I’m going over my vacation plans for next year (i.e. deciding which out-of-state comic book events I’ll be attending, that is) and as I’ll occasionally do (and who doesn’t?) I Googled my name (to see if any of the shows I’m attending have me listed as a guest). Of the shows that do have me listed, this one made me want to write a blog entry.
Back in March, I met Michael Marcus (of the Hamtramck Idea Men) and signed up for the Southern Michigan Arts and Creativity Conference in July, 2010. One of my fellow listed guests is Jay Jacot, whom I also met back in March @ SPACE and got reacquainted in October @ MOC. Jay is the artist of The Tao of Snarky Compilation & contributor/publisher of Comics Obscura as well as an enthusiastic comics evangelist and a damn cool guy. I was pleasantly surprised to see the cover of BLINK: Breathe in Beat on Jay’s most recent blog entry, which is a month old at this point. (I know the feeling well.) I was also surprised and pleased to see a link on Jay’s entry to Tony Isabella’s World Famous Comics “Tony’s Tips” site where he reviewed said book (along with Stuffed! by Glenn Eichler and Nick Bertozzi and Mr. Jacot’s The Tao of Snarky and his 24-Hour comic, The Chase: A Twist of Fate), all of a month ago. The line that Tony wrote and knocked my socks off with was this one:
Ink’s work and his sure comics-drawing hand create moments that are gentle and quietly profound. These stories, and others he has done and will do, are all leading to a bigger story. I’m looking forward to that.
That’s damn sweet.
I wish I had more to write here, but I’m just going to get myself back to the drawing board so that the larger story of Blink can be created.








