And we do use the term ‘Career’ loosely.

Well, this is going to sound strange, but the reason that I feel comedy is my calling and I’ve decided to really run with it is because…well…I’m a lazy bastard.

“Er…could you please explain Sir.”

Certainly.

If I wasn’t a lazy bastard I would currently be working on my 4th graphic novel. I was supposed to be an illustrator. I loved comics and it was supposed to be my path in life. I say supposed to because litterally from like age 11 I was drawing. I went to the High School of Art & Design! I mean, yes I was shot so then I ended up at John Jay, but that was my first choice. (Curse you man who shot me! - How many people can say that and not be joking?)

Its something that even up until this day I have the underlying want and extreme desire to do. But I am LAZY. To take a peice of white paper and then create a story that people can understand and is visually appealing at the same time is incredibly hard work. Its mentally demanding, its physically demanding(try leaning over an art table for 8 hours straight. jesus h. christ that starts to hurt) and its emotionally demanding. You’re putting your heart and soul on to that paper and sometimes it really just zaps any energy you might have had right out of you.

Comedy is not this difficult. Well, not for me anway.

For me to produce a comic book, I have to draw 22 pages of sequential art per month. Average page time? 8 hours.

But with comedy, yes it takes a while to get your jokes and stories right, but the fact is, I can’t NOT do it. I think in joke form. I’m constantly spurting out premises. I can’t help it. Comedy, at first was a defense mechanism for situations that I was uncomfortable in, but now is just a way of being. And that particular fact becomes achingly clear when I talk to other comedians, outside of the clubs and bars we perform at. The shit that I’m thinking, often times is pointed out to be a joke. Regular fricken thoughts. I don’t even write them down 85 percent of the time cause I don’t see humor. But friends and family think I’m constantly working out some new bit.

PEOPLE I’M JUST TALKING.

No one ever thinks I’m working out a new comic book page.

So there it is. I’m comic because to think of jokes is like breathing to me. I can’t not do it. And because of this damned affliction I will chase down this whore known as comedy through the depths of hell and back. I will put myself on display for others to judge,mock and ridicule daily. I will seek success in a field where 90 percent of its persuers fail.

I really wish I’d sit my ass down and draw.

Share This

Popularity: 5% [?]

Recently:

• Place related post plugin php here...
• - Post 1
• - Post 2
• - Post 3
• - Post 4
• - Post 5
• - Post 6