The New Idea

So it's been awhile, and I've been lazy. Go figure. Between a broken shoulder and two bouts of pneumonia, I probably should've had enough time to write, but I didn't, and I'm the first one to accept blame. The whole idea of starting up the Conti Contemplative was to get back into the writing fix, something I've long abandoned for way too many years.

But today, something came to me. I was fiddling around on devientART.com and came across an image that sparked my imagination, leading me to a new idea for narrative. It was of three children, very gothic in appearence, as if they'd come straight from the seed of Billy Joe Armstrong. They were standing in a tree and each had a peculiarity to them...the small girl had a ragged teddy bear that seemed itself to be alive. Little Billy Joe had an arrow going through his head, Steve Martin style. And the older girl had a very long heart-shaped yo-yo that hung straight down from the branch she was resting against.

The illustration was very dark in tone, with moss green undertones amidst the foggy background. It was eerie, but it was fascinating. And that's when my idea came to me.

So, I've been trying to come up with an idea for a comic. Not so much a super-hero kind of comic, though that would be fairly cool, but a very intimate graphic novel comic, pieced together in strips, or vignettes. There are a few things that inspire me towards this...Calvin & Hobbes for one. I was addicted to that comic as a child, and that's had a heavy influence on not only my illustration style, but my sense of humor as well. Another source of inspiration for me is King's Quest, an 80's-era action-adventure series that I couldn't pull myself away from. I spent hours, if not days behind the computer as a child playing these games. Even looking at them now, brings me back to childhood.

So what's the idea? Expect in the upcoming week or two a few short stories with some possible accompanying illustrations. I want to try and develop the idea before I bring it too far, but I need to start somewhere and I figure this'll be a fun way to do it. It won't be long before you meet Kinook the Traveler, and his friend Jack. Hopefully they'll have some great adventures in store for you in the times to come.