Cat-a-Clysm!

Its interesting that, as time goes on with a project, there is an increasing amount of complexity as your idea takes form. Currently, I've spent more hours than I'd ever care to trying to figure out why my Wordpress page can't find itself. The day-to-day work for the comic is now a series of updates and emails. It's a sign of progress, because creating a webcomic was at first very, very general and intangible.

Weirdly enough, the bulk of the comic's groundwork was laid during a car ride from Mt. Laurel to Hoboken in late December. If you recall New Jersey during the winter of 2009, it had snowed to a point beyond reason several times. The result of which were road conditions that we had no business driving in. However, we were close, but more so broke friends who needed to take advantage of a carpool back home after the holidays.

Sometimes you get locked into a situation wherein, no matter how well you know the person, you're stuck together for so long you can run out of things to talk about. It's important to take advantage of these moments. Rather than rot on our butts and play the lethargic fiddle, Katy and I talked about the comic for nearly a solid two hours. It had only been a few weeks since I had written the original comic script, but we were both so ridiculously zazzed an entire volume of plotline shot out of our minds and brains.

A year ago, a chattered idea between two friends has become enough illustration and dialogue to exhibit a full length table (we upgraded to a full table!) about which we're running. Less than ten years ago, Lous C.K. and Marc Maron were unduly uncelebrated comedians that were no longer on speaking terms; and yet tonight I died laughing watching both of them portray themselves on Louie. Longer ago still, people had to crowd around a black and white TV at a specified time to observed miraculously grainy images of man's first skip on the moon. Now, as of yesterday morning, we can few hi-res images of the Martian landscape at our own convenience. I've never been fond of the idea of irreducible complexity. As I see it, your mind just has to be open enough to acknowledge moments when there was so much potential for change.