As much as I like blogging, it doesn’t pay me a cent. I’m not sure how to make this mild success of mine some sort of money-making machine, but truth be told. that’s not why I do this. Unfortunately, I’m four short months from being thrust out into the cold, uncaring world where the government won’t cover my Cheese Nabs and Pop Tarts, let alone my rent, so I’ve got to line up a job for June, and fast. There are unfortunately very few guarantees that I’ll be able to work anything out, so I’d certainly appreciate some prayer, now that I’ve started to send out resumes. 

Kevin and I are continuing to try and break into the comic world, and to that end, we’re throwing together at the last minute a short little X-Men comic to shove in the faces of Marvel reps at the upcoming New York Comicon, which I’ll be missing. Anyway, it will mean that Marvel will have samples of both mine and Kevin’s work. I was supposed to have this written weeks ago, but I kept forgetting, and school got in the way, and I honestly didn’t really have any ideas. So I called up my friend Ian, who oft-comments on this little blog of mine, and grilled him for stories. I eventually used something he devised, building up its scale a little bit, detailing and snarking it up, and I hope to be able to script over some finished art in the next couple days. As usual per my work, it has a light frosting of Judaism, but this derives wholly from the characters, and was Ian’s idea anyway. Blame him. 

I wish I’d been able to recall a classic Excalibur short, “A Demon Went to Church on Tuesday,” from #75, which was probably my first encounter with Catholicism in my entire life, a loving little tale where Nightcrawler wrestles with how his status as a mutant intersects with his Catholicism, and goes to confession, asking forgiveness simply for being who he is. It’s wonderful. If I’d remembered that, I’d probably have tried a much more internal tale than the one I wrote.

I’ve also, in the past week, sent out resumes to Simon and Shuster, The Politico, and a celebrity magazine in New York that was advertising on Craigslist. I was also pointed by Kevin to a fellowship at First Things magazine for which I’m preparing an application, and I’m still putting together my employment pitch to Ubisoft Milan, for a job that’s almost certainly been filled.

Anyway, keep me and Kevin in your prayers.