Artist Awarness – Little Elf in big Pond of Drama, The Comic Industry USA

We Live in a Society….

I have to say I was wow… when I say the movie Joker. It left me speechless. At first it was very daunting because it felt like a prediction. I have been following the “woke” and “metoo” movements. It felt like the Joker was the spark that set off chaos. You could tell thought out the whole move that there was problems with society and it could be set off into chaos with just one little blow.

We live in a society that is very simpler to what is in the movie. Just yesterday I heard of a story where a 23 year old woman is fighting for her right to die because her mental health is so bad and she cannot handle the pain from crippling from her period. We are having more young people who are not able to handle the normal cruel world when they want to give up on living. Children are being raise being protection from the cruel world to the point, they are not prepare for how cruel it really is.

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Years ago I heard of a story when 2 out 3 people deal with depression or some type of anxiety. And the media does not help with this, it make things worst with fake stories and dividing whole groups of people from others. Now we have more people believes things such as the moon landing was not real but fake. Because if you keep putting out fakes stories than people will start believing rumors and what is on the internet forms.

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Also, if we think about how the labors workforce are being treating than you would see more problems. They are starting to be treating less than human. Many company human resources departments are a joke. I don’t think telling people to treat each other nicer is going to fix that. I think the problem is many people are not made for the regular workforce such as me. I am lot happier now because I am working for myself and controlling my own future.

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However, it is very hard to start a business when your only way of getting your name out is social media. Social media is turning more pro corporation which is making it hard for small time business owners. In fact, I have been shadow ban on Facebook and Twitter. They are shared my content less and less. I know I am not the only one having this problem, it is starting to be notice by the media. There are expect who came out and say that it is a real problem.

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And if that was not bad. There is talk about a civil war may happen to the US. The extreme left Democrats in Congress are fighting with the Trumps Federal agencies over border security concerns. The last year, the Democrats have say some crazy things and the media only report “Orange Man Bad.” Like we live in some stone age period where intelligent is left out.

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Oh, and the trade war with China is getting worst. It is possible that China have their hand in our money too and may have control over a US recession.

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I think our biggest problem is mental health because if we don’t have adults with mental toughness than many will not be able to deal with the troubles that may come our way in the future. I believe that movie may end up being a wake up call for many. I just hope that it would do that because if we cannot handle failing a test or rejection than we are in trouble if our peaceful times come to an end.

What Is Comicsgate?

You may have heard the term comicsgate which is thought to come from gamergate. However, it have another meaning. Check out the video below.

The most important thing to remember is to never give up on your dreams. If you want to create comics than you should do that. Just know like anything, it take work to be successful. And don’t let a few people on social media determine what path you take. That is your choice alone.

How To Design and Sell Your T-Shirt, Printful Make it Easy

Here is a video that I have made of my tips for design and sell your t-shirt using Printful. Printful is very easy to used and the design on the T-shirt and other items are very high quality.

Archie Comics and My Childhood

My favorite memory of growing up in New Orleans, LA is when I walk to and from school. Between my home and school was Archie Comic Studio. And it get ever better, my middle and high school was call Riverdale, the same school in Archie Comics. So of course, I read Archie comics. And it was easy available for me because they sold the comics in my groceries store next to my house.

I talk with people today and many people did not know that comics was sold in grocery stores. Today is sound like everyone think comic store is the only place to sell comics if it is not a comic con or anime con. In the past, comic was in book store, grocery store, and convention store.

So if you are looking for a good comedy and high school life comic, Archie is a good one to read. Today you still get buy comics such as Archie, you just have to buy them online.

Betty and Veronica are romance rivals for Archie. Archie like Veronica because of her money while Betty like Archie. However, Archie sometimes gives into Betty.

Archie have did series such as Betty and Veronica friends which is focus on the romance rivals relationship of Betty and Veronica for they both like Archie.

In the same world that was created call Archie, there was other fun stories such as Josie and the Pussycats. They was a high school rock band. You may have heard of the movie, well this is where the movie came from.

So if you would looking for comics that have more romances, comedy, and good old fun times than Archie is a good one to read. And who all cannot forget Jughead, the one kid who only thing on his mind is food. Judhead will do anything for a burger.

Inspiration to Writing

You know I enjoy hanging out and talking with my older neighbors. Many of them are veterans like me. They have cool first hand stories from World War II, working on a Navy ship, when they talk about their college days, and more. Many of them have stories that they cannot say in public because they would have the military show up on their door step when they do public their story. However, I believe their is a way to tell their story in a way that it would not be giving names, detail in the story that would give them away.

The answer is telling a fantasy fiction story. You can tell many stories with fiction characters who are not human. You can change the problem in the story to something else. This is another way that fiction story can be used to help these who felt like they cannot tell their story without being stop by someone else. I would not be surprise that many people who creator manhua in China would be telling their own story in fiction stories. Manhua is the Chinese word for comic. Manhua are simply to manga which is comic in Japanese.

There are many cool manhua and manga that include worker class that tells the story from one individual that may cover fantasy, romantics, comedy, and etc. And it is not all written to kids, a good part are made for full adults who have real problems in the modem world today. The reason why I bring this as an example is because in the US we have many people who feel like they could not write, draw, or create anything cool. My point is that everyone have a story to tell and someone may love to hear your story. There is growing love for Japanese and Chinese culture in the US. I would not be surprise that many countries would like to heard individual stories from the US about US culture.

To concussion about my neighbor who have a cool story to tell, he will be talking to me for advise on how to change his story to fiction story that will not give away important detail that will get him in trouble with the military. It is not the military fault, it is just that their are jobs that are dangerous and the military does not want to scary off people from joining. We are in a society today who don’t understand that there are certain jobs in the military that key to our country safety.

I would love to heard your thought on this subject. If you have friends and family who keep talking about really cool stories they live though, encourage them to write and if they don’t want people to learn who they are. They can create a pin name and change the character to non-humans, change the environment such as outer space, or different time periods such as a the stone age.

Promoting Artist, Artist Awareness

The way the internet is today, it is hard for small entrepreneur and it is no different for artist. If you are a traditional artist who paint acrylic, oil, watercolor, or mix media; if you do not have money you cannot get into an Art Gallery. Gallery around the USA are high class clubs who draw sunflowers.

If you are comic book writer and you want Diamond Comic Distribution to publish your work in stores, then Diamond will only pay you $0.25 per comic sold which does not faction your print cost. No one want to work for pennies that is not fair.

And it is very hard selling your original work at comic con and anime con because people at these event want to buy fan art. Many artist get stuck spending so much time and money on created fan art that they cannot do the kind of work they would like to do. Art is a way of expressing one point of view so when an artist is stuck at creating work that they don’t want to create, than it turn into any other job and not working for what you love. And this is not just small artist, there are artist who work for Marvel that are stuck drawing heroes when they would like to explore other subject matter.

We need a new way of marketing artist, so I will invited Artist to reach out to me so I can promote them on my blog. This will provide more support and more people will be able to found them. Zazu Zine + Comix publishing is also will be promoting location artist to Virginia with video interview. The video below is an interview of two Artist from Galaxy Con 2019 in Richmond, VA. Zazu is focus on Virginia because Zazu is location in Richmond, VA.

However, for these who are not location, you can contact me on this blog and we can work out a digital interview and promote your art on this blog. The reason why I am doing this is because we need more artist awareness. There are many people who would like to know about new artist and new content.

Artist from Video:

Ed Pokoj, Instagram @edpokojillustrator
Kevin Spain, Instagram @kevinindieart

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