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Ahoy hoy,
Newly registered but I've been reading Barbelith, off and on, since it was an Invisibles annotation site.
In the time it has taken me to read this (old) Introductions thread linked from the wiki, somebody has started a NEW introductions thread. But I just read eight pages of this beast so I'm posting in this one, dammit.
Bits of things about me:
33 years old, writer (by day for an ad agency, by night for me).
Trying to reconcile Taoism, integral Spiral Dynamics, a very Christian upbringing and a healthy skeptical streak into some sort of sensible synthesis. Expect me in the Head Shop on a regular basis.
I write Dead Eyes Open for Slave Labor Graphics, which is -- in my obviously biased opinion -- the most challenging zombie comic ever put to paper. It's about dead people coming back, but they're still themselves, mentally and (possibly) spiritually, only... dead. Sort of a spiral dynamics approach to the main characters (which I didn't notice until I'd finished writing the third issue, but I'd been doing it unconsciously since the first one), and lots of neat side thoughts about what makes us "alive" and "dead" mixed with oogy head-and-guts-explodey zombie action.
It is also (I suspect) the single worst-selling zombie comic of all time. Make what you will of that. It's my first time out of the gate as a "pro," and hopefully not my last. I already wish I had the whole thing to do over.
I also write Man-Man, which is a pleasant bit of superhero flummery. Nothing too ambitious, but working with my partner on the project -- who has a very distinct and inflexible approach to the strip -- has taught me a lot about economical dialogue. Which is great. We're running a filler week at the moment, but I invite people to jump around with the episode dropdown at the bottom of the main page.
I'm an anglophone living in Sherbrooke, Quebec; this makes me a minority within a minority, which provides a pretty fascinating goldfish bowl to swim around in. Quebec francophones feel insecure in the America-dominant English culture of North America, so they spend a lot of time beating up on Quebec anglophones, who in turn sulk. A lot. At work, I'm the "token anglo" in the office, which means I split my time between actual writing and explaining to people why "boot" is footwear in Canada but the trunk of a car in England.
I make my own wine, roast my own coffee, and suck at Go but keep striving to improve. If anyone here has a KGS account, I'm mattshep over there.
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