Been a dry spell (in creative terms) recently. Not that I haven’t been scribbling down ideas but not many of them have been making it to the final product or even beyond the initial drafts. Obviously the work being done with Infurious makes me want to exercise my creativity but at the moment the focus is on comic creators who have made a name due to previously published work. This isn’t an elitist thing, it’s just that the demand for the Infurious Comic reader software has recently gone through the roof. I mean, read this. Paul writes the current Captain Britain comic for Marvel Comics and he’s got a several lifetimes worth of experience as a professional writer for comics, television and novels ( and yes, it would be great to see him on our main label.)
But most importantly, and I really think this is some sort of breakthrough, and something that kept making people go ooh and ahh all through the convention…
The oohs and ahhs (and P.J. got serious people from various serious organisations I shall not name coming over to have a look at his phone as word of mouth spread) were because this is the first comic project that I’ve seen that really takes advantage of the mobile form.
Being surrounded by creative folk (and talking to them seemingly daily) is just highlighting the fact that my creative blog (over at LateGaming) has not been touched in months. Why? Well, I’m totally wrapped up in the stuff I’m doing from day to day – I have two hobbies – one of which pays the bills. The other – well, it’s never going to pay the bills. And the other, well, I enjoy it just as much, it’s just time. Time.
So, I guess I’m going to have to make a concerted effort to be a little more creative. A little more focussed on that.