editing career. Besides, when I wrote a charming little piece entitled Why It Fails When Fangirls Attack (http://www.comicswaitingroom.com/vince2.html) last year, it showed that some of people cared about what I wrote. It was mostly slings and arrows. Yet it showed that, with the right topic, I could reach people. And, whenever I engage in the new fad of Googling oneself, that column still turns up as the most popular item under my name. Not bad for a novice. As it will come out next week in my column, Omnium Gatherum, my attempt at a large scale format covering a number of topics hasn't gone as well as I would have liked. I don't hide the fact that I'm often out of touch with the rest of the world. I'm still buying CDs while everyone else I know is buying MP3s. So I want more

Who Am I?

I was born, raised, and am still living (on a shoestring budget) in Southern California. My lifelong love of comics was born from the very moment I bought Fantastic Four #176, with a Jack Kirby Impossible Man cover. Over the years, despite efforts to live life in the real world, I found myself working at Comics Ink in Culver City, CA for nearly nine years, from 1991 to 2000. In recent years, I have been slowly breaking into the comics industry, with a few false starts along the way and some good friends still made in the process. Today, I am still writing and drawing and creating secret projects of my very own (of which more will be heard about in the coming years, hopefully), in addition to providing services to Astounding/DarkStorm Studios as editor. As well as being part of the creative team at 10 Worlds Studio. See the group’s page at myspace.com/10_worlds_studio And returning for a part time engagement at Comics Ink. My biweekly column, Omnium Gatherum, can be found at comicswait