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Kobuta turned out really well - nice work, guys!

I did 15 issues of a comic book which I wrote and drew from 7th grade til first year of college, followed by one issue of another comic which I never continued. In elementary school, I did cartoon strips called "Egg Man," "Super Pickle," and "Beware of the Turtle" (which was based on the Godzilla movies character Gamera). I also wrote and drew 3 Twilight Zone 'episode' comic strips back in those days. All of the above were xeroxed and given out to friends to read. In junior high school I drew a small adventure cartoon strip for our home town paper called "SpaceQuest" (it was really cheesy and bad, I did it for the money! They approached me to do a comic strip for the paper and offered me something like $2 per strip - I went for it).

Also in junior high, a friend of mine had a dream that he saw a sequel to Return of the Jedi called "Return of the Jedi 5" (don't ask, it doesn't make any sense at all, just a wacky random dream of a rabid Star Wars fan). He suggested I come up with a comic book of Return of the Jedi 5 -- he told me a few vague things he remembered from the dream and suggested I just make up the rest. So I did it, and I ended my continuation of the Star Wars saga by having Han Solo sacrifice his life heroically for his friends at the very end (I figured I had to do something dramatic with the characters if this was the end of the Star Wars saga - this was years before the novels continuing the story after Jedi were a gleam in Lucas' eye).

I basically got out of drawing comics more regularly because I realized a) I didn't want to do it professionally and I'm in the mood for long stretches of continuous drawing less and less these days, and b) it takes a LOT of time!!

Recently I've gotten back into drawing comics in small doses (but I prefer not writing 'em, since I usually don't have ideas I'm excited about and I feel there are many others who are far better writers than me, I actually prefer drawing someone else's script and then just collaborating a little bit on some of the ideas here and there in the script) - I drew a 4-page bit for some friends who entered a Cinescape.com writing/comic book contest (which I have as pdf via email but don't have web hosting for) and I'm working on an 8-page Jenny Everywhere story written by our very own Impulsivelad. 4 pages are done, 4 to go...