Think of Yes or King Crimson with an attitude problem and defaulted student loans.

[dolari]

At the suggestion of Soltice, I just recentaly watched the entire run of Haibane Renmei. I coulda sworn I saw this series in 2001, along with Risky Safety and I Want To Be An Angel the day that A Wish for Wings popped into my head (aka Angel Night at the reamnants of the C/FO).

Haibane Renmei was amazingly good, very deep, and very detailed...I saw all 13 episodes over a four day period, and it's a real rollercoaster.

Thing is - when I see stuff like this, good anime, with good stories, being thoroughly etnertaining, like Big O or Cowboy Bebop (The Anime even Anime Haters Love), there's a little piece of me that just starts to scream for attention.

When I was little, watching Robotech and Star Blazers, I wanted to DO THAT. Not go into space and hunt down Gamilons or Zentraedi, but to write an animation that would be entertaining to kids and adutls alike.

It was that drive that got me into comics, since that seemed the logical first step to animation. I wrote my first real overarching story in 1987, called "JCT 16 TEXAS" based on a highway sign near a major crossroads. I still have that story in my head, and I'll release it one day (It's currently known as "The Book of Zand" and spans some 7000 years, three planets, two alternate timelines and a lot of other fun stuff).

I never really got far in the comics field. Joining up with the C/FO put me in a position to talk to more comic artists, and get involved with a comic company. But by the mid 90s, my art, which plainly was not comic-quality, and my writing, which plainly was WAY too good for comics, caused things at the company to fall apart.

First was the Massive Rewrite of a premise I thougth that was pretty good to a premise that was clearly something to give the guy I was pitching to something to fantasize about. Soon after, a person I respected inthe company sat me down and said "Maybe this isn't the career you should be in."

So I left. I took a few courses in scriptwriting, which is now the perferred way I write stuff when I need other artists to do guest strips, but after seeing the amount of rewriting that goes on in TV (evernotice how many writer's names are on a script for TV? Or movies?), and still wincing frmo the comic company debacle, I gave up on my dreams, went into tech support, and you can see how well that ended up.

I started my comics in 2001 and 2002 just for fun, and I'm surprised at how well Closetspace has held up for a story written in 1992. But everytime I see a really good anime, there's a little piece of me that really wants to see a CS or AWFW anime, or even maybe a one season TV series (during the scriptwriting months, I actually planned CS as a one-season TV show).

Ah, well. Despite knowing a few folks in "the biz" I think I'll stick with comics. It may be glacial, and the arts not so good. But it's my words, and my characters, entertaining at least a few people. :)

I just wish they were animated. ^_^