Okay, last one for today, I promise.
Feb. 3rd, 2005 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariSomething kinda funny before bed. I was friended the other day (and friended back) an artist/writer on my friends list. So i'm reading his entries along with everyone else and suddenly see the "Antarctic Press" with a link to the AP forums.
Not many people know that in another time and another place, I had a history with AP. :)
So I figure, he's just an AP fan, which is cool by me. Then I keep reading...and I find his profile on the AP forums. The guy writes Ninja High School, which is APs flagship title. And that's when I become SERIOUSLY glad that (1) I've transitioned over to being a girl (2) my online name is NOTHING like my old name and (3) people mellow with age (well, I mellowed with age, I can only hope everyone esle did).
Cause if this guy found my old name, and if he mentioned back to Ben or Doug or anyone who was at AP in the late 80s, early 90s, I'd get a knock on my door quickly followed with a punch to my face. :)
Back in the late 80s, I was a teenager with aspirations for stardom, and was pretty obnoxious (although we never know it at the time), and DAMMIT I was a KICK ASS artist and writer. Looking back a good 15 years, I was a kick ass WRITER. My art sucked. Still does, although not nearly as much as it did back then.
Living in San Antonio, going to the C/FO meetings, I met Ben Dunn and the AP crew, and tried to make an in with the company. Again, though 15 year old goggles, I was way in over my head, and was really obnoxious about wanting to get into comics and the like. When I was rejected (do you see AWFW or CS now? Imagine that a million times worse and trying to SELL it as a monthly comic), I took it a bit personally, and got all passive aggressive about it.
I said a few inappropriate things here and there I shouldn't have, pissed off a buncha people and general made myself unwelcome. I worked at the AP Comic Store till 1992, and a few years and comic-adventures-later, I got out of comics alltogether although I never really got INTO comics), till 2001, when I started AWFW.
I did see Ben a few years ago at a Chinese Buffet (I had to go male, because I was living with my parents through the 2001 layoffs), and he was really nice and cordial. Still, considering how I acted in the 80s/90s, I didn't want to push it by saying "Yeah, sorry about all those things I said about AP and NHS and whatnot." I really am sorry about it now, cause now I see I really was a Big Jerk.
Anyways, Hi, Robby! Say hi to everyone for me, and when they say "Who the hell is Jenn Dolari?" just give them a little nod and a wink maybe even a "You were right." But for god's sake DON'T MENTION THE MAYONNAISE INCIDENT. We were young, and unprepared for such things....
Huh, somehow I missed my 2000th journal entry. :) We're at 2004.
BED NOW!
Not many people know that in another time and another place, I had a history with AP. :)
So I figure, he's just an AP fan, which is cool by me. Then I keep reading...and I find his profile on the AP forums. The guy writes Ninja High School, which is APs flagship title. And that's when I become SERIOUSLY glad that (1) I've transitioned over to being a girl (2) my online name is NOTHING like my old name and (3) people mellow with age (well, I mellowed with age, I can only hope everyone esle did).
Cause if this guy found my old name, and if he mentioned back to Ben or Doug or anyone who was at AP in the late 80s, early 90s, I'd get a knock on my door quickly followed with a punch to my face. :)
Back in the late 80s, I was a teenager with aspirations for stardom, and was pretty obnoxious (although we never know it at the time), and DAMMIT I was a KICK ASS artist and writer. Looking back a good 15 years, I was a kick ass WRITER. My art sucked. Still does, although not nearly as much as it did back then.
Living in San Antonio, going to the C/FO meetings, I met Ben Dunn and the AP crew, and tried to make an in with the company. Again, though 15 year old goggles, I was way in over my head, and was really obnoxious about wanting to get into comics and the like. When I was rejected (do you see AWFW or CS now? Imagine that a million times worse and trying to SELL it as a monthly comic), I took it a bit personally, and got all passive aggressive about it.
I said a few inappropriate things here and there I shouldn't have, pissed off a buncha people and general made myself unwelcome. I worked at the AP Comic Store till 1992, and a few years and comic-adventures-later, I got out of comics alltogether although I never really got INTO comics), till 2001, when I started AWFW.
I did see Ben a few years ago at a Chinese Buffet (I had to go male, because I was living with my parents through the 2001 layoffs), and he was really nice and cordial. Still, considering how I acted in the 80s/90s, I didn't want to push it by saying "Yeah, sorry about all those things I said about AP and NHS and whatnot." I really am sorry about it now, cause now I see I really was a Big Jerk.
Anyways, Hi, Robby! Say hi to everyone for me, and when they say "Who the hell is Jenn Dolari?" just give them a little nod and a wink maybe even a "You were right." But for god's sake DON'T MENTION THE MAYONNAISE INCIDENT. We were young, and unprepared for such things....
Huh, somehow I missed my 2000th journal entry. :) We're at 2004.
BED NOW!
