Happy New Years everyone and welcome back to Fangirl Ramblings. I hope you all had a nice holiday season. As you might have noticed, this little column was absent from its usual Friday position on the website the past two weekends. I decided to take myself a nice little Christmas and New Years vacation. It’s good to spend all that time with the ones you love, getting lots of presents and goodies, and resting up with that three day weekend from work.
I am back now, and gearing up for the New Year. This is usually the time of year that people put together their best of lists, explaining
what they loved over the past year and what they hated. I won’t be doing that this year, or really any year. You see, I’m going to let
you in on a little secret. I don’t remember things that I read. I am
absolutely horrible. I can tell you who is writing what book right
now and illustrating it, but I couldn’t tell you what books I read
last week and what they were about. I’m not one of those fans who can
remember the littlest detail of a storyline, or any storyline for that
matter. I read things, I move on.
If I can barely remember what I read last week, you are definetly not
going to get out of me my best picks for the year. Those questions
stress me out. If I were to take one of those questionaires you see
all over the web asking me what my favorite movie and book are, I’d be
unable to answer. It’s really bad. You’d think I was passionless
about everything in my life, living in a daze. I swear I’m not
though.
Instead, I think what I’m going to give you the readers is a New Years
Resolution of sorts. I’m not one to make these, because frankly, I
know I’m not going to keep it. If I really need, or want to change
something in my life, I’m not going to wait till the new year to
figure it out. It’s not going to help motivate me. Chances are,
it’ll just depress me three days later when I’ve given up, and then
leave me in a saddened state of affairs for days. And trust me, we
don’t want that. Or Hatton doesn’t want that anyway.
This year will be dedicated to my love of comics and promoting them. Whether it is writing this column, or working with my fiancee and his artist
partners in their budding comic careers, I want this to be the year of
comics. I’ve finally reached a point in my life where I’m pretty
happy. I have a new job that I’ve been at for a month now. All the
time and energy that I was focusing on getting a job can now be
focused into other areas of my life. A weight has been lifted off my
shoulders, and now I can make my way down a new path.
I’ve always wanted to be in the comic book industry in some way. Whether it was behind the booth at a comic show selling books, or some how smuggling my way behind an artists booth, I’ve yearned to be there in the thick of things. Last year I got my small taste of it. Pittsburgh comic con was a showing of what I’d like to see for the future. Friends behind a booth, trying to shill their love into your greedy little hands. Sure, it was a failure in all monetarily functions, but it didn’t matter. It proved to me, and others, that’s where we want to be. I can’t draw, I can’t write, but I can design the hell out of a paper bag, and I’ve got an eye for business and a sense of this industry.
Together with my fiancee and two budding artist, we are going to try our hands into the fickle waters of the comic industry. And you’ll get to hear all about it.
This also means dedicating a portion of my new year to this little column. If I’m going to write this every week, I want to make sure a good portion of the world wide web is reading it. I don’t want all the internet comic book fans, but I’d like to reach a small portion of you guys each and every week. It seems people enjoy my opinion and outlooks and I’d like to reach even more. It’s my goal to write these every week, and really get into the meat of why I love this industry. I want to write passionately about my experiences, what I’m reading, and whatever happens to be going on at the time.
It’s going to take a little bit of time, energy, and patience, from both me and you, the reader. I work weekly in a world of deadlines and frustration and I don’t want to come home to more deadlines from my personal life. I want this column to be enjoyable, an extension of me to which people can get to know me and my opinion. I don’t want this to become a chore, because then it isn’t fun for me to write, nor fun for you to read.
What I’m saying here is, I will keep writing this for as long as I have something to say. As long as I am loving comics, and loving what I’m reading, you will have this column. For this is the year of comics. It’s a year of moving on in the world and growing forward. This is the year that we’re going to try and take the comic book world by storm, or at least one fan at a time. Not only me, but Hatton, and really, I’d like to think the whole site.
I’ll let you know all about it when it happens. Just keep coming back each week.
