It's ten minutes to two o'clock in the morning, and I'm sitting at computer, (which is the epitome of obvious), and I'm writing the first blog of this particular blog..thing.
There is a certain amount of leeway needed to be given a man who's writing a blog at two in the morning. So I ask for forgiveness, now, to hopefully be received later.
Now, this is the first of many blogs about my love of Marvel Comics, and my love of the art of comic books. And it is an art. One that, for most outside of the comic book industry, and of course those in Hollywood who've realize the power that comics hold, have not given much regard.
But this is my love letter, or letters, to that wonderful art-form, that I've followed for nearly all of my life. With the exception of the years when Sesame Street was my sole obsession, and Romper Room a close second. Those "lost" years are through no fault of mine, I blame my parents, for wanting to give their children something educational and non violent to watch...the horror, the great, great horror.
Moving on..
I didn't really know what I wanted to write for this, my inaugural blog post, but I know I needed to write something. In, I'm sure many a "how-to" book, lies the rules, that a blog, should have words, strung together in a mildly coherent fashion, is a good thing, So, with that clearly made up rule, I set my mind to writing.
However, i was stumped as to, what topic I'd address. Would it be comics? No, that would be, redundant for a blog about comics. Besides, I'm sure I'd address that at a later date, and I don;t want to beat that horse too much, too soon.
Would it be about the art of making comics? No, because that would comprise the majority of the blogs to com, and to be honest, I wanted to write something a bit more personal.
The conclusion. I'm going to wrote about writing. I now that also seems redundant, and maybe kind of a lazy entry. But, the choice of topic is far more insidious than it seems at first glance. You see, the art of writing, very much to my unending surprise, is possibly the easiest difficult task I've ever done. It's a task that is massive in it's completion, yet simple in it's mechanics, and Herculean in its execution
The old adage, that anyone can write, is as true as any truth should be. I came to writing, in a selfish endeavor to control every aspect of my creative process. since I began my creative life as an artist, and remain so to this day. Yet I wanted to to never depend on anyone else to realize what I saw in my head. In my attempt to make films (which I still intend to do) I new the surest way to control that vision, was to write my own movies. reading everything I could get my hands on, regarding filmmaking, I discovered that screenwriting gave me that control, and I devoured it with eagerness, and determination.
And at some point along the way, I realized that my visual storytelling, even while being a very good artist, need much improvement. So I turned to the source of my inspiration, comics. Comic books informed my visual thought, it was the first love and the well that I would always return to, when my intellect left the cerebral building. So in order to strengthen my storytelling ability, I when back to "comic book school", to learn from the masters of visual storytelling, comic book writers and artists.
Now I'd read both publishers (and a few indies), but I'd always gravitated, inextricably, to Marvel comics...
To be continued.
