Writer/Artist Survival Kit

I know what you're going to say: It's been way way way way WAAAAAY too long since I posted an entry, and you probably don't even follow my blog anymore. To that I say...THANKS! I didn't even know I had followers! :D

Straight up, I know haven't posted in a year of Sundays, and in between work and worrying about grown-up stuff I took a moment to try and figure out why that is, not just why I didn't post but why nothing was coming to me creatively. Before you get to the art below I'd like you to understand why it took so long and why even warm up sketches have become a task. I managed to work up list of things that get my mojo going and while these are more creature comforts than anything and aren't exactly set in stone, if I don't have at least one of them I fizzle out quick fast and in a hurry. So here it is...

Ryan's Writer/Artist Survival Kit:

-A quiet room, usually an academic setting (a library most likely), if I'm home I'll get distracted with bills, house work and other day to day horse shit; either that or I just sit around stuffing my face, staring at the ceiling or dicking around on the web.

-Music (especially if I'm drawing), just about anything with a guitar riff.

-Food; small portions like a hot pocket or a bowl of chinese food.

-Clarity. I'll have like 8 or 9 story ideas and can't pick one for shit. I can usually manage this in the quiet space, but not always.

-Courage (I've got a nasty habit of thinking every idea is dumber than the last. Trying too kick that).

-Background noise (no matter how far off, as long as it's far off), just enough to remind me that the zombie apocalypse isn't in full swing yet.

-Junkfood. Hotpockets, Cheetos, or something equally quick and tasty.

-Game Green cigarillos. A quick puff to kill time when the creativity starts to wane.



One or two of these and my creative process become much, much smoother. What all do you need to free up your mind and let things come?

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Throwback Thursday: The Punisher 2099

Punisher 2099 #1
Published February 1993
Writers: Pat Mill/Tony Skinner
Artist/Cover: Tom Morgan

Futuristic versions of your favorite characters are nothing new, but when marvel put this spin on several of their (then) flagship titles, it was worth begging my folks to make the 30-minute to the comic shop.  

The 2099 universe gave us a surreal but strangely believable vision of late 21st century life with depictions of an over-populated planet preyed upon by irrevocably feral capitalism, where mega-corporations have pretty much replaced democracy (the latter being frighteningly indicative of what's been going on in politics and where it could lead.)

The first time I read this it took a while for Tom Morgan's pencils to grow on me, but as the series progressed I realized there couldn't have been anyone better for the job. Same for the artists on all of the other 2099 titles; they really brought the ugly and the grit to a world that had apparently been without heroes for too long.


--Ryan Scales

April 2015