Comic Challenge - Day 1

Lately I’ve been feeling like I want a public place to put my sketchy diary comics. A place that motivates me to continue making but without the “compare and despair” quality I get from social media. Instagram just doesn’t do it for me and when I post to it, I quickly find myself to be the sucker fish desperate for the likes. Check for like. Dopamine hit. Check again. Nothing. Refresh. Ahhh yes, got it. I already self-edit to oblivion and it’s not a quality that I want to continue honing when it comes to comics and art making in general. If only there were a public place on the internet where one could post their thoughts and doodles, in an expositional journal of sorts.

Ah yes! The blog! What a wonderful creation. Even the word “blog” sounds like some slowly oozing outpour of words and ideas that get to just collect and percolate. Here for when I want to look back but not here for anyone’s approval. It’s not a particularly novel idea and it’s definitely been suggested to me before. (I definitely had a LiveJournal). It was when I saw one of my comic mentors, Sophie Yanow, post about doing a very accessible sounding comic challenge that I realized this was the challenge for me. So, thank you Sophie, and thank you to all my fellow creators who are posting their work wherever is best for them. It gives me life to see what you make.

The Challenge (copied from Sophie’s newsletter):

Gentle Comics Drawing Habit
The Rules:

• Spend 1 minute drawing/writing the 1st comic

• Try to draw a comic every day. It's OK to miss a day, but don't miss 2 days in a row

• Spend an additional minute each time you draw a comic

• Post to blog